Hi there. We are looking at Google; that irrepressible source of all which is searchable. That is not where we’re going to end or even begin, well that is a lot. Our journey; I am going to show you some things on the internet that I consider fun or really fun like this.
First of all, I like you to go to youtube.com. If you search YM—oh crap—Y-M-O. That stands for Yellow Magic Orchestra. You see already one of the first suggestions. The first is Rydeen. Now you—oh—enter. You want to push Enter and then you get all these cover versions of Rydeen.
Now, what is Rydeen you may ask, if you’re not familiar with it. Well, it’s only one of the most impressive in melodic pieces of music ever composed, performed before live and studio audiences. Wait. Check it out. Yeah! Watch how the sync sub, ha-ha.
So yeah, you can watch the whole thing. This has been a seminal influence on a lot of video game soundtracks and all the J-pop. So if you’re in to that, this is like the roots. So we are back on the main search page for Rydeen. There are so many versions of this. YMO has recently reformed to do—well they did a version. I think it was on 2007 for a beer commercial and this is less upbeat. Well, what about that, the cave man, really bendable.
And it is such a distinctive tune. Now, you’re like, ‘what is the big deal Torley? Why are you obsessed with this?’ Because after you’ve gone through cover version after cover version, the brilliance, and the sheer, freaking brilliance. Here they perform in bathrobes. Oh yeah, Rydeen! Oh this is awesome, right dude.
And of course there is even—if you search for Rydeen piano. Hey! Look who it is. It’s me and let’s says it’s pretty crazy. That is the extent to which it is permeated in my mind and my space. Oh look at this, a Nintendo DS, Rydeen.
And there are versions for different synthesizers too. What’s this? Oh Roland the Fantom-X6 sounds fancy. Let’s go a little bit forward. Yeah! And there are all sorts of versions. There is even a version—I think for Commodore 64. Well, we sort of a derivative by the famous Rob Hubbard. Oh I can’t find it—oh! It’s because he was under the name of Strykers Run, I believe. Let’s see here. And if I play this, maybe the music will accompany of it. If doesn’t, no big loss. Let’s go forward. Yeah! That is Rydeen. D-minor bitch blog here, going to type in a combo about login stimulator. Here, listen to this.
So, I think yeah. Just remember YMO Rydeen. It’s the most cover I think of all their pieces. They’ve got a lot of great ones but there are so many version of it. Oh! A guitar version, oh I think this is the keyboard version. This is really cool too. Look at this resourcefulness. It’s got accordion. Speaking off, I wonder if there really is a Rydeen for accordion. I wouldn’t be surprised it was. Oh I don’t see one though. But anyway, that’s what you got to search for; Rydeen!
So as looking at Synthtopia recently and here, search this if it doesn’t show up. I had to browse back at the archives but it’s Kraftwurst, a Kraftwerk Parody with Pork. See you have this four; not robots but they are sausage men. It’s a brilliantly done parody as well. Watch in full screen. It’s by Rathergood. I think the same guy did the various kittens videos. That comment is mine. Here how it goes. This is brilliant. Like the YMO Kraftwerk are techno pioneers. They’re sausages. It’s short enough so let’s watch to the end.—winner. The pork-et calculator, oh that is sad. Mr. Googly eyes just lost you right there. But that is another wonderful, wonderful tribute. Check it out.
The next thing I am going to implore you to check out from maz-sound.com. If you are ever interested, you grew up in an age with the Commodore 64 with Amiga, you are going to want to get this book and I did order it. I have it. It’s a beautiful, beautiful tome look here, Books, FREAX Volume 1.
Now, what is this? It—like it says; it’s a brief history of the computer demo-scene. That means before you play a game, there is a demo. It could be a scroller. It could be one of different types with shout outs and fancy graphics. There are great pictures which illustrate this. And the book is read on with typographic errors or typographic errors as some like to say like myself.
So why would you buy such thing? Well because despite that, there’s a lot of enthusiasm here. And there are a lot of beautiful pictures. I think it was virtually sourced from German which is why even in English, it has errors but the intent of it in the spirit that is true and I am waiting for a Volume 2. Amazing, amazing stuff and perhaps some of these is best searched for. I’m best to witness and understood. If you weren’t part of this growing up.
If you got to—let’s see now. If you got to YouTube and you search for—just search for demo scene as a single word and then there’s going to be a lot more recent ones. If you want to look for some of the classics, these are some—oh I saw this a while ago, these are just in full effects. Like in low demo-scenes like you might think, ‘hey! This looks like a screen saver’ and it’s true, there is cross over, there is overlap. Like this sorts of color bouncing.
And Spaceballs is a classis one dating way back. I think there is a making of it too. I have to search for that a little bit later. But this one is cool. Think about it in early 90s.—something like a—go forward where you see these—wow! It’s everybody dance now. It’s motif but nonetheless, you get the picture.
And so, there is also a Spaceballs; making of I think. Yes, this. So, insight, you know these are the guys and girls behind it and I don’t think rot scoping but they’ve been—they eventually encoded them into the computer like that probably. A lot of compression involved, that’s atypical. But the Demo-scene stuff is very resourceful; resources-wise and I think I am going to do an article for wise spread explaining that parallel. We’ll see. So they are kind of dancing in the hill. You’re like, ‘wow.’ You know they have old fashion. Well keep in mind this is over a decade ago and that is pretty cool, so look for that Spaceballs; the making of. We just went one into; a lot of the culture and heritage of a computer history.
One more thing for this episode of the Torley Show as it might be quote. Check out hobnox.com. At first, you’re like, ‘well what is this? It looks like a multimedia community.’ And true enough; yes it is. But look what they’ve got here, Noxtools. They have an Audiotool which recreates classic brilliant synthesizers. They did very impressive flash art too and they are not infringing on I hope in the design. So click Start Audiotool and we’ll wait for it to load in a flash. And that is pretty ubiquitous.
Once it loads and gets passes, you’ll be confronted with—oh, one of several different styles. So, although I can’t relate why minimal so it’s like an infinite loop baby repeat so much. Click that. Wait for it to load. And they have some great video tutorials but I just want to show you—related to earlier when I showed you with early computer stuff, early computer music synthesis as it were. This is very nice. This is some sort of gear we didn’t—we simply couldn’t do without hardware but now because of our sufficiently powered computers, we can emulate it in Software and share it. Its great education as well as hands on entertainment and keeping occupied while this is loading. This will take a while to loading. Once it does, it is so worth it because—it’s almost there. Come on don’t fail me now. Come on.
Oh it’s just like the progress bar. There we go. So, you can just close that. And now, look what we got here. Oh, isn’t that cool? We’ve got this different—they covering up with little love badges. You can wire stuff up like that, this virtual patch cables and what not and different effects and you can start playing. Oh yeah!
So, say you want to change a pattern. I think, let me see what’s attached in. Let me change this. So it’s all going through there, got to figure out what it is. Let’s see. Yeah, I see it’s changing the key. There we go. Let me change some of the drums over here and let’s figure this out. I need some of these. I am not sure what exactly I am doing here but I guess so. That sure is beats—there. Cut off and resonance is really fun to trick.
Let’s see here, sounds funky like that. Nice, very solid flaps right there. So we add a little, whatever that is but its most bass drum or snares. Comes back on the full pattern is 64. That’s impressive. There we go. So let’s shorten it down. So I am sick of patience. Ritchie Hawkman here I come.
So, yeah that is hobnox.com. Just come here, you can record. You can do a lot of things. You can add a various; other sorts of devices. It will be cool too if they add other sorts of in spirants or their own unique design.
So, if you are familiar with propeller heads, something like that, this is sort of in online equivalent to it. Pretty fun! Kick out the jams and woohoo! This has been the Torley speaking to you. Thanks for watching and friendly goodbye for now.
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