The C64 Take-away podcast

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.

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

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

First episode in what feels like forever (according to Wolfram|Alpha it’s been 4 years, 5 months and 3 days).  In return for your patience this episode clocks in at a little over an hour, so expect the usual C64-related music goodness, hand-picked for your listening pleasure. Apologies in advance for any mispronunciations I made on the show. And if I don’t sound as cheerful as usual, it’s because I was really focused on the recording process. 🙂

Thanks to everyone who kept the faith and stayed tuned over the years.

As mentioned on this episode, the podcast is back on iTunes after being removed for undisclosed reasons. So in order to help new people discover these great tunes, I’d really appreciate it if you rate and review the show on iTunes.

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Download this episode: MP3 (65 minutes – 94 Mb)

Music played:

• Uncle & The Bacon – Druid 2 – Enlightenment (From the Symphony 64: Big Band Bacon album)
• Martin Dodd – 180 (The Happy Hour Mix)
• Rob Hubbard – Pygmies Revenge (Project Hubbard stretch goal)
• Chris Abbott – Forbidden Forest & Beyond (Work-in-progress, from the upcoming Symphony 64)
• Matt Gray – Last Ninja 2 Central Park Loading Theme (From the Reformation kickstarter)
• Druu – Sanxion (Take it down low)
• Johan Andersson – Space Harrier (arcade main theme)
• Jeroen Tel – Auf Wiedersehen Monty & Commando
• Mano – Battle Ships (Russian Ed)
• Necropolo – Zak (McKrackenica edition)
• Ben Daglish – Kettle (tune 1)
• Johan Andersson – Crazy Comets (cops and robbers mix)
• Chabee – Traz (Ditch Edition)

Stuff mentioned:

• HVSC update 68
• Jeroen Tel – “Tel me more”
• Marcel Donné – “Project SIDologie”
• Matt Gray’s “Reformation”
• Matt Gray’s “Reformation 2”
• FastLoaders – Ninja Musicology
• Symphony 64
• Uncle & The Bacon – “Big Band Bacon”
• Project Hubbard

Unless otherwise stated tunes played on todays show are available for download from Remix.Kwed.Org , or from the HVSC recordings available on the SOASC site.

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