Diskette Deluxe - Two new poppy Amiga-style tunes (Page 1) - Releases - Forums

1 Feb 21, 2013 6:07 pm

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Hi, hope it's not a problem to put a single here. I work very slowly so there are no albums showing (soon).

My House Is A Cocoon is a funny funky 8-bit (inspired) pop song, with my friend Nil on vocals. It has sort of a reggae vibe to it because of its swing and offbeat synth stabs. The bass and drum samples come from the Amiga Soundtracker (ST-XX) sample packs (http://archive.org/details/AmigaSoundtr … 192HzTuned) and most of the lead/solo synths are Plogue Chipsounds.

My current challenge is to combine chiptune with pop music, so I hope you like, and comments are of course welcome.

https://soundcloud.com/diskettedeluxe/d … at-nilipek

And here's another recent one in a similar Amiga style:

https://soundcloud.com/diskettedeluxe/d … elancholia

Cheers,
Rutger

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2 Feb 21, 2013 9:22 pm

Decktonic

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Westfield, NJ

great as always!

3 Feb 22, 2013 3:00 am

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Decktonic wrote:

great as always!

appreciated!

4 Feb 22, 2013 3:24 am

viciousitaly

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西安

Love this sound!

5 Feb 22, 2013 4:13 am

Diskette Deluxe

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viciousitaly wrote:

Love this sound!

Thanks All the great stuff I heard on the Amiga in my childhood is still inspiring to me.

6 Feb 22, 2013 2:51 pm

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Finished another track today (no vocals this time):

https://soundcloud.com/diskettedeluxe/d … elancholia

7 Feb 22, 2013 11:32 pm

Russellian

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Harrisonburg, Virginia

I love this simple, melancholic sound. :3

8 Feb 22, 2013 11:48 pm

sammulligan

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Massachusetts, USA

I love this!

9 Feb 23, 2013 12:07 pm

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Russellian wrote:

I love this simple, melancholic sound. :3

Great to hear!

10 Feb 26, 2013 10:20 am

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Forgot to make Euphoria Melancholia downloadable. Fixed now.

Also added a little "bio" text to the tracks...

The Commodore Amiga is a personal computer from the mid 80s with sort of an an 8-bit sound architecture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_500). With my music inspired by this computer I return to the sound I have loved ever since my childhood.
I take inspiration from funky, poppy and sometimes melancholic music made on this machine, by composers like for example Martin Iveson (Jaguar XJ220 soundtrack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xdjLzovc0A), Barry Leitch (Lotus II Turbo Challenge: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQSsq7HCNHw), Chris Huelsbeck (Turrican II: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvha_2hAzq0), many tunes from cracktros (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50WWFEBsgfk), etc.
To compose I used Ableton Live and its simple sampler (Simpler), in which I loaded the Amiga Sountracker Sample Packs (archive.org/details/AmigaSoundt…kerSamplePacksst-xx). A couple of sounds come from Plogue's brilliant Chipsounds (http://www.plogue.com/products/chipsounds). I tried to minimize modern production techniques like reverbs, EQs etc., as those apparently only damage the Amiga vibes. Sometimes I wish I would have used a tracker, because they can control pitch bends and arpeggios so easily, but I love piano rolls too much.
Enjoy, stream, download. EP coming up later....

See the two most recent tracks on https://soundcloud.com/diskettedeluxe

thanks!

Last edited by Diskette Deluxe (Feb 26, 2013 10:24 am)