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their story:

http://www.beigerecords.com/artists/8bitcs.html

mp3 of the song "saucemaster" (written on atari 800xl) here:

http://www.beigerecords.com/media/audio/saucemaster.mp3

and the commodore 64 song, "dollars", here:

http://www.beigerecords.com/media/audio/dollars.mp3

I love this stuff. I haven't listened to those links, but I love the idea of reconfiguring old computers and game consoles. Supposedly, there's a Gameboy cartridge that has a music sequencer in it. I think that would be hilarious.

i thought it extra appropriate for this forum, too, since they have a case pending with guiness to be given the record for first time anybody used a vinyl record as a release medium for computer software. i really dig the groove of the SauceMaster.

in a very funny note, or maybe not so funny, there was a program for the Apple IIgs platform called "Music Studio". it was a very early music sequencer/synthesizer program. you could select an instrument by color, and select note values, and then click them onto a musical staff and see what kinda song you had written. very fun program to use. the beauty thing though, is that instrument #3, the black one, was "electric guitar". and it was the most horrific-sounding attempt at an electric guitar. it sounded nothing like an electric guitar, like no guitar i had ever heard, before or since. UNTIL. the first time i heard one mr steve albini's stacatto guitar following the line "hey man, i wanna have a fight with you". i shit you not, the first time i heard that guitar line, my head almost exploded. it's virtually the exact same sound as instrument #3 from "Music Studio". shit you not.

i generally hate electronic music, often quite passionately. the exceptions to the rule are videogame music, which i find to be one of my favorite genres (particularly stuff like the score to the game Metroid, which was played by some symphony not to long ago, and it came out interesting), and oldschool electronic music that predates the technology's ability to even come close to sounding like anything other than a very old computer. viva 8-bit music!

did you ever mess around with the mario music program for the supernintendo? that was pretty whack, in a very fun way.

TooMany,
I too love the video game music (especially Metroid)... music for the Turbo Grafx 16 was pretty great too but I can't seem to remember which games.

Are you a fan of Walter Carlos the composer/artist that brought us Tron and Switched on Bach?

Cheers,

TheMilford wrote:TooMany,
I too love the video game music (especially Metroid)... music for the Turbo Grafx 16 was pretty great too but I can't seem to remember which games.

Are you a fan of Walter Carlos the composer/artist that brought us Tron and Switched on Bach?

Cheers,

i have no idea who this Walter Carlos character is. good i take it?

I think he eventually became Wendy Carlos if I'm not mistaken.

Angriest_Dragon wrote:I think he eventually became Wendy Carlos if I'm not mistaken.

And still is presumably. God bless SHIM.

Switched on Bach ! ha ha ha ha!

anyone know if this was pre-op or post-op?

http://www.littlesounddj.com/lsd/

http://tracking.atari.org

http://www.octamed.co.uk/

http://www.ceephax.co.uk/Music.htm

It's a lot of fun making music on old computers, but nobody will ever make a great album by doing it.