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| Most modules were originally created in Amiga
OctaMed v4.0 - later passed through SoundStudio on the PC and adjusted a little
with CoolEdit. Only recently have I been playing around with PC sound completely.
CDex hammered them nicely out into MP3 form. Please note that some of the
MP3's have the extension "MPG" so download with "Save Target As", or you may
invoke your media player. Med mods are best listened to with DeliPlayer. |
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| Various |
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Thanks to Ray - yet again - a whole bunch of tunes I'd lost
and hadn't heard in over a decade mysteriously appeared on the main OctaMed site.
It was quite trippy to go through them again. A huge thanks! Some have been
converted to MP3 format, with adjustments to effect etc. The interesting thing
here is the old-old original version of The Jack That House Built - done around
1993. |
| Fineline |
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This was one of my favourites - still trying the guitar solo
effect. It was originally supposed to loop on itself, in case you think it ends
abruptly. I went through a phase of guitar tunes, most of which I've lost
forever, 'cause I'd bought a public domain disk of strum-samples. Listening now,
this is definitely a cross between the piano song and Revo'. |
| Stranded |
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Second-fave guitar-solo-ish one. Same main sample, and that
piano is back again. Shame about this, it starts really well. |
| Overloaded IV |
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More game-type music. I've put this through ModPlug Tracker -
changed the instruments, thrown it through CoolEdit, added some flanger plus
other weird effects and ta da - MP3. Strangely, it sounds kinda 'elastic` now.
Bouncy. |
| Sliders |
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Jungle-alike drums. |
| Jack |
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The Jack That House Built. Cover of a song written by
Jack'n'Chill in 1988 - way ahead of it's time, I was hard pushed to match any of
those samples. Some of the more difficult ones are missing altogether, the
trumpet at the end (listen to original). Main lead instrument was badly sampled
from the original, and tracked in note for note, worked better than anything else
I'd tried. Pieced together using the Impulse Tracker side of Modplug Tracker. 22
channels. Quickverb Outdoor Venue and Graphic Equalizer Shimmervox filters added
by CoolEdit in MP3 version. Tried to get the pianos in tune near the end,
failed. |
| Mindscapes |
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A lengthy vocal piece using a relaxation tape - 16 track XM
originally. |
| Candy |
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This is dedicated to that set of humans living next door to
me. People who fail to understand respect. Just a little. |
| Sound State |
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Just something I was playing around with, never quite got it
right. I did try adding some speech but that all got out of hand, using a speech
synth. In the end I don`t know exactly what this is, or what it's about. The lead
sample is actually the first note from Axel-F. |
| Dreamscapes |
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Dreamscapes is 'unfixed' because the conversion from OctaMED
to XM and then to MP3 resulted in some of the instruments being slightly out of
tune. The whole thing needs redoing, since everything was sampled using my old
Amiga and the samples failed to sit correctly centered...hence a lot of clicking
and popping is heard on the original. Bad sampling cartridge, or bad software at
the time. If you listen to the original module you'll see what I mean. |
| Evolution |
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Lengthy mish-mash of drums and buggingly overused `wisdom`
sample. Yes, it's Pierce Brosnan. The Lawnmower Man sample. |
| Independence |
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Aside from the Moby 'GO' it's single (legal) instruments...as
opposed to loops etc. It was also called `Independance` - which was a genuine
typo at the time, although the `dance` part kinda worked. What fascinating
trivia. |
| Digication |
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I was playing with loops and nonsense with this thing and it
finally fell together into the product you hear. I played around with a few block
splitters (for want of a better description) - nice little drum sequences to kick
from one block to another. The beginning has a sample that says repeatedly `ah ah
ah ah ah` - that was to be a whole speech - but I ran out of memory at the time -
heh (Amiga). |
| Piano |
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I wonder to this day how the hell this came out the way it
did. I can`t play piano for toffee in real life, so this was a pure fluke. MED
version in stereo sounds awful. |
| Evolution Final |
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Originally the outtro to Evolution - but was split into a
seperate module...lack of time led me to add that unforgiving thump-thump
bassline to the end. Still, standing outside and listening to the rubbish from
next door - this is a classic. |
| Revolution |
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The original "Evolution" - this is my fave of all tunes as I
continually tried to get an arcade-type tune down. The end sounds like a Bangles
song. I like The Bangles. Yes, the beginning lead synth-bass is slightly out of
tune. I didn`t realise notice this until the tenth listen. Was hard to convert,
so I'll leave it alone. |
| FunkeTrick |
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Boy, this is a strange one. It`s really condensed now, the
longer original version is gone. Rip the med-mod to pieces for some interesting
breaks. The `scream` near the end of the tune took ages to get just right - lots
of sample and volume cutting. |
| FreeJack |
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Looped funky drummer variation and ongoing bassline. Guitar
sitting in background. The name comes from the cool movie "FreeJack" - simply
because I did a slideshow on Amiga and this played in the background. Everyone
did slideshows on the Amiga. It was simple and quick. Then you sent them off to
PD companies - who swiftly trashed them. I'd love to replace the drum loop in
this. It lost a lot of quality, due to the Amiga sampling. Never my fault. |
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| Links |
The OctaMed site itself, with links to both Amiga and PC
versions.
Further your knowledge on the history of music modules.
Found a gateway to another world? Tell Alternate Earth 117 -
Sliders about it.
Flux Capacitor - fluxing, at this great Back to the Future site. Don't miss the forums.
Breakdance, otherwise known as Breakin'
can be found funky as heck here.
Send yourself an email from the future with Time Cave. |
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| Adventure |
| Just recently I got into the whole retrogaming
scene - using WinVice to
run some old Commodore 64 games - thanks to The Classic Solutions Adventure Archive and Dorothy Millard,
I have managed to retrieve several of my old games - LA Adventure, Squeak,
Nightmare One/Two, Back to the Present, Lifeform and Undercover. They were
written between 1992 and 1993, available from the Interactive
Fiction Archive. All files are in .d64 format. Expect fairly simple gameplay
in a world of typos where you're equals your. Miracle - considering we had 23,124 bytes to work
with. |
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