"Adrian Thaws, better known as Tricky, has come a long way from his days in Massive Attack with a successful solo career and film career. His next CD, Knowle West Boy, explores his roots in a "white ghetto" with a post-punk, Two-Tone, dancehall sound. Fans can remix the single "Council Estate."" (Wired)
"[My new] book is called Sound Unbound and it's a manifesto about sound art, digital media, and what I like to call contemporary composition. It has essays and interviews from people as diverse as Brian Eno, Pierre Boulez, Moby, Chuck D, Saul Williams, Jaron Lanier, Pauline Oliveros, Naeem Mohaiemen, and others. The audio companion to the book has super rare material from Sub Rosa Records, one of my favorite indie labels. I got rare material from Allen Ginsberg, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Iggy Pop, Jean Cocteau, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and lots other others. I guess you can think of the book as a kind of literary mashup." (DJ Spooky)
"Music compilations are more popular than ever, in part because of the ease of getting the songs you want to the people you care about. On your own or with sites such as Muxtape.com, you can click a mouse 20 or 30 times and create and share your audio files with whomever you want. But as the process gets easier, the gesture becomes emptier as well. Music compilations forwarded by e-mail are only slightly less personal than that Hillary Clinton joke you forwarded to 50 friends. ("Gee, thanks. You spent three minutes on me.") By the sheer effort that went into each one, every cassette mix tape was a big declaration - of love, friendship or even anger. A mix tape was an event." (Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle)
"You don't need to be a videogame fan or being a teenager in the seventies / eighties to know videogame classics like Space Invaders, Pacman or Tetris. Their iconic power is still intact in the public imagination, also thanks to many reinterpretations and updates. Their patterns are often used by game artists as metaphors to create new connected sense: Mario Bros. can be restyled with a new graphic, so you can take your cue from it to discuss immigrant labor conditions, Space Invaders can be used to represent the never ending battle among Linux and the proprietary operating systems and so on. Sometimes the action's target is the algorithm itself. In "Basho's frogger", "Mario Battle no.1" and "Tetris 1d" the hack is s pure conceptual practice that intentionally kills the ludic component: In the best software art tradition, the program functionality (entertainment in this case) is attacked with Luddite fervour" (Paolo Pedercini, Neural)
"Now Portishead has rematerialized, resuming a career that has always moved in slow motion. “It’s amazing how quickly 10 years can go,” said Adrian Utley, who plays guitars and keyboards, over coffee at an elegant Munich hotel the night before the band’s performance. “There was no sense that we would split up or we weren’t going to do anything again. We just didn’t want to for that time.” (Jon Pareles, The New York Times)
Amazing feature.
Streets of Rage 2: Go Straight (Yuzo Koshiro)
Donkey Kong Country: Island Swing, Stickerbrush Symphony (Dave Wise)
Castlevania: Vampire Killer, -mt-, -mt- (Kinuyo Yamashita)
Remix Time: Super Mario Bros 2 - Overworld (Koji Kondo), OCR Jazz Club Mix (Estradasphere)
Turrican 2: The Desert Rocks - Rearranged version (Chris Hülsbeck)
Soul Edge: The Edge of Soul (Bentemaru), Moonlight Shadow (Himeko Yamamoto)
F-Zero: Big Blue (Naoto Ishida, Yumiko Kametani)
Zone of the Enders - The 2nd Runner: Beyond the Bounds (Maki Kirioka)
Tetris: -mt-, -mt- (Brad Fuller)
Out Run: Audio Review + Magical Sound Shower, Last Wave (Hiroshi Kawaguchi)Myth: Title (Jeroen Tel's band Maniac of Noise)
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: Hyrule Field, Gerudo Valley (Koji Kondo)
Cannon Fodder: War has never been so much fun (Richard Joseph)
Remix Time: Street Figher II - Ken Stage (Alph Lyla, Yoko Shimomura), OCR The Ken Song (JD Project)
DooM: At Doom's Gate, The Demons from Adrian's Pen (Robert Prince)
Journey to Silius: Title, 1st Stage (Naoki Kodaka)
Vagrant Story: Greyland Event Climax, Workshop, Undercity, Great Cathedral (Hitoshi Sakimoto)
The House of the Dead 2: Muddy (Haruyoshi Tomita)
Bust a Groove: The Natural Playboy (Kaleb James), Power (Terry T & Sweet Jodi), I Know (Donyale Fredericks), Fly'n To Your Soul (Mototaka Segawa), Blue Knife - Bust a Move Edit (Hatsumi Morinaga)Virtua Fighter: Jacky Stage (Takayuki Nakamura)
Ridge Racer Revolution: Drive U 2 Dancing (Ayako Saso), GRIP (Nobuyoshi Sano)
Agony: Intro (Tim Wright)
Sound Quest: Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver: Ozar Midrashim (Kurt Hartland, Jim Hedges), Star Ocean - Till the End of Time: The Divine Spirit of Language (Motoi Sakuraba), Medievil: Ending Theme (rearranged by Prague Philarmonic Orchestra)
Gradius Gaiden: Side Story (Nories Miura)
Double Dragon II: Intro Theme - Dead or Alive, Low Pursuit (Kazunaka Yamane)
Metroid Prime: Intro Theme (Kenji Yamamoto, Kouichi Kyuma)
Guardian Heroes: Toki Meki Saxophone, Intro Theme - Open your Heart, Fighters of Pain, Round About, -mt- (Katsuhiko Suzuki, Norio Hanzawa, Satoshi Murata)
OutRun 2006 Coast to Coast: Night Bird (Fumio Ito)
Starfox: Asteroid Belt, Corneria (Hajime Hirasawa)
Chrono Cross: Another World Theme, Intro Theme - Scars Left by Time, Radical Dreamers - Without taking the Jewel (Yasunori Mitsuda)Tekken 2: Beast Priest, Super Police (Yoshie Arakawa)
Maniac Mansion: The Maniac Theme (Chris Grigg and David Lawrence), The Boys are Still Back, Better Ed than Dead (George Alistair Sanger's band The Fatman and Team Fat)
Shining Force II: Witch Theme, Warrior or the Reviving Light, Dungeon, Welcome to our Town! (Motoaki Takenouchi)
Remix Time: Golden Axe - The Wilderness (Sega Sound Team), The Wilderness (C64 rearrangement by Jeroen Tel)
Wipeout: Messij (Tim Wright)
Sonic 3 & Knuckes: Menu, Hydrocity Zone, Flying Battery Zone, Ice Cap Zone, Lava Reef Zone - Act 1 (Brad Buxer, Bobby Brooks, Darryl Ross, Geoff Grace, Doug Grigsby III, Scirocco, Howard Drossin)
Sound Quest: Escape from Monkey Island - Intro Theme (Michael Land), Final Fantasy VIII - Liberi Fatali (Nobuo Uematsu), Tempest 2000 - Mind's Eye (Alastair Lindsay, Ian Howe, Julian Hodgson, Kevin Saville)
Delta: Main Theme (Rob Hubbard)
Metropolis Street Racer: It doesn't Really Matter (Richard Jacques)
Silent Hill: Opening Theme (Akira Yamaoka)
Katamari Damacy: Sasasan Katamari(Yu Miyake) Me and My Katamary Intro Theme - Katamari on the Funk (Yu Miyake, Katamari Soul Trains), Baby Universe (Hiroshi Okubo)Jet Set Radio: B.B. Rights Funky Radio (Hideki Nakaguma), Miller Ball Breakers (Deavid Soul), Super Brothers (Guitar Vader), Sweet Soul Brother (Hideki Nakaguma)
Metroid: Brinstar, Kraid's Chamber (Hirokazu Tanaka)
Ace Combat 2: Title, Opening Theme - Lightning Speed, Invoke, Fire Away, Dynapolis (Hiroshi Okubo, Kohta Takahashi, Tetsukazu Nakanishi, Nobuhide Isayama)
Sound Quest: Sonic Adventure 2: Escape from the City (Crush 40), Donkey Kong Country 2: Forest Interlude (Dave Wise)
Driver: Menu Theme, -mt-, -mt- (Allister Brimble)
The Last Ninja 2: Main Theme (Matt Gray)
Twisted Metal: Twisted Theme, Cyburb Slide, Drop Dead (Chuck E. Meyers)
Ratchet & Clank: Metropolis 1 - Kerwan, Tobruk Crater 1 - Novalis (David Bergeaud)
Contra Hard Corps: Carshoe X, The Hard Corps, Yoru no Nikusyokujyu, GTR Attack, Contra Overdrive, The Dawn (Akiropito, Miyaoka Kenji, Gajokai, Nitachigu, Michiru Yamane)
Turrican: Level 1-1, Level 3-3 (Chris Hülsbeck)
Xenogears: Emotions, Knight of Fire, Aveh Ancient Dance, Dazil, Small of Two Pieces - Schreeching Shards (Yasunori Mitsuda)Wild Arms: Into the Wilderness (Michiko Naruke)
Leander: 1st Level, Intro (Matthew Simmonds, Tim Wright, e Jon Burton)
Metal Gear: Theme of Tara, -!- Red Alert, Return of Fox Hunder (Kazuki Muraoka)
Sega Rally Championship: Power Games, Desert Land, Desert Replay, Getting Muddy, My Dear Friend Rally (Takenobu Mitsuyoshi)
Castlevania Symphony of the Night: Prayer, Dracula Castle, Awakened Soul, Crystal Drops (Michiru Yamane)
The Elder Scrolls III - Morrowind: Explore 3, Title, Battle 4 (Jeremy Soule)
Shadow Dancer - The Secret of Shinobi: Level 5-1, Level 2-1, Bonus Stage (-nd-)
Gods: Gods - Into the Wonderful (Nation XII)
God Hand: Gene's Rockabye, Smoking Roll, The Venice Gang, The Power of the God Hand (Masafumi Takada, Jun Fukuda)Rave Racer: Blue Topaz (J99)
Super Mario World: Vanilla Dome (Koji Kondo)
Terranigma: A Hero's Final Day (Masanori Hikichi, Miyoko Kobayashi)
Silent Shadow: Main Theme (Pablo Toledo)
Simon the Sorcerer: -mt- (Adam Gilmore)
Unreal Tournament: Title Theme (Michiel Van De Bos, Alexander Brandon)
Killer Instinct: The Instinct (Graeme Norgate, Robin Beanland)
Sonic-R: Super Sonic Racing (Richard Jacques)
Ninja Warriors: Daddy Mulk (Zuntata)Ghouls and Ghosts (Amiga): Main Theme (Tim Follin)
Totally awesome. Mario Morandi is the RadioGame's resident DJ, an Italian website dedicated to retrogaming culture and gaming obsessions. The radio shows feature an insane amount of great tracks. A must. (Trivia: the t-shirt says "M'intendo", a pun on "Nintendo" - "M'intendo" in Italian can be translated as "I know" [my shit]).
Download Mario Morandi's tracks/shows at RadioGame.
"The Remix64 series returns to its roots with its third volume, Syntax Era. Channelling top Commodore 64 tracks through the sounds of 1980s chart toppers, leading remixers in the C64 music scene have joined forces to create an inventive, vibrant album that showcases a huge range of talent and styles during its 70-minute two-pronged trip down memory lane. During the 1980s, many C64 owners listened to chip tunes influenced by the tracks of the day, but with Syntax Era you can finally hear what Depeche Mode might have produced had Rob Hubbard ousted Alan Wilder, how Matt Gray’s influence could have rubbed off on The Sisters of Mercy and The Shamen, and what Martin Galway would have sounded like as one of Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five. And coming full circle, the album concludes with an entirely C64-originated cover of Yazoo classic Only You with vocals by Eliza Zoot. Produced by Markus ‘LMan’ Klein (Remix64) and with contributions from Marcus ‘Makke’ Nilsson (It’s Binary, Baby!), Thomas Detert (Remix 64 V2: Into Eternity) and Chris Abbott (Back in Time), this unique release, available in CD and digital formats, is a must-have for fans of retro music, chip-tunes, and 1980s chart-toppers alike."
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