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Fredrik
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Registered: Apr 2009
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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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Angel of Death
Registered: Apr 2008
Posts: 211 |
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. |
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Mixer
Registered: Apr 2008
Posts: 447 |
Delta ingame (tune #1) is indeed the bestest. Shame on all the pop-sid composers who do short compo length and structured tunes. |
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Jammer
Registered: Nov 2002
Posts: 1335 |
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 ;) |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11360 |
delta ingame is a cover (in large parts) for that matter :) |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5086 |
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 |
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TheRyk
Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 2219 |
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 |
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Jammer
Registered: Nov 2002
Posts: 1335 |
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 |
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hedning
Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 4723 |
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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Zyron
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 2381 |
Hubbard seldom made direct covers of anything, he often used the basic ideas of tunes though (especially from Synergy) but with so much own interpretations that I personally find it ok and most of the time much better than the "originals". And he was not alone doing this. Both Daglish and Galway f ex did the same. I'm thinking Yellow Magic Orchestra and Roland Rat Superstar here as examples. |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5086 |
nothing wrong imho, I knew both delta and philip glass for like 10 years when someone pointed out and I realized delta is a cover.. its changed so much, I think it's almost all hubbard's |
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