Category: Scene Music News
Martin is not only part of the demoscene and a graphic artist for Scene World, but he is also a pioneer in the early ages of Netlabels and a creative head that often creates unique artistic projects. In this podcast, AJ and Joerg talk with him about the early ages of the internet and how he found its way into…
He is a veteran graphic designer, coder and composer, mostly recognized for for the cool soundtrack of Game Boy Color games such as “Happy Hippo” for the Kinder Surprise brand! In this interview he talks about how he started with is love for game music, learned how to code, do graphics and finally was able to turn his love for music…
Welle:Erdball has been making music for almost 30 years, and the Commodore 64 has been an integral part of their unique sound since the beginning. Joerg and AJ talk to W:E members Honey and MissMoonlight about their musical process, what it means to them to be able to create art at this level, and the importance that the C64 plays…
Psytronik and Remute are collaborating in a Commodore 64 game bundle, featuring 8 games by Psytronik and a Remute music EP which can be played on a C64! Similar to Humble Bundle sales, the Groupees bundle lets the buyer name the price, starting at US$3.99. The majority of the sales go to Psytronik, therefore buying this bundle the user supports…
While The best of Commodore 64 Demoscene video for April releases might be a bit delayed because of my trip to VCF East, we are launching this month another surprise for all the retro computing enthusiasts: a slide show displaying all graphics releases from last month. The C64 community has been releasing astounding illustrations for many years and for a…
Following a month of tantalising tweets, teases and promos, the crowdfunding campaign for Amiga Power – The Album with Attitude is now live on Kickstarter. Regular readers will know that we have something of a soft spot for Commodore and its groundbreaking multimedia machine, so we were rather excited when we had to chance to talk to Matthew Smith about…
The Czech composer Adam J. Sporka has published For Ember, a new album with 18 chiptune songs composed using an Atari 800XL computer. Most of the tracks were composed by Sporka between 2009 and 2019, but the album also includes a chiptune version of Jan Valta’s People of the Land and chiptune version of The Wasteland Wailers’ Dare Master. The…
We chat with Matthew Smith about his exciting Amiga Power magazine-inspired remix album!
Matt Gray goes for a hat-trick with his latest VG remix Kickstarter!
After 18 months of blood, sweat, tears, not to mention late nights, Matt Gray has finally released the digital version of Reformation 2, the highly-anticipated second album containing remixes of classic Commodore 64 music. I’ve always been somewhat wary of handing money to crowd-sourced funding campaigns, but I made the exception when the Kickstarter for the original Reformation was launched…
