Music Memories - Face to Face of Pete Townshend

Well, recently I was collecting my favorite rock-songs of all ages, some of AC-DC, Cliff Richard, Peter Gabriel, Status Quo, Deep Durple, Robert Palmer...
Yeah all stuff from the 60s until the 80s.
Then suddenly I remember a title, "Face the Face".
I didn't know who sang it, so I Googled and found...oh he is an ex-member of

They made some great rock-songs too.

I could easily put here the YouTube link for "a video with the official recording with an image ". But that no fun at all, so I searched and found a great live recording and video
of "Face the Face" of Pete Townshend and the Deep End...here

My memory about this song, it had a strange text "Judge the judge, face the face...etc"
and by that time the song was on the radio I was working at a sort of stockhouse, doing things I was not good at. This song maked me a little happier then.
So enjoy this link, you can see how much fun the band had while playing the song.

 

Don you every get weary in Deus Ex Machina

 Deus Ex Machina was a game made for ZX Spectrum and a couple of other homecomputers like...MSX1. It was a game without any sound, but it was sold with a separate audio-tape.
The game was more like a story with mini-games and you had to find out while playing how the mini-games work and what to do...

The music was very minimal, but at the end of the tape, when your score in % was displayed, there was a silly song I could not get it out of my mind.
The song was called (I think) "Don you every get weary"..( MediaFire / DepositFiles )

I could not help making a little videoclip of it, cause the lyrics are tragic and ironic
at the same time, so here it is:

YouTube

Hey, I know it's just another Windows Movie Player project, but on my slow
computer nothing else works...
And I had to say, I use mainly the ZX-Spectrum movies from YouTube, cause
recording the MSX-version fails, it could record no more video than 28 seconds...

On YouTube you can see and listen the whole ZX-Spectrum version,
I must say the MSX-1 is graphics not much better.

Side 1 Part 1

Side 1 Part 2

Side 1 Part 3

Side 2 Part 1

Side 2 Part 2

Side 2 Part 3

I even created an MSX package of this very original game (released in 1984 !),
with more stuff and a Spanish MSX version of the game, lucky for me the audio-tape
was still in English...
You can find the package at Depositfiles and Mediafire

One of the makers of the game: Mel Croucher is still working on Deus Ex Machina 2,
check out it's nice designed website (and lot's of stuff from the first Deus Ex Machina).

Have fun, and play the game once more...

My favorite song of the MineCraft OST: Calm3 / Sweden

All original music of MineCraft was made by  C418, a music-composer from Germany.
Check out his website, very cool, stylish and fun to read.

Even though I played MineCraft (currently version 1.6.4, cause my laptop doesn't support the openGL for versie 1.7 and higher) for more than a year, every time I hear in the game Calm3 (or Sweden as C418 calls it) I like to stop playing and just listen.
Which is, most of the time in MineCraft, very dangerous......

So hear my favorite song in Minecraft:


* The Original Sweden/Calm3: from MineCraft by C418
And every (well-known) good song has its remixes so here they are:
 
* The best remixes of Calm3/Sweden are:
Caution & Crisis Remix and dj-Jo Remixdj-Jo Remix

MSX PSG Games-Music collected

My first home-computer was a Philips VG8235 MSX2 homecomputer and I played a lot of MSX games on it, first mostly on tape, cause my first MSX friend at that time had'nt a diskdrive and most of the MSX games were only sold on tape or cartridge.

Most of the MSX games had PSG music, which was capabel of 3 channel noise, a little less than C-64 soundchip. But some had excellent music and John Hassink manage to create more than 1 hour of the best MSX PSG musics and uploaded it to YouTube.

He only made the collection with songs from MSX games produced in the Western World,
cause in Japan...well they were masters in producion fine PSG musics.
Maybe someone will create a MSX PSG Japan collection, but it was nice to hear some all time favorites tunes, like

I had to admit, I was not very good at gaming, so I have seen more GAME OVERs than
THE ENDs.
And if you want to see more MSX games, try this one.

Cartoon Music Part 3: Yosemite Sam Gaat Uit Zijn Dak

Looney Tunes Show: Merrie Melodies are all very nice songs with nice animations
One my favorites is the one with Yosemite Sam with the red beard.

If you prefer Dutch: http://youtu.be/tNtlh_4PWow
If you prefer English one: http://youtu.be/3MYiIYBzrsc












See the 3 singing girls getting older...

The Dutch translations and voices of the Looney Tunes Show are incredible good.
Even if they are singing they sound just like the English voices.

If you want more Merrie Melodies, here is Pizzarriba:http://youtu.be/Sq1VjxFxvGI

Cartoon Music Part 2: Mojo Jojo rules the world

Mojo Jojo always wants to rule the world, but the PowerPuff Girls don't let him.
So Cartoon Network made this from the famous Tears for Fears song:

And if you can't get enough, here is a full version
It sounds just like when I try to sing...

Cartoon Music Part 1: The Pink Panther Theme

Of course, everybody know the famous Pink Panther Theme from Henry Mancini.
But this the best Pink Panther Theme I know, more groove...
It came from the intro of The Revenge of the Pink Panther, and I must say the animation was the most hilarious of all Pink Panther movies.

I could post a link to all Pink Panther cartoons or movies at YouTube, but I won't.
See for yourself.

Mixmeister TnC 6th Moonblaster mix: Invasion of the I-Magnetics

I was working on this mix at the same time as my first REPRISE mix, but in november 2013 I could finally finish this one.

This time with a little help from my son, who listen and made very usefull comments what should be changed.
The hardest parts to mix where the parts the BPM didn't match at all, I had to put so samples between so the listeners won't be annoyed too much.
And I was experimenting with some filters in Audacity, you can hear one in the intro.

There is more to tell about this 6th mix, so follow the links below:

If you want to hear the 6th mix: Mixcloud
If you want to know more about the 6th mix, get it at: MediaFire or Depositfiles
If you want to download the 6th mix whole package,
get it at: MediaFire or DepositFiles

This time I even uploaded secretly the mix to Mix.dj, my favorite website for not only house-mixes but a lot of music styles like Disco, DnB etc. etc.
I will post later some links to DJs I like a lot at Mix.dj...

Last not: I made the simple GIF-animation completly with PhotoScape
It is a very easy to use picture-editor with a lot of features (like taking screenshots...)

My very first MSX demo - Dance On Banana Peels

While I was restoring my old KUN-compiler/XBasic/Turbo Basic disk with 2 flipsides (meaning: you coud store 2x112 files on a double-sided disk) I found my long forgotten first attempt to create some kind music.
It is more like rhythmic sounds than a actual song. It was called DISCOMIX.TRB, cause I changed it for use with the KUN-compiler.

While I was playing it, it reminds me of my very first MSX demo I created in, I think, 1988.
It was called - Dance On Banana Peels -, but had only a title screen and the DISCOMIX sounds.
I re-created the title screen with another program LETTERS.BAS I found earlier.
It was an improved version of the routine I stole from a basic-listing game called KLONDIKE.
The game itself is lost somewhere on my unreadable single-sided disks.

And DISCOMIX has an other story, on of my first -from scratch- homemade MSX programs was some kind of soundgenerator, called AUB, which was short for the Dutch expression "EVEN GEDULD A.U.B."

It generated soundeffects with 3 channels and if you press a key, it could display the right SOUND parameters from that sound.
Pity it worked not the way it used to be, so you only got the parameters from the sound it should be playing, instead of the sound that was already being played.
But I manage to generate 3 different soundeffects, that had some rhythm in it.
I arrange it as described below:

intro, melody, refrein, melody, refrein, melody, bridge, melody, outtro

To make the changes between the different parts smoother I added some pitch up/down effects.

So now I have re-created my first MSX demo ever. Because of the long waiting time to generate the title screen (the original demo had a BLOAD,S screen) I added some color-change in the edges of the screen and show a disclamer when starting the demo.
I also made the DISCOMIX a little shorter, less boring.

Hereby the links to get this demo - Dance on Banana Peels -, in LZH or DISK format:

DANCE-ON.LZH: Mediafire and DepositFiles
DANCE-ON.DSK: Mediafire and DepsitFiles

I forgot to say something about the title...I don't know why it is called that way.
Maybe it was a parody of the title of a popular song these days (1988).
I found this demo too simple to be uploaded to MSX.ORG, but this demo shows if you learn from other's work, you can create your own.

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