chillhead » Bleeps http://chillhead.wordpress.com keepin' my head cool Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:12:04 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/d431d027a20de0b7759b5e5710645dd0?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png chillhead » Bleeps http://chillhead.wordpress.com Headbangers made of clay http://chillhead.wordpress.com/2007/05/10/headbangers-made-of-clay/ http://chillhead.wordpress.com/2007/05/10/headbangers-made-of-clay/#comments Thu, 10 May 2007 05:59:15 +0000 yth http://blinkenlichten.wordpress.com/2007/05/10/headbangers-made-of-clay/ ]]>

Watch these funny little clay creatures wander around on a commodore 64 and do some serious headbanging :)

Also check out the site of these musicians, golgoth13, it’s a fine piece of retro art.

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A poem programmed in Basic on a 1979 Apple ][ ;)

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A new batch of mp3’s has just come in at The SID Recordings Archive, with a bunch of tunes from my favorite composers, Laxity and Drax! They’ve been around on the scene for a long time in groups like Vibrants and Maniacs of Noise, creating some of the funkiest and tightest stuff heard on a c64. Since creating these tunes, Laxity has moved on to create music for video games, and video games themselves. Drax has also moved on, but both guys haven’t forgotten their roots and still pop out a ’scene’ tune now and then on the Vibrants site, or even competing on the c64 at parties like X2006. Get down on these funky ass mp3’s!

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The High Voltage Sid Collection is the biggest collection of SID tunes (commodore 64 music) available. It is well maintained by a team of fanatic bleeplovers and definately worth the download.

The new HVSC #46 just came out with something like a 1000 new additions.

To play SIDs I recommend sidplay2 if you are using linux or windows. You can also find plugins for winamp and other audio players. Just look for ’sid’.

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Japan based YMCK makes me smile :) Their website is cute, and you can even download a bleepy VSTi from there. If you don’t know what a VSTi is you probably don’t need it :)

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Just been laughing my head off at these zany animations by Cyriak. They’re brilliant, go ahead, taste them :) Afterwards, go to his website to check out his tunes.

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The SID Recordings Archive have been busy adding new recordings of Commodore 64 tunes (SIDs), recorded off the original 6581/8580 chips they were intended for. Some sweet new tunes by  Jeroen Tel, Reyn Ouwehand, Martin Galway and Chris Hulsbeck are among the new additions.

The site also has an RSS feed/podcast that you can subscribe to, to keep you up to date with the latest additions. To my surprise, as of today a tune by yours truly  is hosted there now :) . I am very honored, check out the MP3 if you’re curious what I was upto in those days.

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