Thing On A Spring - 6581 Commodore Boulevard

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Newt Newport Crikey Keef does it again! A mad mix of interesting ideas that bring tears of joy to my eyes! :) Favorite track: Hypersausage.

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	1.	4 Bit Mirror 02:52
	2.	A Dream Master 03:24
	3.	H.E.D. 12:18
	4.	61 6e 74 73 03:30
	5.	MOSarrow 03:12
	6.	Hypersausage 05:25
	7.	Hexidecimal Heart 03:34
	8.	Repeated Sand Texture 03:39
	9.	Burning Fluid 04:59
	10.	Monkey Puzzle 01:43
	11.	Alien Invention 02:34
	12.	You Died 01:00
	13.	8 Bit Spleen 03:15
	14.	Border Control Head 10:48
	15.	Defekt 04:09
	16.	One Rainy Night 07:24

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Way back in the 80s a synthesizer was created that was insanely versatile, majestically expressive and meatier than a truck full of steak. However, you won't find it in any second hand music store because it lived inside a tiny home computer called the Commodore 64.

While there have been many releases to exclusively use the sound of the SID or SID emulators, not many have managed to capture the powerful feel of compositions by the likes of Rob Hubbard, Martin Galway, David Whittaker or Fred Gray. They always hark back to a simpler, jollier version of the c64. An unrecognizable c64 without teeth, full of happy compositions and no musical shocks or surprises.

Thing on a Spring (also known as Keef Baker) presents an album not just influenced by the sounds of the c64 but also the compositional ticks of the bare-toothed Hubbard pieces, the detailed constructions of the Galway epics, shocks and surprises intact.

But this is not a pure chiptune album, more voices have been used than the c64 was capable of. Effects such as delay and reverb and equalization have been used to try and turn it into the c64 music that lives in your head the way you remember it.

From 12 minute detailed epics, to angry, almost death metal-like blasts and everything in between, this album attempts to exhibit the whole palette of music from that generation with a modern twist.

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released February 24, 2017

All Tracks by Keef Baker
Mastered by R.Galbraith

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