Epic Chris Huelsbeck Interview - The Legendary Commodore 64, Amiga, & Video Game Composer
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- čas přidán 3. 08. 2024
- AmigaBill interviews legendary video game composer Chris Huelsbeck. Chris has composed classic soundtracks for the Commodore 64 and Amiga including Turrican, Turrican II, Turrican III, The Great Giana Sisters, R-Type, Apidya, Jim Power, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron & more. Bill and Chris talk about Chris' history, Rainbow Arts, Factor 5, the SID chip, the Paula chip, The differences between working with the Commodore 64 and Amiga, and Chris' current projects like his royalty free Patreon music as well as his vinyl albums and symphonic pieces. This interview was part of AmigaBill's live Twitch stream on February 5th, 2023 www.Twitch.tv/AmigaBill Please see the links to Chris Huelsbeck's Patreon, Bandcamp, and website below
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Chris Huelsbeck Website
www.huelsbeck.com
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00:00 - Intro
00:56 - Amiga37
02:59 - Chris' Favorite Music
04:17 - What is the magic of his music
06:30 - The composing process
07:54 - Chris's Beginnings
13:30 - Assembly Language
16:00 - Sound Monitor Program
18:12 - Planet of War
19:30 - Shades
22:19 - Rainbow Arts
25:30 - TMFX
27:46 - First Experience at Rainbow Arts
29:33 - Seeing the Amiga for the first time
30:57 - SID vs Paula
33:54 - Composing for both the 64 and Amiga together
34:50 - Giana Sisters vs Nintendo
37:31 - Giana Sisters Madonna True Blue
41:27 - Creating Turrican
49:50 Chris' Bandcamp & Patreon
53:50 - Studio Album
56:12 - Symphony Orchestra
1:01:41 - Move to USA
1:02:20 - Star Wars: Rouge Squadron
1:10:00 - End of Factor 5
1:13:45 - Chris' Patreon
1:17:29 - New Game Announcement
1:19:43 - Audience Q&A
#commodore #commodore64 #commodoreamiga - Věda a technologie
Was lucky enough to see him perform live at Amiga37! What a legend. Even today his stuff sounds fresh and timeless, regardless of the hardware used.
So true. The music is timeless. And his performance at Setpatch Party rocked 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
I‘d like to call the soundtrack of Turrican 2 the score of my life. I‘m so in love with those tracks. And the symphonic recordings are absolutely stellar, listening to them on repeat for years.
What a Legend!
Yes 🙌🏼
Fantastic interview! What a legend =D
Thanks so much Gadget! I really appreciate it!
Great interview. Thanks AmigaBill, thanks Chris and thanks to Chris' grandmother!
Thanks so much Gansteeth! I put a lot of prep into this one so your comment makes me feel great like all the work was worth it 👍🏼
haha- we all need good grandma's :)
@@stefanocorbellini4480 LOL! Truth!
Thank you very much for doing this amazing interview!! Chris Huelsbeck you are a true legend!!
What an amazing and humble artist, one of my heroes back then. Very inspiring!
Thank you very much!
Cheers Sledge! Chris is such a great guy. Thanks for watching as always!
What a wonderful and incredible discussion. Thank you Bill!! We appreciate your work ❤💜
AWWWWW, you are the best Ash! Thanks for watching and I am so glad you enjoyed it. And thanks for the amazing support as always 💜💜💜 You rock!!!
As a teenager I took the intro music from Turrican 2 at music class when my friends all chose the last hit from Guns and roses or Michael Jackson. I got so embarrassed when we all listened to it, nobody else would understand my choice 😂
Well, you clearly had the best taste!
Haha, yes I can relate to that. Oh man, when you wrote "I got so embarrassed" I immediately felt that. :D
Just the nicest interview with Chris, ever. Good vibes, lots of info, just lovely.
Nice 😀
Thanks!
Hi ya & best wishes. Tnx 4 work. Be Happy. Sevastopol/Crimea.
Thank you! All the best from New York !
Was the friend who helped port the music to St Jochen Hippel? They both did such an incredible job. Love hearing how they got around the limitations from the time.
I still love shades. Such an iconic piece. And you could run the routine in your basic programs in the background.
Thanks for this sympathic interview!
Amazing music and interview, thank you Bill! Please keep it up 😎🤙
Nice... the Sound Monitor from Chris was my entry to the self-made electronic music. I loved and used this program a lot and even phoned with Chris to ask him a question. Memories of the 80's. Many greetings from Germany.
That is so cool to hear. And super nice of him to talk to you in the phone. He is a great guy
I agree with Chris about his melodies being the key ingredient. Harmonically, he's rather 'traditional' shall we say, but he could write crazy catchy tunes and he had really solid structure and great transitions between parts.
so honored to be part of the audience yesterday 🙏 during the live i even get a new youtube subscribers from the chat 😅 , great interview, i will look this replay head rested !
Awesome all around Thai! It was so great having you there love. Thanks for watching again and for all your support as always 🙏🏼
Legend ❤
I used to hang around in the local computer store on a Saturday back in the day. They had lines of computers setup (C64/Amstrad/Atari/Amiga etc), I had a C64 at the time and was blown away by the Amiga, but couldn't afford one yet. I remember them showing off Amiga R-type and I was blown away by the title music. This is before the days of youtube/internet, so it's not like you could go home and listen to that music again unless you actually had an Amiga and the game, so often when I would go there on a Saturday, I would ask them to put the R-Type intro on the Amiga so I could hear it again.
This is a really great point Dave. It is easy to forget things like this. I remember connecting my cassette recorder to my Amiga so I can listen to my favorite game music when not at my Amiga. Thanks for sharing your story
I love that Chris mentioned the Ensoniq-SID connection. Bob Yannes and his team made an amazing contribution to the world.
Yes, that was a really neat story and I never knew that
a legend Composer
This guy and the guy who made the music for Shadow Of The Beast are the best videogame music composers.
Yes Chris is the best. And David Whittaker legendary music for Shadow of the Beast
Quite recently an AGA version of Turrican II was created for they Amiga. They didn't touch the music, it was already perfect. Great interview, thanks for doing this Chris & Bill.
Oh yeah I love the AGA version! They did an amazing job and it was VERY a smart not to touch the music!
ΤΗΕ ABSOLUTE LEGEND, THE MASTER OF FOUR TIMBRES, HAS OUR ABSOLUTE RESPECT!!!!!! WE LOVE YOU CHRIS HUELSBECK, forever and ever!!!!
YEAH!!!!! For sure!
@@TheGuruMeditation Thank you so much for this interview. It was one I will cherish for the rest of my life😍
@@COSDR Wow, thank you so much! This means a lot to me! I really appreciate it
@@TheGuruMeditation 😍
Amazing interview Bill. Wish i was around to catch this live as Chris is such a legend not only musically... but his skills with being i guess the father of trackers that spawned a whole new wave of awesome musicians. I did get to watch it all the way threw shortly after Live on your twitch chan. Good man! /RDS
Cheers RDS. I really appreciate the kind words. I did a lot of research for this interview so the nice comments mean a lot! And big thanks to Chris for all his time
Thank you for the great music which helped shape our Amiga Gaming memories in them years Chris. Turrican games were out of this world, endless hours of great fun. The music I liked best was from Jim Power in Mutant Planet. The music in the levels was mighty impressive, the guile and craft to produce something that good on that 16-bit machine still bewilders me. Simply sublime work.😎👌
Wow very well said. Thanks for this thoughtful comment 🙏🏼
Remember this was "Listing des Monats" in the german c64 magazin - and it took hours to type all those HEX numbers until you had your program at home. Today it is just a click away
My favorite is Jim Power.
It is a great one!
After looking at this straight with an indelible smile on my face now I want very hard to see an interview with Rob Hubbard, the SID god.
i still listen Turrican music album..
A really great interview with THE maestro himself! 😃
58:55 Actually there is a special Atari STE version of Giana Sisters by P.Petari, which uses this exact orchestral version as ingame music (among other enhancements)!
Thanks for the kind words and cool fact about the Atari St version. Glad you enjoyed!
Greetings from the GDR!
Greetings from New York!
Are you here on a trip with your De Lorean?
@@hansihinterseher9156 Yes, on the Trabant 601 LX DeLuxe with working Flux Capacitor made in the GDR by Honecker!
@@hansihinterseher9156 Obviously!
Make Hülsbeck great again!
LOL! He is still great
I can't stop laughing that man looks like Millhouse from the Simpsons, Yo Millhouse😅
Been a while since we have seen Anthony on the show, is he still around or has he moved on?
Damn, I've been pronouncing his name wrong for 30 years. :( (Thought it was "he-ools beck")
Ha ha! Well, I think I may actually be able to pronounce it a little better, with the proper German pronunciation