We are very proud to present MISTER BEEP’s 4th album compiled for the ZX Spectrum 48K’s 30th anniversary. This collection of 9 tracks show off the capabilities of various beeper engines with their wonderful out of space grainy textures and old school feelings. Also includes guest tracks by Factor6 and irrlicht project.
Total time: 34:19
© 2010 by YM Digital
All the music on this album (except the bonus-track) is generated by YM chip of Atari ST.
Cover-art in full quality.
YM Digital are:
Music has been recorded from Atari 520 STfm 1Mb.
Via YM DIGITAL – Atari 520 ST music band. MUSIC – MP3..
An EP released in 2010. It’s made by Factor6 + X-agon + Gasman, with special guest appearance of Voxel. The album contains mostly covers of famous or less famous ATARI XL/XE songs. It also contains severel original songs but inspired by ATARI music.
This week TCTD talks to Yerzmyey, organizer of AY Riders, producer of awesome tunes, lover of the z80 and generally all round amazing guy. So thanks very much to Yerz for being so generous with his time and lets get down to business!
Lazerbeat – Where are you from?
Yerzmyey – Ah, well. I come from Rubber Planet. ;) A place where all computers have rubber keyboards. ;) Well, actually that’s not exactly true. :) ZX Spectrum was highly popular in PL, in 80s and early 90s, however, somehow it stopped suddenly and now literally only a few people support the machine here. Cry, cry! As for geography matters ;) , my mother’s family came here from Czech and Austria (in that time it was connected with Hungary) and my father came here from Lithuania.
LB – It looks like you have been active in the Demo scene for for over 20 years. How old were you when you founded H-PRG? Why did you start it?
Y – First programs we made with Mr Hangman about 1987. We were 12 years old or so, in those days. :) We were only making games (just occasionally some simple pseudo-demos, haha). The games were not that bad actually :) – ugly but playable. Sadly in those times the only thing we had for saving the progs – was a tape-recorder, so the games didn’t survive to the present day, heh. Our the earliest programs that have survived come from 1989, so I took the date as a beginning of the HOOY-PROGRAM group. :)
And what is funny, it wasn’t me who started all of this, it was my younger brother (who isn’t very interested in 8-bit nowadays, after all) who met Mr Hangman – and HE started making ZX games with him. :) I only joined them. But then my brother lost interest (well, not in playing games but in making them :) ), and I stayed. In this way we founded a team. ;)
They were funny times. :) I remember that we had to be very careful and save our programs very often because every time Mr Hangman’s refrigerator/fridge turned on – then ZX Spectrum got reset, hahaha. :)
Also, while loading (from tape of course) everybody was forced to leave to room, so as not to disturb the loading process. (more…)
Better late than never! :P
The Forever 2010 party ended like 10 days ago and I forgot to post the results. Some gems can be found in the Graphics compo, and the winning C64 music production is an unbelievable piece by Jammer. Truly amazing SID synthesis!
Full result list after the jump: