The First Samurai (1991) main theme by Michael Davis. While Hall Of Light lists Nick Jones as the sole composer for this game, this theme is found under Michael Davis in the UnExoticA collection. Visit my channel for more Amiga music.
We received so many compositions for the title tune and this was by far the best one. And this wonderful music was composed by a 16 year old! You can read all the details in my autobiography. :)
I used to swap discs and chat to the guy who composed this, Angus Murray. He was a great musician and you can hear his love of New Order in it. Hope he's doing well and remembers me from the Cryptic days / SAE copy parties :)
its been a while since I subscribed to a channel, but seeing as you have so SO many of my childhood favourite tunes from the amiga I just have to - especially with your dolby headphones versions too!
Not implementing 16-bit audio chips in later production models has killed the AMIGA brand. It's too sad, but I still keeping my boxed A1200 in dark cool closet. What if...
downtown, can you private message me. I was sent the samurai music on a CD with samples... and I did it from scratch like the Last Ninja 2 C64 tunes by Matt Gray for the Amiga using C64 samples. Also besides that, there is a remix of first samurai I did in which you can find on AMP. I had a look at one of your tunes which was featured on sound cloud and it's the same as 4 MAT tune called Lost chords which is featured on a small intro (same samples, same notes, same chords ?!?)
Techno Drome - not sure what happened to my previous reply to you? As detailed I could not PM you as your account doesn't seem to have this option. I wrote this track for the Amiga, it is one of only 2 games I wrote music for (the other was Deathbringer). At the time I was writing music for an Amiga group called "The Hacking Relation". I am not sure where the confusion has arisen. I think I still even have the hand written invoice I sent them for payment! Have a listen to some of the other tunes I have done and you will hear a number of quite specific musical ticks and phrases I used at the time. Everyone saying that the drums were taken from Romeo Knight are correct.
Great tune on both systems, but I think the clarity on Soundblaster is better. The Amiga version, sounds like it uses hissy samples (bit like early mod files). Where the Soundblaster used the on-board fm sounds. Played through a good set of speakers the PC Version was superb. I will say one thing though.....the Amiga got a longer tune :)
