"This is an electronic music album created for the Commodore 64 but if you don't have one you can listen to it on vinyl" might be the most hipster pitch I've ever heard in my life
Mat, WOW! I’m absolutely speechless. What an amazing honour to have you feature my game. Thank you so much for the incredible review and support... And I insist you keep the Game Boy! My heart broke a little when you showed your broken one!! And a massive thank you to everyone who is supporting this. It means the world to me and I couldn’t be more grateful. So, thank you from the bottom of my heart! Stay safe, healthy, happy... and retro!! ☺️
Does the cart work on the Super Game Boy or the Game Boy Player? Those are way more common than GB Light, and an excellent way to convey GB audio over good speakers, so their omission confused me. Also, great use of LightScribe. :)
@@anthoneyries1 The chorus. Blue canary in the outlet by the lightswitch, who watches over you, make a little birdhouse in your soul, not to put too fine a point on it, say I'm the only bee in your bonnet, make a little birdhouse in your soul. I also really like the line that goes "Blue bird of friendliness, like guardian angels, it's always near".
I haven't listened to that album in ages, but I listened to it so much as a kid that 30 years later, and provided I was listening to the album at the time, I could probably still sing every song on that album. I remember when Tiny Toons did music videos for Particle Man and Instanbul (not Constantinople). "Now here's another video from THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS..... who are these guys?"
Make a hole with a gun perpendicular To the name of this town in a desk-top globe Exit wound in a foreign nation Showing the home of the one this was written for My apartment looks upside down from there Water spirals the wrong way out the sink And her voice is a backwards record It's like a whirlpool and it never ends
The picture disc: counting the images there's 38 sectors with images on the record, resulting in 20.9 images/second at 33 rpm and 28.5 at 45 rpm. There's no camera shooting mode which uses 20.9 frames per second, so indeed it will never work as advertised. But, when you play at 45 rpm and record video at 30 fps then you'll see the animations, but moving counterclockwise at 2,25 rpm. Though it is shown in a video at the band's website, the question remains: was this the intended effect, or was it a bit of a fumble - we shall never know unless someone asks the band.
@@omahahnful You'd need 54 images on the record (33-1/3 rpm / 60 sec/min = 0.555~ rps, 30 fps / 0.555~ rps = 54 frames/revolution) to get to 30 fps. 25 fps would need 45 images. (Edit: Corrected math)
@@omahahnful At 33 1/3 rpm (NOT 33 to be exact), in one second there’s 33,33/60=0,56 rotation. So if you want to view 30 images in that one second, they’ll have to be in that 0,56 rotation. We’ll have to divide 30 by this number, finding 54 which is the number of images you need, to produce a still image on a LP at 33 1/3 rpm. The frame rate of the average smartphone video recording is 30, though the cheapest ones often use variable frame rate recording. And I can’t tell what frame rate you see on screen without recording, so I can’t say for sure that using a phone camera as a strobe effect to view these records will work without actually recording the video. Also, with needing 54 sectors to able to view a still image through a camera, the sectors containing the visuals are becoming quite narrow (360/54=6.7 degrees) - which may well be the reason that they've chosen a compromise allowing for a larger canvas.
Re: SID Chip @ 3:00 onwards. Interestingly I have just released an adapter to allow an 8580 to work in circuits/computers designed for the 6581 (I've been making interfaces to use the SID sound chip on Z80 based systems since 2003). It takes care of the different voltages, filters etc, so this would allow the SX-64 to use a 8580 and play the music as sonically intended. I won't spam this post with links, however the latest video on my own channel shows it in action and has further information and points you to my website.
I absolutely *love* when you do these videos, and this is no exception. (Yes, also hearing you say "An EP on DAT from The Rusty Nutz" made me giggle despite being an adult.)
the effort and cost these small artists are doing to create things like this is amazing. If only the big million selling artists would be creative. It highlights the love these smaller bands have for their work that they want to showcase it in unique ways.
The year is 2020. Techmoan can't play an album released on a Commodore 64 cartridge, so it's a good thing he also bought the vinyl record version. 2010 would be very confused.
@rrobertt13 As was mentioned in the video, these tunes only play correctly on a PAL 64 with an 8580 SID chip, they sound absolutely awful on a 6581 SID.
That SID Chip record is amazing. I used to record C64 game music off the headphone jack on my TV and listen to them at school on my Walkman... Can you get any more 80s than that?!
TISM (awesome Australian band) is re-releasing all their music on CD and vinyl soon. But most importantly they have the "Deluxe Omni-Album" so you don't need to buy all their albums on vinyl you can just buy an "all-purpose album cover containing liner notes, artworks and song listings that are suitable for all six TISM album releases." It has 100 minutes of analogue silence across 2 clear vinyl discs so you can listen to the digital versions of their albums in peace. Yes, I bought it.
Once I bought a CD out of a 3 dollar bin knowing it was too scratched to play. I already had the album in lossless FLAC so I could easily burn a copy to replace the scratched cd. So basically I was paying for the packaging.
I like the very humble "every now and then" at the beginning of the video. Might be a polite british expression to say : "every day, I wake up and buy some random old audio tech on eBay".
@@BertGrink I love the outdoors having worked with the Greatest Show on Earth when I mean Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus from Florida to Maine, from Philadelphia to Oklahoma, from Phoenix Tucson Arizona 2 San Diego California up to Sacramento California up to Portland Oregon Seattle Washington Utah Salt Lake City Denver Colorado Chicago Illinois back down to Florida in all kinds of weather . But living in England it has to drive one crazy not having been born there and having constant wet weather at a unavoidable constants of everyone's life. The stiff upper lip is another truth that comes from this Island Kingdom. There are so few days of good sunshine and much dreary weather to contend with the rest of the year. Remember the B.B.C. Sherlock Holmes "once more into the breach", or his love of finding a very difficult situation as the "greatest challenge" as a gift from above. He is over the top with joy at his success as well. Without a doubt the present situation for such a people who live under a lot of outside pressure just from bad weather. It must be a great outlet to find good times where ever you can and thrill to it always being there with the introduction of the Internet at ones finger tips. His counting of his blessings is a reality check to himself at the expense of of those not having to live under a wet climate that can make you crazy. The mental toughness is either learned as a salvation or a curse that makes your character that of the famous proverb " Only Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday Sun!" So sorry but the lockdown had me going nuts😷 Being honestly humble is a good way to keep yourself from going insane.
Thanks Mat! This is exactly the kind of awesome retro obscure new stuff I absolutely love seeing! I hope you will do many more of these as the opportunities present themselves.
Thanks as always for the videos - and for the heads up on such a cool TMBG album. I just stopped the video, and ordered it before the "Techmoan Effect" sells them out completely!
Loved the look of Richard Houghten's Holo-Vinyl and finally managed to get one, the 2021 reissue of "Sailing Through Rainbows Of Sound" in Metallic Green Splatter with Holographic A-side. A nice addition to the section of my record collection that you have influenced , it joins Tacet's oreloB (Bolero) and Trimicron's Beethoven 2
When I get my new IPS modded GBA, I already know what game I am getting for it. :D This is awesome stuff. Thanks for all the bandcamp links - new stuff to follow, more tunes to buy, many people to support!
You should send your C64 Cart to the 8-BITGuy, I bet he would love to tinker with it. He would probably even be able to explain exactly how it works! Nice little crossover there!
I’m real excited about “They might be Giants” 30 anniversary release of Flood. One of my favorite albums from the 90’s. I’ll probably get that for my daughter, she loves listening to vinyl albums now. Thank u for making this aware to the public.
NIce video Matt! So nice to see that there are still artists that go the extra mile to make something different and you are there to show them to us. Enjoy your weekend!
That Sid Chip Club album is awesome as someone who loves house and techno! Thanks for telling me. I'm going to get super high and vibe with the album tonight! Stay safe your videos have really helped during these stressful times.
S-DAT is Stationary recording head Digital Audio Tape - an example of which is DCC. R-DAT is Rotating recording head Digital Audio Tape - examples of which are DAT or NT.
S-DAT was just made up, at least as a DAT variant, for the anime. The device Shinji used to play them was based on the real life Sony WMD-DT1, which like any other DAT recorder or player, used a rotating head. It also didn't have the display seen in the anime.
@@salis-salis lol I it was a decent anime at the time but people take it too far. I did watch the rebuild and although the animation was excellent I wasn't a fan of the changes.
You could do a collab video on the marantz pmd740. The other person shows what all the knobs are used for, etc., and you tear the thing down showing the tech and giving your traditional bit of history on the brand and product. Love your work, man, thanks for the videos (always great content with proper research done well).
I rally like the style and type of this video, and indeed the less common media types and new music that gets released. I would really like to see more of these kind of videos next to the normal lineup. (I guess making a comment says more than simply hitting the like button)
Still have the cassette I found at a flea market a few years after it came out. Would be great upgrading to a vinyl copy anyway, but I'd get that pic disc even if I didn't like the music!
Nice! As a studio engineer, the DAT would be the only format I really can relate to, but I never even saw any commercial releases. For us DAT was a “pro” format for delivering stereo mixes for mastering or soundtrack, between say ‘91 and ‘00. I say “pro”, because our well tuned 1/4“ analog Studer A-80 sounded way better than our £6k Sony PCM-7030 (1992). The Sony was a real beast, a fantastic machine to use. A simple clean took two minutes, while keeping the Studer in top shape took hours each week. No wonder I took the easy way out back then. Today no one requests those “CD- quality” (same effective data format) master originals. Sheer luck if we can dig out the analog tape copy instead. Well, that’s an early digital audio history lesson. In 2020 it seems few care about the integrity of their music’s source data files, session copies are sooo boring... 😅👍
Not sure if this is something you'd be interested in, but Tristan Perich has a few albums on a chip: 1-bit music, 1-bit symphony, and noise patterns. Even if the music isn't of interest to you, the tech is pretty cool. In any event, great video, as always!
Quite the quirky little collection of media outlets used to play music and have a niche market to do it with. I’m sure a lot of people would be following the links to look for the next (little) big thing
Ever get the feeling that people release these oddities to be featured on your channel 😊? As usual an excellent, fun and entertaining video - the perfect antidote to all this Corona misery! Thank you for being out there in cyberspace!
Glad I found this, immediately had to buy two copies of Flood, one for me and one as a surprise for my best friend. Flood was one of the most influential albums of our young lives, and I'm super excited about it. Gotta dust off the turntable and maybe set up a strobe.
Love stuff like this! Maybe somebody knows where RCA stuffed some of their Capacitance Electric Disc pressing machines! I'd watch any band's video on CED
I really miss the sketches with the puppets, do I have to write stupid already answered questions to provoke new episodes? I realise it's hard work doing those segments.
I was glad to see the cart included a visualiser. If you do something like this again - I’d love to see it combined with more onscreen action (if this was possible).
@@Techmoan indeed more was not possible, because the playback routine uses so much cpu cycles, we even had to switch the screen content off. Hence all the visuals are based on border trickery. Btw glad your sx64 didn't explode this time 😂
Re: those vinyl zoetropes-- I had those Red Raven children's records as a kid with the little mirror device that would sit on top of the spindle so you could watch the animation while the record played. I still have a few of those with the mirror.
Ah, William Allen White. That's the face that is shown during They Might Be Giant music videos and concerts. Editor and Publisher of the Emporia (Kansas) Gazette from the 1890's until the 1940's. I love They Might Be Giants and have all their albums and have been to a few of their concerts.
That Lightscribe disc is great! Never used it myself but I do have an old laptop that can do it. What a great way of short run homebrew releases! Thanks for this uwu xxx
Ah man... Spoiled by heavy breathing!! Joking of course. Thanks for the warning, but I couldn't hear it. Pure class and a great selection of interesting titles!
So, back in the day there was a brick and mortar store near where I lived that specialized in CD and DAT. Lynn's Disc & DAT, as I recall. It was too expensive for a teenager, but I did go in a few times, they probably sold every DAT release that ever existed. Long defunct of course.
In your 64 you could possibly fit an Armsid. Its a modern replacement for the original sid chips but the beauty of it is you can select which chip to emulate no matter which machine you have it in. So it would get you the 8581, all be it through emulation. Does sound very good though and about as close to an original chip as you'll get.
My favourite piece of DAT cultural trivia is that in the Red Dwarf novelisations, Lister’s music collection is on DAT tape. They must have seemed SO futuristic back in the late 80s or early 90s!
Those are really cool to look at but the thing that attracted me to streaming music (and playing my ripped CDs before that) is that you don't have to have any physical media to play the music you're in the mood to listen to at the moment. For people like me with ADHD, you can skip tacks and albums as much as you want without messing with a bunch of albums, singles, etc.
Ladies and Gentlemen,...the amazing wisdom and research of the gentleman known as "Techmoan". For all of the years of owning a Dat machine; I never knew that there was music that was released on DAT, or any of the other neat facts in this video. As always, thank you Sir.
Regarding the gambeboy screen lines, it's not solder reflowing that's required, as it's the connection on the edge of the LCD glass itself to the ribbon that has come adrift, usually rolling a pencil rubber over it pressing it back down can revive it, my DMG-01 had similarly awful lines and with the rubber treatment got it back to normal... :)
Sometimes just putting a bit tape in there to press it down is enough. Holding a soldering iron near it to warm up / re-melt the glue is the more permanent fix.
True, the only trouble with using a soldering iron is if someone used a fixed-temperature one, and ended up ruining the ribbon or damaging the LCD, got to have the adjustable temperature irons for it to work safely to keep the old gameboys going... :)
