Tag: drax

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  • High Voltage SID Collection Update #50!

    hvsc1Great news, SID music fans!
    Our favourite collection, the HVSC, is back with its fiftieth update! Quite a landmark.

    For years this dedicated group of SID music historians have gathered, fixed and adventured to get all the C64 music ever made, for our enjoyment. Some of the highlights of this release?  Around 678 new SIDs, 59 fixed/better rips, 573 PlaySID/Sidplay1 specific SIDs eliminated and more, catering for a grand total of 36,000 SID files (each of which could include more than one song. yay!!).

    The emphasis as I said is in getting ALL of it so the output is usually of mixed qualities, but you can rest assured there’s a lot of cool NEW music to hear, without the pain of crawling through pages of garbage and uncontrolled P commands on LSDJ.

    Are you new to the HVSC? I recommend you give a listen to the folders of the following artists: Fanta, Ed, Linus, Randall, Drax, Jeroen Tel and Thomas Danko, to name but a VERY FEW of what’s available.

    The rest of the official release information follows:
    (via C64.sk)

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  • Vandalism News GOLD diskmag released!

    75271Vandalism News, the longest standing diskmag in the Universe, has just seen its number 50 release, the Gold Edition…

    Loaded full of C64 news as usual and featuring music by many of your favourites like Psycho, Jammer, A-Man, Conrad, Drax, Linus and others, plus cool graphics and text provided by the Wrath Design and Onslaught crews, this is the mandatory weekend read for anybody interested in the C64 demoscene. If you are a n00b, you can get a whiff of what has happened for the past ~20 years by reading the Prefaces, and jump straight into the current day and don’t feel left out again :P

    Like if 4 disk sides full of news wasn’t enough, the crew has added two bonus “Golden Goodie Bag” disks, where you can find previously unreleased SID music and other stuff!

    Grab it here!

  • The X’2008 demoparty: All releases online!

    Booze Design raises the bar for tech achievement on a C64 demo.

    So, another X party has finished! This milestone of the C64 scene has delivered some of the best productions of the last years, as always. Let’s have some of the official blurb:

    “13 years of X parties, 10 years at the farm, the 9th X in total and still going strong. Who would’ve thought.

    The biannual c64-only event in rural Netherlands has been one of its kind in 8-bit partyland. Not only do you get brilliant demo/graphics/music competitions, but you also get a nice bed, hot showers, proper food, breakfast and all the beer, soft drinks, tea and coffee you can drink.
    For the competitions and performances you can count on a high quality big screen and audio equipment to keep the cows awake.”

    The stream of releases is BIG, as always the C64 scene proves to be one of the most productive in the demoscene, and the quality bar is usually quite high. This party has seen the release of the tech-groundbreaking demo “Edge of Disgrace” by Booze Design, which has raised the bar for C64 demo tech quality very, very high. I can’t wait for X’2010 when this demo should be surpassed by a new one :)

    Other personal favourites are Pearls for Pigs from Xenon, and My Beauty from Fairlight (featuring music by mr. Goto80)

    On the music side, I can recommend to give a listen to the tunes by Randall and Fanta.

    All the info comes thanks to the Commodore Scene Database!
    Here are the final listings with CSDb rankings and links to vote/comment/download the prods:
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