When i was little, c64 music was considered stupid and childish....and here we are with an orchestra now.

@SelfIndulgentGamer

Жыл бұрын

C64 music is the future! :)

@nichderjeniche

Ай бұрын

Because WE are the adults now. And that was OUR music! 😊

@apinakapinastorba

21 күн бұрын

Never was.

The one dislike is from the kid whose parents bought him a Timex Sinclair 1000...

@bobloxman9136

2 жыл бұрын

or a vic-20

@cygil1

Жыл бұрын

There's plenty of good music for the Timex/Spectrum, believe me.

@iestyndavies7287

Жыл бұрын

@@cygil1- Indeed! The Tim Follin alchemy on the beeper was majestic. Either of the Agent X games, Chronos, Raw Recruit, all gave the SID a run for its money back in the day, particularly when you understand how primitive the 1 channel beeper was on the Speccy!

@eduardoaranguren1640

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@badlydrawnsmiffy

8 ай бұрын

​@@bobloxman9136commodore 16, it came with Rolf Harris Paint, 🤮

Rob Hubbard was the Mozart of the SID I love it to sea and listen to this. Thanks, Thanks, Thanks and a lot more Thanks!

people thought i was weird when i played c64 music on a cassette tape back in the 80s - monty on the run was one of my favourites

@SelfIndulgentGamer

Жыл бұрын

I did that a lot, some girls even thought it was cool, it was a better time back then :D

@laszloposzmik5829

2 ай бұрын

I also did the same in my dad's car when we was on a short trip. He didn't enjoyed as much as me but those SID musics stuck in my mind forever.

@Maza675

Ай бұрын

I had the last ninja soundtrack cd in my car. I think people were getting ready to send me to an asylum

Best orchestra ever - subtleties of the chiptune embellishments retained - you nigh-on never hear that level of emotion in orchestral interpretations of this sort

Never touched a c64, but definitely enjoying the music.

For its day the C64 had insanely good sound generation capabilities with 3 (sometimes 4) voices able to produce sound. It was unmatched in its day

Who, playing these games as a kid almost 40 years ago, would have dreamed the music would live on and be arranged like this? This is great.

@SelfIndulgentGamer

2 жыл бұрын

It truly is incredible :)

@filuferru

2 жыл бұрын

Well the music for Monty on The Run was ALREADY an orchestrial piece: it was "Devil's Gallop", the title theme of "Dick Barton: Special Agent" English TV series. kzread.info/dash/bejne/l2uW1a5pYMSpd8o.html

@SelfIndulgentGamer

2 жыл бұрын

@@filuferru That's brilliant, I always felt it sounded farmiliar. Now I know why :) thanks for the info.

@samidekash

Жыл бұрын

@@filuferru But only partial. 🙂 Ok, he stole a bit there. 😊

@filuferru

Жыл бұрын

@@samidekash Yes of course, not the whole theme.

"Monty on the run" is an absolute blast.

Amazing work! They were all good, but I especially liked hearing this version of Monty on the Run!

@JustWasted3HoursHere

3 жыл бұрын

This showed up on your recommended too? Good stuff! (p.s. When will you do the next Commander X16 update?)

@SelfIndulgentGamer

3 жыл бұрын

Being a subscriber of your channel for a number of years, I never expected a comment on mine from yourself :D It is certainly very impressive, I would like to see something like this live when the opportunity arises :)

@JustWasted3HoursHere

3 жыл бұрын

@@SelfIndulgentGamer Well, David can appreciate the nerdy things just like us. :)

@incumbentvinyl9291

3 жыл бұрын

@@SelfIndulgentGamer Congratulations =:)

@incumbentvinyl9291

3 жыл бұрын

@@JustWasted3HoursHere Watch your mouth, he is armed you know =;)

So impressed by the violonists playing Monty at the end.

The best use of an orchestra ever, lol. o7

Wow, they really nailed Monty on the run.

@jakobole

6 ай бұрын

Indeed!

I'm blown away. Absolutely stunning. Chapeau!!!

Barbarian really sounded brutal like it should be!

@mrblonde609

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, could be right out of Conan in this version. Goosebumps.

@eisbombenterror

Жыл бұрын

@@mrblonde609 My thought, too.

@jasonroos5781

7 ай бұрын

That game was so amazing too. A lot of good memories playing against my friends.

And now everyone can see - hear - just how awesome C64 music was! Absolute masterpieces!

@SelfIndulgentGamer

6 ай бұрын

Totally :)

It never struck me until now how much of a Hungarian dance piece Monty on the Run is; the violins are beyond perfect as the lead instrument for this melody - drenched all over in _slightly_ gypsy fiddle style. Absolutely epic.

@jamiehardt3061

11 ай бұрын

It's a pun on the name "Monty", Hubbard did his own version of Vittorio Monti's "Tzardas".

@KenOhShinobi

8 ай бұрын

@@jamiehardt3061 This is amazing if true, but I'm going to need a citation, because I'm looking and can't quite find one.

@rakido7388

2 ай бұрын

Not true, the Monty On the Run music is based on an old radio show called Dick Barton. Hubbard himself has stated this.

That was amazing. At the end the 2 violinists are Christina Åstrand (left) and Gunvor Sihm (right). They are fantastic.

@SelfIndulgentGamer

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing that information, they are very talented people :)

00:00 - (obviously 😉) Barbarian by Richard Joseph 01:32 - International Karate by Rob Hubbard 02:49 - Shadow Fire by Fred Gray 04:00 - Monty on the run By Rob Hubbard

@Enfors

Жыл бұрын

I'd say there was a second or two of Yie Ar Kung Fu between Barbarian and International Karate.

@samidekash

Жыл бұрын

@@Enfors Yes, absoulutely. But isn't it the second part, Yi Ar Kung-Fu 2? The high score name entry screen. 🙂

@blipstat

10 ай бұрын

@@Enfors yes! thank you, I've been looking for that one. Can always hear it in my head but couldn't remember the name of the game.

@TexasHollowEarth

5 ай бұрын

I was hoping for The Last V8 and The Movie Monster Game 😥

This is amazingly bizarre! You'd never think an orchestra would play music from old computer games. I'm so glad they did though! It sounds fantastic! It shows you how good the music actually was!

@SelfIndulgentGamer

6 ай бұрын

There are so many good tunes on the C64, there could be whole albums of the stuff if done right :)

@FatherStack

6 ай бұрын

@@SelfIndulgentGamer I'd love to see that!!!

Yo hold up, did anyone else notice the extra short track played between song 1 and 2? Rewind back between 1:33 - 1:37 = this is the character select screen in Yie Ar Kung-Fu. I had the first 1+2 games + Yie Ar. This video brought me back memories. Awesome video!

@SelfIndulgentGamer

2 жыл бұрын

I knew it, yet couldn't quite remember where it was from. Nice :)

Clever Yie Ar Kung Fu bridge between Barbarian and IK.

Rob Hubbard is the best composer of the 80s. And that's an understatement.

@nichderjeniche

Жыл бұрын

You knew that Hubbard "borrowed" a lot from already existing songs? But still I also like him.

@rlarla6827

Жыл бұрын

@@nichderjeniche Exactly. Larry Fast wrote Zoids and Master of Magic e.g. Delta was Philip Glass. Monty on the run was at least heavily inspired... And he never gave credit.

@nichderjeniche

Жыл бұрын

@@rlarla6827 IK+ is based on Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence kzread.info/dash/bejne/hmx-xrmsY83ak9Y.html

International Karate - WOW, who made this INCREDIBLE harmonization and instrumentation? It's absolutely beyond beautiful!!!

@gaborenyedi637

2 жыл бұрын

Barbarian...

@ElAurian

Жыл бұрын

Tears in my eyes. Brilliant!

@nichderjeniche

Жыл бұрын

It's "Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence" by Ryuichi Sakamoto. The C64 Version is by Rob Hubbard

@LukeMitchellCollins

Ай бұрын

TIL Thanks! ​@@nichderjeniche

This orchestration is actually by the Swedish game concert SCORE. The Danish Radio orchestra licensed their production for this performance.

Maaan Barbarian sounds epic!

@SelfIndulgentGamer

8 ай бұрын

Certainly does :)

Came for "Monty on the run" :)

Monty on the run is bloody epic !!!

Monty on the run the best tune of the c64 for me. Great from start to finish.

Monty on the Run Forever!

OMG specially the final part with Monty on the Run had me litterally crying!

This only goes to show how classic and musical C64 music really is.

These violin players @ Monty On The Run... Their speed action and their smart interchange of playing... Amazing skills! :) "Monty..." is definitely a hard melody to play on any instrument. A masterpiece for skilled musicians to play. :)

what a great idea to put the level start jingle from Yie Ar Kung-Fu at the start of international karate! Brilliant!

C64 master of magic would have been great to hear done this way.

@SelfIndulgentGamer

Жыл бұрын

I don't know this game, is it good?

@PaulRoneClarke

Жыл бұрын

@@SelfIndulgentGamer The game is a decent rogue like (sort of) from about 1986. You move a dot around a maze. There are quite a few skills you can use etc. It was a cheap game £1.99 IIRC but the Rob Hubbard music for it is my favourite of all his tunes.

OMG! The first few bars of Shadowfire gave me goosebumps and a shiver down my back. But, holy crap, Monty on the Run nearly brought me to tears!

We grew up with zx spectrum, c64, Amiga, Atari, Sega, Nintendo, PC to pentium ..... We lived the story of computing. Today, everything on the Internet, everything is paid, and there are no more this old years.

I get chills down my spine. Cool.

@nichderjeniche

Жыл бұрын

Das sowas mal die Orchester von unseren ÖRR spielen würden, darauf kannst du lange warten. Am besten GEZ nach Dänemark umleiten.

@bedientvondeutschland1779

Жыл бұрын

@@nichderjeniche Die Deutschen waren und sind arrogante Ignoranten. Wie wurden wir vor 40 Jahren belächelt und heute erklären sie uns zur Generation derer, die von Computern keine Ahnung haben. Ich bin zwar Biodeutscher aber das was in diesem Land passiert ist unsäglich. Erst lacht man uns aus und kaum, dass mit der Technik Geld gemacht werden kann enteignet man uns und man tut so als wäre die Generation der Babyboomer eine Generation von Computeridioten. Dabei wissen die Jungspunte nicht was sie benutzen. Es wurde eine ganze Generation und Subkultur, die wir damals hatten, komplett unterdrückt und ausgeblendet.

@bedientvondeutschland1779

Ай бұрын

@@nichderjeniche Das rührt mich ehrlich zu Tränen, dass sie das so spielen! Einfach grandios!

The Fanfare that start is very cool 0:04

The Barbarian music sounds even more Conan played by an orchestra 👍

@FindecanorNotGmail

2 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't be surprised if the orchestral arrangement had been intentionally made to ...

When the theme song to "Barbarian" started playing I lost my shit! LOVE THAT GAME!

@SelfIndulgentGamer

11 ай бұрын

It's a great game :)

This just blew my mind. Hearing the Barbarian song done by a real deal orchestra is absolutely insane

Fantastic!! Thank you :) - How could I miss this concert!? I'm from Denmark.

Holy mole! Monty on the Run on violins was amazing, that fit so well

3 independent channels of music the sid chip ruled. Some of the most memorable tunes ever..

dueling violins. amazing

There are some happy smiles that have most likely played these games. :)

@SelfIndulgentGamer

2 жыл бұрын

C64 music brings smiles to most faces :)

Instant goose bumps.. That barbarian! Wow

Exploding fist? Or IK+? Brang tears to my eyes. 🍀

I really enjoyed the call and response battle between the violinists in Monty on the Run.

@SelfIndulgentGamer

3 жыл бұрын

I think that they genuinely enjoyed playing these incredible tunes 🙂

@c128stuff

2 жыл бұрын

@@SelfIndulgentGamer the expressions during Monty are quite telling. Not sure about all the tunes, but there they are absolutely enjoying it.

@SelfIndulgentGamer

2 жыл бұрын

@@c128stuff I totally agree, it's not often you see orchestra's openly expressing their joy for a song, especially one written for the Commodore 64!

Every now and then I drop by here to watch this video! Happy that it is here.

@SelfIndulgentGamer

3 жыл бұрын

It is a truly great re-creation of the music created on the C64 :)

I listened with my mouth open, as a saint who believes in the sanctity of SID, I saw the sadness of watching a great effort only on youtube. But with my respect to the artist who performed the performance and the person who uploaded it. From Love Istanbul

Monty - also crackin.

Brilliant! Perfect arrangements and performance. I wish there was a full album (or two) of the most famous C64 tunes played by an orchestra.

@nichderjeniche

Жыл бұрын

same

I hope they all enjoyed playing this as much as I did listening :)

they have done alot of movie stuff old westerns star wars Lord of the rings n what not Highlander , plus video game themes etc they are worldclass Cheers From Denmark

Extraordinarily astonishing. Especially the duelling violin version of Monty at the end. Infinite bravos x

OMG Shadowfire orchestral! Ever since playing the game as a kid I thought it felt like being in a sci-fi movie and could only dream what a full movie theme would sound like. Just wish there was a lot more than this snippet.

The applause at the end was well deserved!

Tears in my eyes... literally!! How good is this!........... Wow!

This is awesome, legendary performance right there.... If this does not give you goosebumps, then you are dead!!! The International Karate tune simply owns, also thanks to Hubbard for adapting Ryuichi Sakamoto's amazing composition :)

@SelfIndulgentGamer

2 жыл бұрын

Well said :)

@FinnGamble

9 ай бұрын

Let me correct you a little bit: the Ik+ theme is actually completely different from Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence. Often, when Sakamoto goes to a higher note, Hubbard goes to a lower one, etc. But the fact that Hubbard made a completely new composition yet managed to sound so similar (as that was what was requested from him, iirc) kind of speaks volumes about his talent!

@OurWorldIsBroken

9 ай бұрын

@@FinnGamble I think you look at this the wrong way. In an interview several years ago, Hubbard told how much inspired he was from real world music, when making computer music. "Master of Magic" inspired by Shibolet, "Crazy Coment" inspired by New order, "Monty On The Run" inspired by Devils Galop and Audicon, "Up Up And Away" inspired by The 5th DImension and "International Karate" inspired by Ryuichi Sakamoto's "Forbidden Colours" from "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence"....just to mention a few. Adapting does not mean complete cover, no one in the world would think you can cover a high grade piano with C64 synth music.

Oooooh sh*t, the goosebumps I had when I heard the Barbarian music. I always imagined the music to be like that. I was even disappointed when I heard even Conan the Barbarian film didn't have that music.

Monty on the run is such a wonderful piece for lead violins

@SelfIndulgentGamer

2 жыл бұрын

It's certainly a work out for the arms :D

@lowpinglag

2 жыл бұрын

@@SelfIndulgentGamer Haha true.

I love how the crowd is cheering at the end and the conductor is jumping and going full "Hell, yeah!" 🙂 A huge Thanks! to all these great musicians. What an awesome performance.

I have to be honest, I could listen to anything these amazing artists play. Thank you

@Okurka.

Жыл бұрын

You never heard them tuning their instruments all together.

Outstanding! Thank you for sharing this!

The International Karate rendition is sublime.

International Karate war mein absoluter Favorit auf dem C64 😀

@nichderjeniche

Жыл бұрын

IK oder IK+? Ich hatte alle. Hast du auch immer die Hose der Kämpfer runter gelassen beim Spielen (mit einer Tastenkombination)? 😅

@jackbadger6259

Жыл бұрын

@@nichderjeniche Also IK 👍 Aber die Kombi kenne ich nicht 😅

@nichderjeniche

Жыл бұрын

@@jackbadger6259Ja das ging nur bei IK+.

This is nothing short of classical/symphonic music.

Music is music...

That International Karate.. Wow

@ElAurian

Жыл бұрын

Brilliant! Just brilliant!

Shadowfire music recreated by orchestra?!.......I can't believe I've only just found this in my life! It is simply incredible. That piece of music will forever live in my brain. @fredgray, you created a masterpiece.

@adroharv9213

2 жыл бұрын

it remains my favourite piece on the C64 despite it's length. I wonder if there is a fuller version out there

thanks to the commodore ... my youth

fantastic tribute to richard joseph's barbarian masterpiece. i wish it would be longer!

A great performance, even though I did not recognize any of the music at all.

@SelfIndulgentGamer

10 ай бұрын

Were you a Spectrum owner? :P

I just had goosebumps and shivers down spines in new places

Only Monty on the Run really tickled my ears, but that one was amazing!

Wow! Amazing to hear all the C64-classics like this. Such a awesome arangement and talent 👍🙂

Amazing. All of them are classics, but Barbarian and International Karate are personal favorites.

it made me cry.

@SelfIndulgentGamer

3 жыл бұрын

Hopefully happy crying? :)

@giddue

3 жыл бұрын

@@SelfIndulgentGamer not sure about that, but the music was splendid anyway

@filuferru

2 жыл бұрын

Madonna che figata atomica. Tutti arrangiamenti fatti benissimo. Come ho scritto in altri commenti, su "monty on the run" il musicista che cura la trascrizione per orchestra può sempre aiutarsi con il brano originale "Devil's Gallop" a cui Rob Hubbard si ispirò per scrivere la musica del gioco... Ma anche gli altri pezzi sono una cosa spettacolare.

goosebumps, love it guys !!

Nice part of the Yie Ar Kung Fu music just before the IK ;)

@speedsterh

2 жыл бұрын

Well spotted !

@filuferru

2 жыл бұрын

Yesssss, I was thinking the same!! 😃

Monty on the run if it had a disney animated film

a great way to introduce old game music to the new generation

Shadowfire music sounds like next Indiana Jones theme!

I'd love to hear the entire Last Ninja trilogy (four if you count Remix) done like this. The sequel to Monty on the Run would have been cool, that was an awesome collab between Rob Hubbard and the late, great Ben Daglish. Also Wally Beben's Tetris music...

Excellent work! Really good arrangements, excellent musicians, beautiful - I wished I could watch that live in person.

Excellent ! :-) There exists decades of great music - locked away in 8-bit, and 16-bit games ... Thank you for sharing this ! :-)

@SelfIndulgentGamer

3 жыл бұрын

That there are. Anyone remember the Zombie Nation classic from Lazy Jones? :D

HOLY SHIT! Is that the theme from Barbarian?!?!?!?

@SelfIndulgentGamer

2 жыл бұрын

That it is :D

Brilliant! I would like to hear some more!

Great job. More then 3 channels now for sure..🤗

Awesome! Loaded many C64 games (and ripped a lot of music) just to hear the awesome musical performance of the SID chip. I do remember a friend who laughed at me and said even recorded it on tape to listen to it (never did, though as I would just load the games/music disk/tape/demo) whenever I wanted to listened to it. But he was very "smug" and mocked me somehow. Still love the music produced by a lot of "greats" and love the remixes! I mean in 1985-90's it was pretty cool to have a 3 channel analogue synthesizer that played in real-time for you a "song" created by someone far from where you lived. And when you learned to program you realized not only how complex the sounds was, and what effort it was behind it (limited by RAM, limited by CPU/interrupt time and by disk/tape space and so on...) almost everything you heard was just Awesome! Anyway! Many of the tunes is catchy and deserves a place in history! a professional orchestra doing them is "resepect!" :-) and it can not be more analogue and beautiful! Love it!

@SelfIndulgentGamer

2 жыл бұрын

Lol That is so true, Yet I actually did save the audio to tape. From my Amiga and C64 before that. Tunes like that in BMX Kidz were truly stunning for the time and clearly way beyond what the SID engineers thought it could do :)

Shadowfire arrangement is amazing

Oh my god the international karate part was breathtaking...

I adore my Commodore, my Commodore 64... Thank you for the music... Also, Happy New Year! 🤗

amazing show

Fa piangere per l'emozione.

@SelfIndulgentGamer

Жыл бұрын

Yes it does :)

Wonder if all the conductors friends call him Maestro.

Rob, SID, and Monty. Part of my childhood. The days when you couldn't just pipe any old crap through a realtek driver and get a by-line.

Great stuff. I wish they had done more songs, like the opening music or high score screen music from Rambo Part 2, or The Last Ninja.

@oscarjimenezgarrido7591

2 жыл бұрын

Look here on YT for 8bit symphony. You won't believe your ears. The adaptation of Flash Gordon to a full symphonic orchestra is a majestic work of wonder, sounding more melodic and epic at the same time than most of the boring stuff that big name Hollywood composers have been churning out during the last 15 years.

@lordevyl8317

2 жыл бұрын

The Ocean Loaders would have been cool, especially the first two ones by Galway