Abbey Road / Sgt. Pepper - The Beatles and others

Long time ago  when I was still at school I discovered The Beatles. My best friend had 3 tapes with songs of the Beatles and Wings, but not performed by the Beatles or Wings itself.
But it sounded god enough to make me curious about other Beatle music. So my older sister bought 2nd hand the LP "Abbey Road" for just 2 guilders (less than 1 Euro) and the 2-LP The Beatles: 1962-1966 (the red one) for just 4 guilders (less then...).
Not a bad way to start with Beatle music. The more Beatle albums I discovered, the more I liked "Abbey Road".

There are lot of information about "Abbey Road" album, but lately I found out that 
"Sun King" sounded a lot like "Albatros" of Fleetwood Mac. I think the Beatles just wanted to prove "hey we can do a Fleetwood Mac, if we wanted"
So I was digging into YouTube with Abbey Road songs covered by other artists and I found "Because" and after that, "Come Together"
Both tunes cames from a movie called "Sgt Pepper - the movie", with the BeeGee's,
Peter Frampton as main characters. The movie was bad, but it had some great covers.
And after seeing the movie, you are not suprised to see en hear this: "All This And World War II (Trailer) "

My music memories: Let It Run - Jeff Lynne

I always liked the movie "Electric Dreams" about the adventures of a boy with a strange computer and a beautiful girl. 
The music was ok, the interaction between the computer and the boy was funny enough. 
Personal I liked "Let It Run" the best of all songs and years I have searched for the song, 
cause I was sure it was a ELO song. 
Later somebody found the song on the net and told me it was Jeff Lynne. 
Well, all ELO ingredients are there, with a little more electronics than orchestra. 
So here is the short version from the film Electric Dreams itself Jeff Lynne - Let It Run (I always wonder how a computer could start a record player...).
And I found a (fake) movie-trailer featuring the same song of Jeff Lynne. I think it shows a little too much of the movie, but it gives a complete new meaning of the title of the song "Let It Run"
I hope you enjoy both video's.

The best (Western) MSX PSG musics

Before the FM-Pac and MSX-2+ computer where released, MSX game-music had to be made with an 3-voice soundchip (PSG), which was no that good as the one in a Commodore 64, which has it's own SID music-format.

In Japan there were a lot of great composers who made some nice PSG game-musics
for MSX-games, but there were only a few composers in the Western World.

John Hassink created a nice collection of Western MSX PSG game-musics and uploaded to YouTube. He won't be doing a second part, but Manuel Bilderbeek made a playlist
with 17 more awesome MSX PSG musics.

For the John Hassink MSX PSG mega-collection: YouTube
For Manuel Bilderbeek MSX PSG music-collection:YouTube

Mixmeister TnC first Moonblaster mix in the blender: 2 The Limit In2 A Twisted Reality REPRISE

When Mixmeister TnC was listening to his first mix, he noticed the were some parts too loud (clipping), some to silent and some were no stereo after all.

So after a very long period of editing, modifing, recording, mixing, he released his first mix again. The songs were the same, but there were a lot of changes in this REPRISE mix.

Can you hear the differences between the first mix and the REPRISE ?

If you want to hear the REPRISE mix: Mixcloud
If you want to know more about the REPRISE mix, get it at: Depositfiles
If you want to download the REPRISE mix whole package,
get it at: MediaFire or DepositFiles

Mixmeister TnC first Moonblaster mix: 2 TheLimit In2 A Twisted Reality

More than a year ago published Mixmeister TnC his first mix at Sound-/Mixcloud.
A year later he had 2 followers...how famous can he be...

Mixmeister TnC released his mix at Mixcloud, but he created a complete package for those
who want to know more about the backgrounds of his first mix.
It included en document about the making of the mix and it's songs, the songs in MP3-format, some pictures related to the document and 2 MSX disks in DSK-format.
One with the original Moonblaster musics and one Music-disk with some songs from the composer featuring in the mix.

Until now Mixmeister TnC still released a package together with publishing on Mixcloud.

If you want to hear the first mix: Mixcloud
If you want to know more about the first mix, get it at: Depositfiles
If you want to download the first mix whole package,
get it at: MediaFire or DepositFiles

My Music Memories: I Found Love - Lone Justice

Long time ago I was into reli-rock and I read about a new album of Lone Justic called "Shelter"

Well, I was interested,so I went to my favorite record-shop and to my surprise they had it.
I want to listen at first before buying it, so the lady put the record on at highest volume on my earphone.
It is what I heard: I Found Love

After that song I didn't mind the next song "Shelter" was a ballad pop song easy to forget.
So I bought the record, full to wicked country-rock and haunted ballads.
And not much later I bought their first album "Lone Justice", just as good as "Shelter" but more simple country rock. The song "Sweet Sweet Baby" was another great sing-along rock song like "I Found Love".

Maybe you remember the female singer: Maria McKee

My Music Memories: Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple

A friend on mine had an Amiga 500 and every time he let me hear some cool mod-files in stereo !
So I asked him to record some stuff on a cassette and one of the songs he recorded was
Dr Awesome - Smoke on the water of Deep Purple.

It had an amazing distortion guitar sample, so I tried to make an MSX version of it.
After all the song was quite simple...
NOT...in FAC Soundtracker 1 I used it was not possible to create your own voices and I want to make it sound just as good with FM-Pac as with Music-Module...
So this is the result of my failed attempt:  Mediafire or DepositFiles

Dutch Heroes of MSX Music (New Logo)

One of my MSX friends, SupMSX, made on my request a nice logo for use in the interview serie. He created the logo, just the way I liked it:

* something old (MSX logo)
* something new (other titles)

So here it is: 

SupMSX is proud owner of a MSX website, which has some nice GFX and some MSX-related stuff you won't find anywhere else.

So here is the link: MSX World

Top 100 Down so here is Top 220 !!!

Well, shortly after I posted this Top 100, YouTube was taking this video down, because of some copyrights.
But I found even a better one: a Top 220 Minecraft Songs 2013, almost 12 hours !!!

Here is the link: Top 220 Minecraft Songs of All Time!

And here are some favorite songs of mine:

199: Diggy Diggy Hole
145: Mr Creeper
127: Like an Enderman
78: 1.6 Minecraft Song
77: Mine With Me
39: Screw The Nether
14: Fallen Kingdom
13: Don't Mine At Night
5: I Found A Diamond

Dutch Heroes of MSX Music Part Zero / Introducing Mixmeister TnC

I was planning a interview serie with some well-known MSX music composers, 
cause I was curious to find out the person behind the music.
Well, it was not easy to create a lot of questions that make sense and to put them 
in the right order.
So to test the questions I interviewed Mixmeister TnC, wellknown from his mix-tapes 
at Mixcloud.com ;-)
After this interview I was ready to face (real) MSX music composers, like...
Well...stay tuned and you will see...

Meanwhile, have fun with this interview, by downloading at:
-  MediaFire
- DepositFiles

Non MSX music, just a MineCraft covers

Minecraft is a game in non-realistic 3D world, without a story you must play.
In fact it's all about mining and surviving, building and destroying, but it's all up to the 
player to decide. .For more info:

Minecraft can be played on Single Player, Multi Player on LAN and on a server on the internet.
It's written in Java, so it can be played on Linux, Windows, tables and smart-phones.

But that's not all, you can completly change the game by downloading maps, textures, skins and mod to give you everything you could need in Minecraft, like more enemies, new weapons, new transportation, etc. For much more info:

Minecraft has many fans/players so there are a lot of movies on youtube and somebody came with an idea to create a movie in Minecraft and cover a well known pop-song with Minecraft based lyrics.
This became huge, a lot of coversong and songs special composed for Minecraft followed quickly.

I could not choose just one Minecraft song, so now you have it...a top 100.


Top 100 Minecraft Songs (2013)

Some of my favorite songs: 97, 76, 40, 15, 08, 04 and 01

What is TnC Stuff ?

On TnC Stuff I want to share:
:
* some MSX-disks and MSX-programs I like a lot
* some music-video's  that caught my attention
* some MSX mixes I released
* some mixes I listened to

and:
 
* other music related stuff
* other MSX related stuff

At this moment I have no plans for daily or weekly 
updates, when I want to share something...I will.

To start with sharing first some MSX-sites I visit
now and then:

MSX.ORG for the newest info, big forum and some downloads
PASSION MSX for some info and lots of downloads 

And some other music related websites I visit:

DISCOGS for every record release you want to know about
 MIX DJ for the best (unknown) DJ mixes of the world

Have fun,

TnC

New Blog New Posts

Hi,

This is my 2nd attempt for creating a blog about MSX
 and other music related subjects.

The name of my first blog (thenoisecollector.blogspot.com) was 
not easy to find on the net, cause somebody else had already a blog 
called noisecollector.blogspot.com.

So I decided to create a new (hopefully a better) blog and I call it:
TnC Stuff

TnC