Martin Galway mentioned in an "out of the ordinary sid composers" thread? come oooon
psssss i kno i know but just hear me out! if you consider all the other composers at the time i feel like his work stands out and for sure isnt "smooth melody jams or "funk""
He doesn't really use those bouncing chord arps and fast over the top leads. I always hear an emulation of a orchestra in his music. I never hear that with other peeps c64 shit. being one of the first peeps to exploit the sid flaw to use samples he really was trying to push that machine further than it was expected to go. another thing to take note of is the fact the guy used percussion sparingly. allowing to use the channels for chords and other mayhem. all dis kinda makes for a sound totally unique to even a lot of shit that is made today.
lastly a lot of video game music in the 8bit era was made in short loops lasting under 2 minuets sometimes. The fool wrote like 11 min. songs and stuff. that shit is just awesome in its self. would you rather listen to 5 mins of sexy sweet sid action or 10?
its like do you want to have sex for like a minute or like an hour?
more of a good thing cant be wrong.
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