1-bit Wizards
1-BIT WIZARDS - The Journey Begins (2013) 01 TDM - Foltrax 02 MISTER BEEP - 1-bit synthetic - part 2 03 MIND BODY ALPHA - Cruisin' with the Bit 04 FACTOR6 - Thirty 05 IRRLICHT PROJECT - galaxzija-10 06 FLUIDVOLT - Paper Toy Under Glass 07 WARLORD - Rock bottom 08 MIND BODY ALPHA - Ballad of the Undead Gipsy 09 IRRLICHT PROJECT - magitex-cx 10 FACTOR6 - Thirty-One 11 SHIRU - Restless Fighter 12 MISTER BEEP and TDM - Insane Organist* 13 FLUIDVOLT - Razorblade Blues * mp3 version only After more than one year of delay, we finally present you this unique compilation of 1-bit music. All tracks were composed for the ZX Spectrum 48K home computer and its monophonic beeper. The beeper sound routines SpecialFX is one of the most popular beeper engines of all times, developed in 1987 by Jonathan 'Joffa' Smith. It features two channels of tone, and one channel of interrupting click drums. Used in tracks 4, 6-11, and 13. Qchan is a newschool beeper engine developed by Shiru in 2010. It features four channels of tone with variable volume envelopes, and one channel of interrupting click drums. Used in tracks 2 and 3. ZX-10 is a fairly unknown four channel engine without drums, developed in 1989 by Ján Deák, who is best known for his eight channel ZX-7 routine. Used in Track 5. Tim Follin's three channel routine, also known as Star Tip 2, was published in the Your Sinclair magazine in 1987. Tracks 1 and 12 use a version which was modified by POKE. The 1-Bit Wizards are: FACTOR6 factor6.cz FLUIDVOLT soundcloud.com/fluidvolt IRRLICHT PROJECT irrlichtproject.de MIND BODY ALPHA soundcloud.com/mind-body-alpha MISTER BEEP mister_beep.republika.pl SHIRU shiru.untergrund.net TDM WARLORD armagon.org Hardware recordings by MISTER BEEP ZX Spectrum tap/scl player by SHIRU ZX Spectrum artwork by TRIXS (www.trixss.szm.sk) Album artwork based on the image "A Spell of Frost" by Nathan Marciniak and photography by Bill Bertram All content is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution - Non-Commercial - Share-Alike. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ for details. and by the way: HAPPY 31st ANNIVERSARY, ZX SPECTRUM.
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