This is an EP album made especially for fans of Atari 800XL / 65XE (64Kb of RAM and one POKEY chip). However the music still can work on higher XL/XE configurations, including machines with HDD, 2 POKEYs and COVOX. The album contains 4-channels digital music. It was made with use of NeoTracker by EPI.Recorded from real hardware, a stock ATARI 800XL.
Tracklist:
via YERZMYEY
This is part 2 of an interview with AY Rider, Yerzmyey. Please look here for part 1.
LB – I think my favorite release of yours was FREAKuencies on 8BP but I like Interphase on DWD a lot too. Which of your own releases do you like most and why?
Y – Actually I don’t like very much my own music. If You ask me about music, I simply prefer AY-RIDERS’ albums. It’s good to gather a bunch of various people to get various and diverse album(s). Then it gets much more interesting. As for myself, I mostly try to fight with the AY’s limitations. :) It’s damn hard to force it to generate some _interesting_ synthethesized sound. All we get is only square waves or some acid noises. In contrast to the Atari ST, we use only original hardware posibilities or AY/YM chip, so the work is harder. Anyway, if You want to listen to good ZX Spectrum music, then don’t listen to my crap but go quickly and download AY-RIDERS albums. :)
LB – What inspired you to start writing music? Was is a particular song or game or person?
Y – Hmmmmm. From the music side in general, probably it was electronic music. Marek Bilinski’s art creativity or KOTO’s stuff… Also Vangelis, Jarre, Kraftwerk… Hm. From the game-music side, it was ZX Spectrum stuff, like “Agent-X”, “Chronos” or “Raw Recruit”. Generally – all the incredible stuff from Tim Follin. We used to say that they’re NOT games with musix but – musix with some games attached :)musix with some games attached. And for demo-scene inspirations, surely it was Ziutek from ‘Ethanol Soft Inc’ group, as well as Hacker Kicia (with his demo songs for SoundTracker 1.1 ZX AY editor).demo-songs
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…)
Finally out on SSR!- “Memories Of The Future”, a retrofuturistic compilation focusing on synthastic visions from the forgotten past. this is the sountrack for exploring lazerchip, spacetune, electrodisco, and many other unknown genres to mankind -enjoy!
Tracklisting:
Mr. Nissness · Nightfall / Emissary
Poke-1,170 · Destination Yesterday
Goto80 · Disco Dengu
Les Aventures Sous La Mer · Determined Porpoise
Failotron · Return To Chiba City
Steve · Jacking In Space
Boomlinde · Inner Workings
Twilight Electric · Ganymede
Yerzmyey · electrobot
Tom Woxom · GTG
Alexei Bespalko · Snowflakes
8GB · 216 Digits Of Pi
Tommy Walker III · Flight Mode
The Robot Scientists · Landing on Mars
Jellica · Diiisscos Deux
Rico Zerone · Spheredivers (Extended)
Artwork by: Nazzilla > http://nazzilla.com
Compiled/curated by: Rico Zerone
Download link: … uture.html