My third remix was based on Karl Hörnell’s Clean Up Time (Subtune 1). I was inspired to remix this track after hearing Boz playing this on his BBB show on SlayRadio and as I’d promised Anna Black another crappy remix for her Anorak show the following Monday, I quickly knocked this one up.

I usually like to change the notes about in a crappy remix, so it sounds comically out of tune, that was difficult to do with this remix, as when a changed the notes it was almost impossible to notice. So I added some really basic slightly of time drums (inspired by many a poor Amiga MOD using ST-01 sounds) and that strange vocal sample, which again was found on the internet.

Ok, you are now fully up to date with my crappy back catalogue.

Links: Clean Up Time (Subtune 1) by c64glen

The second crappy remix I created was Rob Hubbard’s Ace 2 title tune. The Game was coded by Ian Martin, with Graphics by Damon Redmond, was designed Ian Martin and was released in 1987 by Cascade.

I wasn’t too fond of this remix, as because of the length of the original track it was far too long for anyone to listen to while keeping their sanity. So I had the idea of writing the lead as it was being played by someone who would keep getting the notes wrong, and would get progressively worse until it gets so bad he just gives up the song before the end. Finally I added some terrible quality Top Gun samples I found on the internet for that final touch.

Links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBZo_tABbrs

My first crappy remix was based on Rob Hubbard’s theme from the Commodore 64 version of Commando. The game was developed by Chris Butler, with Graphics by Rory Green and Chris Harvey, and was released in 1985 by Elite. This video was knocked together in Windows Live Movie Maker by myself

This is my favourite remix of the three I’ve completed so far, as it’s short (something I’ve found to be very important) and very silly.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rRHDTOkZAI

Creating music is a hard and frustrating experience especially when, like me, you have a very limited talent for it. However I was over the moon when I saw the Crap Remix Compo over at Remix64’s forum as it seemed right up my proverbial street (I live on a road).

The idea of the the competition is to intentionally create bad music, which is a cover/remix of an existing Commodore 64 tune, but the twist is to make it so bad it’s funny.

This is actually much harder than it sounds, but after playing around a while with a few different tunes. I have managed to do this to some classic c64 tunes, in a way I thought was both terrible and pretty funny, which I was quiet proud of it in a strange sort of way.

These tracks have also been played on the Anna Black Anorak on Slay Radio to a great response.

This blog is document my attempts to create a full and terrible album full of these tracks.