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Cannon Fodder video by Press Play On Tape [web]

         Theme from CANNON FODDER played live!

               *** PRESS PLAY ON TAPE ***
             The Commodore 64 Revival Band

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At the "Copenhagen Retro Concert" on November 5th 2005 
PRESS PLAY ON TAPE performed the title tune for the game 
Cannon Fodder using game controllers to trigger the samples 
from the Amiga MOD version of this tune.

To pull this off we used PlayStation/GameCube/Xbox USB 
adapters enabling us to connect these to a PC on which we 
ran a Java program we had written to convert button 
presses into MIDI. This setup was then connected to a 
sampler with the original samples from the tune, except 
for drum, bass, and chords which we re-recorded because 
they were made as one sample mixed together originally.

Special guest star(s)
We were so lucky to have Mr. Jon Hare who originally 
wrote the music (with Richard Joseph) with us on stage to 
perform this! This was a really fun experience and we 
hope you enjoy watching this geeky performance as much as
we did performing it! Also notice the guest appearance by 
C64 legend Jeroen Tel (the guy from the audience in the 
black t-shirt trying out the XBox controller :)

               http://www.PRESSPLAYONTAPE.com/
 
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