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2016-03-18 15:04
Fredrik

Registered: Apr 2009
Posts: 204
Delta by Rob Hubbard

I am listening on Delta song 1 of 13 on my breadbox by Rob Hubbard made in the year 1987.
This was a song so much before its time
This is a tune i have found now, and not known earlier.
Still it is better then all i have heard in the new productions nowdays. How is?
 
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2016-03-18 23:44
Karmic

Registered: Apr 2015
Posts: 66
... but how is?
2016-03-19 01:56
TheRyk

Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 2076
Seriously, you're so right, Fredrik!

And it's not a shame to admit some gaps in SID education you've just recently "closed" with knowledge :)

There's sooo much to discover yet for you! Not only this Hubbard guy (quite famous, I was told), also Daglish, Gray, Galway, Ouwehand, Tel...

but SERIOUSLY-seriously
Quote:
not known earlier

Where've you been in the 80s, you amiable Swedish reefer? Tree-hugging while all the dorks like us were glued in front of their computers :P
2016-03-19 12:52
Angel of Death

Registered: Apr 2008
Posts: 210
Not to diminish mr.Hubbards awesome technical achievement with this tune, considering the available tools at the time, but it certainly isn't ahead of its time.
It is an extremely fine take on how 'dance music' sounded in the early and mid-seventies.
And why does it sound so different from the music today is probably because his generation of musicians had no precedent in game-music or chiptune or whatever you will call it.
So it sounds outlandish and original to younger listeners because their generation has never heard where the music of Rob Hubbard, martin Galway and other 'first-generation' c64 composers comes from.
2016-03-19 13:16
Mixer

Registered: Apr 2008
Posts: 422
Delta ingame (tune #1) is indeed the bestest. Shame on all the pop-sid composers who do short compo length and structured tunes.
2016-03-19 13:33
Jammer

Registered: Nov 2002
Posts: 1289
Lengthy tunes are not always of that much pleasure. I find sometimes Hubbard-long ones somewhat forced and tiresome, especially if composer has already run out of ideas and just wants to fill the space mechanicaly and compulsively. Nah, not always worthy ;) Besides, Hubbard covered other tunes heavily so no wonder where that playime came from ;)
2016-03-19 14:22
chatGPZ

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11119
delta ingame is a cover (in large parts) for that matter :)
2016-03-19 16:20
Oswald

Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5018
delta main tune is a remix of the main tune of kooyanisqatzi movie..


skip to 2:16 its delta but very slowly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-t8w08QNJM
2016-03-20 12:37
TheRyk

Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 2076
It's no secret Hubbard (as many other top computer game musicians of his time) shamelessly covered whatever he could grab.

What's wrong with that?

Think of Picasso who stated sth like "good artists copy, great artists steal" :P
2016-03-20 12:57
Jammer

Registered: Nov 2002
Posts: 1289
I guess it's as bad as Timbaland using C64 tune. I know cover needs much more effort than sampling but still it's lame making money on someone else's composition and idea (and popularity) :P
2016-03-20 13:19
hedning

Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 4598
Quote: It's no secret Hubbard (as many other top computer game musicians of his time) shamelessly covered whatever he could grab.

What's wrong with that?

Think of Picasso who stated sth like "good artists copy, great artists steal" :P


No he didn't. http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/06/artists-steal/
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