My rock cover of a Mahoney & Kaktus demo MOD
category: general [glöplog]
Hi fellow Amigans!
I recently finished work on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6AA_9pRFTg
This is my rock/metal cover of a tune from the classic Mahoney & Kaktus demo, "Sounds of Gnome" (http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=5583). Specifically, the tune was called "Jobba" and the intro also borrows from the intro song on The Great Giana Sisters.
I loved this track when I was a kid, and watching M&K demos (along with the other late 80s/early 90s classics from Anarchy, Rebels, Animate!, D.O.C. etc.) was what drew me into the UK demoscene (shout out to any old members of NFA!). I remember watching this on a friend's A500 and it was one of the first things I ran on my first Amiga (A600, eventually traded up to an A1200).
As well as getting me into the scene, the Amiga also kick-started my interest in making computer-based music. Mahoney (who wrote the original MOD) as you know was also responsible for NoiseTracker which was also my first introduction to making music for myself. I eventually ended up on OctaMed and now my Amiga is solely there for retro sessions I'm on Cubase these days. But I still miss the DIY approach of Trackers, and I learnt so much from playing around with other people's MODs (including the alarming time I discovered the infamous "subliminal" message in the Lotus II theme song!)
The Amiga was a real life-line to a geeky kid like I was back then, and it set me on my path for both my career working in IT, and my hobby of making music. The Amiga scene gave me friendship, an escape from troubles of teenage life, and showed me that it's only imagination that holds you back from achieving something that's supposed to be "impossible".
So this is a tribute to the Amiga scene really; I'm not exactly the worlds greatest guitarist but I had the time of my life recording this. I also stuck a shot in, right at the end of my pimped-out A1200 (HXCE CF, Blizzard 1260, 16Mb. Indivision fixer) playing the original demo and track.
Hope you enjoy, and remember : Only Amiga Makes It Possible!
I recently finished work on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6AA_9pRFTg
This is my rock/metal cover of a tune from the classic Mahoney & Kaktus demo, "Sounds of Gnome" (http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=5583). Specifically, the tune was called "Jobba" and the intro also borrows from the intro song on The Great Giana Sisters.
I loved this track when I was a kid, and watching M&K demos (along with the other late 80s/early 90s classics from Anarchy, Rebels, Animate!, D.O.C. etc.) was what drew me into the UK demoscene (shout out to any old members of NFA!). I remember watching this on a friend's A500 and it was one of the first things I ran on my first Amiga (A600, eventually traded up to an A1200).
As well as getting me into the scene, the Amiga also kick-started my interest in making computer-based music. Mahoney (who wrote the original MOD) as you know was also responsible for NoiseTracker which was also my first introduction to making music for myself. I eventually ended up on OctaMed and now my Amiga is solely there for retro sessions I'm on Cubase these days. But I still miss the DIY approach of Trackers, and I learnt so much from playing around with other people's MODs (including the alarming time I discovered the infamous "subliminal" message in the Lotus II theme song!)
The Amiga was a real life-line to a geeky kid like I was back then, and it set me on my path for both my career working in IT, and my hobby of making music. The Amiga scene gave me friendship, an escape from troubles of teenage life, and showed me that it's only imagination that holds you back from achieving something that's supposed to be "impossible".
So this is a tribute to the Amiga scene really; I'm not exactly the worlds greatest guitarist but I had the time of my life recording this. I also stuck a shot in, right at the end of my pimped-out A1200 (HXCE CF, Blizzard 1260, 16Mb. Indivision fixer) playing the original demo and track.
Hope you enjoy, and remember : Only Amiga Makes It Possible!
Nicely done :)
my atari cant decode this video!
