Comments on: Mark VII

Mark VII

Pretty_Generic — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 05:45:24 -0800

Commodore 64 Hip-Hop that you might enjoy, depending on your tolerance for lowfi obsoleet funk freakin.

By: Dr_Octavius

Dr_Octavius — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 05:55:18 -0800

Here is some real Commodore 64 hip-hop.

By: eddydamascene

eddydamascene — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 06:05:00 -0800

I can say, without a hint of hyperbole, that this is the greatest thing in the world ever that has ever existed since the dawn of time. EVAR.

By: neckro23

neckro23 — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 06:10:06 -0800

This is the sound of me agreeing with eddydamascene.

By: toby\flat2

toby\flat2 — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 06:27:39 -0800

Not strictly c64 (more info here), but very cool nonetheless.

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 06:32:11 -0800

I don't get it toby, why aren't these c64?

By: psmealey

psmealey — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 06:48:35 -0800

[this is GREAT]

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 06:55:27 -0800

PG, did you coin "obsoleet"? If so, good coinage. If not, good usage.

By: soundofsuburbia

soundofsuburbia — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 06:58:42 -0800

EXCELLENT

By: sleslie

sleslie — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 07:00:22 -0800

I don't get it toby, why aren't these c64? Because SAM didn't have a Busta Rhymes mode.

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 07:04:00 -0800

The low-fi voices made me assume it was really coming out of a C64. Aren't they capable of that sort of thing? soyjoy: Coinage! [mario sound effect]

By: toby\flat2

toby\flat2 — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 07:51:59 -0800

A bit more info. As far as I know it isn't possible to get this sort of stuff out of a c64, and anyway, you would have to be quite mad to sample outkast into a c64, let alone remix and mash it up. The fact that it isn't possible doesn't make it any less great, though :)

By: cmicali

cmicali — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 08:02:39 -0800

I remember when mono first released these, but I completely missed the Kathy Brown mashup. Amazingly done.

By: Vidiot

Vidiot — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 08:07:33 -0800

Y'all may also enjoy Treewave. (previously featured here.) They use a C64, a 286 clone, an Atari 2600, and a dot-matrix printer for percussion. The sound is surprisingly organic.

By: cmicali

cmicali — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 08:11:17 -0800

Also, the 2nd c64 tune is by Jeron Tel aka WAVE/Maniacs of Noise. He is the master of tracked music, and has done sound tracks to countless nes, snes, megadrive, and other console games.

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 08:19:43 -0800

Treewave are superb.

By: xmutex

xmutex — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 08:26:18 -0800

Well crap. I was expecting this to be as boring as the mass of 8-bit music people are obsessed with, but these MP3s are really good. Thanks.

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 08:27:50 -0800

Maniacs of Noise are superb.

By: ig

ig — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 08:41:40 -0800

There is always... Golden Shower.

By: Peter H

Peter H — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:13:28 -0800

[MARK vii SHOWS IT TO US CORRECT] ..damn thanks for the link, p_G

By: Peter H

Peter H — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:23:58 -0800

Man this stuff is truly wonderful fun. Thanks again.

By: john

john — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:00:38 -0800

You think your Commodore 64 is really neato. What kind of chip you got in there, a Dorito?

By: rajbot

rajbot — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:40:43 -0800

See also the infamous 8-bit Construction Set.

By: jcruelty

jcruelty — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:33:34 -0800

BIG UP TO 8BIT MASHERS!

By: weston

weston — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 19:51:26 -0800

Sweet.

By: arto

arto — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 22:32:59 -0800

As far as I know it isn't possible to get this sort of stuff out of a c64, and anyway, you would have to be quite mad to sample outkast into a c64, let alone remix and mash it up. I remember, in ancient times, thousands of years before the dawn of history, downloading a C64 demo that had an extremely grainy, short sample of some '80s hit (it might have been Wang Chung's "Everybody Wang Chung Tonight", but then again it might not have). So in theory, those vocals could have gone into a C64, 40K at a time. My money's on the vocals and drums being courtesy of a PC with some lofi/bit reduction type plugin, though.

By: majick

majick — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 23:26:34 -0800

As someone who has heard the SID 6581 chip do just about everything it is capable of, in fact something of a conniseur of the hardware itself, I declare with absolute authority and without fear of contradiction that the vocal track is slathered on after the fact. That severely reduces the actual geek coolness of these tracks -- just about any fool could fire up an emulator, write up some tune in JCH, record to WAV, and add a vocal track in the audio editor of choice -- but they're still interesting. It is possible to eke out ~4bit@8kHz sampled audio from the SID, by fooling with the volume and filter registers and exploiting yet another Voice 3 bug, but it doesn't sound like this.

By: neckro23

neckro23 — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:10:47 -0800

No, it's obviously just the vocals hacked around a bit and mixed in. Doesn't make it any less cool. The C64 could do sampling... just very, very poorly. The sample had to be very short and is rendered almost unintelligible by the compression system.

By: britain

britain — Thu, 24 Jun 2004 15:58:58 -0800

I downloaded these a few days ago, threw them on the 'pod, and forgot about them. Today I listened to them. I can't identify all the sources of the original muzak, but I can say that "Commando Jackson" is so titled because the melody is lifted straight from the C64 port of "Commando." The beat is much more funky that the original game though. I'd be tempted to throw this on at a party if I had more than two or three friends who would recognize it. =) If you dig the groove, here are a few more cover versions.