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Crowdfunder Aims to Remake Classic Commodore 64 Tunes

July 22, 2015 | Brenna Wilkes | 1 Comment Share this
If you’re old enough to remember playing on a Commodore 64, then this might be of some interest to you. Jeroen Tel, composer for several C64 games back in the 1980s such a Cybernoid, Myth: History in the Making and Supremacy, has decided to revisit his older compositions (alongside the production company, Maniacs of Noise) and breath new life into them with Tel Me More.

“At the age of 14-18 years old (from 1987 to 1991), I composed music for numerous famous Commodore 64 games. It’s been my dream for over 20 years to remake the most memorable of these C64 SID soundtracks in a professional way. Over the past few years I’ve been asked many times by my Facebook friends and fans when I would start a crowdfunding campaign to create an album with remakes of the best “Jeroen Tel / Maniacs of Noise” Commodore 64 game music. I’ve decided to start this musical journey now and wholeheartedly invite you to join me on this 8-bit quest!” – Joroen Tel via IndieGoGo

The campaign hopes to raise just under $39,000 dollars to create the album, which includes costs for studio time, mixing and mastering, and the design and printing of the various album formats and other swag. The album will contain a good amount of Tel’s tunes from several Commodore 64 games including:
- Robocop 3
- Cybernoid II The Revenge
- Rubicon
- Hawkeye
- Myth
- Turbo Outrun
- Supremacy
- Stormlord
- Battle Valley
- Cybernoid
- Eliminator
- Iron Lord
Much like The AMIGA Works album by Allister Brimble (something OSV will be covering also), Tel Me More hopes to revisit some classic C64 nostalgia directly from the original composer and breath new life into the music with modern technology not available when they were first composed. Through the campaign, the digital album goes for $10 with a physical copy at $20, all the way up to $100 for a limited edition vinyl for the diehard collector. Funding runs until August 10th and has halfway to go, so C64 music fans should act sooner rather than later to help bring the project to life.

Tel Me More – IndieGoGo | Facebook | Maniacs of Noise
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SDCC 2011: No Myth 2 Until Chrono Cross Arrange Album Is Done

July 26, 2011 | Jayson Napolitano | 2 Comments Share this

Comic Con was just this past weekend. That means we had the opportunity to catch up with Izumi Tsukushi and Akio Shiraishi at Square Enix and pick their brains about recent and upcoming soundtrack release from Square Enix’s internal label (see our past interviews from 2008, 2009, and 2010). While asking a question about Mitsuda’s comments about wanting to create a Myth 2 album if the first one sold well (I’m still pulling for the album to be called Re:Myth), we were told that while the album was very successful, and that they’d like to do a second album, that this would not happen until the Chrono Cross arrangement album is complete.

While I doubt we’ll see the Chrono Cross arrange album this year, I still think it’s great to see pressure from Square Enix along with fans to get this album completed. By no means do I want to see Mitsuda rush the album, but I think it’s been on his back-burner for way too long.

Are you looking forward to the Chrono Cross arrange album and to a second Myth album that may be planned for a later time?
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Square Enix Composer Series: Yasunori Mitsuda Talks Myth and Re-Myth?

March 31, 2011 | Jayson Napolitano | 5 Comments Share this

We recently caught up with current and former composers from Square Enix, including Yasunori Mitsuda, at Square Enix headquarters in Japan. We were eager to speak with Mitsuda about the recently released Myth arrangement album. We find out why Xenogears was the focus of this project, what went into the track selection, and Mitsuda’s ambitions for a follow-up album of this one sells well.

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It’s No Mere “Myth,” It’s Really Happening! Xenogears Orchestra!

December 30, 2010 | Patrick Gann | 11 Comments Share this

Square Enix has opened, and added details to, the official website for the upcoming album MYTH: The Xenogears Orchestral Album.

The catalog number is SQEX-10230. The release date is February 23, 2011. So far, the only place to preorder is Square Enix’s own shop, but they list Sony Music Japan and Amazon Japan buttons (currently grayed-out). Like most SQEX releases, however, this will probably be pre-order-able at most online import shops in a couple of weeks.

The music has been performed by the Bulgarian National Radio Orchestra, and at this point the only arranger we know of is Mitsuda himself. Whether or not additional arrangement or orchestration was provided by outside sources remains to be seen.

The tracklist is available on the official website, as is a loop of a sample of the opening track (which, not very coincidentally, happens to be the opening track of the game itself). Here’s the full tracklist in English, thanks to Zanasea @ vgmdb.net:

01 Dark Daybreak -Orchestra Version-
02 My Village is Number One -Orchestra Version-
03 Flight -Orchestra Version-
04 Unstealable Jewel -Orchestra Version-
05 Stage of Death -Orchestra Version-
06 The Wind Calls to Shevat in the Blue Sky -Orchestra Version-
07 October Mermaid -Piano Version-
08 Bonds of Sea and Flame -Orchestra Version-
09 The Gentle Breeze Sings -Orchestra Version-
10 In a Prison of Peace and Regret -Orchestra Version-
11 lost… Broken Shards -Orchestra Version-
12 The Beginning and the End -Orchestra Version-
13 SMALL TWO OF PIECES -Orchestra Version-
14 Faraway Promise -Piano Version-

Get psyched, people. This thing is really happening. Maybe that other project, which holds a sort of Duke Nukem Forever stigma about it, will happen next. C’mon Chrono Cross!