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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

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.

Sunday, November 10, 2013

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