Jan Harries New Album

Since 1985, Jan Harries has been producing innovative music on the Commodore 64 and Amiga 500 computers. Having worked with Karsten Obarski's Soundtracker, many of his works live on in the High Voltage SID Collection. 2005 saw the birth of Jan's first musicdisk on Commodore 64, the SID Expander.


Jan's album is sure to be a success so check it out at Sound Monitor

Kraftwerk, Jarre, Italo Disco: The Commodore 64 Orchestra Interview

Lotek64, a German Magazine dedicated to all things Commodore 64 has interviewed Commodore 64 Orchestra. This is a great chance to sharpen up those German reading skills of yours. The interview is on page 31. The print edition is out.

Visit Lotek64 for the print edition of the interview


Here is the archive link to the article as well:

Il creatore - Ti illudi di guidare

Italy loves the Commodore 64!

Italian Commodore programmer and video artists Il creatore used a C=64 & Sidstation & Vocoders for his music. An amazing creation of video and music using our lovely Commodore 64, pixels galore!

Chip Wave Genre

From the exciting Kraftwerk remixes (yes the German band has embraced 8 bit sound) to the Commodore 64 Orchestra phenomenon to Fischerspooner, Chip Wave is creating a splash on the electronic scene. Well this just might be the next new wave of the new wave genre, no pun intended. The Chip Wave genre creates an exciting blend of music with the sounds of 80s New Wave, electro wave, Italo Hi-nrg, post-no wave punk, Chicago acid house (Phuture/Adonis), Italo Disco (Giorgio Moroder), techno (Detroit, Dresden and Berlin), Die Musik der Futurismus, Die russische Avantgarde, Post Avante Garde-ism, Die Avantgarde der ElectroRock-Musik) and electronica. Chicago musician Nico Demonte who has introduced the genre by using the Commodore 64, Atari, Amiga 500, TRS-80, emulation, magnetic tapes, vintage computers, drum machines like the Simmons and 808/909, and synthesizers (Moog, Korg). You can hear the Chip Wave on heavy rotation on 93.1, 88.7, 89.3, Death Disco Radio and other stations.

Chip Wave playlist

FISCHERSPOONER - THE OTHER SIDE OF NEW YORK

DJ: UNKNOWN - DO THE ELECTRIC TOOTHBRUSH

PETER LIEPA- BOULDER DASH (R) II- ROCKFORD'S REVENGE

JEROEN TEL- ALLOY RUN MAIN THEME (1988)

COMMODORE 64 ORCHESTRA - COMMODORE 64 (1982)

EURO LIPSTICK - FLESH DISCO

KRAFTWERK - LA FORME

ROB HUBBARD- ONE MAN AND HIS DROID TITLE THEME (1985)

PETER CLARKE- THEME FROM BUBBLE BOBBLE (1987)

MARTIN GALWAY- THEME FROM ARKANOID (1987)

JEROEN TEL- THEME FROM KINETIX (1988)

PETER LIEPA- BOULDER DASH (R) (1984)

BEN DAGLISH- THE LAST NINJA WILDERNESS IN-GAME (1986)

MARTIN GALWAY- MAGNETIC FIELDS IV (AS USED IN YIE AR KUNG-FU) (1985)

OUTRO- CONTAINS ELEMENTS FROM JEROEN TEL- MUSIC FROM TURBO OUTRUN (2000)

JEROEN TEL- MUSIC FROM TURBO OUTRUN (1989)

NICO DEMONTE - MAX HEADROOM (1988)

ROB HUBBARD- CRAZY COMETS MAIN THEME (1985)

CHRIS HUELSBECK- FINAL THEME FROM THE BABY OF CAN GURU (1987)