Mixes of friends at mix.dj: featuring DJ Lord Heyz

One of the kindest DJs at mix.dj I know is DJ Lord Heyz, he replies often your remarks with more than just "Thank you for your support".

He is an excellent mixer from New York in Deep House and Liquid Funk (and other related genres) and makes at least one mix a week, mostly one more of his beautiful Universal Language series.
I always vote  *****, cause the combination of Deep House, Techno, NuDisco, Progressive Trance is simple irresistible.
But in the genre of Liquid Funk (I discovered it by DrumSoldier at mix.dj) is DJ Lord Huez
also a real king.
So hereby not one of his UL series, but his latest  Liquid Funk mix called "Desiderium"

Last note: every mix has a cover that make you think about.
It's more than a picture, it tells a story and so are DJ LORD HEYZ mixes...

My music memories: Disco Really Made It - Gruppo Sportivo

When I thought about writing a Post about Popmuzik of M, I got a flashback of another great catchy song, what maybe was the Dutch M.
I am talking about Gruppo Sportivo and Hans Vandenburg ofcourse.

I became a fan when they realised the song Hey girl, but when Disco Really Made It
came out, I was perplexed. So unDutch great stuff !!!

Now I consider Disco Really Made It as the Dutch answer to M's Popmuzik,
with more Dutch humour and less glamour.
After Disco Really Made It, I heard the Gruppo Sportivo song called Sleeping Bag .
It was so easy to forget, that I even forgot the title and had to watch some other GS video's on YouTube to find the right one...

But after that Hans Vandenburg came with Buddy Odor Stop or something like that and I
was no longer fan.
Hans Vandenburg is still active on the net, so you don't have miss one day without his humour or his music or both...

My music memories: Popmuzik - M (& More)

 I heard this song over and over again when I once was visiting my nieces.
The oldest one was totally hooked, so she play the single endlessly.
Sometimes she play the B-side. After hearing 20x times Popmuzik in a row, I began to like the guitar-parts in The M Factor.


And when I heard the first time the U2 version I knew I had to buy it. I bought maxi CD single of Last Night on Earth and got the Pop Mart Mix version.

Of course there are a lot of other great remixes of Popmuzik, cause the song is so catchy
you have to try hard to ruin it.

But that's not the whole story, after Popmuzik I was curious what be the next single of M.

It was Moonlight and Muzak, I liked it even more the Popmuzik, it sounded somehow a bit sad and had more emotion than "NEW YORK LONDON PARIS EVERYONE IS TALKING POPMUZIK !!!"

It made me sadder that it became not a big hit, after that I heard nothing more of M.
And I forgot all about Popmuzik, until that U2 remix...

Some (MSX?) links: ASCII Art generators

On MSX I haven't seen much ASCII Art,  some MSX BBS'es had some nice ANSI pictures.
I was busy preparing some (more) Wordstore MSX-1 demo's and I had the idea to convert some pictures into ASCII Art for use on MSX-1 SCREEN 2.

Mainly because SCREEN 2 is at his best with only 2 colors.
If you use more (15 at the most of course) you have a challenge to fix the bluring...

So I search for some website for ASCII Art and found these 2:

 ASCII Art Word Generator

ASCII Art Picture Generator




I like them both, maybe I will use it on my next MSX menu-screens, but I noticed for a good picture you need to have more than 80 characters on 1 line...
And MSX-2 can...oke I will tell you... 80.
So the next picture cannot be played on a MSX screen, it's to big (>200).

But it's fun to convert texts and pictures into ASCII Art, you should try it too...

MSX-2 FM-Pac Games Audio Favorites (Games part)

After you have listened to the tape, maybe you want to listen to the whole soundtrack
of the game on your own MSX-2 or MSX-2 emulator.

Hereby I include a list of music-modes of the some MSX-2 games.
It's not complete and I'm not sure everything is correct but give it a go.
If someone had a better list, I will update this post.
See below:

Musicmode FM-Pac MSX-2 Games:
====================
* Arcus - Push [F-5] + [SELECT] in the first village
* Aleste - push "S" + "T" + [SPACE] during intro
* Aleste 2 - boot disk 2 while holding [SELECT]
* Aleste Gaiden - push [LEFT CURSOR] either [RIGHT CURSOR] 24 times at title screen
* Andorogynus - push [F-5] when title is shown
* Dragon Quiz - boot disk 2
* Fantasm Soldier Valis II - push [F-5] at title screen
* Feedback - push "S" + "T" + [SPACE] during intro
* Fighters Ragnarök - at the title screen, select OPTION then MUSIC
* Golvellius - In the first field after cave 1, do 3x [LEFT CURSOR] + [SPACE], [RIGHT CURSOR] + [SPACE], after that once more [LEFT CURSOR] + [SPACE] (i.e. stab left/right)
* Hydefos - boot with "B" + "G" + "M" keys down
* Hydlide 3 - go to the bank after defeating Gayzac (password needed!)
* Malaika - hold [DOWN CURSOR] and press [SPACE] at title screen
* Metal Gear 2 - equip cigarettes, tune into frequency 140.07 (or 141.07).
* Psycho World - Boot with [B] [G] [M] down
* Randar 3 - enter MUSIC as name when you start
* Sa-Zi-Ri - push [F-5] at title screen/intro demo
* Starship Rendezvous - push [F-2] at title screen
* Tetris II - push [ESC] at title screen
* Xak/Fray/Xak II/Xak Gazzel - go to the system menu
* XZR & XZR II - push [F-5] during intro
* Ys II - boot disk B with [F-3] down
* Zanac EX - push "C" + "D" + "S" + "T" at the game over screen

Mmmm...according to Generation-MSX Zanac Ex had only PSG-music...
Zanac Ex was one of the first MSX-2 games I played, but I liked Laydock more.

MSX-2 FM-Pac Games Audio Favorites (Audio part)

When I bought my first FM-Pac (the original) from Home-Soft, a whole new MSX-world opened up.
For the first time I could create of convert my favorite MSX-Basic PSG-songs into FM-Voices, and it sounded amazingly good.
I went to a MSX-friend of mine, which had some (illegal) Japanse games with a musicnote on the label.
We listen to the intro demo's of Feedback, Aleste and Undeadline, and we were perplexed how much the gameplay improved by adding better music and soundeffects created by the FM-Pac.

Well. I sold my original FM-Pac (cause I didn't use these Pac places to store) and bought a cheaper FM-Ship of Zemina.
It has one nice feature, it had a hidden volume-turnwheel behind it's cover.
But to change the volume, I had to make a hole in the cover and a screwdriver to adjust the volume.
The original FM-Pac sounded sometimes too loud on my Philips MSX-2 computer.

I found out that a lot of MSX-2 Games had FM-Pac support, but also often a hidden musicmode.
Because I was not a good player it was for me otherwise impossible to listen to them.
After listen to a couple of musicmodes I wanted to create a cassette-tape with my favorite tunes on it.

I connected a special RGB-cable to DIN (I had it made by some MSX-er) and connected the DIN to my father's cassette-deck which had the new Dolby NR and different switches for Ferro, Ferro-Chrome and Chrome cassettes.
The Deck had no automatic record-levels, each channel had to be adjusted by hand (to the left less to the right more volume).
This made recording rather difficult, cause each game had it's own volume.

I had music for 1 and a half 60 minute tape, but when I was finished recording, I had no tape left and I had to find 30 minutes more favorite game-tunes.
So after part 1, part 2 was never released. See below...

I hope you can enjoy this (mono) musictape, the musicmodes gave me no titles of the musics, mostly numbers, so the tracklistings (see the other pics) will only show how many musics of each game there were.

Here are the links to side 1A and side 1B on mixcloud:

My first Wordstore+ demo: The LOUP demo

I'll try to explain something about the background of this LOUPDEMO and my attempts to reconstruct the remains of this early demo.

The LOUPDEMO was one of my first demo's I ever made for MSX and that was way back in 1989.
While searching for part that could fit in the reconstruction, I found out that I wrote my first MSX-Basic programs just a year earlier, now 25 years ago.

Okay, back to 1989.
At that time I had already a Philips Music Module, but to make demo's with sounds and music in MSX-Basic, you had to use PLAY and SOUND.
Phillips was forgotten to make a Basic driver/loader for their Music Module programs (Musicbox/Music Creator/Drum System).

I wonder, what would happened if you could have played Music Creator songs in MSX-Basic, should FAC Soundtracker and Moonsound still be released, or maybe just some years earlier ?

So I was not able to use the Philips Music Module to play samples or to use Music Creator songs in MSX-Basic and still wanna make demo's with music and sounds...

From a MSX-er who lived in the same city as I, I  got  the disk-version of Wordstore+ of Aackosoft. At that time we all played those Aackosoft MSX-Games with intro-samples of Ronald van Putten, like Oh Shit, The Meaning Of Life, Jetbomber and lots more.

And with Wordstore+ finally I could sample sounds and use them in MSX-Basic, a great plus for Wordstore+, cause MuSiX (to make PSG-music) couldn't.

After I record some sounds I found out that music could be recorded too, just simple music with some instruments. So, I was at that moment a great fan of The Beatles and Paul Mc Cartney & Wings and recorded a lot of intro's of songs in Wordstore+.

Music and singing was not a good combination to record, so mostly it were instrumental parts that I recorded.
One that sounds the best to loop, was LOUP, the sound you heard in the demo's.
After recording it with a Philips Datarecorder I created LOUP1.LDR, which was a screen 0 MSX-1 demo.

Then I found a picture (ARMSTRON.PIC) and created LOUP2.LDR, a MSX-2 demo with the same sounds and a screenswap.
I used Philips VIDEOGRAPHICS to create the titles.

So when I made the LOUPDEMO, only Wordstore+ could sample.
Peter van Overbeek of PTC Print (the Philips Thioscomputer Club) was figuring out how to use the Music Module in MSX-Basic and the FAC had not yet released their FM-FAC Sampler, which I later used to make a couple a sample-demo's.

I made more Wordstore+ demo's, like a Lily Was Here demo (together with
 a Music Module sample) and a Dutch demo, which tried to some Text 2 Speech Dutch.
This last attempt fails badly, cause I had to sample my own voice and Wordstore+ could only handle 25 different samples, never enough to make a good sounding TTS.
The result of all these was me saying words like "Bbu Aaa Ddd" instead of "Bad".

Ok, now back to the LOUPDEMO.

When I was busy creating a better version of my first MSX Moonblaster Housemix "2 The Limit In2 A Twisted Reality", I thought: "if I release this mix, it should be nice to give something extra than the original package. Maybe some disks with my own demo's and utils I made for MSX-1 and 2."
So I collected a lot of stuff and found the LOUPDEMO.

Earlier I mentioned the LOUPDEMO was original 2 parts,
1) MSX-1 screen 0 and 2) MSX-2 screen 8 demo.
But the screen 8 demo pics were damaged and I could not find the original picture ARMSTRON.PIC. 
I asked on MSX.ORG for the screen 8 picture and got 2 fast and good responses.
So now I could rebuild the original LOUPDEMO on screen 8.

But I thought, "why not try to create an MSX-1 version of the same
MSX-2 LOUPDEMO, I already had the necessary picture..."
And because the screen 8 demo had some Dutch language, I made the screen 2 counterpart in English, so more than just a few Dutch can enjoy it ;-)

During the programming process of the screen 2 demo. lot of ideas came up, and I created the LOUPDEMO the way it is now released.

Every demo has a loading page, And I tried to make every one of them something special.
But I haven't changed 1 thing at the LOUP1.DEM, it was good enough in it's original state.

Unfortunally the MSX-Basic loader was not programmed for use directly in the MSX-Basic listings, so you have to be a little interactive and press some  function-keys in the right order.
The demo's itself are not that interactive, you can speed up and slow down the digitized sound with the cursorkeys.

Special keys in every LOUPDEMO:
* the cursor-keys for sound-speed (already mentioned)
* CTRL + STOP to quit a demo or ESC in the text-reader

I couldn't help it, so I recorded the LOUP 2 DEMO (the MSX-2 version of LOUP).
And if you want all the MSX-stuff about the LOUPDEMO, here it is:

* Depositfiles
* Mediafire

But there is more, I created an complete package with the programs I mentioned
in the text and some videos.

* Depositfiles
* Mediafire

NB: there are more than 2 demo's on the MSX-disk...

MSX Google: week 39, 2014

Hi,
In this (weekly) part I try to find some interesting MSX stuff on the Google web.
This time I found a short story about why MSX never was a succes in the U.S.

The story made me a little sad, and strangly not a word about Philips, the company
which made a lot of MSX hardware in the Netherlands.

So I search on the wiki about the MSX standard.
Nice to read about all those different computers, which were almost MSX compatible.
And some other stuff I did not know about MSX, except the Sony MSX-2 in the Mir-station.

And last but not least another opinion about MSX in  the U.S., FAIL !!!

Mixes of friends at mix.dj: featuring DJ English

DJ English makes mixes mostly with lots of remixes of very well-known hits. He made some tribute to famous groups like The Cure or The Beatles or artists he likes.
You can book him as a DJ for almost every party and his mixes reflects that.
He know what every party needs, if it's a wedding or a birthday, he picks the right music.

He did vote for my I-Magnetics and gave me some nice comments. His mixes are good,
not excellent cause sometimes the transitions are not my cup of tea...arrrgggh...

This mix made me check out his other stuff, so you should too...

Some MSX-links: DiskManager of Lex Lechz

The DiskManager and the BlueMSX emulator made me turn back to my old MSX-disks and start playing, creating, watching, reading MSX-stuff after I think 10 years.

With this program you can convert your MSX-disks to files (with extension .dsk) and these files can be easy used on almost every MSX-emulator.
But there is more, you can also add/delete/rename/extract files on these .dsk files, so if you have some MSX-files download from somewhere, you can create a new .dsk file and add these files to use it in a MSX-emulator, or extract some files to copy them to another .dsk file
without starting up MSX-Basic  or MSX-DOS.

I had most of my double-sided (720 Kb) disks converted to .dsk files and stored on my harddisk, but most of my single-sided (360 Kb) could not be read by my floppydrive
on my PC.
But these disks were pretty old, more than 20 years at least...

Without this program, there was no Mixmeister TnC, no blog and I should be playing only Facebook games instead ;-)

So here is the link for this musthave.

There are also a couple negative things about it:
- you cannot search for files
- no sort of files and saving them
- not much support on single-sided disks


Lex Lechz has made also an very interesting MSX emulator called: RuMSX.
But that's another story...

I like uptempo PSG songs (YouTube part): FUNKY TOWN by LIPPS INC.

In every YouTube part, I mention 4 different kind of video's of the song.

So when I tried to find the original clip of the song, and I found more than 1 version.
But the one I liked the best (not because of the dancing lady) was deleted by YouTube,
just before I could post.
Now I have a TopPop clip of the single version (TopPop was a very famous musicprogram about the Dutch Top 40, sort of Top of the Pops).

The song itself is so good and has many different parts, so finding a good old
remix or 12" was easy.
Again I had to change the link, YouTube was spoiling all the fun, luckly I had
2 links so here is that other link
As long as YouTube won't delete it also.

The newer remix is from Ipaneema, it has a funny clip about finding Funky Town
travelling in a old orange BMW with beautyfull people in it of course.

And when I looked in the wikipedia about the background of the song and the group
I found a story about a cover version made by PSEUDO ECHO, and I really liked it.
Rock and disco together, well mixed.

Final note: YOUTUBE STOP DELETING MUSIC VIDEOS !!!

I like uptempo PSG songs (MSX part): FUNKY by TERJASOFT

Another song made by TERJASOFT and I found it on a MSX/Spectravideo cassette
I bought from the C.U.C, which was not a real MSX-club cause they also started off
an an Spectravideo computerclub.
Strangely Spectravideo computers were almost the same as MSX-computer
so Basic-listings could runs on both systems with some small changes.
Yeah I know better now, thanks to the internet.

Ok, I liked FUNKY very much, with the great bassline and really great PSG-drums.
It had a nice title-screen, but the was a strange part in the song when just a couple
of drumhits should be the bridge of the song....
I didn't understand that, so I made my own drumroll bridge.

When I heard the original song on YouTube I found out, it was the break before the
chorus....which wasn't included by TERJASOFT, ooooh noooooo !
The song could be so much better if TERJASOFT had finished it...

So the version I made in Soundtracker 1.0, it was based on the PSG version
of TERJASOFT with no chorus at all.
And what about the FM-version ? There is none, I tried to converted the drums
properly but failed. In Soundtracker 1.0 it was much easier to create a drumloop.

There is an TnC FUNKY MSX-disk ofcourse:

* Depositfiles
* Mediafire

I like uptempo PSG songs (YouTube part): AXEL F / Theme from Beverly Hills Cop by Harold Faltermeijer

The instrumental song was no more than the theme song of Beverly Hills Cop,
but the movie and the song was such a succes, that even today people still remember
the song (but forgot the title ;-).

Here is the original song, with the original clip, so you see a lot of Harolds,
not much Eddie Murphy (aka Alex Foley)
The clip is filmed in black and white, very stylish.

The old 12" remix I will link to, has a bit of a story.
Years ago I made a cassettetape with songs I though my older sister would like.
I asked my friend at that time if he had some songs I could record.
At the end I had some spare tape with a duration of maybe 1 minute, so I asked him:
"Have you another song for me ?"

He record a rap-version of Axel-F for me and I always thought it was Eddie Murphy
rapping.
I wanted the complete song so I search a long time for a Alex Foley/Eddie Murphy rap-version of Axel-F/Bevery Hills Cop. No luck.
Until I searched on YouTube for remixes of Axel-F, it were the Club Rappers

This is different version than I had on tape, but who cares, Axel-F is perfectly shaped
for rap-versions (as long as the rapper doesn't screw up).

When I was searching for new versions of Axel-F I know I had to include
the Crazy Frog version here. I liked the crazy clip, the crazy remix, all of it.
Hillarious is the part the he rides on a skyscraper to the top.
Even without the crazy frog sounds the remix is one of the best I ever heard.
So get existed or annoyed by the frog.

Remixes of Axel-F are countless, I heard many of them at YouTube but most of them
just change the drums and the bass and that's it.
But below you find an interesting list of my favorite remixes, each with their own style.

Breakbeat: Westbam
Cheering: Djayjay Electro mix
Euro-Dance: dance club mix
Hardstyle: dj splash 2004
Changes: DHP remix
Modern: sixgr0unds remix

I like uptempo PSG songs (MSX part): AXELF by Aackosoft's MuSiX

I think there is no computer/game/demo music-composer that doesn't made his own
version of this instrumental theme.
But on MSX I only had an not finished version of AXELF in MuSiX (a music-composing program for MSX-1 published by Aackosoft).

It started with the bassline instead of the main theme, the drums were vanished
after the main theme, and were out of sync at the end of the main theme.
I tried to finish it and after 5 versions it was good enough for me.

Because MuSiX had no MSX Basic-replayer I could use it in my own demo's.
Luckly I found recently a very rare disk-version of MuSiX (long time ago I bought
the original on tape, I still remember that it took forever to load a song from tape).

Ok, so I made no FM-version of AXELF, but A.J. Minnaard version came as a listing
in MSX Computer Magazine, I type it in and had an FM-version.
His version was close to an PSG2FM conversion, soit was  good but not perfect.

Later I found a much better version than A.J. Minnaard, but I don't know who made it.
No remarks found in the listing.

But with the listing of A.J. Minnaard I created 3 Soundtracker 1.0 files and 1 Protracker file.
The differences between the versions are no more than different drumkits and other
instruments, I think.
The Protracker version was no more than a conversion from Soundtracker 1.0.

I found Soundtracker easier to use (ST plays from left to right, PRO from above to below).

Here is the AXELF TnC MSX-disk:

* Depositfiles
* Mediafire

Just a short note: I found a textfile with a manual of MuSiX on an old disk, so it's on the AXELF TnC MSX-disk.

I like uptempo PSG songs (YouTube part): SMALLTOWN BOY by BRONSKI BEAT

Most of the time I find the original song much better than the PSG-version on my MSX,
but this time it was different.
Ofcourse the PSG-version had only 3 voices, so a lot of the original song had to be cut away by the MSX-composer.
Still the PSG-version manage to get to the heart of the song.
When I heard and saw the clip of the original song, I got the same feeling as when I first heard BRONSKI played by my MSX...
And the 12" version is more haunted than the original.
The message in the song and clip is clear, so I won't discuss it here.

The newer remix has a long title Max Rocca Prophet 08 Reedit, and has it's own version
of the original clip, very instrumental, but still it's Smalltown Boy alright.
Enjoy !

When I was searching for covers I found 3 very different versions, and I could not decide
which one should be in or out.
Listen en maybe you can decide which of these is the best cover:

The rock of Paradise Lost
The chillout of Ciguri:
The  dance of Little Boots

I like uptempo PSG songs (MSX part): BRONSKI by J.M. DE BONT

Smalltown Boy from Bronski Beat was my first up-tempo song ever heard on my MSX-2.

I liked it a lot and I found out that there was the official MSX Computer Magazine version  (MCM), but ever time I downloaded it from another source (BBS or Videotex) it was slightly different from the original.

At the end I had more than 5 different versions, so I put all the changes into one version, which I called BRONSKI.VS7.
This song had some screen 0 animation, at that moment I liked to make an intro with more than just a few PRINT commands.
Listen if you can hear the parts that had been changed by...well not by me (except the intro).
I liked the song so much I created my first 12" version, a randomizer and a mixer.
But the mixer works not as good the FREEZ mixer.
I created ofcourse an FM-version of it and made also a Soundtracker 1.0 version, so I could listen to the song in MSX-STEREO (FM-Pac + Music Module).

You can find all these versions on the TnC BRONSKI MSX-disk:
* Depositfiles
* Mediafire

And if you don't like the picture: it's converted to SCREEN 2 (16 colors), cause all these PSG-songs were created on a MSX-1 (I think so...)

I like uptempo PSG songs (YouTube part): I.O.U. by FREEEZ

Looking at the wikipedia page I found out all this time I wrote the name of the group wrongly.
It's FREEEZ with 3x E instead of 2.

Here's the original video, typical 80s with BMX bikes etc.
And here is an old remix
Yes, this song asks to be remixed.

The newer remix is from Nick Austin - Scotty version, it's very short but impressive remix
and you see how it would be if this will be played at a club.

Then I had a problem, no one seems the made a cover version of it, just remixes.
So finally I put a mashup in my links, with Into The Groove of Madonna
It's not bad, but I won't give it a lot of likes...even de video is mashed up.

Saving the best for last: DJ VICHOW made his own Techno Trance version of the song,
and oh my...he made magic (maybe because he used the same instrument on bass
as I did in my Soundtracker version ?) and used the chorus of the original song,
which made the remix even better.
So turn the volume really loud, set your equalizer on as much bass as possible and
get ready for it !

I like uptempo PSG songs (MSX part): FREEZ by GILBERT HOLLEMAN

I.O.U. from Freez was always one of my favorite uptempo songs.

The original PSG-music came from a MSX-BBS demo, which was no more
than a picture with lot of text about the phonenumbers and openinghours of
that BBS.
At that time I downloaded a lot of MSX software on MSX-BBS with my trusty
Philips NMS1205 modem.

Any way I was perplexed about the quality of the PSG song, so when I got my Panasonic FM-Pac, I created my own FM version of the song, uploaded to a BBS and got some critic from the now famous MSX-composer A.J. Minnaard to make it more than just a conversion of 3 PSG voices into 2 FM Voices and  FM-drums.

After a long tought and hard work I created FREEZRMX.FM
Just for A.J. Minnaard, he didn't like it because...well I inserted some weird stuff in the song to make it less boring...but it turned out to be...well hear for yourself.

Oh I forgot to mention I create also FREEZ.SPE, which contains a 12" version made by me (mr. Ugly), a 7" (the original from Gilbert Holleman), a randomizer and a kind of mixer,
so you could make your own 12" version of the song, just by pressing the right button at the right time.

I made also a Soundtracker (1.0) version of the song, together with BRONSKI, AXELF
and FUNKY and more stuff from EMP-Soft (a 2 member MSX-group together with
Elco Duijm).

We send a disk to MCCA Disk Magazine to be published.
And to our suprise some of the stuff was used by them...

Here are the links for the TnC MSX disk of FREEZ:

* Depositfiles
* Mediafire

I like uptempo PSG songs (YouTube part): TAKE ON ME by AHA

First you have to visited the wikipedia page to understand the history of this song.

If you listen en see the 1984 version video and then click on the famous clip we all know:
then you will agree with me that the wrong producer and the wrong video-director will
put every good song into deep trouble.

But I continue with an old remix, an 12" ofcourse.
Forget the photo's in the clip, just listen.

The newer remix is from DJ GOLLUM
To my suprise, the rock-style fits the song perfectly.

And finally the cover version, again I found in wikipedia an group that covered the song
and had some succes with it REEL BIG FISH 
I choose the long version of the clip, everybody is looking very nerdy,
but what a fun version this is, kind of SKA I hadn't heard for some time.
Check out some other song of these crazy guys at YouTube.

As long as they're not deleted already...

I like uptempo PSG songs (MSX part): TAKEON by TERJA SOFT

Take on Me of Aha was one of the very few uptempo MSX-PSG songs I ever heard.

I did like it, but in the version I got from somewhere, the timing of the drums did not match the rest of the song.

And I am not sure if the timing between the 3 voices the end of the refrein was completly in sync.
And I didn't like the way the composer tried to make the bridge sounded like in the original.

So when I bought the original FM-Pac of Panasonic I converted many of my favorite PSG-songs into a FM-Pac version.
I tried to change the drum-part into a FM-drums sequence but I failed, mainly because
of the timing problems in my PSG version.

Much later I found a better version, but at that time I didn't like to do a second attempt.
I was not so keen on this song as I was with other PSG-songs, like BRONSKI.

The composer TERJA SOFT had done more MSX-conversions of famous songs,
I bought a cassette from the C.U.C. (an Spectravideo/MSX-club)
with I think 6 or 8 MSX PSG songs on it, the listings of course...not the audio !

One of the songs was FUNKY, which I will talk about it later and I think WEALL
(We all stand together) from Paul Mc Cartney/Winny the Pooh
This song WEALL had even some animated sprites in it, which was very nice bonus
(although it was MSX-1 gfx).

Here are the links for downloading the TnC MSX-disk of TAKEON:
* Depositfiles
* Mediafire

I forgot to mention I created a special TnC version of TAKEON, it basicly the same as the original but does a random pitch of the bass and melody line with strange results.