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Andreas' appearance on Swedish TV programme Kontroll
Download Kontroll s03e07 to see C64.COM's very own Andreas Wallström talking about the C64, the SID chip, SID'80s and his own C64 collection.
Back in Time Live London 2001 promo video
This video was compiled by Boz and kindly given to us by C64 Audio. If you didn't make the first Back in Time Live, here's some nice footage of what you missed! Everyone is in this video: Hubbard, Galway, Joseph, Cooksey, Daglish, Whittaker, Minter and his groupies, madfiddler, Boz, Abbott, Wally Wallstream, Lala, Press Play on Tape, Lee Bolton, Jogeir Liljedahl, Kwed, Waz, Mat Allen, Marcel Donne, the Xmas Chortles guys, Kenz and a whole lot of dancing geeks.
Download the video here!
The Challenge from Ocean Software Ltd.
When Ocean released a game on cassette, they included an additional audio cassette called 'Data Tune'. Platoon had such a tape with the game, and so did Daley Thompson's Olympic Challenge, although this one was a bit different. You will have heard Jonathan Dunn's nice title theme, right? Well, the freebie tape was a synth version of this theme called The Challenge and it sounds like they used the producers from the infamous Data Hits tape and a Yamaha DX7 or something similar. It's really cheesy, but does have a certain appeal. Although it includes this naff voice yelling 'challenge!' every so often in a Northern English accent, it does at least set the tone for the game really well. Sadly, it didn't inspire Daley to gold, but then if his endless bottles of Lucozade failed, what could have? The cassette was kindly supplied by Warren Pilkington and you can find it here!
Commodore C64C Introductory Audio Tape
Well, it's 2013, but if you still need help getting your brand new Commodore 64 to work, you can download this introductory tape which contains hints and tips on how to get started. It was produced in 1990 by Domark Ltd. for Commodore UK Ltd, written by John Minson and narrated by Jonathan Kidd. Warning: It is Very English! Download Side A / Download Side B
Copenhagen Retro Concert video bootleg
This is a bootleg video of the Copenhagen Retro Concert held in November 2005. It features live performances by Visa Röster, Rob Hubbard and Mark Knight, SID'80s, Press Play on Tape and even a small bit of Jeroen Tel's set. And, yes, some very gay dancing. It was filmed by Kent 'Trace' Walldén and AVI'd by Joachim 'The Sarge' Ljunggren for C64.COM. Download it!
Jucke's ExperiMENTAL SIDShow
This is the recording of Jucke's ExperiMENTAL SIDShow which was aired on C64.COM:8000 on April 27th. It's a wild mix of old, new, and obscure SID's... and very entertaining. Download it here!
Original Rob Hubbard
recordings
These are original recordings by Rob before they became actual C64 tracks. Rob MP3'd them and sent them in, and we beefed them up a bit and removed some background noise. We proudly present the results here!
Chimera
Formula
One Simulator
One
Man and His Droid
Phantoms
of the Asteroid
This is what Rob says about them: "They were done around 1983-ish. I wrote them mainly
because I was influenced by something I was listening
to at the time, like Jarre or Human League. Or,
I was just experimenting and trying different ideas.
I used them on the games simply because I thought
they would work with the game. Most of the C64 versions
are much better than the original ideas –
especially OMAHD and Phantoms. The tunes were done
using a Korg poly synth, a Moog synth, Roland TR606
and TB303, a Casio cheap synth, and a four track
tape recorder. Also a Roland Micro-Composer was
used on F1. Sometimes I borrowed a synth from my
friends. I had all the synths linked up with control
voltages and gate triggers, some of which were home
made."
Trap Audio Presentation by Ben Daglish
Ben recorded a special version of the Trap music and it was bundled with the game. We asked Ben about this special version, and this is what he told us:
"So, I'd just finished my 'mini symphony' for Trap and was feeling pretty pleased with myself. It was the first time I'd attempted a piece that length with a fair amount of thematic material. And of course, Tony (Crowther) and I had knocked up the drummer demo which is as far I can tell, one of the first pure music-and-animation demos on the C64.
Then, being a rather clever bugger, Tony came up with an idea to hook two C64's together using the joystick port (I may be wrong – it *was* over 25 years ago!) so that they could sync their SID chips. Heaven! I could use six whole voices! Thinking and listening back, I didn't make as full use of it as I could. I believe time got in the way as we wanted to record the thing and ship it with the game. I had about a day to re-arrange some bits, split some chords etc., and do a bit of funky-phasing.
Once finished, we simply hooked up a cassette recorder to the audio out, hit play and Tony's whole 2-SID magic did its thing. Lovely! To this day, Trap is probably the piece that, for the time, I was most proud of."
Thanks to Jason 'Kenz' Mackenzie
for recording it and to Rick Hoekman (ICE-T/Black Mail) for cleaning up the sound. Download it here »
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CDs |
Chris Abbott at C64 Audio pioneered the idea of releasing C64 remixes on CD. His catalogue is now huge, and there's a lot of quality music to download here. Don't forget to buy the CDs if you like them – it supports the scene!
READY. Vocally Too
Visa Röster
01. Delta
02. Caverns of Khafka, subtune 1
03. Formula 1 Simulator
04. Roland's Rat Race
05. Bomb Jack
06. Caverns of Khafka, subtune 3
07. Fairlight
08. Thrust
09. Thanatos
10. Song 4
11. Wizball
12. M.U.L.E.
13. Commando
14. Calm
15. Last Ninja 3
16. International Karate [Live]
17. Rambo First Blood Part 2
18. Zoids/Ancestors
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It's Binary, Baby!
Makke
01. Intro
02. Cauldron 2-005
03. Sacred Armour of Antiriad
04. I am a Database
05. Glider Rider
06. Last Ninja III
07. Sanxion
08. Lazy Jones
09. Thanatos
10. Hardware and Hubbard
11. Compilations III
12. The Corporation
13. Binary, Baby
14. Bonus: Personal Jesus
15. Bonus: Bitch
16. Bonus: Artura
17. Bonus: Madballs
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Back in Time Live
DVD/CD set
C64audio.com
Amazing live performances recorded at the Brighton
Centre in 2003 and St. Luke's LSO in 2004.
Featuring:
Rob
Hubbard
Press
Play on Tape
Visa
Röster
The
C64 Mafia
SID'80s
(Ben Daglish, Reyn Ouwehand, Jon Hare, Marcel
Donné, Mark Knight, Andreas Wallström)
This package consists of DVD1 (St. Luke's concert), DVD2 (Rob Hubbard live at the Brighton Centre) and an audio CD of the best tracks from the two DVDs. It's a must-have for any fans of C64 music and anyone who attended the shows.
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Nexus 6581-II
Reyn
01. Bombo
02. Thanatos
03. Pimple Squeezer
04. Tiger Mission
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Back in Time
3
Slow Poison, Rob Hubbard, Tonka, etc.
01. Agent X 2
02. WAR
03. Ancestors [Planet Flyby]
04. Shadowfire
05. Armalyte
06. Phantoms
of the Asteroid
07. Parallax [Stroll]
08. Ancestors [Zoids
Desert Battle]
09. Flash
Gordon
10. One Man and his Droid
11. The
Last V8
12. Delta [In-game]
13. Trap Part 1
14. Eve of the War
15. Trap Part 2
16. Wizball [High Score]
17. Ancestors [Zoids Zodis mix]
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Music
Cheezle Kane – 64 [Lyrics]
Not much is known about this Australian group. When last we emailed them a while ago, the group was about to dissolve. (If you want to get hold of their other songs, get in touch with Andreas.)
Hjalle & Heavy – Commodore 64 [Lyrics]
Punkrockers Hjalle and Heavy got famous among kids via a TV programme – and the rest, as they say, is history. They released three records in one year, and they all went gold. This song was taken from their third album Dunder and is about the years Hjalle spent in front of his C64 playing all those classic games.
K-pist – C64 [Lyrics]
This song was used in the Swedish movie Livet i 8 Bitar. It's about J, whose goal is to win 100,000 dollars in a Nintendo gaming contest. He struggles with his traditional Jewish family and non-Jewish girlfriend, who all demand that he grow up and get a job. Real problems arise when he wakes up one day to discover that his right hand is missing.
Video
Commercial Breaks
This is a fascinating programme about Imagine Software and Ocean Software which aired on BBC2 at 8pm on 13th December 1984. There's lots of interesting insight in this footage and lots of Ocean personalities like Bill Barna, David Ward and Tony Pomfret. After watching this, you will wonder what in the world Imagine was thinking of with Bandersnatch!
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Back in Time Live 2002 audio files
All in all, it was simply a brilliant evening! Too short and too sweaty, but brilliant! People from Morocco, Hungary, the UK and US, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Finland, Norway, Germany and Belgium attended the event, and it shows how important these kind of events are.
Adam Gilmore
This interview was held in a pub called the Marquis of Granby in central London. I'd been e-mailing with Adam for a while, but I didn't know how he started out or how he came up with his best tunes. Now I do!
David Whittaker
Once again, I had the chance to do a little catch-up interview with Dave, in which among other things he tells us that he's back composing again and that his current projects are Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy and Uridium for the Gameboy Advance. Nice!
Machinae Supremacy live bootleg (9.1 Mb)
In addition to playing their version of Giana Sisters, they also played a bunch of C64 tunes which they'd compiled into something they called Sidology Episodes One and Three. The songs they played were Cybernoid 2, Rocky Star, Deflektor and Outrun (on Episode One) as well as Flimbo's Quest, Bubble Bobble, Arkanoid, Monty on the Run, Commando and Outrun (on Episode Three). I just love the keyboard sound on Deflektor (check out 06:56), and Episode Three is one very happy punksong! I don't know who the "Hello/Hello again" dork is, but I think you'll enjoy it anyways.
Pascal Roggen (3 Mb)
This interview with violin player and all-round super-lad Pascal was held in a Ladies room. Why, you may ask? Actually, only because it was quiet in there (the mix of music and people talking makes it quite hard to hear people's answers).
Pascal Roggen plays Monty on the Run (613 K)
It's a bit hard to hear all the notes on the PPOT bootleg recording, but fortunately I was able to ask Pascal to play something for us before the event kicked off. It's those last fast and furious 40 seconds of the song that really do it... you have been warned!
Press Play On Tape live bootleg (28.3 Mb)
They kicked off their set with the intro from Giana Sisters, which was actually nicked from Machinae Supremacy's version of Giana Sisters. Hilarious! Giana blended into Warhawk, followed by Aztec Challenge and Thrust (with Pascal playing on both those tracks). Rambo First Blood Part 2, Flimbo's Quest, Crazy Comets, Delta and Ghosts'n Goblins followed on, rounded off with the absolute highlights Monty on the Run, Krakout, Auf Wiedersehen Monty and Outrun.
Richard Joseph (6.6 Mb)
Meeting Richard Joseph again was a blast! The funny thing is, I always seem to catch Richard after "very many of these", as he once said. In this interview, we talk about games development in 2002, why he keeps coming back to the Back in Time live events, and the possibility of performing Barbarian with a symphony orchestra at the next event.
Back in Time Live 2001 audio interviews
Oh, what a disaster! Something went wrong with the DV camera and it refused to record the sound properly. At the moment, the interviews are all audio-only, but as soon as I manage to match the audio and video properly, you'll see the wonderful video interviews I got!
Ben
Daglish and Antony Crowther (12.6 Mb)
The craziest interview I've ever done, and the most fun. They were both in a really good mood and as you may know, Ben is a guy who talks all the time and entertains everyone. As a huge fan of this duo, I'd like to call this interview the Reunion of We M.U.S.I.C. Take the opportunity to hear a new, previously unheard and unreleased C64 tune from Ben. It's so new, it hasn't even been poked into the machine code monitor yet! And it's 'Antony' by the way, not Anthony like I keep saying.
David Whittaker (5.2 Mb)
"Things are great. You tell me what you want to know, 'cause I'm here." says Dave at the beginning of this interview. Initally, Dave wasn't too keen on doing an interview, but I don't give up that easily, and after a bit of persuading, he finally agreed.
Fred Gray (6.6 Mb)
Gray is a nice bloke and offers a lot of great answers in this interview, like when he talks about the early years at Imagine and the tunes he did that probably no one has ever heard. Don't miss out!
Jeff Minter (3.9 Mb)
This interview was held in the VIP room, where all the fun stuff was going on. It was a pretty confused interview, because one of his followers kept interrupting and showing no respect whatsoever. I've edited all that out, because I didn't think you'd want to wait 20 seconds between questions. This interview will however give you a pretty good idea of how great and action-packed the evening was (the masses of beer may have helped).
Richard Joseph (3.6 Mb)
This interview was held in the room where you could buy T-shirts and CDs (and finish your meal). It was a really fast chat actually, and I hope I can do a more in-depth interview with Richard again soon.
Rob Hubbard (7.9 Mb)
I actually did the interview with Hubbard twice, only the second time with audio (due to the audio problem with the DV camera mentioned above). I was reluctant to ask the poor man to do the interview all over again, but I had no choice – this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! |
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» Credits - the list of people who made all this possible.
» Scene interviews - C64 sceners answer 20 questions about their time in the scene. |
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