Jeroen Tel
Jeroen Tel started his carreer composing music for Commodore 64 (C64) videogames at the early age of 14. In 1986, he teamed up with Charles Deenen (The Mercenary Cracker), and a year later they formed the first videogame music group in the world called Maniacs of Noise. From 1987-90, Jeroen composed soundtracks for dozens of famous C64 games such as Turbo Outrun, Cybernoid and Myth. From 1989 he started composing for other formats, such as the Commodore Amiga. Jeroen was also active in the so-called demo scene and composed stand-alone tunes for Maniacs of Noise but also for top notch demos like Dutch Breeze from Black Mail.
In 1991, Jeroen moved to London to work for Probe Software which was one of the leading videogame developers at the time. He did this to work on all Nintendo and SEGA consoles and handhelds, alongside all the C64 and Amiga computers of course. At the end of 1991, Jeroen reclaimed his creative freedom by moving back to the Netherlands to work for various videogame developers on a "per project basis".
Today, Jeroen still works as a videogame music composer, engineer and sound designer, mainly for PC games and custom hardware videogames, like the range of Direct To TV-games (Mortal Kombat, EA Sports FIFA, etc.). A complete list of videogames which Jeroen provided the music for can be found at www.maniacsofnoise.nl.
In 2002, Jeroen started to perform as C64 Dance DJ, remixing his C64 game music, but also using unreleased and new C64 music. Highlights of his performances include: The Gathering 2006 in Hamar's Olympic Stadium (Norway), BLIP Festival 2006 in New York City (USA), and BIT Live 2007 in London (England).
As of recently, Jeroen has been working on his debut solo album. The CD will contain a variety of original electro tracks, ballad-like pop tracks and dance tracks. All vocals are sung by Jeroen and the music signature, according to the people who've heard previews of the album, is "100 percent Jeroen Tel". On the question on when the CD is due, Jeroen says: "It's finished when it's finished". We predict that it will be out later this year.
Download Jeroen's most popular SID tunes in MP3 format here (54 Mb). Download all his SID's in MP3 format from Stone Oakvalley's Authentic SID Collection.
Reyn Ouwehand
At the age of 15, Reyn Ouwehand's musical career started with an assignment from London: System 3 asked him to compose for their videogames on the Commodore 64 and Amiga. Reyn went on to compose some true memorable soundtracks; The Last Ninja 3, Flimbo's Quest, and Blackmail Tune 1, recently given new life by remixer PowerTrace.
In 1995, at the age of 21, he started his own company, Prevue Productions. He built his own studio and started working as a producer, studio musician and composer. His current studio is located in a church Reyn bought in 2006.
Nowadays Reyn is an established producer, who is working or has worked with big national and international artists like Stephan Eicher, HIM, and Kane. He has released four C64 remix CD's so far: Nexus 6581, Galway Remixed, Nexus 6581-II, and the latest offering The Blithe, The Blend, The Bizzare.
Reyn is the only performer to do double duties during the evening. He will foremost play alongside Romeo Knight and Andreas Wallström in the rock act 6581. But as he's a versatile multi-instrumentalist (keyboards, bass guitar, guitar, drums), he will bring a full backline and sample gear and jam on C64 tracks on his own. This video on YouTube will give you an idea of what to expect from his solo performance.
Download Reyn's most popular SID tunes and remixes here (34 Mb). Download all his SID's in MP3 format from Stone Oakvalley's Authentic SID Collection.
Eike Steffen a.k.a. Romeo Knight
Only 14 years old, Eike Steffen started making music on the C64. In 1987, he switched to the Amiga and joined Red Sector Inc., one of the most famous cracking- and demogroups. He contributed music to a lot of intros and demos; RSI Megademo, Cebit '90 Demo (which features the very popular Cream of the Earth soundtrack), and Wicked Sensation which won the Amiga demo competition at the World of Commodore fair in 1992. Eike also made music for a few Amiga games and PC conversions like Bomberman, Nectaris, and Hannibal.
Losing interest in the scene and production of four channel music, Eike started playing guitar and performed, mostly heavy music, in various bands for the next decade.
In 2004, Eike discovered the C64 remix scene, and has so far released 15 remixes combining all his influences from his musical career: electronica, metal and other guitar music, pop, hip-hop and classical music (he played clarinet in a symphonic orchestra in his childhood). The most popular remixes are Bionic Commando, Arkanoid and Future Shock.
Getting the interest back to write music for demos again, Eike joined the PC demo group Brainstorm in 2007, and has recently composed music for the very popular Fairytale and Challenger Deep demos.
Eike currently runs a sound studio facility for commercial audio production. He also recently started scoring for computer games again. At Back in Time Live Stockholm 2008, Eike will play guitar in the group 6581 together with Reyn Ouwehand and Andreas Wallström.
Download Eike's most popular Amiga tracks and remixes here. (38 Mb)
Disco Danceaway
Real name: Paul Hesford. Remixer name: Disco Danceaway. Age: 35. Loves: The Sound Interface Device (SID) and his five kids.
Like most people in the scene, Paul grew up listening to the people we now call C64 music legends: Rob Hubbard, Martin Galway, and Ben Daglish. In late 1987, along came a genius who took the SID sound to another level: Jeroen Tel. Inspired by Jeroen's compositions, Paul started to compose music in various music drivers, and later moved on to compose music on the Amiga in the well-known sequencer Protracker.
Paul goes: "Bloody hell! I remember sitting in my bedroom age 12 listening to Rob Hubbard's Crazy Comets tune plus many other top tracks. Now age 35, I'm on stage wearing a 70's blonde disco wig and shades remixing these classic tracks we all grew up listening to. Rob Hubbard and Ben Daglish said to me a couple of years ago: 'This is bonkers'. I totally agree - but I love it!"
In 2005, Paul got a bit more involved in the retro music scene when he helped to arrange and set up Back in Time Lite Manchester. In 2007, he finally did what he had wanted to do for a very long time. He got on stage to play in front of all the C64 fans, and so, Disco Danceaway was born.
Pauls' mixes consists of a fresh blend between original sampled C64 music, a disco/dance/funk feel, plus some chart samples on top. His Bangkok Knights mix is already legendary! We hope to hear it again in Stockholm, but we can also reveal that new mixes are in the making for this specific event. By all accounts, his performance at last year went better than he expected. He's now putting the wig and glasses back on - and he's ready to rock your socks off!
Download two mixes Paul created for Back in Time Live 2007 here. (Minus the commercial samples, 9 Mb)
Andreas Wallström
Andreas got his first C64 in 1984. "My dad brought it home with disk drive and everything. I've been stuck ever since.", he says. Inspired by the many cool productions from groups like 1001 Crew and Triad, he joined the C64 demo scene in 1987. The high point of his 'career' was when he joined Flash Inc., which released demos like The Legacy Part II and Prometheous Unbound to critical acclaim. Andreas was only an artist at that point, but got more and more involved in management and writing articles for the disk magazine Hotshot.
These days, Andreas is involved in more or less all areas from being the webmaster for C64.COM, a collector of C64 software and hardware, a SLAY Radio DJ, drummer of the defunct SID'80s, a remixer, still releasing the odd demo every now and then, to writing this bio about himself. ;) He now joins Reyn and Romeo on stage in the group 6581, and he couldn't be more excited! Tracks that's being discussed for the band include Arkanoid, The Last Ninja, and Ghosts'n Goblins.
Download some remixes Andreas been involved in here. (13 Mb)
Jeroen Tel started his carreer composing music for Commodore 64 (C64) videogames at the early age of 14. In 1986, he teamed up with Charles Deenen (The Mercenary Cracker), and a year later they formed the first videogame music group in the world called Maniacs of Noise. From 1987-90, Jeroen composed soundtracks for dozens of famous C64 games such as Turbo Outrun, Cybernoid and Myth. From 1989 he started composing for other formats, such as the Commodore Amiga. Jeroen was also active in the so-called demo scene and composed stand-alone tunes for Maniacs of Noise but also for top notch demos like Dutch Breeze from Black Mail.
In 1991, Jeroen moved to London to work for Probe Software which was one of the leading videogame developers at the time. He did this to work on all Nintendo and SEGA consoles and handhelds, alongside all the C64 and Amiga computers of course. At the end of 1991, Jeroen reclaimed his creative freedom by moving back to the Netherlands to work for various videogame developers on a "per project basis".
Today, Jeroen still works as a videogame music composer, engineer and sound designer, mainly for PC games and custom hardware videogames, like the range of Direct To TV-games (Mortal Kombat, EA Sports FIFA, etc.). A complete list of videogames which Jeroen provided the music for can be found at www.maniacsofnoise.nl.
In 2002, Jeroen started to perform as C64 Dance DJ, remixing his C64 game music, but also using unreleased and new C64 music. Highlights of his performances include: The Gathering 2006 in Hamar's Olympic Stadium (Norway), BLIP Festival 2006 in New York City (USA), and BIT Live 2007 in London (England).
As of recently, Jeroen has been working on his debut solo album. The CD will contain a variety of original electro tracks, ballad-like pop tracks and dance tracks. All vocals are sung by Jeroen and the music signature, according to the people who've heard previews of the album, is "100 percent Jeroen Tel". On the question on when the CD is due, Jeroen says: "It's finished when it's finished". We predict that it will be out later this year.
Download Jeroen's most popular SID tunes in MP3 format here (54 Mb). Download all his SID's in MP3 format from Stone Oakvalley's Authentic SID Collection.
Reyn Ouwehand
At the age of 15, Reyn Ouwehand's musical career started with an assignment from London: System 3 asked him to compose for their videogames on the Commodore 64 and Amiga. Reyn went on to compose some true memorable soundtracks; The Last Ninja 3, Flimbo's Quest, and Blackmail Tune 1, recently given new life by remixer PowerTrace.
In 1995, at the age of 21, he started his own company, Prevue Productions. He built his own studio and started working as a producer, studio musician and composer. His current studio is located in a church Reyn bought in 2006.
Nowadays Reyn is an established producer, who is working or has worked with big national and international artists like Stephan Eicher, HIM, and Kane. He has released four C64 remix CD's so far: Nexus 6581, Galway Remixed, Nexus 6581-II, and the latest offering The Blithe, The Blend, The Bizzare.
Reyn is the only performer to do double duties during the evening. He will foremost play alongside Romeo Knight and Andreas Wallström in the rock act 6581. But as he's a versatile multi-instrumentalist (keyboards, bass guitar, guitar, drums), he will bring a full backline and sample gear and jam on C64 tracks on his own. This video on YouTube will give you an idea of what to expect from his solo performance.
Download Reyn's most popular SID tunes and remixes here (34 Mb). Download all his SID's in MP3 format from Stone Oakvalley's Authentic SID Collection.
Eike Steffen a.k.a. Romeo Knight
Only 14 years old, Eike Steffen started making music on the C64. In 1987, he switched to the Amiga and joined Red Sector Inc., one of the most famous cracking- and demogroups. He contributed music to a lot of intros and demos; RSI Megademo, Cebit '90 Demo (which features the very popular Cream of the Earth soundtrack), and Wicked Sensation which won the Amiga demo competition at the World of Commodore fair in 1992. Eike also made music for a few Amiga games and PC conversions like Bomberman, Nectaris, and Hannibal.
Losing interest in the scene and production of four channel music, Eike started playing guitar and performed, mostly heavy music, in various bands for the next decade.
In 2004, Eike discovered the C64 remix scene, and has so far released 15 remixes combining all his influences from his musical career: electronica, metal and other guitar music, pop, hip-hop and classical music (he played clarinet in a symphonic orchestra in his childhood). The most popular remixes are Bionic Commando, Arkanoid and Future Shock.
Getting the interest back to write music for demos again, Eike joined the PC demo group Brainstorm in 2007, and has recently composed music for the very popular Fairytale and Challenger Deep demos.
Eike currently runs a sound studio facility for commercial audio production. He also recently started scoring for computer games again. At Back in Time Live Stockholm 2008, Eike will play guitar in the group 6581 together with Reyn Ouwehand and Andreas Wallström.
Download Eike's most popular Amiga tracks and remixes here. (38 Mb)
Disco Danceaway
Real name: Paul Hesford. Remixer name: Disco Danceaway. Age: 35. Loves: The Sound Interface Device (SID) and his five kids.
Like most people in the scene, Paul grew up listening to the people we now call C64 music legends: Rob Hubbard, Martin Galway, and Ben Daglish. In late 1987, along came a genius who took the SID sound to another level: Jeroen Tel. Inspired by Jeroen's compositions, Paul started to compose music in various music drivers, and later moved on to compose music on the Amiga in the well-known sequencer Protracker.
Paul goes: "Bloody hell! I remember sitting in my bedroom age 12 listening to Rob Hubbard's Crazy Comets tune plus many other top tracks. Now age 35, I'm on stage wearing a 70's blonde disco wig and shades remixing these classic tracks we all grew up listening to. Rob Hubbard and Ben Daglish said to me a couple of years ago: 'This is bonkers'. I totally agree - but I love it!"
In 2005, Paul got a bit more involved in the retro music scene when he helped to arrange and set up Back in Time Lite Manchester. In 2007, he finally did what he had wanted to do for a very long time. He got on stage to play in front of all the C64 fans, and so, Disco Danceaway was born.
Pauls' mixes consists of a fresh blend between original sampled C64 music, a disco/dance/funk feel, plus some chart samples on top. His Bangkok Knights mix is already legendary! We hope to hear it again in Stockholm, but we can also reveal that new mixes are in the making for this specific event. By all accounts, his performance at last year went better than he expected. He's now putting the wig and glasses back on - and he's ready to rock your socks off!
Download two mixes Paul created for Back in Time Live 2007 here. (Minus the commercial samples, 9 Mb)
Andreas Wallström
Andreas got his first C64 in 1984. "My dad brought it home with disk drive and everything. I've been stuck ever since.", he says. Inspired by the many cool productions from groups like 1001 Crew and Triad, he joined the C64 demo scene in 1987. The high point of his 'career' was when he joined Flash Inc., which released demos like The Legacy Part II and Prometheous Unbound to critical acclaim. Andreas was only an artist at that point, but got more and more involved in management and writing articles for the disk magazine Hotshot.
These days, Andreas is involved in more or less all areas from being the webmaster for C64.COM, a collector of C64 software and hardware, a SLAY Radio DJ, drummer of the defunct SID'80s, a remixer, still releasing the odd demo every now and then, to writing this bio about himself. ;) He now joins Reyn and Romeo on stage in the group 6581, and he couldn't be more excited! Tracks that's being discussed for the band include Arkanoid, The Last Ninja, and Ghosts'n Goblins.
Download some remixes Andreas been involved in here. (13 Mb)