One hour of the best racing gamemusic we could find

My son is a big fan off futuristic racjnggame like Scars Rollcage powerslideThrist Twisg n Turn, but also racing gameswhich ard not so realistic but have a sort of open  world like Burnout Paridise and The Crew and racing game with differrnt gamemodes where you can chosefrom like flatout and crashday. Some of these games have licensed music from groups others use special gamemusic composer to create a unique stylethat fits the game. When my son start playing GRId a remake of Rollcage with cars that can ride in any direction, he wasdisappointed  about the music in the game. So I let him hear some Cd audio tracks from my collection of old 90s racing games. He like some soundtracks more than others, so in the end he had collected a nice new soundtrack forvGRId instead of monotone dnb he could listen to old 90s funky techno rock house tracks. Strangely no one had compiledsuch a collection for Yt so I want to create it to save these simpel but great music for being forgotten. You will hear tracks from Excessive Speed, Wipe out 2097, Speedster, Rollcage, SCARS , Thurst Twist n Turn anf reVolt. Enjoy, every track was selectedby Jeffrey123454 my son. Maybe I will creat a part 2. I tried to mix in key so the music will notstop all at sudden, like in the original game itself. Note most of these musics were recorded much earlier by me on tapes. Later I converted these tapes to mp3 but not all tapes were in good shapes anymore even 1 was missinng....

I have to record all cds again, it will take a lot of time to start mixing.

TnC GameMusic Selection: Micro Machines 2 Turbo Tournament

Yesterday I listened to an very old cassettetape (converted to mp3), which was the first tape I made with CD-tracks from CD-ROMs (mostly games). I used tracks from an unknown Pinball game, a Kaleidoscope program and Micro Machines 2 Turbo Tournament. 

When the tape was ready, I didnt listen very often, cause a lot of tracks were clipping or should I say the recordings were too loud. However I liked the idea of creating tapes with the best CD-tracks of a lot of games I played, that I started recording the Pinball and Race Track tapes.

Back to that first tape, it was called "CD-Rom Noises 1", which was also the last one.
And the best tracks of that tape were the ones from Micro Machines 2 Turbo Tournament.

I used one track to start the tape and recorded all 5 of them. Why ?

It were the best instrumental rocksongs I ever heard with a great solo-guitarist.
He plays all the classic rock-tricks in his solo's, but when you hear those tracks 
you want to play this game or any other racegame.

Sometimes the tracks seems to repeat itself too often, but most races last longer than 
3 minutes, right ?

Check them our here

If you want to see the gameplay (with more good rock music in the menu's), go here
I always remember the game, cause the controls were very difficult to handle.
 

My Music Memories: Today of Junkie XL

I was preparing a video serie of my favorite vehicles in Midtown Madness 2, with a Top 5 of trucks, muscle cars, rally cars, planes ( really !!!) etc etc. Just wanna showcase them and do a quick race. Therefor I wanted some race music so I listened to OSTs of race games whom cars have been converted in MM2, like the Need For Speed, Driver, Flatout, Midnight Club series.Then I found this track. and the intro guitar riff kept on pounding in my head for almost a week. So now you will have it too. 

Bye bye. I will read your comments over a week or so... 

I dont know , I like the video clip about a hairdresser making very strange haircuts, 
mister Junkie XL himself. 

After this wonderfull track "Today" I googled for more of Junkie XL, a Dutchman like me. Sorry to say, most of it was boring or not my kind of music. That's a bit strange cause I was in the past a big fan of Nerve (Junkie XL was one part of the duo) and his remixes  & productions with KONG, which I also fan of. 

I guess when you get older your music taste changes a little. So there will no "Fan Of Junkie XL", his "little less conversation" remix of Elvis Presley is simple and still another great track ( with his alias JXL ).

I was just about to publish this post when I remembered I bought once a mega single-CD 
of Junkie XL, when Junkie XL was a Dutch band, with the rapper "Rude Boy" from Urban Dance Squad. It featured "Billy Club", "No Remorse" and 2 remixes of tracks of the album "Saturday Teenage Kick". It was so called "Big Beat" music, like The Prodigy made.
I liked it but not enough to buy the full album. I wish I did, cause 2 tracks "Def Beat" and 
"No Remorse" featured in the OST of racegames I still like to listen to.

GameMusic tapes: Press PLAY to START tape 1

On this tape you find no Pinball Sounds or Racing Tracks, just all kind of PC-games with CD-audio. Probably the strangest mix I ever recorded on cassette, every genre is possible.
So I get never bored when I listen to these tapes. To be honest after so many years I dont like all tracks anymore. My taste of music has somehow changed.


Side A: https://www.mixcloud.com/TnC_tapes/press-play-to-start-tape-1-side-a/
Side B: https://www.mixcloud.com/TnC_tapes/press-start-to-play-tape-1-side-b/

I still like the title of the serie "Press PLAY to START", it fits very well.
And if you dont like the tape, you can allways buy a book with the same title...
Here: http://www.johnjosephadams.com/press-start-to-play/

GameMusic Tapes: CD-ROM Racing Tracks Volume 1

The title says it all, Racing music, so lot of up tempo stuff. Ideal for long road-trips.

Well, not like this...
At mixcloud you find some comments about where the music came from and more.

I am still suprised that after so many years, the tapes (in general) still sound like they
were recorded yesterday. Well, they are NOT ! But I can't tell you when, my best guess
is during the mid 90s.

Side A: https://www.mixcloud.com/TnC_tapes/cd-rom-racing-tracks-volume-1-side-a/

Side B: https://www.mixcloud.com/TnC_tapes/cd-rom-racing-tracks-volume-1-side-b/

Right now, I am not sure I will upload every Racing Tracks tape I made, I have still other tapes that might be also interesting to upload...
Check out https://www.mixcloud.com/TnC_tapes/ for more tapes from my past
(and maybe yours too...)

GameMusic Tapes: CD-ROM Pinball Sounds 1

There is not much to talk about this tape, I uploaded side A and B to mixcloud with some additional info in the comments.

So this time I will say something about the Pinball Sounds serie in general,  there were in total 4 tapes made with CD-audio from lot of Pinball games made in the 90s.

I remember that some Pinball games were just Commodore Amiga 500 ports.

Like this one, above...

And I bought mostly 3/4/5 packs of cassettes from companies that made (according to me) the best cassettes in the world, like Sony, TDK, Fuij and BASF.
I had a couple good white label cassettes like Turbo, but couldnt find any info on the net yet...
Funny enough the inventor of the compact cassette, Philips, made the worst tapes
(but I found out too late).

Listen to side A: https://www.mixcloud.com/TnC_tapes/cd-rom-pinball-sounds-1a/
Listen to side B: https://www.mixcloud.com/TnC_tapes/cd-rom-pinball-sounds-1-side-b/

All tapes contain music of the 90s, so lot of electronics, rock and less house, pop...

GameMusic Tapes: An Introduction

Well, instead I go on with the TnC GameMusic Collection I decided to introduce a slightly different series of Posts. Again with GameMusic, featuring tapes I made many years ago.

I was very fond of playing Pinball and Race games on my PC and noticed during playing by accident that the music I heard came from the CD-ROM directly, cause the CD-ROM kept spinning while playing the music. So I put a CD-ROM in my CD-player, skipped data track 1
and listen to the music tracks I never heard before. Then decided to check all the PC-games I had collected over years for CD-audio tracks, cause that is what they were called.

In the end I got so games with CD-audio, I started to record the best tracks on tapes so
I could listen to them on my Sony walkman. Yeah, it was before mp3 became famous.
I created 3 types of tapes with CD-audio, Race games, Pinball games and all other PC-games I could find. After recording more than 24 tapes I stopped, but still there were PC-games with great music but no CD-audio, so I ripped a lot or browsed the net to find those OSTs, converted to 1 format mp3 (192 kbps) and burned a lot of CD-Rs and DVD-Rs.
I believed I made more than 100 CD-Rs and 50 DVD-Rs. Don't worry I wont upload them all or post about every CD-R/DVD-R...

About the music you find on the tapes a very strange mix with different music-genres,
house, hard-rock, swing, rock n roll, boogie-woogie, techno, electronica, cross-over, disco, and plenty more. I always searched for a up-tempo track to start the tape and to reduce the switching of the CD-ROMs  in my CD-player I tried to record 2 tracks of the same game one after another.

I found an interesting website about (new) GameMusic, check this on: http://www.vgmonline.net/ or remixes of famous GameMusic, check: https://ocremix.org/
Lookinmg OSTs of older games, check here: http://downloads.khinsider.com/

Wanna see a strange shop where you still can purchase TDK tapes: https://www.duplication.ca/shop/TDK-SA-90.html  or a complete catalogue of manufacturers of compact cassettes: http://www.c-90.org/catalogue/tapes