Affascinante remix del capolavoro di Hubbard.
Affascinante remix del capolavoro di Hubbard.
Aggiungo questa roba che ovviamente venendo da uno Spectrum...
Discussione di qualche anno fa su Remix64 nel quale Chris Abbott descrive nel dettaglio le intricate e cervellotiche dinamiche della causa legale tra David Whittaker e il progetto electro/techno Zombie Nation che aveva fatto i soldi con un sample di "Star Dust", uno dei brani del suo Lazy Jones, il famoso titolo con i sottogiochini e il protagonista che di quando in quando andava a pisciare in uno stanzino, inserito nella hit "Kernkraft 400" e cantato in tutti gli stadi https://www.remix64.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7420
«I thought this case was done and dusted about 10 years ago with Zombie Nation paying Whittaker a substantial sum for the use of the riff?»
«(a) Not a substantial sum, but that's besides the point.
(b) David agreed they could pay him for use of the riff, which was originally used illegally. What he didn't agree to do was for them to use that gracious permission to claim to own the piece, deny authorship or royalty rights, and claim sole right to grant covers based on the tune (and threaten legal action if David granted rights on his own tune).
Basically, it's like renting someone a room, and then coming back from holiday and finding they've claimed the house, and will sue you if you come anywhere near it. Also they got the licence under false pretences».
Edit: il video di VICE nel quale (dopo un paio di minuti) Seftner parla della sua passione C64esca e di come ha ciulato il riff. Interessante tutto il servizio nel quale praticamente chi ha fregato piange tutto il tempo per essere stato fregato a sua volta (il successo vero non l'ha fatto la sua versione del pezzo).
Intervista risalente al 2001, con baccano di fondo allucinante, nel quale Whittaker accenna alla vicenda, ancora agli inizi. Erano ancora vivi Daglish e Joseph.
Ultima modifica di Major Sludgebucket (ABS); 14-04-20 alle 07:33
Manca un pezzo alla vicenda del post precedente, cioè l'appello, anch'esso andato male per Whittaker & C., come viene detto qui https://www.remix64.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8413 (principalmente perché Mr. Zombie Nation è riuscito a insinuare nella corte il dubbio che l'autore di Star Dust da Lazy Jones potesse non essere Whittaker, dato che nel gioco erano presenti soprattutto cover di brani pop famosi e le indicazioni sulla copertina non era così chiare su queste questioni; Abbott vede dietro tutto questo un pregiudizio verso i musicisti videoludici e la loro opera).
Già che ci siamo, segnalo (da un altro thread ancora), che il "povero" Mark Cooksey per portare la pagnotta a casa si è dovuto mettere a fare musiche per le slot machine. https://www.remix64.com/board/viewtopic.php?p=96336
Non sapevo questa storia, in effetti anch'io credevo che ZN avesse pagato i diritti e morta lì.
(Peraltro io ho scoperto solo dopo che la melodia originale venisse da un gioco C64, nel 1999 non avevo mai sentito parlare di Lazy Jones... la mia cultura retrocosa era risibile e perlopiù limitata a console e coinop )
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Ah, e Martin Galway per campare tre anni fa faceva questo. La tristezza nei suoi uochi .
Fa malissimo 'sta cosa :(
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Ray Norrish
3 anni fa
Thought I'd add a comment to this. It' nice to see someone posting this so I would like to add some extra info. The game was developed by someone who lived quite near to me, so Pygnosis thought we should partner up. The developer wanted this style of music so this is what happened. As a lot of game music then was about how much RAM you had to play with, it was a real squeeze to compress as much as possible into the available memory AND make it work with the game dynamic (in the case of in-game music). If I remember, this music occupies 90Kb or less which is less memory than the image in the video above!
Ray Norrish
8 mesi fa
Just something else to add; I sampled my guitar sounds from the band "europe" - maybe from the final countdown, but I can't quite remember.
L'oscuro account SoundCloud di Hubbard, con un po' di tracce mai sentite https://soundcloud.com/user-53372991...of-the-pygmies
Ultima modifica di Major Sludgebucket (ABS); 22-04-20 alle 09:18
Hi I’m Nyokeë and I produce chiptune pop!
Un album del famoso (?) cantautore canadese Dan Bryk inizia curiosamente con questa canzone intitolata a Mark Turmell (game designer famoso in particolar modo per NBA Jam, uno dei dieci coin-op che hanno incassato di più nella storia, oltre che per vari altri titoli soprattutto sportivi di successo, ma ovviamente ci sono fissato pure io per Toy Bizarre, elegante variazione di Mario Bros).
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Ultima modifica di Major Sludgebucket (ABS); 12-05-20 alle 16:38
I giochi a firma GO! facevano spesso pietà, però, ehi, per scusarsi con l'acquirente gli permettevano di ascoltare gratis un po' di AOR a casaccio, vuoi mettere.
https://soundcloud.com/resister86
Super Pipeline 2 But Speeds Up On Each Repeat https://soundcloud.com/chrisabbott/s...on-each-repeat
Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris
To Moscow I came seeking fortune
But they’re making me work til I’m dead
The bourgeoisie have it so easy
The Tsar’s putting gold on his bread
The people of Moscow are hungry
But think what a feast there could be
If we could create a socialist state
That cared for the people like me:
I am the man who arranges the blocks
That descend upon me from up above
They come down and I spin them around
Til they fit in the ground like hand in glove
Sometimes it seems that to move blocks is fine
And the lines will be formed as they fall -
Then I see that I have misjudged it!
I should not have nudged it after all
Can I have a long one please?
Why must these infernal blocks tease?
I am the man who arranges the blocks
That continue to fall from up above
Come Muscovite! Let the workers unite!
A collective regime of peace and love
I work so hard in arranging the blocks
But the landlord and taxman bleed me dry
But the workers will rise! We will not compromise
For we know that the old regime must die
Long live Lenin, kill the tsar!
We salute the sickle and star!
I am the man who arranges the blocks
That continue to fall from up above
The food on your plate now belongs to the state
A collective regime of peace and love
I have no choice in arranging the blocks
Under Bolshevik rule, what they say goes
The rule of the game is we all are the same
And my blocks must create unbroken rows
Long live Stalin! He loves you!
Sing these words, or you know what he’ll do...
I am the man who arranges the blocks
That are made by the men in Kazakhstan
They come two weeks late and they don’t tessellate
But we’re working to Stalin’s five year plan
I am the man who arranges the tanks
That will make all the Nazis keep away
The Fuhrer is dead, and Europe is Red!
Let us point all our guns at the USA
We shall live forever more!
We can start a nuclear war!
I am the man who arranges the blocks
That are building a highly secret base
Hip hip hurrah for the USSR!
We are sending our men to outer space
I work so hard in arranging the blocks
But each night I go home to my wife in tears -
What’s the point of it all, when you’re building a wall
And in front of your eyes it disappears?
Pointless work for pointless pay
This is one game I shall not play
I am the man who arranges the blocks!
But tomorrow I think I’ll stay in bed
The winter is cold, I’ve got plenty of gold
And I’m standing in line for a loaf of bread
Maybe we’d be better off
If we brought down Gorbachev
I am the man who arranges the blocks
That continue to fall from up above
The markets are free! So much money for me!
Tell me, why should I care for peace and love?
The markets are free! So much money for me!
Tell me, why should I care for peace and love?
Peace and love, peace and love!
And now the wall is down, the Marxists frown
There’s foreign shops all over town
When in Red Square, well don’t despair
There’s Levi’s and McDonald’s there
The US gave us crystal meth
And Yeltsin drank himself to death
But now that Putin’s put the boot in
Who’ll get in our way?
So we reject free enterprise
And once again the left will rise
Prepare the flags to be unfurled
For we’re seceding from the world:
We shall regain the Georgian soil
We shall obtain the Arctic oil
We shall arrange the blocks and toil
Forever and a day
Game over
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