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2009-03-27 07:48
Hermit

Registered: May 2008
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Composers' real life

Hi, 8bitters

I'm always wondering what the C64 composers are doing in real life, of course not their private lives but musical.

For example, I know that Reyn Ouwehand is a live instrumental musician, I'm very proud of it, but dunno about a lot others whom I rarely see on CSDB.

e.g. I've managed several times to get reply from Jeroen Tel, Shogoon, and I saw them with guitars on some pictures..and I'm very curious if they are playing in band or compose on other platforms, etc.

I love Cosmic and its alternative bass and also wondering during listening if Stainless Steel is a funky-musician.

If you have news about them to share with us, or if you are a composer and want to tell about your activities, it's the topic I think.
This can help us by knowing where they got the influences/motivation from, how they could make these great compositions.

E.g. I'm mainly a bass player & singer, I have a pop-band, but my best dream is to play in a C64 remixer band, like "Press Play On Tape."

If you're interested in this topic, I'm excitedly waiting for replies.
READY.



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2009-03-27 13:12
Scout

Registered: Dec 2002
Posts: 1570
Besides coding and composing (I really should finish all those worktunes....sometime) on the C64, I'm a semi-professional producer/live-act creating industrial electro (http://www.bs-1.nl).
I'm also part of the dutch acid dreamteam called 303 AllStars.

Being a technical engineer at a large ISP pays the bills.
2009-03-27 13:19
GT
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Registered: Sep 2008
Posts: 308
15 years ago I composed music for Funcom in Oslo. Long story short... At the most the C64 composers were: Jeroen Tel, Laxity, Danko and me. Mainly did music on SNES using Tim Follin's driver (where is those sources?), and some PC titles. After some years, and military service, I ended up in the musical instruments industry. Today I work for Fender Scandinavia. I play a little guitar and some keyboard. But I've never been interestet in playing in a band, or do remixes. Family: one 6-year old daughter, cat, house etc... I enjoy coding the C64 again by the way. And at some point before 1989 I enjoyed pixeling logos aswell. :-)
2009-03-27 13:55
Hermit

Registered: May 2008
Posts: 208
Guys! Linus - the given Myspace link - "If I never came home again" worths the listening...nice mixture of SID-sounds and the great female vocal.

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2009-03-27 14:10
Dane

Registered: May 2002
Posts: 423
No music for me irl. I spread my propaganda at a nearby school.
2009-03-27 15:12
Merman

Registered: Dec 2002
Posts: 140
I know Ben Daglish has been playing in various bands, including the Loscoe State Orchestra and a Jethro Tull tribute band.

Reyn Ouwehand is a music producer.
2009-03-27 15:47
Radiant

Registered: Sep 2004
Posts: 639
At school I was involved with various one-shot live acts, as a keyboard, bass or guitar player. My main talent is singing though, which I basically only do in the privacy of my home (or if I get really drunk, but then I don't sing very well at all :-) ).

Working as a mobile device game programmer combined with having programming and creating scene music as hobbies leaves little time for any other pursuits in the musical area.
2009-03-27 16:23
Orcan
Account closed

Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 15
I always smiled because our situation in React group was very funny. Our c64 programmers MC Valach and Bimbas studied economy and I as c64 musician studied informatics. I know absolutely nothing about programming c64. In my real life I used to play the spanish guitar many times on university parties with my school mates. I really liked to play electric guitar for its metal sound (I listen mainly doom metal now). I made few musics in Fasttracker II. Two of them for documentary film. In a few days I will be a father like someone in this forum so my hobbies are going down very steeply.
2009-03-27 16:26
Hate Bush

Registered: Jul 2002
Posts: 465
from the top of my head:
Shogoon graduated from Wroclaw music academy (composition? i think), he also studied choral music. He composes modern music (a bad term i suppose, but i can't describe it better).
Moog writes VST plugins (http://www.d16.pl).
Longhair plays bass very skillfully, but he's not involved in any band at the moment.
Sidder plays guitar and keyboards, he did an EP recently, on his own (http://www.myspace.com/romanowskimarcin).
Wacek plays electronica under the handle Ender (http://razorpoint.pl).
Sage and Bzyk (under the handle Exbee) are both remixers.
The most spectacular career however belongs to Jacek Dojwa (producer for popular - and excellent - Polish electronica duo Husky), but he's from Atari and PC scene, sadly :)
2009-03-27 16:59
Hermit

Registered: May 2008
Posts: 208
Hehe, I was started composing a lot XM music after I sold my C64 in 2000, but now I see what poor quality was it on my 8bit
digital SBPRO, compared to "analog" SID sounds..:)

I'm happy to hear that Shogon has high degree in music - as I expected. It would be great to hear some of his recent live-recordings if some exists....& also from Longhair!

I see,a lot of C64 musicians play sg., good news. If someone is interested in a remix-cooperation throurgh net, I'm happily opened for this issue....i have bass,jazz/sologuitar,keyb.

...And not to forget...I have an MSSIAH!!! (with MIDI port)

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2009-03-27 18:53
Jammer

Registered: Nov 2002
Posts: 1336
randall, what about me, shithead? :P for a regular yet limited income, i teach english at language school and i've graduated from english philology but i also compose soundtracks for various games and other interesting productions such as tutorial movies for example. moreover, i aim for composing for a living and establishing my own project studio. i don't play any instrument though, however, i've discovered some preferences towards drums :P
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