The C64 Take-away podcast

Winter came and went, and then came back again. Perfect excuse to stay indoors, set up the recording “studio” and bring you the first podcast episode for 2023. Enjoy!

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Music played:

• Johannes Bjerregaard – Zoom (subtune #1)
• Infamous – Creatures 2
• Mr Weebl – “Lightforce” (from the “SID Life Crisis” album)
• Eivind Sommersten – Vertigo (go deeper)
• Dr Future – ACE 2 (Danger Zone Edit)
• Metal – Beatbassie (Sofa Remix)
• Eivind Sommersten – Giana Overlords
• Marcel Donné – Green Beret Blues
• Johannes Bjerregaard – Sweet
• Reyn Ouwehand – Sweet (Video of Reyn recording the tribute in one take)

Stuff mentioned:

• Johannes Bjerregaard: 1970-2022
• 8-Bit Symphony Pro: Second Half
• Back in Time 1
• Back in Time 2
• Back in Time 3
• Mr Weebl – “SID Life Crisis” (Digital or Physical)

Thank you for listening. May your love of C64 chip tunes and remixes be with you. Always.

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Who couldn’t do with a bit of C64 remixes and SID chiptunes to take our minds off these troubled times? I know I could. After a bit of retail therapy, the podcast now has a portable studio setup. To celebrate, here’s a new episode for your listening pleasure.

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Music played:

• Thomas Detert – BMX Kidz (from the album “Remix64: Syntax Era”)
• Johan Andersson – West Bank
• Wobbler – Byterapers intro (djupt i hjartat av harddisken)
• Johan Andersson – Commando vs LN2 Street Loader (blues mashup)
• JLD – So-Phisticated III (part 1) I Adore My C64 Edit
• Anthony Walters – Hessian – Title Theme [epic vocal soundtrack]
• Vincenzo – Ground [Pump Up The Insomnia]
• Makke – Boulder Dash (Jamrock Dash)
• Linus – Inspector Ironbeard
• Eivind Sommersten – Gaplus
• Oxx – Exos – Acid 2 – (Bring the Beat Back)
• Tron – Bounces (Glam Rock Hammond Galore Demo Tape)
• Tron – They’re taking the SID to Isengard

Stuff mentioned:

• Chuck Peddle: In memoriam
• The High Voltage SID Collection
• Matt Gray’s “Refourmation”
• Matt Gray’s “Reformation 5”
• 8-Bit Symphony – Second Half
• Fastloaders “C64 Rocks”

Thank you for listening. May your love of C64 chip tunes and remixes be with you. Always.

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On a lazy Sunday morning in December, what was supposed to be a quick microphone test ended up as an entire episode. Stay tuned to discover if a certain tune gets to close the show for the 7th time since 2005.

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Music played:

• Wobbler – Hunter’s Moon (The four by four thingie)
• Juha-Matti Hilpinen (AMJ) – Blasphemy
• Steve Rowlands – Creatures 2 (tune 16)
• Jogeir Liljedahl – Terra Cresta (Apocalypse Mix) (From the “Back in Time 2” album)
• Hazel – Parallax (Space Edit)
• moog (Sebastian Bachliñski) – Jazzcat (007)
• Anthony Walters – Steel Ranger – Title (Epic Hollywood Mix)
• SIDrip Alliance – From First to Last (AROK12 tribute mix)
• BeeZerk – Visage (la deuxime partie)
• Markus Schneider – Golden Axe (Christmas Edition)

Stuff mentioned:

• Purchase a digital copy of Back in Time 2 (and other albums) from C64Audio
• The Hackers Manifesto (Wikipedia)

Thank you for listening. May your love of C64 chip tunes and remixes be with you. Always.

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Being a man of my word, here’s the second of the two episodes that I promised to release before the end of 2019, should the “8-Bit Symphony Pro” kickstarter fund. Enjoy!

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Music played:

• ALPA – IK+ (Bergen Boogie Remix)
• Johan Andersson – Bomb Jack
• Teo – JT in Space (Arok 2019 Remix)
• Peter W – Dalion Day (Electro SiD Remix)
• dr.blitzen – Way of the Exploding Fist (Ambient Blitz Mix)
• Tron – Cybernoid II (Lime on 45 Remix)
• Johan Andersson – Star Paws vs R.I.S.K.
• Ben Daglish – Trap (MOS6581R2 version)

Stuff mentioned:

• BIT Live 2019: Jeroen Tel/Matt Gray/Rob Hubbard interview
• 8-Bit Symphony Pro preorder
• The Commoflage: English Edition archive
• Ben Daglish – an obituary

Thank you for listening. May your love of C64 chip tunes and remixes be with you. Always.

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On the final day of the 8-Bit Symphony Pro kickstarter, at 83% funded with little under 5 hours left on the clock, I posted a message on twitter saying:

“If the 8-Bit Symphony Pro kickstarter funds, I solemnly vow to create at least two episodes of the #C64 Take-away before 2019 comes to an end. Think of it as crowdfunding the podcasts with all the proceeds going to professional symphonic recordings.”

And it did fund, so here we are. Episode 54. Whether or not you are one of the people who helped fund this because of my tweet – Thank you for being a part of this awesome community!

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Music played:

• Buzzer – Complications (Moar Cowbell Mix)
• N-Joy – Led Storm (Wah-Too-Short edit)
• Jeroen Tel – RoboCop 3
• Moonove – Delta
• LMan – Dervish D Dual-SID (from Project Sidologie vol. 5: Remixes)
• Chris Abbott and Kenneth “Slaygon” Mutka – Imagine Ocean (from 8-Bit Symphony Part 1)
• Rob Hubbard – Spellbound (from the upcoming 8-Bit Symphony Pro)
• CavemanUK – Commando Dance
• N-Joy – Zimxusaf I (feat. Mimmo Sanborn)
• Johan Andersson – Wizball High Score (feat. Rosa Hajo)

Stuff mentioned:

• Podcast album artwork by Steve Green of Definite.design
• 8-Bit Symphony concert – Unofficial Bootleg compilation
• The Guardian: “Game changer: the Commodore 64 concert”
• The 8-Bit Symphony on BBC’s “The One Show”
• 8-Bit Symphony (Digital download now, CDs coming later)
• 8-Bit Symphony Pro preorder – professional symphonic recordings of the full 8BS set as a double album
• Commoflage: English Edition

Thank you for listening. May your love of C64 chip tunes and remixes be with you. Always.

Leave feedback either by using the comment section at C64Takeaway.com , by e-mail to C64Takeaway [AT] gmail [DOT] com, or on Twitter