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by: Martin Galway
copyright: 1987 Imagine

MUSICIANS/G/Galway_Martin/Arkanoid.sid

CSDb entry: https://csdb.dk/sid/?id=13263

Used in Releases: No Comments, Amadeus XI, Arkatrax, Showing Off, Last Demo, Martin Galway Collection 2, The Music of Arkanoid, Arkanoid, Music Mixer, Music OK, Jul Adolf, The Music from Arkanoid, Bengal, Big Sample 4, Arkanoid, Arkanoid Tunes, FCS Intro, Tutankhamen Picture & Arkanoid Music, The Ultimate Galway Collection, Relax-a-Flex, Galway Collection 5, Arkanoid, Ark of Noa, The Arkanoid Demo, Better Then Ever, Freak Out '87, Arkanoid Music, Surround Sound Stereo Sidplay 2 fp sid player, Eureca the First, Game Sounds VI, Arkanoid, Fabulous Demo, Wi(mu)zax #04, Pedomaan Demo, Maurersoft, Super Vaus, My Best Rip, Load and Enjoy It, TLL Demo 2, Best Arkanoid, First Class, The Extra-Demo, Blue Dreams II, The Music from the Game Arkanoid, Whiplash, Soundcollection I, Arkanoid, Moon Music VI, Arkanoid, Arkanoid OK, Mega Intro 3, Arka Drummer, Great Escape, The Space Demo, Arcanoid, Arkanoid Music, Welcome Demo, Jönni Temo I, The Tunes of Arkanoid, Loadsasound I, Dream Blazer II, New Arkanoid, Arkanoid Music, New Edition Intro Preview, New Arkanoid.

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COMMENT: This is the very first published tune on the C64 that used samples. "Q: How did you get involved with using sampled sounds? MG: I figured out how samples were played by hacking into someone else's code... OK, I admit it... It was a drum synthesizer package called Digidrums, actually, so you could still say I was the first to include samples in a piece of music. [...] Never would I claim to have invented that technique, I just got it published first. In fact, I couldn't really figure out where they got the sample data, just that they were wiggling the volume register, so I tried to make up my own drum sample sounds in realtime - which is the flatulence stuff that shipped in 'Arkanoid'. [...] After the project was in the shops I gained access to some real drum samples, and I slid those into my own custom version of the tune. The one that's in the shops is kind of a collage of farts & burps, don't you think? [...] Later I was able to acquire some proper drum samples and by 'Game Over' it got quite sophisticated." (MG)
TITLE: Cobra (Title) [from the Spectrum game]
ARTIST: Martin Galway
COMMENT: "I'm glad you spotted 'Cobra' on the Spectrum, whose tune I was in love with and HAD to use somewhere else...! I figured no-one would complain if I used it a year later [for Arkanoid] on the C64." (MG)
TITLE: Hiscore [from the arcade game Arkanoid]
ARTIST: Hisayoshi Ogura (OGR/Zuntata)
TITLE: Intro [from the arcade game Arkanoid]
ARTIST: Hisayoshi Ogura (OGR/Zuntata)
TITLE: Level Start [from the arcade game Arkanoid]
ARTIST: Hisayoshi Ogura (OGR/Zuntata)
TITLE: Boss Level Start [from the arcade game Arkanoid]
ARTIST: Hisayoshi Ogura (OGR/Zuntata)
TITLE: Game Over [from the arcade game Arkanoid]
ARTIST: Hisayoshi Ogura (OGR/Zuntata)
TITLE: Extra Life [from the arcade game Arkanoid]
ARTIST: Hisayoshi Ogura (OGR/Zuntata)
COMMENT: This covers an unused tune from the arcade game Arkanoid, composed by Hisayoshi Ogura (OGR/Zuntata)