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kimrom · 1 year
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Rom vs Enigma (2022) is a remix of a 1991 Amiga demo by Phenomena. The original demo popularized single executable demos, which largely have been the standard ever since. The soundtrack is largely recognized as Firefox & Tip's best cooperation tune, with 25+ remixes to date.
This video remix was scored by Andreas 'Amok' Janke and Jochen 'Virgill' Feldkötter.
Enjoy!
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kimrom · 2 years
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00:13 3D Demo #disk2 03:21 3D Demo #disk1 08:04 3D Demo II #dinmor
This YouTube remix video thingie features demo-effects and parts from across Anarchy's demo-scene portfolio. If something looked good in runtime execution, I probably tried to copy and use it. All credits are belong to all the Anarchy.
This video was a random occurrence, a spontaneous editing project, inspired and carried by the amazing music/remixes.
Very rare 16bit sprites with animated heartbeats and romantic angel wings or whatever fly to D4XX Remix and Phantom Imahara for their musical magic. You = magic 🎧.
Visit youtube.com/kimrom for handpicked 16bit memberberries.
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kimrom · 2 years
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What is this?
A soft reboot of Second Reality, cut and framed for YouTube, published in early 2022.
The video was cut to an amazing Byproduct remix and Epic Orchestral Mix by Cartoonartist, both tracks are hands-down the best covers of Purple Motion and Skaven out there.
The main course is a dirty studio synth/glitch remix, while the dessert is served with arresting epic orchestral extravaganza. It's the 2nd Reality 👿 feels you know - but crisp and revitalized where it matters.
Watch these chapters?
00:00 🎧 Rom vs Second Reality/Future Crew 🆒 Support https://www.patreon.com/kimrom 🌶
00:19 ⛄ 2nd GBA, ZX, ST, c64, Dos, VHS, 4K, 8K, Win Reality
00:31 🏁 _The_ Demoscene Chessboard
01:07 🔘 Ze Tunnel of Trug
01:25 🔵 Oscillating Circular Interferences
01:54 🎧 Get Down and Moiré Yourself
02:27 🎹 Officially Offscript in SpaceTime Remix RunTime
02:33 🙏 Patrons made this possible
03:16 🚷 Ice Trolling on PC/Atari/c64
03:24 🔠 ** Highest Readability Scoring Scroller, like ever
03:53 💣 It Will Not Destroy Gravity
04:06 👿 Atomic Playboy
05:04 🖱 Pixels by Pixel
05:15 🌌 Plasma Colors
05:53 ⏹ Plasma Cube
06:06 🌈 Light Refraction is the new Black
06:21 ⛲ Mini VectorBalls (Size Doesn't Matter)
07:02 📊 Unreal Hippie Colors
07:08 🔮 Blue Balls, Raytraced Sword
07:36 🌐 Blue/Red 3D Sinusfield
07:52 💥 Red Sun Magnetic field
08:09 📺 Finnish Winter Fashion Show with Snow Pony
08:17 🌃 Raytraced Metropolitan Fly-by Digital Trip
09:10 🎵 Musical stylings of Byproduct and Cartoonartist
09:37 ⌨ All The Credits Are Belong To Us
11:14 🎨 The impact/legacy of Second Reality
12:10 📄 Up scroll: an elegant finish, for a more civilized age
15:04 🎞 10 Sec to Transmission / Batman 1989 [sample]
15:25 ☢ Atomic Playboy / Bikini Test 1946 [sample]
15:36 🔇 The Flashback is Real Ginger
All chapters are clickable on YouTube.
How is this?
Second Reality by Future Crew has since its release been considered among the best PC demos of all time. The demo was voted one of the "Top 10 Hacks of All Time" on Slashdot in 1999.
In our dark timeline, it would, unfortunately, be the last major demo release from Future Crew. Supposedly the FC team came close to releasing a follow-up demo(s) at least once - but how do you recreate your own personal brand of magic, again? How do you meaningfully surpass your last work, when that work somehow ended up becoming the most recognized PC demo of all time? Short answer: you (most likely) don't.
Past successes can become future ghosts. And fucking haunt you.
Why is this?
Second Reality was crafted with clever hardware and software hacks, including FC's own homebrew device drivers. Many of the timings in the demo do not scale up to modern CPU speeds, as such the demo is "natively incompatible" with all modern OSs, making it impossible to run the demo smoothly on modern hardware. This is maybe the most significant demoscene production in the history of competitive computation, and it's already technologically incompatible with our world. Let that sink in for a bit. And not a single quality capture exists, not on YouTube, not on Archive.org. Every video upload is in poor quality in some cancerous area. This is probably the best capture online.
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This YouTube video was produced using original [4K 60FPS 16:9] footage, captured in native 2160p from secondary reality-based executable shaders.
Most video footage was captured via local executables and real-time routines running on my PC. Polished with industrial-strength executables and low-level machine code operations.
Source codes
Moire Patterns
Raytraced Rising Sword
MiniVectorBalls
Red Sun Surface
Plasma Colors
Plasma Cube
Refractive Cube
Other shaders used
Bouncing Marble
256b checkerboard zoom
Micro
Sponge Cells
Chessboard zoomer
Twist3000
Circular band Spin
Pixels from
Atari ST
Gameboy Color
Commodore 64
ZX Spectrum
Windows and other platforms are tastefully integrated.
This video was made possible thanks to my supporters on Patreon.
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I'm still very much a video editing rookie, but it's projects like this one that I learn from. I hope you enjoy watching it, personally, I loved every aspect of capturing/editing it.
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kimrom · 2 years
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Rom vs Desert Dream (2022)
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Table of Content/Chapters
00:00 Support my YouTube work from $1 a month
00:42 Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Spotted Near Earth
03:21 First Strike Weapon: Space Melon
04:04 Ancient Pyramid Defenses Activate
05:08 3-2-1-Desert Dream
06:11 Welcome to 1993..
06:32 10,000 dots
08:54 Savior's dots
09:10 12,000 dots
09:24 Revolution
09:53 Blue balls (+3 other colors)
10:17 Buzzsaw
10:44 Plasmaball
11:33 Part II
12:00 Copper bars
12:37 Masters Rasters
12:56 Something interesting
13:29 Copper balls
14:17 Tunnel of dots
14:47 Golden Lion
15:36 4,250 sine dots
16:14 Wavy Checkerboard
16:49 The Credits
17:03 Laxity nudes from that secret hacked email account
18:47 The Gathering '93 | Live Audience - Audio Recording
What is this?
This is a video remix of Desert Dream - a 1993 2-disk Amiga production from Kefrens.
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The demo is widely regarded as one of the most competent and stylish Amiga 500 demos ever released and has been reproduced on Commodore 64 and other platforms.
Originally released at The Gathering 1993, where it won 1st place in the demo competition. The actual production of Desert Dream was primarily carried by Anders E. Hansen aka Laxity, who composed the original soundtrack and coded most of the parts.
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As history unfolded around us, this would end up being his last demo for Kefrens (and one of his last demo productions in general).
This is peak demo-scene alpha nerd, at a time in history we now identify as peak-Amiga scene. If the meaning of life is to become a legend, Laxity had accomplished his life goals by 1993.
After releasing Desert Dream, I hope he just got laid a ton. Like, a ton. Not by fat chicks, but by an endless cascade of blonde big-boobed sexually inexperienced yet curiously adventurous Danish students. With big boobs. And a free spirit.
On the c64 scene, we grew into the evolutionary stage of groupies by mid to late 1993, at a point in history where it was blatantly obvious that a c64 8bit platform was an evolutionary dead-end. Dead. Period. No future. But even despite this, the first generation of groupie had now blossomed up among Danish c64 coders, designers and composers. The most unlikely of places. Really. Life always finds a way, it's fucking beautiful.
So anyway: Anders, I hope you got so much pussy thrown your way that local cats began mistaking your scent for the weekly fish markets. I hope you got laid so much, that you just barely could hang on. You know, like Fuck You Money, but Fuck You Pussy because I'm mentally 12. And I don't like fish.
Why this remix?
I randomly stumbled upon this amazing remix by PsychNerD and instantly fell in love.
Think of this post as the music video for PsychNerD’s Dream Remix: 19mins and 11 seconds of early-90’s Amiga demoscene feels, with an occasional somewhat modernish paint job.
Since the new remixed soundtrack runs considerably longer than the original soundtrack/runtime (40%+), I heavily padded the video with routines/parts from other Kefrens demos. I tried to mostly use parts/demos where Laxity was credited as coder, mostly. I mostly succeeded in that. Mostly.
And yes, the original Desert Dreams demo flows better, looks better, and smells sexier.
But, I had to make this video. With this music. For me. For myself. I'll be genuinely happy if other people like it as well, but it's not important compared to just making a YouTube edit with quality settings indicative of some standards, some taste, and maybe even a little talent.
And then, play it on repeat. A lot.
My goal isn't to compete with Desert Dreams in quality or style, as much as it is to do Desert Dream justice on YouTube. That means increased overall pace and effects, upscaling resolution, modernizing bitrates to the correct Century, eliminating compression artifacts, and so on.
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This remix extends the Desert Dream runtime by 6+ mins. Those minutes are like 6 *YEARS* in demoscene visuals and timings, seriously.
My favorite sequence runs from 06:32 to 08:54. Cubism, squared and pixelated. Yum.
MahhhmMmmMmmMbbuuhh?
The Mongolian throat singing was sampled from "a recently theatrically released sci-fi movie about desert power".
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As the throat singing in the movie begins, an on-screen caption reads "dreams are messages from the deep".
That seemed somehow to be worthy of inclusion in this video.
Credits/Links
PsychNerD
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https://soundcloud.com/psychnerd/desertdream
https://www.youtube.com/c/StephaneGervaisMusic/
https://www.facebook.com/psychnerd.music/
https://twitter.com/psychnerd
Laxity/Kefrens
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https://rebellion.vhx.tv/videos/anders-hansen-creating-the-desert-dream-demo
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Amiga 500: https://youtu.be/jziQBWQxvok
Commodore 64: https://youtu.be/23B0ASOESG0
Wild Demo: https://youtu.be/fYpLZhkkyRs
VHS Mixtape: https://youtu.be/11fowneR08U
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kimrom · 2 years
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I made a music video for Rameses B's Rick and Morty Psytrance mix, with amazing pixel works by @paulrobertson and style from @adultswim.
Free track on Bandcamp: https://ramesesb.bandcamp.com/track/r...
Rameses B YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RamesesB
Original Rameses B release: https://youtu.be/iMHVfCyElW0
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kimrom · 2 years
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The machine-elves at YouTube will publish my latest video remix at 3:30pm today. I ripped both the music and sound effects from the game Watch Dogs 2, while all the GoPro footage was lifted from Biting Elbows (band).
The music is an extended cut of Play 'N' Go, the playtime is double the normal length (to fit video runtime). I was compelled to make this project because of the music, the video render turned out better than I was hoping. Yay!
Biting Elbows is a Russian band, they originally produced the music videos I've used for this. AI-tools used to upscale/crispify the video, from 720p to 2160p.
#HACKTHEPLANET!
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kimrom · 3 years
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Party time! This is a 15-minute long remix of MTV heavy-rotation Club House tracks from the 90ies, beat-mixed with the world's most "cartoonishly violent" animated series.
Tracklist:
0:00 Spoiler Warning 0:15 Power Jam Featuring Chill Rob G – The Power 1:23 Neon - Cult Of Snap 2:12 Technotronic Featuring Ya Kid K – Rockin' Over The Beat 3:15 Off – La Casa Latina 4:11 Kim Appleby – Don't Worry 4:49 Lee Marrow – To Go Crazy (In The 20th Century) 5:50 Bizarre Inc - Playing With Knives (Quadrant Mix) 6:56 PKA – Let Me Hear You (Say Yeah) 7:46 Technotronic – Move This 8:57 Yankees – I Can't Feel It 10:08 Cartouche – Feel The Groove 10:39 Hypnoteck – Ready Or Not 11:48 2 In A Room – Wiggle It 12:58 Tragic Error – Umbaba 13:50 MC Magic Max – I Don't Want Your Love 14:41 MC Bungie - Rasputin Says Yo As somewhat of a connoisseur in animated muscular super dudes in spandex, I confidently recommend Invincible as the by-far best take on superheroism since Justice League Unlimited (2004). Season1 is currently sitting at 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, Season2/3 has been greenlit and is in the works.
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This is the second home run in a row for dudes in capes and Amazon Originals. First The Boys, now this gem.
The turntabled soundtrack is cut from Supermax (1990) and MaxMix 11 (1991), both albums mixed by Toni Peret and José Mª Castells. Music extended/remixed for the purposes of this video. The Kim Appleby/Don't Worry track is blocked worldwide. I decided to keep the tune in this final edit, heavily drowned in the classic Batman theme music to not trigger some global nuclear copyright thingie. Thug life chose me. Credits
SuperMax MaxMix 11 by Toni Peret & José Mª Castells
Invincible by Amazon
Music and video remix by Kim Rom
My first test upload of this remix was automatically blocked in 52 countries, but I got that down to just being blocked in North Korea for this final cut. Success on YouTube comes in small increments.
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kimrom · 3 years
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“If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.” /Marcus Brigstocke
Cubism 2021 is my remix of Celebration Generation/WestBam (1994) and PIXELS directed by Patrick Jean. I humbly present to you, the world's most repetitive electronic music mix.
02:30 is easily my favorite moment in this video mix, a brief Minecraft-ish moment with a pixelated tree. It's a premise that has no right to feel as zen as it does, especially with repetitive electronic music blasting out at happiest hardcore levels - but a full-on rave track somehow makes everything feel slower. Trippy.
Credits;
Celebration Generation by WestBam (1994)
PIXELS directed by Patrick Jean (2010)
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kimrom · 3 years
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I made this video to find out exactly how big of a Star Wars-boner I could give myself as a fan-boi. I wanted to know how Star Warsy I could make this fan Anime feel. Would orchestral music, sound effects & Plinkett-midichlorians invoke feelings of space magic at pre-prequel levels of Empire epicness?
Note: if the Gold Leader X-Wing Pilot sounds familiar, it's because he is voiced by Mike Stoklasa (the genius behind the Plinkett Star Wars reviews). Note(2): You can download a version without YouTube compression from my Vimeo page: LucasFilm.com/Kathleen
It took 4 years of spare time for Paul "OtaKing" Johnson to satisfy his personal curiosity and the mental image of "What if there was an Empire-focussed short Star Wars animation, drawn with the crazy detail and shading of classic 80s anime that's all but vanished from Japan nowadays?".
I hope this version comes closer to OtaKing's original creative vision, before he had to decide to use custom-made sound design and music to avoid copyright issues. I guess we'll never know.
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In hindsight, we now know it "only" took 4 years to create the greatest piece of fan art in Star Wars history. The original was released in 720p (1280x720 pixels), YouTube compression was even more nazi and heavy-handed back then so this new 2160p version (3840×2160 pixels) should be the best looking option for a personal Star Wars-boner of your own.
How over the top Star Warsy fan-service overload could I make this 7-minute animation feel?
You be the judge.
But, not to brag or anything, but I showed it to my 7-year-old son and
for a brief moment in time, I was the coolest long-distance dad in the world.
And just as a science experiment, how much of a lady-boner did it give my hedonistic heretic non-fan of a girlfriend? Guckmal. Answer is zero. She didn't care, like at all. She probably already forgot I mentioned anything with Star Wars.
Credits and links
Animation by OtaKing YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/OtaKing77077​ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/otaking77077 ​ OtaKing's original video from 2015:
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Sound effects by TheHaddockbanker YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/TheHaddockbanker​ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thehaddockbanker​ Original video: https://youtu.be/s8MQVUpozxU
Gold Leader X-Wing Pilot voiced by Mike Stoklasa Original video: https://youtu.be/OfJRm0WssOE?t=127​
Credits Narrated by Jay Bauman & Mike Stoklasa YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/RedLetterMedia​ Both blessed with RedLetterMedia Force sensitivity
Music by John Williams and Michael Giacchino, copyright and all monetization from this video are belong to them
Sound effects sourced from a range of Star Wars games and movies
Musical scoring, additional sound effects, cockpit radio, small frame fixes, Gold Leader, RedLetterMedia commentary and enthusiastic fan-boy 4K upscaling by me.
This was my second time working in Premiere Pro (which I can now afford thanks to my Patrons).
This was my first attempt at rearranging orchestral compositions and mixing sound effects. Never imagined myself attempting a beat mix across orchestral performances. Like, seriously never, not even for 1 nano-second.
When you edit something, you get to peek at the very details that made the greatness and I would like to extend my sincerest creative respect to both OtaKing and TheHaddockbanker. These are masters of their craft, which become annoyingly apparent and obvious to me as I was putting this video together. I didn't realize how much I don't know about sound until I started putting this together.
I had a blast editing this, if you're interested this is my timeline;
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It's been a full day since I rendered the final movie.
But the goddamn Star Wars music keeps playing in my head. Over and over.
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kimrom · 3 years
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Age of Dragon Love is my amazingly clever title for this mashup of Dragon's Lair (1983) and Age of Love remix (1992). All those years of marketing experience really shined through here. Cough.
I cut the 3 least interesting Dragon's Lair rooms from the game, along with the final boss fight, to make the 9-minute speedrun fit to a 7ish minute track.
Upscaled to 4K Ultra HD 60 FPS with AI tools.
Historical context for what you're watching: Dragon's Lair is a video game franchise famous for its Western animation-style graphics, later for being remade into television and comic book series. The first game in the series was originally released for arcades in 1983 by Cinematronics. The game was based on laserdisc technology, offering greatly superior graphics compared to other video games at the time. The player navigates "rooms" on his quest to prove how much of a toxic male knight he really is (by saving the princess).
"The Age of Love" is the 1990 self-titled track by Age of Love, notable as an early popular example of trance music. In 1992 Jam and Spoon's "Watch Out for Stella Mix" gained more popularity than the original track and opened up opportunities for remixes by artists such as Paul Van Dyk and many others. Stella is the name of Jam aka Jam El Mar's daughter.
This was my first ever edit in Premiere Pro. Thank you, Patrons!
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kimrom · 3 years
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OutRun is an arcade driving video game released by Sega in September 1986. To win the game avoid traffic and reach one of five destinations, so the chick next to you will like you more (true story).
It is notable for its pioneering hardware and graphics, nonlinear gameplay, a selectable soundtrack with music composed by Hiroshi Kawaguchi, and its deluxe hydraulic motion simulator arcade cabinet.
Credits:
Music by Plasma3Music
"OutRun - Splash Wave" https://youtu.be/mE6DAja2xNs
Original Music written by Hiroshi Kawaguchi
Synthwave Remix by Plasma3Music a.k.a Pascal Michael Stiefel
Graphics By DavuuWart
"The Breeze Moves Me" https://youtu.be/-IiyO-aPyj8
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kimrom · 3 years
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This "epic" video is a cut between 3D animations from PlayStation 1 (1997), PSP (2007) and PS5 (2020), all footage upscaled to 4K Ultra HD via AI tools. Subscribe on YouTube for weekly remix videos.
Thanks to L'Orchestra Cinématique for the music.
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kimrom · 3 years
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This is the entire Star Wars trilogy (you know, the 3 good ones) retold to Megalovania. Based on a 168kb GIF file from 2004/2005ish by FoldsFive, who created 3 .GIFs containing the entire Star Wars trilogy. It's not the Znyder cut, it's squared in widescreen.
Yesterday my son age 7 sent me a link to this tune on Spotify, proclaiming that this is his favorite track and that he listens to it on repeat. My son's first musical love is a videogame remix track. And he found it himself on Spotify, he has never even played Undertale. Proud dad moment here.
His second favorite thing in the whole world is Star Wars, so here's a long-distance parent over-compensation next-day-delivery video remix: The 4K 2D Star Wars GIF Megalovania Duzzled GlitchxCity FoldsFive Skylar Cut. 640kb is enough for everyone. This is for Skylar, when he randomly finds this post after my funeral: love you buddy! Sorry I couldn't be there to watch the Star Wars movies with you, so here's a 168kb GIF video remix thingie. Just for you! xoxoxo <3 <3
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kimrom · 3 years
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My weekly remix video is Dreamscape, by legendary videogame composer Jeroen Tel. The amazing 3D was created by Beeple.
Links in YouTube description.
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kimrom · 3 years
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This video remix is based on the c64 and a500 intros for The Last Ninja III (1991), which was the first time I ever saw a "movie-style" cutscene for a videogame. Skip to 3:33 for crack intros and demo parts from Ikari+Talent, Offence, TRSI, CGG, FBI Crew, Crash and others.
The music is a remake/remix by Hazel, based on The Last Ninja level music for The Wilderness, originally composed by Ben Daglish (in 1987). Sadly Ben passed away in 2018, but as the graphics, crack intros, demo part, box art and Hazel's *fantastic* remix all reflect: c64 legends live on.
Hazel is still active on the demo scene and his website is right here.
I create and publish new video remixes weekly, based on actual nerd chills, inspiration and meta from esports, gaming, the demoscene, science fiction and electronic music. http://patreon.com/kimrom​
Why Patreon and why YouTube video? An insect bite infected me, my life is significantly impaired by cognitive problems, anterograde amnesia and "Lyme-brain". I'm mentally paralyzed and impractically unemployable, career and earnings potential effectively reduced to zero. With tools like Patreon I am hopeful that I can someday make creativity "work normally" again. If you would like to know how cheap I am ($1, I'm a cheap slut) and how you can be a part of it, please visit my Patreon page :)
Thanks to Alex Garfield, Corin Cole, kizashi, Taz, GameGator, Electech, Lena, Lilienthal, SeanGuyle, Msnice for support. Me Luv U Longtime.
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kimrom · 3 years
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YouTube compression wasn't kind to this one, sadface.
Credits for the awesomeness:
The video is based on Andromeda's Tron Escape, released on the album Equilibrium.
The Corridor Crew remade the classic light bike scene, here is the video where they explain their process.
Peter Hirschberg remade the stylish (modern) light bike scene, here is his original video.
And I used clips from the original and modernized Tron movies, as well as various promotional materials from LEGO. Enjoy!
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kimrom · 3 years
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I'm publishing 2 new videos today, 2 for 1 Sunday Special
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First up: a remix video for Matt Gray's International Karate remake.
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Bottom up: a remix video for Matt Gray's Rambo remake.
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