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covering the classics - good or bad?

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How come so many chip musicians feel the need to make covers of classic C64-tunes? It's not like you go "wow!" the 100th time you hear a version of a Rob Hubbard tune. Especially not when it's YM-2149 and some sounds come out like farts squeezed through an asshole that has been cemeted shut with crazy glue.
added on the 2006-11-09 11:12:12 by El Topo El Topo
Personally i prefer YM-covers thousand times more than all those generic eurodance craps. But as always, it depends totally on the matter does the remix bring anything new to old tune or is it just a cover, mostly it's just a cover and worth zero. So IMO the platform doesnt really matter but the tune does.
added on the 2006-11-09 11:20:37 by Serpent Serpent
I don't do the aforementioned thing a lot but when I do, it's mostly for the fun and challenge of transcribing the original and indeed, adding something new to the mix. Sample trackers and lesser sound chips can hardly compete with the SID synth so a new perspective is called for. Although I really don't mind if a music editor made for a platform I'm not familiar with comes with a couple of familiar demo songs.
added on the 2006-11-09 11:48:04 by raina raina
How come so many C64 musicians feel the need to make covers of commercial songs or scene music from other platforms?
The answer to this, and the original, question is probably that good melodies are hard to come up with. But that's just an uneducated guess since I am not a musician.
added on the 2006-11-09 12:46:56 by Sverker Sverker
why does democoders try to make cover of mother nature?


Intresting. Ill write about it in HUGI.
added on the 2006-11-09 12:58:24 by Hatikvah Hatikvah
it's a very nice way to learn the craft. what i like to know is why you feel the need to download them? ;)
added on the 2006-11-09 13:07:58 by lithis lithis
I think it's an outrage! The YM does not even come close to the original, wam sound of the SID! Every musician that dares to touch an original SID tune and cover it on Atari deserves to be SHOT in the FACE! Fuck them all! Their sound is fucking horrible and they let our SID tunes sound like a DISGRACE! It's bad advertisement for the GREAT music on our platform!
added on the 2006-11-09 13:30:40 by okkie okkie
WTF
added on the 2006-11-09 13:32:39 by bartman bartman
Quote:
it's a very nice way to learn the craft. what i like to know is why you feel the need to download them? ;)


Hej lithis! Good point :) I usually get them in a bundle with other songs when I download collections of songs...
added on the 2006-11-09 18:41:02 by El Topo El Topo
I like Italo Disco covers. There arn't many of them but still, I think that the Italian composers where the best during the 80ties.
added on the 2006-11-09 22:57:25 by parse43 parse43
I think covers are cool if they actually add something to the original composition. Like a total change in style, creative use of instruments etc. A good YM cover is a good YM cover, don't be dissin' the YM :) The YM might not be up SID standards, but god are the coders and composers for it creative! gwEms tracker for example!

parse43: http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=24217!
added on the 2006-11-09 23:12:46 by linde linde
We need more Italo stuff, btw im also a Italo Disco (MP3) label collector.
added on the 2006-11-09 23:34:37 by parse43 parse43
okkie <3
added on the 2006-11-10 00:59:56 by tempest tempest
I am also for more italo disko!
That's spacesynth.
Don't get me wrong, there is some cool YM-stuff, that 20 min thing by Tao for instance...

Hey, let's BASS!
added on the 2006-11-10 10:06:44 by El Topo El Topo
There were a lot of italo compilations on the pirate bay top 100 this past summer, so I guess it's regaining popularity.
added on the 2006-11-10 15:06:22 by linde linde
Why wouldn't it? Why I don't understand is why it lost popularity to begin with.
added on the 2006-11-10 15:37:29 by doomdoom doomdoom
Eurobeat!
added on the 2006-11-10 15:47:47 by Sverker Sverker
Hi-NRG!
added on the 2006-11-10 15:57:00 by linde linde
No I dont get them from torrents, I have a lot of LP rips over more then 3000 italo songs, without italo compilations. I'm also a space label (MP3) collector got a lot of stuff from Hypersound Productions (Still releasing stuff), Made Up Records, AXiS Records and some other, contact me if you want some stuff. I also have the label scans. My favorite Italo Disco song is: K. Barre - Right By The moon
added on the 2006-11-10 19:32:05 by parse43 parse43
As for Italo Classics, I reccommend the Italian Soundtrack of the animation series Goldorak (Goldrake). Vega is my favourite of it. They were made around 1980 i think...
added on the 2006-11-10 20:25:05 by Exin Exin
Are Flash Demos lame? Im planning to make a italo disco with a cover of koto - vistors and some others, the gfx will be in 8bit (ofcourse we cannot forget the space theme).
added on the 2006-11-10 20:33:06 by parse43 parse43
Some hot Italo at www.myspace.com/doctorvector
added on the 2006-11-11 01:52:58 by tempest tempest

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