| File | | STIL Commentary | |
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| 3_Track_E_P.sid | | |
| A_Pathetic_Jingle.sid | | |
| A_Quickie.sid | | |
| Acid_Stomach.sid | | "Called 'Acid Stomach' because the sound at the every fourth bar
sounds a bit like someone vomiting... well, that's what I thought,
anyway. Again, not exactly what you'd call 'a nice tune' but I was
just seeing what you could do with a few basic sequences by mixing and
transposing them. At the time I didn't really like 'acid' music, I was
more likely to listen to John Cage or Pierre Henry, so I wasn't really
sure how to write it. SoedeSoft editor again. Horrible drums again,
the snare being a bit like the one in ‘Thalamusic’." (BH)
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| Aggro_Mix.sid | | |
| Atom_Ant.sid | | |
| Bass_Drummed_Out_and_Filte.sid | | "Just another meaningless bit of computer composition - trying out
different drum and bass line effects, reall, but it's got a bit of
kick to it. System 6581 editor." (BH)
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| Behind_the_Wheel.sid | | |
| Bogey_Boogie.sid | | "Written at the same time as the Acid... tunes, but used in something
else. (Quantum Designs' "Music Bars" demo) Again, just an experiment
in sound, rather than a tune as such. SoedeSoft editor." (BH)
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| Demo-Ha.sid | | |
| Feedback_Experiment.sid | | "This tune does exactly what it says on the box, basically trying to
get a ring-mod effect that sounded like an electric guitar being left
leaning on a Marshall amplifier turned up to 11. I was fairly pleased
with the result, it sounds quite uncomfortable on headphones. The tune
was written on a SoedeSoft editor, which explains the rather fuzzy
triggering and messy drum sounds, but gliding and filter control was
much more versatile than anything else around at the time, I felt, and
you could sustain notes for about 5 hours. The tune was not written
especially for the "Acid At The PC Show" demo, having being composed
around 8 weeks earlier, but Shane (coder) wanted to use them." (BH)
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| Fly_By_Night.sid | | "Oh dear! Let's face it, Neil Baldwin did the best C64 version of this
ever, and it was foolish to try and emulate it... This was done on
SoedeSoft (I think) at 5am on the Sunday morning of the 1989 PC Show
in London (hence the demo title). Has a long ending after a drum solo
that John Bonham would probably laugh at. I also did a version of this
tune in Ubiks Music in 1988, which was even worse. I hope that's never
found!" (BH)
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| Fly_By_Night_Ubiks_Musik.sid | | |
| Funky_Takeaway.sid | | |
| Galway_Remix.sid | | "Just done to test out the System 6581 editor, which I'd just got -
and this is one of my very favourite C64 tunes ever. It was never
meant to be released but we ended up sticking in on an SG demo disk
anyway. Note that one of the arpeggios is a bit wonky, and I couldn't
be bothered to do the start of the piece, but I felt that it was a
pretty good sound-a-like." (BH)
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| Greed_Monster.sid | | "Another day, another pointless budget game. Yogi Bear deserved
better! I can't remember if I composed the tune or if it was a
conversion of some Atari ST music, written by some bloke who's name I
can't remember. We used to do a few conversions back then. These were
great fun to do. The software company would sent Gerard Gourley a copy
of the original music, usually recorded on a cassette recorder sitting
by the TV. He'd then play the tune down the telephone to me, and I'd
record it on another cassette from the telephone's earpiece. The
resulting hi-fidelity master recording would then be my basis. I
usually had to guess at the basslines, as they'd become totally
inaudible on the tape. Then I'd U-U the result back to Gerard within 2
hours, and if I was lucky I'd get £100 about 6 months later after the
'middle man' had taken his bit. Or half that if the tune was for
Ocean." (BH)
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| I_Beg_Your_Pardon.sid | | |
| Inverse_Universe.sid | | |
| Its_All_About_part_3.sid | | Covers /VARIOUS/M-R/Mixer/Tune_18.sid
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| Man_Alive_Theme.sid | | |
| Midi_Mix.sid | | |
| Mothers_Theme.sid | | "Used on SG demo disk and for a Mothers of Invention intro, hence the
title. 6581 editor. Not a bad tune, I was more pleased with this than
most of my others. The chords should have been a bit quieter, really."
(BH)
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| Nah_Matt_Gray_Doesnt_Work.sid | | "Spot the obvious influences here!! 6581 editor, probably took an hour
(if that)." (BH)
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| Platoon_Tune.sid | | |
| Prison_Riot.sid | | "Composed for another dodgy budget game, in the old SG editor I think,
which was written by Andy Lumley. I probably had about 12 hours notice
to write this... Zzap reviewed it and called it siren 'music', so they
can't have listened to more than about 10 seconds of it. I quite liked
it at the time, but more for the effects than the rather scrappy lead
lines. Tune 4 was totally different in style, for the hiscore table.
The main tune seems to be bugged near the end - this must have
happened when the file was inserted into the game, it was OK when it
left me. To be honest, music for this sort of game was an afterthought
- and for the money I was getting, I wasn't about to try and write an
epic!" (BH)
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| Ruff_and_Reddy.sid | | "Er, see the entry for The Greed Monster, it all applies in this case
as well! Horribly cutesy tune." (BH)
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| Running.sid | | |
| Shadow_World.sid | | |
| Shake_the_Disease.sid | | |
| Step_On.sid | | Samples from Happy Mondays' 1990 cover of this song.
"‘Step On’ by Happy Mondays, sampled with a SFX sampler. Quite a long
mix, this, the looping being fairly accurate. The song was a big hit
in 1990 at the height of the ‘Madchester/Baggy’ craze. I got sick of
it pretty soon, though, after hearing it at every ‘indie’ disco I went
to at the time." (BH)
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| Step_On_PSID.sid | | Samples from Happy Mondays' 1990 cover of this song.
"‘Step On’ by Happy Mondays, sampled with a SFX sampler. Quite a long
mix, this, the looping being fairly accurate. The song was a big hit
in 1990 at the height of the ‘Madchester/Baggy’ craze. I got sick of
it pretty soon, though, after hearing it at every ‘indie’ disco I went
to at the time." (BH)
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| SuperTed-Search_For_Spot.sid | | "The theme tune to the Super Ted cartoon series, which is Welsh, just
like me! The tune lasted 20 seconds in original form, so I looped it a
bit. Some rather primitive sound effects too. Blimey, I've got a
really impressive body of work, eh? No wonder I never made it as a pop
star. I mean, Super Ted, for f**k's sake... System 6581 editor, I
think." (BH)
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| Test_Thingy.sid | | Ben just added digis to Laxity's song, using his own digiroutine for
the first time.
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| Told_You_So.sid | | |
| Up_To_Date.sid | | |
| Wizkid_Music.sid | | |
| Wombles.sid | | "Woo, top tune! The first thing I did for SG. I'm a bit of a Wombles
fan, so I could do the tune from memory - although the ending is
wrong, but I didn't have a copy of the original song to check. I still
like this one, actually! Written in the old SG editor." (BH)
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