BleepCast – Level 6
Two words that describe this and the next BleepCast: Rob Hubbard. The man that taught the Commodore 64 to produce grand sound-scapes and catchy tunes amidst the incoherent 8-bit turds coated with incompetence in the early 80′s. This level is huge, so it’s clipped into two. And you better stock up on extra lives and get ready to enjoy Hubbard’s music, hear Hubbard’s voice and lean about the man in a tenaciously researched podcast. This is part one.
Level Information:
- This level occupies 41.5 MB in your memory and has a time limit of 45:27 min.
- This podcast is EXPLICIT because occasionally I get quite profane…
- More information about the games Hubbard made music for, including cover art and personal experiences by the author at The Commodore Zone.
- An Interview with Rob Hubbard from 2001 by Neil Carr.
- A really comprehensive Interview with Rob Hubbard on c64.com
- Rob Hubbard’s unabridged speech at the “Assembly 2002” Demo Party in Finland, found in stormblast0891’s YouTube channel.
- Rob Hubbard’s Wikipedia page. Somebody should edit it with additional information!
- An interview from 1997 with Rob who was still at Electronic Arts back then.
- Not the Rob Hubbard you’re looking for.
- An awesome amount of remixes of Rob’s tunes at remix.kwed.org.
- Too lazy for browsing the High-Voltage SID Collection? Here are almost all of Rob Hubbard’s SID tunes.
- The starting point for your own research.
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Comments
robotriot (Aug 25, 2010)
Hey Phil! Great show you’ve got there, really enjoying it so far (I’m still catching up with past episodes). However, I was unable to download 001, 002 and 004. I got a file not found error. Could you fix that pretty please?
Regards from Your loyal robot.
Phil Strahl (Aug 26, 2010)
thank heaps for listening and your comment, dear pixelpainting robot!!
the missing links are fixed, the latest update of my podcasting plugin broke some stuff, but everything should work fine now.
but if i was you, i’d wait until tomorrow afternoon with downloading level 1 because i have to fix there some stuff in a funny way… *ominous wink*
Jot (Aug 29, 2010)
Just started listening. Wasn´t that first song also part of one of the matrix movies?
Phil (Aug 29, 2010)
hey jot — thanks for listening!
the composer of the matrix score, don davis, was obviously inspired by the music by philip glass and the dark super-heroes films’ scores, such as batman by danny elfman. here’s an interview with don davis on his matrix score, if you wanna know more: http://www.tracksounds.com/specialfeatures/interviews/interviewdd.htm