My Proprietary Childhood, volume 1 - a Commodore 64 mix
12"My Proprietary Childhood" was a pair of Commodore 64 music mixes I made in June 2001 and January 2002, as I was rediscovering SID (the sound chip used in the Commodore 64) music. Rather than another authoritative "Best Ever" list, these mixes were a blend of stuff I remembered fondly from my childhood, and strange wonderful sounds I was finding in the vast High Voltage SID Collection (http://hvsc.c64.org)
Here in 2017, it's now been as many years since I made these mixes as it was since I first experienced SID music as a child on my C64. This felt like a good time to post them publicly and honor the incredible creativity and technical skill of SID musicians, whose sounds I will carry with me for the rest of my life. Enjoy!
Video link for volume 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZsnrMp-Ry0
Tracklist with starting times of each track follows.
A few unknown artists are marked with ???, if you know who composed a piece please let me know in the comments!
00:00 Epyx / Electronic Speech Systems - from Impossible Mission
00:06 Steve Barrett (The Eggman) - Blue Meanies
00:37 Fred Gray - Batman: The Caped Crusader
03:26 Russell Lieblich - Toy Bizarre
03:32 Ben Daglish - 720 Degrees
05:15 ??? - Temple of Apshai Trilogy
06:21 Epyx / Electronic Speech Systems - from Impossible Mission
06:24 Kyle Granger - Skate or Die (half-pipe event)
08:07 Chris Grigg & David Lawrence - Maniac Mansion
09:52 Nick Scarim - Spy vs Spy
10:43 Johannes Bjerregaard - Dummy II
11:34 Cock Norris - Megamusiickia
12:52 David Thiel - Winter Games (hot dog event)
13:38 Tim Follin - Qix
13:53 Matthew Kane - Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
15:20 Rodney Balai - Intro Sound
16:36 Mark Cooksey - Paperboy
18:14 Mark Cooksey - Space Harrier (original composer Hiroshi Kawaguchi)
20:20 Matt Furniss - The Spy Who Loved Me
21:55 Chris Grigg & Chris Ebert - The Games: Winter Edition (slalom event)
22:35 David Dunn & Aidan Bell - Elite
24:03 Jeroen Tel - Noisy Pillars
25:23 ??? (Will Harvey?) - Marble Madness
25:55 Mark Cooksey - Ghosts N' Goblins
29:46 Brian Doe - Cliff Hanger
30:07 Karsten Petersen (Kaze) - The Human Race (remix) (original composer Rob Hubbard)
32:19 Ramiro Vaca (Extermer) - Spacesong
34:04 Sean Connolly (Odie) - Lemmings (original composer Tim Wright)
34:51 Eric Hammond - One on One (based on Maple Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin)
35:44 Martin Walker - Speedball 2
38:39 Dave Warhol & Russell Lieblich - Tass Times in Tonetown
40:23 Steve Turner - Intensity
41:15 Sebastian Bachliñski (Moog) - Hammond's Organ
43:29 David Thiel - Rock N Bolt
43:52 Sascha Nagie (Celtic Design) - 1'47 brainfucked
45:38 ??? - Spy Hunter (based on Peter Gunn by Henry Mancini)
46:34 Rob Hubbard - Skate or Die (title screen)
50:49 ???
51:36 Chris Grigg & Chris Ebert - The Games: Winter Edition (menu screen)
52:51 ??? - Knight Rider (original composer Stu Phillips)
53:39 Dave Warhol - Realm of Impossibility
54:56 Marcel Donné (Mad) - Personal Lady (intro)
56:36 ??? - Gyruss (original composer Masahiro Inoue) (based on Toccata by Sky / Toccata and Fugue in D minor by Johann Sebastian Bach)
58:43 David Dunn - The Dark Tower
1:00:03 Rob Hubbard - Monty on the Run
1:06:04 Fred Gray - Transformers (original composers Ford Kinder and Anne Bryant)
1:06:34 Andrew Rodger - Sleepwalker
1:08:14 Ben Daglish - Last Ninja (The Wastelands)
1:12:17 Epyx / Electronic Speech Systems - from Impossible Mission
SIDs converted to MP3 with SidAmp 1.4 Beta circa 2001/2002. Yes, this makes the SID emulation sound different from a real C64.