Aknotronic Posted October 18 Share Posted October 18 Are remixes of music from the demoscene welcome here at OCR? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nase Posted October 18 Share Posted October 18 (edited) i think it needs to be from a game. tunes from cracktros of much pirated games would be an interesting exception. in theory. Edited October 18 by Nase Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Shadow Posted October 19 Share Posted October 19 i feel like this is about the closest we've gotten so far: https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00480 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazedude Posted October 20 Share Posted October 20 There are few games in that good ol' demoscene style, ya know... Bejeweled, Deus Ex, Jazz Jackrabbit... pick one of those and you're good to go. :) As far as delivering remixes of game themes in that classic demoscene style, not to toot my own horn but that's one of my personal favorite things to do, paying a nod both to the original tracker, and the game, and the composer all at once. For instance: https://mazedude.bandcamp.com/album/game-remix-tracker-homage-remastered Just my two cents. :) Red Shadow 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eino Keskitalo Posted October 22 Share Posted October 22 Love this question. Anybody have a list at hand of demoscene musicians who also made game music? That would get us close. Also I imagine if you arrange some Amiga music, you might accidentally be in that zone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nase Posted October 27 Share Posted October 27 Uplink OST is highly recommended. i think that is done by 100% demoscene musos. i always end up listening to that one all the way through whenever it shows up on my mp3 player. even though i never played the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazedude Posted November 2 Share Posted November 2 Jeroen Tel (WAVE) Alexander Brandon (Siren) Peter Hajba (Skaven) Chris J. Hampton (Beek) Andrew Sega (Necros) Jake Kaufman (Virt) Christopher Getman (Mazedude) (nudge nudge wink wink) There may be more but these guys come to mind. Happy to be able to call a few of them friends. :) Hope this helps! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nase Posted November 2 Share Posted November 2 tangent: all these FPS games with a late 90's retro aesthetic have been coming out for the last 5ish years. i think the game devs of that kinda niche would be really smart in drawing from the talents of demoscene style musos (like maze). with real tracker files used in the game and such. the unreal and deus ex music really was something. quite hifi and modern in a way, but still with a distinct tracker style signature. technology just moved too fast back then, and now could be the time to bring that style back in games. to mazedude: it'd be awesome if you found someone from that general 'retro' niche to work with. you probably wouldn't be the best for a standard deal like "something like unreal"...but some weird games were coming out back then. like "normality" (even though that's a kinda cheezy one). i think your style would be great for a lot of 'alternate reality genre benders' type games that could come out in the next years. maybe something 3D with a lot of narrative/RPG/adventure elements or something. like, i think the perfect games for a christopher getman score haven't even been done yet :D it'd be so cool if you did a bobby prince (as in: go pro late.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sci Posted Monday at 10:21 PM Share Posted Monday at 10:21 PM On 10/22/2024 at 11:17 AM, Eino Keskitalo said: Anybody have a list at hand of demoscene musicians who also made game music? oh boy! ok so Mazedude has a good list to start with. here's a few more, while also promoting my own youtube channel a few times where i chronicle these things. Jesper Kyd (Soundwave): demo-ways, probably best known for Hardwired, 2nd place in the amiga category at The Party 1991. nowadays, best known for Assassin's Creed, but he has some VERY demoish early work you should dig through! Martin Iveson (Nuke / Spaceman): I don't think he scored anything on the scale of Hardwired, but he was fairly active in Anarchy (who organized The Party for a while) and Lemon (iconic group). He was part of Core Design, a dev group founded by demosceners. He left a huge impact on the Amiga (seriously check out Wonderdog and tell me you don't recognize SOMETHING). He's know today as Atjazz, writing some banger chill-house type tunes. Matt Simmonds (4mat): I pretty much associate this guy with the shortlooped waveform Amiga MOD chiptunes, but he's been scoring games for just as long. Jonne Valtonen (Purple Motion): One of the musicians for Second Reality, perhaps the most iconic DOS-era PC demo. He moved into scoring games a few years later. He was even credited as Purple Motion in Rampage Puzzle Attack for the GBA. others? I can't remember off the top of my head, but I think several demoscene musicians got into writing GBA tunes. It turns out that hardware was a perfect match for their skillset. there's also a few other tenuous connections. For example, Barry Leitch and Jason Page made a few C64 demos as teens, but those demos didn't really spread much further than local computer shows. On 11/2/2024 at 12:39 PM, Nase said: "normality" !!! That was Neil Biggin! I love that dude because he was living right next to Warp Records and it SHOWS in his style. I'm surprised he didn't end up at Warp. Eino Keskitalo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eino Keskitalo Posted yesterday at 07:12 AM Share Posted yesterday at 07:12 AM One more (maybe my favourite) * Olof Gustafsson (Blaizer / The Silents) - https://www.mobygames.com/person/597/olof-gustafsson/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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