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.the.illustrated.hollywood/h0l.
[.his complete .MOD works, 1991-1997, with links+descriptions.] |
hollywood, nowadays known as h0l, a UK native, started composing .MODs on the amiga
back in early 1990. a massive fan of the amiga demo-scene, he soon joined end of century 1999 (eoc1999 for short), and after having his .MODs on demo-packs here and there, he
joined lunatics, contributing to their 'infinite dreams' music-disc as well as the dcs 'sonic attack' disc.
from there he moved on to freestyle, jetset/skid row, and
finally axis, contributing the music to jetset's 'tag' demo and the end/loading-tunes to axis' 'big-time sensuality' AGA demo, as
well as many miscellaneous releases, including tracks for the ram jam 'charts' and various intros and chip-discs. he finished
off his demo-scene career with a pair of chip-music mini-music-discs, 'chip' and 'chip-squared', and the axis music-disc 'time and emotion'.
after a brief flirtation with the pc scene, despite not owning a pc, becoming a member of valhalla and releasing music on kosmic, h0l stopped
making .MODs in 1997.
nowadays happily retired, h0l runs the net.music.label monotonik, and works designing videogames near San Francisco, USA. these are all the tunes of his
that he still possesses, with the approximate year they were released and his own comments on them. omissions and suggestions to h0l@mono211.com..
[NB - don't want to click to download each of these tunes individually? click HERE
to grab every single .MOD on this page in one ZIP (5.75meg).]
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| .MODs.released.in.1997. |
| "Oldskool" (unfinished) |
| probably the kind of stuff i'd actually be making today,
or closer to today, if i was still composing, this cuts up a jazz piano record and
digable planets in a way most people should actually approve of.
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| Oldskool (unfinished) (ZIP) |
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| .MODs.released.in.1996. |
| "Akai Patch Kids" (with Dreamfish and Supernao) |
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more of a extension to supernao's remix of dreamfish's
'children' remix (!), this nevertheless has elements of the hollywood in
it, especially in the d+b drum cut-ups later-on. the original dreamfish remix was a mono release (pre no'mo), and
was called 'adults', hehe. supernao dilettantishly did about 30 seconds of this, so i felt honor-bound to kick it out
to a decent length, anyhow. actually reasonably
kicking.
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| Akai Patch Kids (ZIP) |
| "Byte Me" |
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a weird little analog oddity, rocksteady drums and a very
harsh bass-line that keeps going into paroxysms. another example of my late-amiga obsession with
reversing drum sounds, which i really liked the sound of (no soundforge on your amiga, guvnor!). recently re-used
on an Australian PC intro that won some demo-party out in Oz, much
to my surprise.
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| Byte Me (ZIP) |
| "Castles In Limbo" (unfinished) |
|
one of my last, unfinished tunes, this
is only 30 seconds long right now, and it's a lush synthy thing. might
as well put it up here for fun :) in any case, an example of the kind of interconnecting melodies i was trying to push in 4-channel. but if you only have 4 of the blighters, you keep running out
(even more so if you have to fake real-time echo on the other channels, a staple of good-sounding .MODs..)
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| Castles In Limbo (ZIP) |
| "Confuzed" |
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odd once more, this was listening to whilst reading an Amiga disc magazine (Sane's one from Holland, I think?), and
works as a very quiet, very cyclical, almost triphop-ish track where
nothing really happens. Note the reversed percussion again and lots of individual, echo-y
percussive samples, a late-h0l trademark, heehee. Also a Mono release.
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| Confuzed (ZIP) |
| "Funk Dat" (unfinished) |
|
again, very unfinished, but sorta pithy nonetheless,
this one showcases lots of twiddly organ playing, one of those bass
'voooom' noises that i still think kinda rule, and catchiness forever, as
per usual. Really a hold-over from my earlier material like "Spilt Milk", I spent such a long time tinkering with this tune, and never really got
it past this point. Guess I should have just looped it, huh? :)
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| Funk Dat (ZIP) |
| "Justice Theme" |
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theme for a one-level 3D Amiga game demo coded by
Nik Hemmings (aka Nik/Desire+Axis) - the final game never got done,
cos both Nik and I went into game development full-time (he's at
Argonaut nowadays). But this is a fun filmic-style theme, complete
with rousing strings, heh, meant to sound epic and "Terminator"-esque, I guess. And the timpani don't sound too corny (+codeman!), even..
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| Justice Theme (ZIP) |
| "Krazed" (unfinished) |
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yep, this is pretty much krazed. umm, before DJ Krust
and friends attempted it this, is a drum+bass cover of a famous classical
piece, with extra sub-bass and stupid samples included. unmissably, uhh,
something.. sadly never finished. the orchestra samples and the announcer are
sampled by myself from an ancient piece of stereo-test vinyl i had kicking around, incidentally.
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| Krazed (ZIP) |
| "Phase 187" |
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again, almost the last thing i did before stopping composing,
this is quite ozric tentacles/eat static-ish phasing techno, with a surprising
amount of depth for a 4-channel tune and a particularly smart Noel Gallagher
sample (from a bootleg Oasis tape!) to liven things up somewhat. Scary
laugh courtesy of.. somewhere or other, this was released on Mono some time in late '96..
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| Phase 187 (ZIP) |
| "Rhythmoasis" |
|
another of those oddities, a chiptune with a drumloop, this
was the original composition for the Axis 40k intro at TP5. In the end we
didn't like it (Stelios and myself), so I ended up composing the verystrange
ambient one that eventually got used. This was released in 1996 on Mono
in the end.. btw, if it sounds a bit minimalistic, obviously, that's because the samples
had to be tiny to keep it suitable for a 40k intro.
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| Rhythmoasis (ZIP) |
| "Tangents" |
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veryverylate, this one's another weirdly retrigging chiptune with
halfspeed/doublespeed VERY lowres drumloops and messed up lead, for jazz
and some kind chip-pack, perhaps a haujobb one? my minds fails me. it may not be original,
but at least it's a little unconventional, mm?
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| Tangents (ZIP) |
| "Time Slip (h0l remix)" (originally by Dreamfish) |
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the joint first ever release on mono, this breaksheavy remix of dreamfish's great techno track is.. well.. one of the
more dance-styled tracks i'm proudest of. the drums kick pretty hard, no? speech at the front sampled and distorted by me (there's, what, 2 different versions of it?) off,
uhm, NWA, wasn't it? i think i had it on tape somewhere. also lots of my favorite intricate-as-hell drum cutting up (lots of retrig and triggering samples partway thru) on the d+b bits
later on in the tune..
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| Time Slip (h0l remix) (ZIP) |
| "Whenever I" (unfinished) |
|
very quite and laidback, this is just a nice unfinished
synthpop tune i never quite got to sorting out in a way that pleased me. but it's
relaxing n cute, so who's complaining? it's delicately deeelicious :P
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| Whenever I (ZIP) |
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| .MODs.released.in.1995. |
| "Believe" |
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done for Valhalla's 64k-intro that appeared, as far as I remember,
at Assembly '95 in Finland. It's GUS-only tho (obscure old soundcard,
Gravis Ultrasound!), so most people won't have heard my music with it,
I'm guessing. In any case, this was started with BigJim at a Valhalla
internal-meeting, but we couldn't get much done and I finished it myself
at a later date. I think the weird static-y noise halfway through is actually
a sample of a C64 loading, and I remember Sandman not liking that bit,
I think. Hehe. The cover version of New Order's "Blue Monday" towards
the end of the song is entirely random, and got it banned off the ASM'95
official CD. Yaay.
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| Believe (ZIP) |
| "Bloodrunrat" |
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at the brink of my weird-out chip-tune phase, this was done
for a 2-hour music competition on IRC, and it placed.. 4th or 7th or something :)
it's sorta fun but quite inessential, and less than a minute long..
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| Bloodrunrat (ZIP) |
| "Django" |
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this came 3rd at the digital 'symposium' demo-party in England
in 1995, which was.. small but kinda fun. This is a lot closer to the type
of music and style i dig today, and includes a _massive_ Lee Perry sample,
and some quite nice tricky drum-programming. There's some cute sampling in here,
too - the 'mm.. gimme' is from Ani DiFranco, of all people.. also, I believe one of the
beepy samples was from the first ever Matrix track (under a different pseudonym)
on Formation - I sampled it earlier, and only found that out later cos my friend Stefan
knew both Matrix and Optical. weirdness.
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| Django (ZIP) |
| "Ether Symphony" |
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really a 1993 song, but finished in 1995 for the "Time
And Emotion" music-disc, my last stand, heh, this is almost funereal, but
sometimes a bit touching. plays with melody like i always enjoyed, and
expansive for a 4-channel work..
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| Ether Symphony (ZIP) |
| "Ethnik" |
|
this is the short version (the competition version) of the track
i entered in the music competition at The Party 5 in Denmark at Xmas
1995 - I also attended! It was a cool party, especially since we got 2nd
in the intro competition on Amiga with a Stelios-coded intro, complete
with music by me (see elsewhere!), but this track didn't get to the final
15. music competitions at parties are generally completely random, so
i didn't mind, and this probably stands up as one of the best tracks i
ever did, and the kind of stuff I might be doing were I still composing
today. It's me whisper-rapping over the top, and the exotic samples
came from weird charity-shop EPs and, perhaps, "Koyaanisqaatsi".
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| Ethnik (ZIP) |
| "Ethnik Plus" |
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this is the extended version of the same tune, and much
preferable, since it turns a 2 minute song into a 5 minute song, with
lots of extra drum+bass improvising and funstuff like that :) released
on Kosmic at some point, wasn't it? lots and lots of sample-offsetting
on the drum samples to get the nice drum part, btw..
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| Ethnik Plus(ZIP) |
| "Galaxy Hyperspace" |
|
strangely missing from my directory on the
'MODs Anthology' CD, this was originally for an Amiga game
called 'Gates of Spirilon' that some of the Dutch guys were doing,
but eventually I entered it in one of the MC Internet music competitions
just for fun (MC3?). Some people loved and some people hated,
I remember.. no middle ground here :)
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| Galaxy Hyperspace (ZIP) |
| "In My Head" |
|
just when things were getting a bit more interesting,
another of the warped pseudo-chips that ended up on the Axis
"ChipSquared" chip-pack on the Amiga. Lots of echo and gloopy
reversed sounds and some kind of atonal rhythmicness. actually
appears on a CDR compilation a German fan of all things Mono
has produced, so shows it's at least.. unique. and different :P
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| In My Head (ZIP) |
| "Intentional" |
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more late-period Hollywood, this time an urgent
little chiptune thing, also on "ChipSquared". Fire-alarm-esque
arpeggios and some very tidily produced drums make this fun
on a bun, hon.
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| Intentional (ZIP) |
| "Londoncairofuji" |
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placed, what, 2nd-ish in Somewhere In Holland,
the party, 1995. Behind Dreamer, Polish crazybutamazing, as I
recall. Heavily Transglobal Underground influenced, i fear (the
first vocal sample is 'borrowed' from their first album, everything
else is original tho..), this is, i dunno, sorta pretty interesting,
overpaced ethnic jungle.
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| Londoncairofuji (ZIP) |
| "Loped" |
|
yipes, fairly small, more of the same mutated vaguely
techno chipstyles i was producing towards the end of me tracking.
original, for sure, but what does it mean? i'm proud that Gil/Wiggle
used to play tunes of mine like this out in cafes in Tokyo on his
laptop when he DJ-ed there. But these are only sketches.
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| Loped (ZIP) |
| "Minute" |
|
another of the sorta degraded semi-conventional things
i was producing with chipsamples, this one actually appeared on
the winning Amiga 40k intro at the Digital party in the UK, 1995,
done with Axis+TBL. The Black Lotus went on to dominate the
late Amiga demo-scene in a menacing Yakuza-style way, and the
intro was pretty competent for about 2 days work, especially the
'phong' curvy vectors - pretty ridiculous to get to run on an Amiga
1200.
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| Minute (ZIP) |
| "Moment Of Clarity" |
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my first tune for valhalla, the pc democrew
i joined without, umm, ever owning a pc. nonetheless, they were
cool people, and sandman was (is?) a formidable coder - he works
at Video Systems in Manchester programming games last I heard.
Not sure this ever got used for anything, but it's a chiptune, and..
nice.
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| Moment Of Clarity (ZIP) |
| "Mumu Move" |
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more experiments with random percussion and
chipsamples and strange beats. difficult to work out what it's
going on about, but it works.
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| Mumu Move (ZIP) |
| "Pa-Ha-Ti" |
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let's all party with, umm, weird swiping noises, messed-up
chip-tune atmospherics, and looping phrases, in another late chiptune
with seriously strange techno-ish loops all over it. i knocked a bunch
of these out supa-fast, but really enjoyed it.
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| Pa-Ha-Ti (ZIP) |
| "Polystar" |
|
a little more reflective, this chiptune, with some intriguing
complex melodies, and another one knocked out whilst i was at uni for
the amiga 'chip2' pack.
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| Polystar (ZIP) |
| "Space Hulk" |
|
one of the last things i did, an almost totally ambient,
weird chip-tune for the Axis (Stelios-coded) Amiga 40k intro for..
actually, was it The Party 5? It came 2nd, I remember that, and one
of the Sonik Clique guys (kings of chip-tunes, for those who know)
told me he liked it, which made my day.
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| Space Hulk (ZIP) |
| "Stingray" |
|
the first version of the song that was edited for the
TBL Amiga demo "Mindprobe" from The Party 5. This one has
a Jeru Tha Damaja sample up the front and flaunts the first part,
a weirdly hard trance techno bit, instead of starting with the end-part
like the final version used in the demo does.
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| Stingray (ZIP) |
| "Stingray (TP95 Edit)" |
|
at The Party 5 in Denmark in 1995, which I
actually attended, TBL (The Black Lotus) ended up using one of
my tunes in their Amiga demo "Mindprobe". I remember editing it
at the last moment at the party to actually fit the demo, tho, and
this version (which I found on MODs Anthology, and someone
evidently ripped from the demo) is the final released version, not
the first version of the song.. interesting :)
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| Stingray (TP95 Edit) (ZIP) |
| "Stopglock" |
|
huhu, weirdness continues with my 'pick some random
samples and do really weird-ass chiptunes' session, which happened
in about 1995 and i'm still vaguely fond of. doesn't sound too out of
place, does it?
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| Stopglock (ZIP) |
| "Take On Me" |
|
oh wow, now you can't complain about a chip
version of "Take On Me" by A-Ha, can you? One of my few
cover-versions, I used to _really_ like A-Ha. Now I just pretend
I was being ironic or something :) Anyhow, this is kinda a fun
cover for about 30k, and was composed in 1992 and cleaned up
and released in 1995. Go fish.
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| Take On Me (ZIP) |
| "Titanium Leaf Prints" |
|
when i was transitioning into my weird
percussive phase, with lots of repeated phrases and looping
drumsounds, this is probably a prime example. done originally
for 'ROM' magazine, i don't think they used it, but it was released
by Kosmic on PC, amongst other places (Basehead got me to
join Kosmic cos he liked my Amiga stuff, but i only ever released
2 or 3 things on the label..)
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| Titanium Leaf Prints (ZIP) |
| "Trance" |
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pretty much ironic chip-tune in which i take 4 channels
and lots of retrigs to emulate 'the trance thing', whatever that is.
well, i guess it's sorta serious, but was another 'chip2' thing that
took a couple of hours, basically in jest. fun, nonetheless.
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| Trance (ZIP) |
| "Tubule" |
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more weirdass 'chip2' stuff, and this is very very rhythmic,
full of 'found sounds', as spooky would say, and kinda, umm, sorta
original techno, i guess? i think that's a VERY mashed-up speech
sample back there somewhere..
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| Tubule (ZIP) |
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| .MODs.released.in.1994. |
| "Chinese Groove" |
|
sorta a chiptune but with no chip samples, done for
the sceptic chip-music-packs called "Chipmania", run by Fl!te, who
nowadays does some of the best WinAmp skins around - weird how
people keep showing up, right? short but sorta catchy along the way.
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| Chinese Groove (ZIP) |
| "Eskimo Logic" |
|
just about when i started getting weird on everyone's
ass, this eventually got released via Kosmic, as well as on the "Time
And Emotion" music-disc, and is.. strange. lots of the percussive hits
and vaguely distorted bits and pieces i liked. very.. basic.. but vaguely
effective. i can't remember where the first quote in the song-file is
from, but the second is from one of my favourite albums of all time,
"I Wish My Brother George Was Here" by Del Tha Funky Homosapien.
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| Eskimo Logic (ZIP) |
| "King Chaos" |
|
sorta vaguely industrial-ish, beepy pseudo-chip-tune with
lots of random notesand a phasing lo-lo-lofi drumloop in the background.
some nice stopstarting near the end. actually vaguely 'original'?
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| King Chaos (ZIP) |
| "Mental Hangover" |
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may have been earlier than 94, actually probably was.
originally vaguely related to 'gates of spirilon', i think, a vertically scrolling
shooter on the amiga lowlife+magicianlord were messing with - it never
got released. sorta named after the all-time classic scoopex amigademo. :)
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| Mental Hangover (ZIP) |
| "Paradise MK2" |
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the 'sequel' to paradise-party, and another horribly upbeat,
catchy-as-feck samba-ish beach tune. i hope you're all getting happy out
there to this particular timbale-laced track :)
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| Paradise MK2 (ZIP) |
| "Pluto VII" |
|
one of the 'only one instrument but really weird melodies' chiptunes
i was prone too, this has some almost eastern melodics in it, amongst other
things.. can't actually remember what this was used for (a menupack somewhere?)
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| Pluto VII (ZIP) |
| "Ram Jammed" |
|
for the ramjam charts, which as perhaps mentioned somewhere
else, i famously appeared as one of the top musicians in, i think because
people couldn't remember the name of anyone else so wrote the name of
the musician whose music they were listening to right now (it's like the
'Top Of The Pops Theme' getting on 'Top Of The Pops', right?) Nonetheless,
this is about as slick as i got, and is kinda beautiful in a synth-poppy way.
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| Ram Jammed (ZIP) |
| "Sanestorm" |
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catchily random 0c0 chip-style (for those who know what
that means), i think the name was do to with the fact i was doing it for
sane/ex.lunatics, i can't quite recall now :)
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| Sanestorm (ZIP) |
| "Shattered" |
|
a collaboration with the excellent reverse/digital (latterly
schmoovy-schmoov/melon design, then god knows what happened to
him..) this was in a digital intro, the name of which i now forget, done
by all the guys who became bomb (gengis/titan/etc.) it's nice to collaborate,
anyhow.. brings fresh things to the mix.
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| Shattered (ZIP) |
| "Spirit of 84" |
|
yikes, a _really_ spastic 45-second rip through oldskool-sounding
c64-ish chip madness. i remember the Dutch guys (Lowlife/Axis and others)
really liking this one. It is pretty deranged, no?
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| Spirit of 84 (ZIP) |
| "Tetris Duel" |
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for the title screen of the shareware Amiga version of Tetris
I did some music for. Suitably orchestral/Russian but not actually a rip-off
of the original "Tetris" music. Much :) Only 3 channels, if memory serves?
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| Tetris Duel (ZIP) |
| "Tetris Duel 2" |
|
also for the Amiga shareware version of Tetris that somebody in Scotland (?)
asked me to do, or I asked them to do. The one kinda cool thing about this
tune is that it only uses 2 channels - and it's pretty hard to tell, actually.
Getting bass, drums, and chords into one channel was a bit on the tricky
side, to say the least :)
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| Tetris Duel 2 (ZIP) |
| "Voyager" |
|
long-form multiple-part 'proper tune', as released in 'time and
emotion', has a sparkling arpeggio bit, a downtempo bit, an uptempo bit,
and lots of nice synthy inbetween bits.. this one took a good few months
to do, and is at least a little interesting in the use of the ring 'hits'.
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| Voyager (ZIP) |
| "Walking On The Moon" |
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another 'stolen from another song but with no
contents of the original song in it' name, and another very pure chiptune,
no drums even, just nice jaunty melodies, mm..
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| Walking On The Moon (ZIP) |
| "What, Wuh?" |
|
before anyone asks, the title is a pun on wotw, who was/is
a famous chip-musician. i guess the chiptune is in his style, right? it's pretty
short but nice n slick, with lots of sliding and no real percussion..
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| What, Wuh? (ZIP) |
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| .MODs.released.in.1993. |
| "2 Cute 4 U" |
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another insanely small and insanely cute, almost Melon Dezign-ish
chiptune. i believe it was done for my serbian friend dexy, who did a couple of
intros with my music in ('in da clozet' is the one i remember, with a stickman
michael jackson bustin' moves!). woo :)
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| 2 Cute 4 U (ZIP) |
| "Ackerlight 2" |
|
whoa. 8 seconds of rude, looping evilness for an alleged reform
of the very oldskool crack-group Ackerlight, who someone told me had restarted
in France. Had they? Did this ever get used? Who knows? :)
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| Ackerlight 2 (ZIP) |
| "Acoustic 1790-1990" |
|
eventually released in the axis 'time and emotion' music-disc,
this is all original composition, and starts out with a very straight baroque-ish piano
piece, complete with trills with _very_ subtle time changes to make it sound a
little more natural. then it goes a little more freeform, then very eastern, for some
bizarre reason, then vaguely bruce hornsby (aww!). and it's all piano, all the way..
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| Acoustic 1790-1990 (ZIP) |
| "Alive and Kicking" |
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another fairly short (1 minute) track, probably done for
dark/jetset's german intro-pack menus. my customary arpeggios and sliding
lead, but quite a funky octave-based bass. catchy, i'm afraid.
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| Alive and Kicking (ZIP) |
| "All-Star Pfunk" |
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as used in the axis 'big-time sensuality' demo end-part. beware, tho,
because the version actually used there was sample-packed to make room on the
floppy disc for, umm, everything else. you evil coders, you! this is, umm, weird
proto-funk, with vibraphone, some half-decent drum samples from jamiroquai
or somewhere, and some fun random-organ wailings in the final part. i didn't have
the funk, tho, but shh..
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| All-Star Pfunk (ZIP) |
| "Aquarius" |
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very, very mellow discmag tune, done for the Ram Jam "The Charts",
produced in Italy by Mase and Posdnuos (not the De La Soul ones, I can
only presume!). Nicish Roland D-5 samples as always, repeatable ad infinitum,
which is the point of a discmag tune. Funny I sometimes got into the 'best
musician' charts in "The Charts" - probably bored Eastern Europeans not
knowing who to vote for and going for the guy who composed the music
for, uhh, the charts. How confusing ;)
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| Aquarius (ZIP) |
| "Dark Tune" |
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another tune for the dark/jetset intro-packs, this one has an
insistent breakbeat and some very 2-unlimited-esque melodies, but does
its job in an effective way - oh, and the scream sample and drum breaks
are kinda fun :) i think it's meant to loop back to the middle of the tune
at the end, btw.
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| Dark Tune (ZIP) |
| "Deep Space Wars" |
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space opera-esque to start with, then shamelessly
goes into the star wars theme. short, but sorta fun, done whilst i was in
jetset/skid row - being in the demo division of a cracking group appealed
to me, tho nothing interesting ever came of it :)
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| Deep Space Wars (ZIP) |
| "Deja Vu" |
|
again, almost chip-tune-ish, but no chip-samples. done, nevertheless,
for desire's 'chipchop', which i believe came out in the end with this in it. less
than a minute long, as are many of my chiptunes. effectively catchy, again.
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| Deja Vu (ZIP) |
| "Easter Islands" |
|
if you like my smooth synth-y work that pretty much characterises
most of the music i made up to 1995, then this is getting close to the best stuff
i did. another track for the Ram Jam 'Charts', lots of custom samples off my
Roland D-5 and a snappy drum track make for a real catchy song, and multiple
parts mean you don't get bored so quick. not sure it stands up in this day and
age, mind..
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| Easter Islands (ZIP) |
| "Fear Of The Dark" |
|
pretty classic chip-tune-ish stuff, for dark in germany once
more, only 45 seconds long, but catchy again. i'm addicted to catchy, right?
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| Fear Of The Dark (ZIP) |
| "Fun-K-A-Delic" |
|
snappy, twisty synthy thing with not much funk but plenty
of that smooth catchy groove thing - multiple parts too, with cicadas and
tribal drumming and arpegiated thingies hanging out in the second part.
fun, really.
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| Fun-K-A-Delic (ZIP) |
| "In Motion" |
|
youch, supasupafast arpegiating and a knife-thru-butter
lead, but chiptune a go go and only about 25 seconds long. tailormade
for intro packs and crack tunes, i fear.
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| In Motion (ZIP) |
| "Interrogation" |
|
originally, if memory serves, for some Jetset demo or
other, this was done in less than 24 hours, and includes some brilliantly
wobbly synth leads, a little Egyptian part at the start, and headnodding
melodies as per usual. phun.
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| Interrogation (ZIP) |
| "Jollygood" |
|
the truly amazing (and also deranged) i-killr/jetset had an
internal members file with multiple nicknames for everybody, and one
of mine, as hollywood, was, naturally, jollygood (being a nice english
chap n all). this is a horribly short and horribly chirpy supa-speeded
chiptune, yet more cute Kirby console primary color sweetness :P
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| Jollygood (ZIP) |
| "Kappazz" |
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another 20-second-long-ish chiptune i cranked out for
dreamer/pmc (pure metal coders, mm!) in 1993, for intropacks again,
naturellement.
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| Kappazz (ZIP) |
| "Kappazz 2" |
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yet more chiptuneness, same sampleset, same 20-second-long
tune, awfully catchy still, i fear. bop yr head :P
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| Kappazz 2 (ZIP) |
| "Navigator" |
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the loading tune for the moderately well-known Axis demo
"Big Time Sensuality"... basically one, sample, some weird keychanges,
stream of consciousness stuff. the one reason i'm pleased about this?
moby, the famous French scene-musician (nowadays in-house at
Kalisto, yet another gamegeek), said he had an A4000, which the demo
didn't work on, but he kept the first disc with my loading-music on anyway
just to listen to it :)
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| Navigator (ZIP) |
| "Nemo Waltz" |
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another single-sample chiptune, this type meant to evoke
Jules Verne-esque under-the-sea ness.. ahh.. but then randomly goes
into, uhm, the "Eastenders" theme. Is there no shame?
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| Nemo Waltz (ZIP) |
| "Night In Cairo" |
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amusingly fake egyptian stylings, originally started
with twilight but largely my composition in the end. eventually appeared
on some coverdisc in the UK, i believe (Amiga Computing or similar?).
just fun. thassall. just fun :)
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| Night In Cairo (ZIP) |
| "One Six Two" |
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woohoo, insanely catchy 40-second chunk of my normal
chip-tune stylings, everyone sing along :P i think this loops somewhere
back to the middle, actually, but i don't think winamp reflects loops back
to the middle of a tune, which is a shame..
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| One Six Two (ZIP) |
| "Phantasme C64" |
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another very commodore 64-sounding chiptune, tho i
never actually owned a c64. but the protracker chord structure was perfect
for pretending to be that type of thing. so i pretended :) this was for german
dark/jetset's intro-packs.
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| Phantasme C64 (ZIP) |
| "Real Life" |
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a little bit of acoustic guitar goodness, and actually the way-overused
shakuhachi, sounding not-too-bad due to my insistence on putting correct
breathing patterns on it, a la the flute. tho shakuhachi is a one-blow instrument,
right? ahem. so it's not right. but it sounds right-ish. what can i say? old but
melodically rather sweeet, as cartman would say.
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| Real Life (ZIP) |
| "Rejuvenation Jazz" |
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woo, a little bit of saxaphonic smoothness and slightly
clunky chords, complete with crowd noise from the 'madstock' madness
album, and little bass solo in the middle - groove, baby, groove! in a
painfully whiteboy way, mind you :)
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| Rejuvenation Jazz (ZIP) |
| "Repulsive Chip" |
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even more repulsive than it should be, since this doesn't
play properly in winamp, even with the oldsk00l mod player on board. what's
up with THAT? :) still, more standard chip loveliness.
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| Repulsive-Chip (ZIP) |
| "Robot Controlled" |
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one of my favorite chiptunes, only 40 seconds long, but
permanently sounds spastic and out of control. great ending too :) the
message at the bottom of the songtext was to some guy called hellhound
who'd 'borrowed ' one of my songs, rearranged it a bit, and released it as
his. not a direct rip, but even so.. i grr-ed quite a bit :)
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| Robot Controlled (ZIP) |
| "Spilt Milk" |
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semi-famously Orb-sampling, Jellyfish name-borrowing track
eventually released in the "Time And Emotion" music-disc. Lots of
organ-sample jamming at top speed, some fun brass fills, and altogether
bouncy fun up the wazoo, right?
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| Spilt Milk (ZIP) |
| "Wisped+" |
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a sorta flutish lead rounds off this vaguely Audiomonster-inspired
track (the second part, which is sorta in 3, is somewhat reminiscent of the
"I.C.E" soundtrack by him), and yeh, it is a bit muffled, cos my sampler at
the time (little box that plugged into the back of my Amiga!) was somewhat
messed-up.
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| Wisped+ (ZIP) |
| "X-Terminate" |
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mm, classically 2 Unlimited-esque, this particular track featured
in the rather-good Jetset Amiga demo, "Tag" - featuring an optional A1200
part, wowee, and this particular soundtrack, with the breaks, the beats, samples
from sl2 and, what, simply red?!? (the cut-up pianos in the Italian house-y part!)
heh, actually a load of fun.
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| X-Terminate (ZIP) |
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| .MODs.released.in.1992. |
| "24,000 Miles" |
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done with jukebox/southern guild, better known nowadays
as hunz/five musicians. called 24,000 miles cos that's how far it is, vaguely,
to australia and back from the uk, and that's how far the tune travelled,
probably multiple times, by floppy disc and plane (ah, pre-Internet, lovely!)
made for the addonic message-centre, a swiss sorta messageboard and
discmag i used to write tunes for. this has multiple parts and is quite melodically
sweet in places. :)
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| 24,000 Miles (ZIP) |
| "Breakthrough" |
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not written for anything in particular, as far as i remember,
this is typical early h0l, sorta catchy lead+chord+bass+drums stuff, lots
of slurring in the lead, percussion and hits between choruses. i was 16 at this
point, so you have to forgive a little unsubtlety, right?
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| Breakthrough (ZIP) |
| "But Seriously" |
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yes, this may be vaguely named after the phil collins album,
but it has nothing to do with it. a weird-ass-timing (if you look in a tracker
it all goes in 3s. or something even more tortuous) synth-thing with, yes,
a miss piggy sample (there's a version somewhere with much longer muppets
samples in it). this was done for a EOC 1999 France demo called "PetsBand"
which I had a preview of somewhere, but never came out... it was sorta
French Moebius-y future-art with instrumentalists playing in time to the
music. Weird.
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| But Seriously (ZIP) |
| "Eurogroove" |
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done for kr'33's intro-packs. he had a longstanding
partnership with troop, who deals with monotonik online distribution,
8 years later, outta holland. it's a small world, right? longer, typical
chiptunes samples, fun, i say..
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| Eurogroove (ZIP) |
| "Fjorded" |
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i think i'd been to norway at some point just before this,
which explains the weird name. and there's a very obscure joke at
the bottom of the songtext - something to do with something mantronix
and tip used to put in their songtexts, i think. short. catchy. chiptune.
need you know more? :)
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| Fjorded (ZIP) |
| "Free4All" |
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more chiptune cuteness, this time with a cheeky snatch of
'come as you are' by nirvana hanging around near the end, and a
typical catchy bass+lead combo heading everything out front. i
was in lunatics at this point.. marvellous :P
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| Free4All (ZIP) |
| "Fusion" |
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impossibly shrill, stupidly catchy chiptune with lots of
my evil trademark pitchsliding and, as always, a few too many
notes. busybusybusy. oh, and some nice arpegiating near the
end.
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| Fusion (ZIP) |
| "Hawaii Sun" |
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made for a PD company back when i was in Lunatics,
this is horribly bouncy, insanely sunny, and far too nice for its
own good. the stuttering chords are very trackerish, and it goes
into some weird lead digressions towards the end. small in k, too.
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| Hawaii Sun (ZIP) |
| "Jarresque" |
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just when i was making the move to more 'professional'
sounding stuff (which in trackers means putting lots of fake echos
all over the place and very careful use of volume commands!), this
was around the time i left lunatics and started getting in with the
dutch crowd that would mean i joined freestyle, jetset, and eventually
axis. marrvellous :)
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| Jarresque (ZIP) |
| "Paradise Party" |
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the original, for the end of century 1999 beach-party
intro, advertising a demo-party they were holding in the south of
france. the start was timed to coincide with some weird goings-on
involving space, if i remember right. then it switched to a beach, and
you get the marvellously cheesy samba goings-on you hear in the
.mod :)
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| Paradise Party (ZIP) |
| "Pop-Aw No, Not Again!" |
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there's no way to break this easily. this is a
chip-music cover of 'popcorn'. i'm so, so sorry. there's really no excuse,
is there?
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| Pop-Aw No, Not Again! (ZIP) |
| "Symphonic" |
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wow, for the really-rather-classy Dual Crew/Shining
"Sonic Attack" Amiga music-disc, which had music by a whole BUNCH of
musicians over about 3 floppy discs, and was horribly delayed, if
memory serves, but had a really nice loading-music thing where
you could pick different bass, lead, and drums from templates and
see what kinda song you made out of it. Nice graphics by Red Devil,
too. Those were the days (apart from the fact I put 'm8s' in the songtext,
seriously succumbing to bad hacker-speak..)
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| Symphonic (ZIP) |
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| .MODs.released.in.1991. |
| "Natural Reality" |
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may just sneak back to '91, this is a tune i remember taking
a very long time to finish. it has chords over chords in a lot of places, making
the melodies pretty weird. agreeably basic?
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| Natural Reality (ZIP) |
| "Obliteration-Fin" |
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adapted from a tune by reeeal/eoc1999, this was actually
entered in the music competition at the party 1 in denmark, if some people
are to be believed. :) in any case, it didn't chart, which is a shame, but is
quite a fun big-screen synth-pop piece of melodic heaviness. a couple of
nice bass breakdowns too..
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| Obliteration-Fin (ZIP) |
| "Skyriders" |
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mm, early chugging synthpop, the extended version has a big
muppets sample in it, if i can actually find it. there's also a little classical
rip-off hanging around in there - extra points if you can find it. there's also
some absolutely horrific tomtoms later in, haha..
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| Skyriders (ZIP) |
| "Sound Of Silence" |
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pretty early, of the tunes i still have, that is - quite dirge-y,
heh, with Roxette-sampling didgeridoo - showing my excellent taste in music
back then.
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| Sound Of Silence (ZIP) |
| "Zero Gravity" |
|
ok, maybe this one is 92 too, but anyhow.. cute little enigma
snare as used first on the amiga by dr.awesome, heh, and a slightly tart
synth-pop elixir, but actually reasonably funky.
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| Zero Gravity (ZIP) |
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