Episode 041
Told you the C64 Take-away would be back in February, didn’t I? The first show for 2008 features a bit of catch-up on what’s been happening in the world of C64 related music – including two new album releases, a hardware gizmo that will let you musician types use that sweet SID sound in your work, and a couple of upcoming live concerts. Plus of course, lots and lots of great tunes carefully selected for your listening pleasure.
Download or listen to the MP3 here (50:34 minutes, 46.4 Mb)
Music played:
- Thomas Detert – BMX Kidz (from the album Syntax Era)
- MarkG – Parallax Melody (alto sax)
- BeeZerk – Lets Fly (Skyhigh)
- Hank (Lukasz Drzewiecki) – Yet Another Giana Sister
- The C64 Orchestra – Delta High Score (from the album RUN 10)
- Reyn Ouwehand – Green Beret [live at The Church] (The video footage of Reyn’s performance is also a must-see)
Stuff mentioned:
- Syntax Era album available for preorder and instant MP3/FLAC download.
- RUN 10 album available on CD and on iTunes (DRM-free even)
- Preorder the HardSID 4U if you’re a musician looking for the authentic SID touch.
- Carry the entire High Voltage SID Collection around on your iPod (or other Rockbox compatible mp3 player) – also see this announcement.
- PRESS PLAY ON TAPE live at The Rock in Copenhagen/Denmark on April 19th. Tickets from BilletLugen.dk.
- Symphonic Shades – Chris Huelsbeck in Concert. Cologne/Germany, August 23rd.
- The Raven and the Blues podcast.
Unless otherwise stated tunes played on todays show are available for download from Remix.Kwed.Org, and from the HVSC. Leave feedback either by using the comment section, or by e-mail to C64Takeaway [AT] gmail [DOT] com. You can also add your pushpin to the C64 Take-away frappr map (be sure to add a shout-out otherwise I won’t get notified) or even send me a voice message.
February 13th, 2008 at 19:03
Welcome back Jan!!
Missed the show and it’s always an essential listen on my MP3 player! Keep up the great work.
Simon
February 14th, 2008 at 1:25
Wooohoooooo! Another Episode
Thanks for your dedication!
February 14th, 2008 at 13:13
Great to see (well, hear) a new episode! I’ve been looking forward for this for 3 months
Good luck with your new job!
February 14th, 2008 at 15:43
Jan Lund sounds very excited. Seems that small break did you the world of good; I’ve been looking forward to a new episode, and they always come when I least expect them.
…good grief – WDR Radio Orchestra is like the BBC Symphonic Orchestra! I can’t believe it as much as Huelsbeck can’t :p
February 14th, 2008 at 21:14
It’s great to see that you indeed returned to do the podcast after the silence that lasted way too long in my opinion. Too bad your work didn’t turn out well (as you described), but nonetheless it’s great to have you back and hear more music
February 15th, 2008 at 13:13
Welcome back!
February 20th, 2008 at 2:11
Jan took me a little while to catch on to this one glad to hear your back was really worried it wouldnt happen and that would have been a terrible loss!
Hope everything is going really well in the new job.
February 20th, 2008 at 21:25
Thanks for the warm welcome-back, everyone. Sorry I had to keep quiet for so long, but the break definitely did me good. Thoroughly enjoyable to be able to bring you some more audio entertainment – I’ve got a few ideas for the episode 42 playlist already.
CG, I just noticed that you’re doing a chiptune podcast yourself. I’ve grabbed the back catalogue, and will give the first one a spin on my commute tomorrow.
March 14th, 2008 at 6:22
I desperately want the HVSC on my iPod Touch. What is really bugging me is despite being jailbroken, it would seem not ONE PERSON is working on porting a SID player. I can’t program (despite many attempts to learn) and carrying HVSC around in my pocket is my killer app. *sigh*
Thanks for the podcast. Good to see you back.
March 19th, 2008 at 1:48
Jan,
I’ve got a semi-8-bit commercial for you here…
http://creativity-online.com/work/view?seed=3kcWQIfc
They even use the C64 font right at the end!
March 20th, 2008 at 0:31
Nice one, Andrew. Made me want to hook up the breadbin and play Spy Hunter.
March 24th, 2008 at 14:20
Love the 64. Is there another gathering in 2008? http://www.64commodore.info
March 24th, 2008 at 21:14
There’s two of them this year – the usual SLAY Radio Gathering in Gothenburg in early August and Back In Time Live 2008 in Stockholm on September 13th.
March 28th, 2008 at 18:39
Nice photo of the Chip that started it all…
http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-13636_11-188095-16.html
I don’t know why they are cracking a C64 open here, but if anybody wants to take a look at a SID chip there it is…
April 29th, 2008 at 0:40
Hey,
I checked out your show a while ago, and I wanted to email you because I think you have a really great concept. Your shows are interesting, and I’ve had fun listening through them. The episodes keep getting better and better.
I’m always looking around for new shows to listen to because I’m a podcaster too. I do a weekly music review show called Have You Heard (http://www.haveyouheard.net). We interview musicians, talk about music news, and review two new records every week. You should check it out. I’d love some feedback on the show.
-Adam Trimble
May 1st, 2008 at 13:41
Thanks Adam,
If you guys are looking for new stuff to review, you might want to check out the “Syntax Era” album ( available on http://c64audio.com/ ) – it’s a brilliant blend of 80s pop and Commodore 64 classics – and I’m not just saying that because the producers are friends of mine.
May 11th, 2008 at 8:42
The greatest home computer ever made. Still have my C64 and 1541!
May 16th, 2008 at 19:49
Just found this site, what an awesome way to listen to remixes of tunes from my youth updated, and glad you have it in MP3 format so I can enjoy in my car (don’t have an iPod).
Would love to hear a few remixes of songs from games that I’ve never heard elsewhere (haha- my “requests”) but haunt my eardrums occasionally:
“Realm of Impossibility” – by Electronic Arts
“Adventure Construction Set – Opening Theme” – by Electronic Arts
“Below the Root – Intro Theme”
“Archon and Archon II – Adept opening music”
“Master of Magic” By Mastertronic / Ron Hubbard
Anyway, great stuff!
- RM
May 17th, 2008 at 15:11
I love it :Þ
May 19th, 2008 at 8:54
Rob Hubbard added me to his friends list in FB the other day
) Is there any life after 64?
May 19th, 2008 at 23:28
Oh, and how could I forget M.U.L.E.? But I’m sure there’s a remix of that I haven’t encountered yet.
Just sat through a full podcast on my ride in to work today, perfect length for my commute!
- RM
May 20th, 2008 at 21:07
Thanks for the feedback and the requests, Robinson. I’ve got a little something lined up for episode #42 that matches your taste – even though it’s an original SID rather than a remix.
May 21st, 2008 at 4:13
Looking forward to it, Jan!
I stumbled onto the bittorrent link at Remix.Kwed.Org (what a treasure trove of tunes) and found MULE and Master of Magic remixes in the “No Longer on” torrent, but just to have one of my requests hit your podcast is an honor, I really enjoy them.
By the way, speaking of SIDs, which I also love as-is, is there a good method/preferred program to make a playlist to play SID files consecutively in Windows?
The SID-plugin for WinAmp requires manual advancement of songs from what I could tell. A program called XMPlay has a much better plug-in, but it often messes up the projected length of songs and you are left with several empty minutes (for instance, 5 minutes of dead space after a 30 second SID clip). For now I use XMPlay, but it is not totally hands-free easy listening.
What do you use, if anything, to hear SID tunes back to back? (If you say an original C64 I might have to bust my old unit out – haha)
Cheers,
-R.M.
June 3rd, 2008 at 7:51
@RM:
My ideal setup would be a C64 with an MMC64 cartridge, The MMC64 has a built-in SID player, so you can stick the entire HVSC on an Secure Digital card.
Unfortunately my C64 is tucked away in the basement due to space constraints, so I’m making do with the Mac version of SIDplay. The tunes played on the Take-away aren’t emulated, though – for those I use the straight-from-the-real-thing SID recordings on the various cd sets available from http://www.binaryzone.org/
June 6th, 2008 at 5:44
Awesome, thanks for the reply, Jan! I’m also looking into HardSID, which would be convenient and authentic.
June 6th, 2008 at 20:32
Incidentally, if those of you using a real C64 to listen to SIDs really want to geek out on your setup, you might want to look into grounding the Audio-In line to get rid of the static buzz.
There’s a couple of writeups on it here:
http://remix64.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4777
http://www.bigmech.com/misc/c64mods/noisereduction.html
(Mind you, I can’t be held responsible if you end up frying your computer)
June 7th, 2008 at 11:38
Your authenticity is very inspiring, thank you for being so real. thanks.
November 19th, 2008 at 8:47
Absolutely love the commodore. Cant wait to get the machine out of its box and start playing crazy comets again!
July 10th, 2009 at 19:36
My c64 sounds so much better after i grounded the audio line. I love the c64