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The latest handwritten news from the ExoticA site. For a breakdown of recent wiki edits, please see the Recent Changes page.
Music Collection Updates
Sunday, 6 January 2013
v58 of the High Voltage SID Collection has been released by the HVSC Team. The collection now contains 43,116 SIDs. You can download the complete collection or use the web based search interface to browse and search the collection, as well as stream mp3/ogg recordings on demand. Note that the official page for the HVSC is at http://www.hvsc.de.
The Atari SAP Music Archive was also recently updated to v3.6 with 315 new tunes (4630 in total). The main site for the Atari SAP Music archive is at http://asma.atari.org/, however we offer an alternative web interface at ExoticA that allows to search and download recordings from the collection (as ogg or mp3) over at the ASMA Search page. There was a v3.5 out previously that we missed, and it looks as though our download page got forgotten too, as it linked to a very old version. This is now all fixed.
The UnExoticA music collection got a small update with some composer and comment corrections. Thanks to those who submitted fixes. There is still lots of stuff outstanding, and the collection has not had much love over the last few years. Maybe XtC and Kyzer will come back to help in 2013 :)
Just under a week ago Allister Brimble's kickstarter album project The Amiga Works got funded, with 524 backers bringing in a total of £18,848. Congratulations Allister! It was also announced that Allister and Chris Huelsbeck would both be remixing one track on each others albums, which I look forward to hearing.
Links:
- http://www.hvsc.de/ - High Voltage SID Collection
- http://asma.atari.org/ - Atari SAP Music Archive
- http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2059538678/the-amiga-works - "The Amiga Works" Kickstarter page
- http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chris-huelsbeck/turrican-soundtrack-anthology-by-chris-huelsbeck - "Turrican Soundtrack Anthology" Kickstarter page
Bitfellas "Alien Breed vs Superfrog" podcast
Friday, 14 December 2012
To celebrate Allister Brimble's new album project "The Amiga Works" - This coming Sunday (16th December) Bitfellas will be releasing an Allister Brimble podcast entitled "Alien Breed vs Superfrog". It will contain a selection of his Amiga classics combined with some of his newer works. We hope this musical face-off will bring back some happy gaming memories for you! You will be able to download the podcast on the Bitfellas podcast page.
Allister's Kickstarter project has done very well and has already reached the £13,000 goal, with still a couple of weeks left. If you want to guarantee yourself a copy of this double album containing modern remakes of his Amiga classics, get over to the Kickstarter page now and make a pledge.
Big thanks to Allister and the Bitfellas team.
Scene Sat Radio - Special "On Air" broadcast
Tuesday, 6 November 2012
Tomorrow (7th November) at 20:00CET (19:00 GMT), there'll be a special edition of On Air with Ziphoid, featuring Allister Brimble and Chris Hülsbeck live via Skype. They'll be revealing more info surrounding their current music projects. Don't miss it! :)
Link: http://scenesat.com
Source: Facebook.
"The Amiga Works" by Allister Brimble
Friday, 2 November 2012
Allister Brimble has just launched a Kickstarter project for his new double album "The Amiga Works". He will create up to date CD quality versions and remixes of his best musical works from the Commodore Amiga. The album artwork and an A2 poster will be designed by Rico Holmes who was the inspiration and artist behind the original Alien Breed series and other Team 17 games. Visit Allister's Kickstarter page.
As big fans of his work over here at ExoticA we are very excited about this project. We recommend you get over to the project page now and make a pledge!
Link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2059538678/the-amiga-works
HVSC Update #57
Sunday, 24 June 2012
v57 of the High Voltage SID Collection has been released by the HVSC Team. The collection now contains 42,212 SIDs. You can download the complete collection or use the web based search interface to browse and search the collection, as well as stream mp3/ogg recordings on demand. Note that we just run a mirror and search. The official page for the HVSC is at http://www.hvsc.de.
Turrican Soundtrack Anthology
Thursday, 17 May 2012
This news is a bit old sorry - but Chris Huelsbeck created a Kickstarter project to raise money to fund a Turrican Soundtrack Anthology. The target has already been reached, but you can still pledge for 17 days more to get exclusive and limited items or to add your support to the project.
There was also a radio show on SceneSat Radio that had an extensive and very interesting interview with Chris about the project and his past work. You can listen to it on their ReLive system or download the episode from their archive.
Bitfellas also just released a Turrican Special podcast - which you can download over at the Bitfellas site or watch/listen on youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb8_TFR0VAU
Apologies for the lack of updates (again). Lack of free time etc.
Happy Xmas and HVSC Update #56
Tuesday, 27 December 2011
Hope you all had a nice Xmas. The HVSC Team has released v56 of their C64 Music Collection. You can download from our mirror as well as using the web based search interface to stream the music as mp3/ogg. Not much else to report, and it is a little quiet around here, as BuZz has been busy with other projects. The site was recently updated to the newest MediaWiki release though. Perhaps 2012 will be a busier year here, but don't forget - the site is a wiki, so feel free to correct/improve/add information yourself. Have a good new year, and see you in the next news.
HVSC Update #55
Wednesday, 29 June 2011
The HVSC Team has released v55 of their C64 Music Collection now with over 40,000 SIDs. We run a mirror here at exotica as well as a web based search interface with information from the STIL, the ability to download recordings and links to remixes from http://remix.kwed.org.
A Pokey Xmas
Saturday, 25 December 2010
A few days ago the Atari SAP Music Archive (http://asma.atari.org/) was updated with 1024 new tunes. We offer an alternative web interface at ExoticA that allows to search and download recordings from the collection (as ogg or mp3) over at the ASMA Search page. This update brings the collection to 3862 tunes.
Have a lovely Xmas.
