Amiga Power: The Album With Attitude

Matthew Smith · 16 February 2019, 16:48

First there was Amiga Power.

Then there was no more of it.

Now, in the year of oh lord 2019, Amiga Power returns – in musical form!

Yes, really.

Launching next month on Kickstarter, it's Amiga Power: The Album With Attitude! A deluxe double-CD collection of more than 30 brand spanking new Commodore Amiga game remixes, all of them connected with the mightiest computer games magazine ever conceived by human beings, and featuring the tuneful talents of (in alphabetical order):

Andrew Barnabas; Phillip Blake; Alistair Bowness; Allister Brimble; Fabio Cicciarello; Mike Clarke; Fabian Del Priore; Adam Fothergill; Olof Gustafsson; Jogeir Liljedahl; Chris Jerden-Cooke; Carl Jermy; Joi; Jon Hare; Chris Huelsbeck; Barry Leitch; Alex May; Anthony Milas; Patrick Nevian; Jason Page; Instant Remedy; Brian Sadler; Matthias Steinwachs; Jeroen Tel; and Tim Wright.

It's all set to be really rather super, even if we say so ourselves.

More news will follow very soon indeed. In the meantime, you may wish to direct your peepers towards the following related web-places...

https://twitter.com/Amiga_Square
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100025232384399

We thank you for your kind attention.

viddi · 16 February 2019, 17:40

Glad to be part of it.

Matthew Smith · 18 February 2019, 22:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by viddi

Glad to be part of it.

Thoroughly splendid to have you on board, sir!

Matthew Smith · 19 February 2019, 06:45

Greetings, readers!

As promised, some further details about Amiga Power: The Album With Attitude will shortly be revealed. But first, a bit of an introduction.

My name, as you may have gathered, is Matthew Smith. I didn’t program Manic Miner (sorry), but I am a long-standing fan of AP. I started buying the magazine early in its life, way back in 1991, and I loved it immediately thanks to its mixture of incisive reviews, imaginative features and quirkily irreverent humour. I only grew to love it more as the years went on, and ultimately it was AP that inspired me to pursue the career in journalism and publishing that I’ve been enjoying for the past couple of decades.

A little while ago I was invited by a friend to work on an Amiga music project in the role of co-producer. I thoroughly enjoyed the experience and found myself wanting to produce a similarly-themed project of my own, and it occurred to me that an Amiga Power tribute album would be just the ticket.

So, you may muse, how exactly is this going to work? Well, as mentioned previously, the album is going to consist of two CDs jam-packed with Amiga game music remixes, all with some special connection to AP. What sort of connection? Read on.

CD1: AP’s Pick Of The Pops

The first disc is going to contain remixes based on tunes personally nominated by former Amiga Power contributors.

CD2: The AP Bonus Coverdisk

The second disc, meanwhile, is going to feature tracks inspired by assorted games and demos that appeared on Amiga Power’s cover-mounted disks over the years.

Plus! The CDs are going to be accompanied by a special liner notes booklet featuring at least 80 pages of info about all the tracks and how they were selected for inclusion, along with song lyrics, behind-the-scenes trivia and written interjections from the AP crew.

I've been working on this project for a little over a year now, and pretty much everything is organised at this point. I've secured a licence from Future to use the Amiga Power name and logo, the CD manufacturing side of things is being handled by 010101 Music (the independent record label behind such ace albums as Paula Agnus Denise and Instant Remedy’s Insert Disk 2) and all the musicians mentioned previously are raring to go on the remixes. All we need now is the funding to produce everything, and to this end I’ll be launching a Kickstarter campaign early next month.

Stay tuned for additional updates, including more info on the contents of both CDs and the many and varied bonus perks that will be available to Kickstarter supporters!

http://www.010101-music.nl
https://twitter.com/Amiga_Square
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100025232384399

Cheerio for now, all.

Matthew Smith · 22 February 2019, 12:41

The thoroughly splendid Alec Foster was kind enough to interview me about the Amiga Power album, and you can read the resulting feature right now on Vintage Is The New Old via the link below. Hurrah!

https://www.vintageisthenewold.com/a...to-kickstarter

Matthew Smith · 08 March 2019, 11:44

Hello, all!

Work on the Amiga Power album continues unabated, and the Kickstarter homepage is very nearly ready for unveiling. For now, here's the album cover artwork, created by comics supremo Roger Langridge and featuring The Four Cyclists Of The Apocalypse brandishing their instruments of destruction.

More info coming soon!

Matthew Smith · 14 March 2019, 22:32

It's official – the Amiga Power album Kickstarter campaign will be launching on Friday, March 29th! And at last I can reveal just some of the numerous remixes that will be making an appearance on it. They include (deep breath)...

Apidya; Banshee; Blob; Cannon Fodder; The Chaos Engine; Fantasy World Dizzy; Fire & Ice; Gloom; Harlequin; Hired Guns; Jetstrike; Lotus Turbo Challenge 2; No Second Prize; Pinball Fantasies; Sensible World Of Soccer; Shadow Fighter; Speedball 2; Stardust; and oodles more, including a new rendition of the perennially splendid Valhalla tribute It's A Skull. In total, you'll be getting a whopping 35 tracks spread across the album's two CDs.

Also! There is now a dedicated AP album Facebook group. Do drop in if you happen to be passing; there will be tea and sticky buns.

https://www.facebook.com/albumwithattitude

Stay tuned for further announcements!

Matthew Smith · 17 March 2019, 15:29

If you tune into SceneSat Radio this evening between 6pm and 8pm GMT (7pm to 9pm CET), you'll get to hear a special Amiga Power album exclusive! Tonight's show has a smooth theme, and one of the more tranquil tracks from the album will be included in its entirety. So settle down, relax, and join Ziphoid in his Cozy Corner to bring your weekend to a splendidly laid-back conclusion!

https://scenesat.com

FromWithin · 17 March 2019, 17:27

Scenesat is highly recommended listening for everyone this evening.

Matthew Smith · 20 March 2019, 06:47

There's been some further Amiga Power album coverage in a couple of recent web-shows! Firstly it received another mention from the excellent chaps at Amigos Retro Gaming in their latest Everything Amiga podcast (from about the 24-minute mark), which can be viewed below...

[ Show youtube player ]

Secondly, top bloke Amiga Bill of TheGuruMeditation was kind enough to give the album a shout-out in Sunday's edition of his Twitch show REPLAY (from 28:15), which you can see via the accompanying link. Hurrah!

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/397306925

Matthew Smith · 23 March 2019, 11:32

With less than a week to go before the AP album Kickstarter campaign launches, it's time to share a remix preview with you all, courtesy of the extraordinary Brian Sadler (composer on Harry Partridge's spifftacular Starbarians series). As you'll discover, he's created a frankly fantastic orchestral arrangement of the theme from Banshee, as featured on one of AP's May 1994 coverdisks. Zounds, eh?

[ Show youtube player ]

Matthew Smith · 25 March 2019, 23:51

[ Show youtube player ]

As the AP album Kickstarter draws closer, here's an extra-special promo treat from the amazing Farook Shamsher of Joi. It's the first of three studio remixes that he and his late brother Haroon created back in 1993 while working on the soundtrack for The Chaos Engine.

The third of the tracks – nicknamed the Play With Me Mix – will be available exclusively on the Amiga Power album; and as a special bonus for everybody to enJoi, Farook has fantastically kindly agreed to allow Chaos Engine Remix 1 to be released for free on YouTube and SoundCloud. Hurrah!

https://soundcloud.com/matthewsmith2...remix-1-by-joi

As you'll discover, the SoundCloud version of the track includes a download link so you can nab a copy of the mp3. Hurrah 2!

Matthew Smith · 28 March 2019, 12:10

[ Show youtube player ]

The Kickstarter campaign for Amiga Power: The Album With Attitude launches at 9am (GMT) tomorrow (Friday, March 29), but you can hear a whole bunch of remix clips from the album right now via this handy-dandy YouTube vid, featuring the work of Joi, Barry Leitch, Allister Brimble, Jogeir Liljedahl, Mike Clarke, Fabian Del Priore, Patrick Nevian and Jason Page. Splends!

This compilation is also available on SoundCloud, just over here:

https://soundcloud.com/matthewsmith2...ip-compilation

Gerry · 29 March 2019, 10:02

The Kickstarter is online: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...-with-attitude.

Neil79 · 29 March 2019, 10:04

Quote:

What a great way to start a Friday as we can now officially announce that the Amiga Power : The Album With Attitude Kickstarter has now launched and is ready for your pledges! This new Kickstarter from Matthew Smith, is a serious treat for Amiga game and or music lovers, as it will feature not just a Mighty Booklet, but two discs spanning over 30 tracks of remixes from classic games such as Apidya, Banshee, Blob and many many more!

http://www.indieretronews.com/2019/0...e-tune_29.html

MarkG · 29 March 2019, 13:36

New Amiga Music CD, Kickstarter started today

http://kck.st/2V4oQjB

Matthew Smith · 29 March 2019, 21:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by MarkG

New Amiga Music CD, Kickstarter started today

http://kck.st/2V4oQjB

Yes indeedy! Cheers muchly for alerting folk, sir. It's much appreciated!

Matthew Smith · 29 March 2019, 21:46

As noted above, Amiga Power: The Album With Attitude is now up and running on Kickstarter! You can view the campaign video below (featuring a very silly voiceover from someone or other), and if you'd care to lend your support by making a pledge and/or spreading the word about the project, that would be utterly splendid. The Kickstarter homepage can be accessed via this link. Many thanks, one and all!

[ Show youtube player ]

Lorfarius · 01 April 2019, 09:01

C'mon guys lets show a bit of support! Not everyday we see something like this especially with Drop the Bomb on a CD. Once I saw the track listings I had to jump right in and pledge, itching to get mine. For things like the extra albums those are worth fresh Kickstarters of their own

TheBoss · 02 April 2019, 09:20

I already backed since this just looks too good to miss out on

16 February 2019, 16:48	#1
Matthew Smith Registered User Join Date: Jan 2019 Location: England Posts: 28	Amiga Power: The Album With Attitude First there was Amiga Power. Then there was no more of it. Now, in the year of oh lord 2019, Amiga Power returns – in musical form! Yes, really. Launching next month on Kickstarter, it's Amiga Power: The Album With Attitude! A deluxe double-CD collection of more than 30 brand spanking new Commodore Amiga game remixes, all of them connected with the mightiest computer games magazine ever conceived by human beings, and featuring the tuneful talents of (in alphabetical order): Andrew Barnabas; Phillip Blake; Alistair Bowness; Allister Brimble; Fabio Cicciarello; Mike Clarke; Fabian Del Priore; Adam Fothergill; Olof Gustafsson; Jogeir Liljedahl; Chris Jerden-Cooke; Carl Jermy; Joi; Jon Hare; Chris Huelsbeck; Barry Leitch; Alex May; Anthony Milas; Patrick Nevian; Jason Page; Instant Remedy; Brian Sadler; Matthias Steinwachs; Jeroen Tel; and Tim Wright. It's all set to be really rather super, even if we say so ourselves. More news will follow very soon indeed. In the meantime, you may wish to direct your peepers towards the following related web-places... https://twitter.com/Amiga_Square https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100025232384399 We thank you for your kind attention.

14 March 2019, 22:32	#7
Matthew Smith Registered User Join Date: Jan 2019 Location: England Posts: 28	It's official – the Amiga Power album Kickstarter campaign will be launching on Friday, March 29th! And at last I can reveal just some of the numerous remixes that will be making an appearance on it. They include (deep breath)... Apidya; Banshee; Blob; Cannon Fodder; The Chaos Engine; Fantasy World Dizzy; Fire & Ice; Gloom; Harlequin; Hired Guns; Jetstrike; Lotus Turbo Challenge 2; No Second Prize; Pinball Fantasies; Sensible World Of Soccer; Shadow Fighter; Speedball 2; Stardust; and oodles more, including a new rendition of the perennially splendid Valhalla tribute It's A Skull. In total, you'll be getting a whopping 35 tracks spread across the album's two CDs. Also! There is now a dedicated AP album Facebook group. Do drop in if you happen to be passing; there will be tea and sticky buns. https://www.facebook.com/albumwithattitude Stay tuned for further announcements! Last edited by Matthew Smith; 17 March 2019 at 12:58.

29 March 2019, 13:36	#16
MarkG Registered User Join Date: Feb 2017 Location: Gloucester Posts: 33	AMIGA POWER The Album with Attitude Kickstarter Project New Amiga Music CD, Kickstarter started today http://kck.st/2V4oQjB

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16 February 2019, 17:40	#2
viddi Moderator Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Germany Age: 44 Posts: 4,007	Glad to be part of it.

19 February 2019, 06:45	#4
Matthew Smith Registered User Join Date: Jan 2019 Location: England Posts: 28	Greetings, readers! As promised, some further details about Amiga Power: The Album With Attitude will shortly be revealed. But first, a bit of an introduction. My name, as you may have gathered, is Matthew Smith. I didn’t program Manic Miner (sorry), but I am a long-standing fan of AP. I started buying the magazine early in its life, way back in 1991, and I loved it immediately thanks to its mixture of incisive reviews, imaginative features and quirkily irreverent humour. I only grew to love it more as the years went on, and ultimately it was AP that inspired me to pursue the career in journalism and publishing that I’ve been enjoying for the past couple of decades. A little while ago I was invited by a friend to work on an Amiga music project in the role of co-producer. I thoroughly enjoyed the experience and found myself wanting to produce a similarly-themed project of my own, and it occurred to me that an Amiga Power tribute album would be just the ticket. So, you may muse, how exactly is this going to work? Well, as mentioned previously, the album is going to consist of two CDs jam-packed with Amiga game music remixes, all with some special connection to AP. What sort of connection? Read on. CD1: AP’s Pick Of The Pops The first disc is going to contain remixes based on tunes personally nominated by former Amiga Power contributors. CD2: The AP Bonus Coverdisk The second disc, meanwhile, is going to feature tracks inspired by assorted games and demos that appeared on Amiga Power’s cover-mounted disks over the years. Plus! The CDs are going to be accompanied by a special liner notes booklet featuring at least 80 pages of info about all the tracks and how they were selected for inclusion, along with song lyrics, behind-the-scenes trivia and written interjections from the AP crew. I've been working on this project for a little over a year now, and pretty much everything is organised at this point. I've secured a licence from Future to use the Amiga Power name and logo, the CD manufacturing side of things is being handled by 010101 Music (the independent record label behind such ace albums as Paula Agnus Denise and Instant Remedy’s Insert Disk 2) and all the musicians mentioned previously are raring to go on the remixes. All we need now is the funding to produce everything, and to this end I’ll be launching a Kickstarter campaign early next month. Stay tuned for additional updates, including more info on the contents of both CDs and the many and varied bonus perks that will be available to Kickstarter supporters! http://www.010101-music.nl https://twitter.com/Amiga_Square https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100025232384399 Cheerio for now, all.

22 February 2019, 12:41	#5
Matthew Smith Registered User Join Date: Jan 2019 Location: England Posts: 28	The thoroughly splendid Alec Foster was kind enough to interview me about the Amiga Power album, and you can read the resulting feature right now on Vintage Is The New Old via the link below. Hurrah! https://www.vintageisthenewold.com/a...to-kickstarter

08 March 2019, 11:44	#6
Matthew Smith Registered User Join Date: Jan 2019 Location: England Posts: 28	Hello, all! Work on the Amiga Power album continues unabated, and the Kickstarter homepage is very nearly ready for unveiling. For now, here's the album cover artwork, created by comics supremo Roger Langridge and featuring The Four Cyclists Of The Apocalypse brandishing their instruments of destruction. More info coming soon!

17 March 2019, 15:29	#8
Matthew Smith Registered User Join Date: Jan 2019 Location: England Posts: 28	If you tune into SceneSat Radio this evening between 6pm and 8pm GMT (7pm to 9pm CET), you'll get to hear a special Amiga Power album exclusive! Tonight's show has a smooth theme, and one of the more tranquil tracks from the album will be included in its entirety. So settle down, relax, and join Ziphoid in his Cozy Corner to bring your weekend to a splendidly laid-back conclusion! https://scenesat.com

17 March 2019, 17:27	#9
FromWithin Music lord Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Liverpool, UK Age: 50 Posts: 630	Scenesat is highly recommended listening for everyone this evening.

20 March 2019, 06:47	#10
Matthew Smith Registered User Join Date: Jan 2019 Location: England Posts: 28	There's been some further Amiga Power album coverage in a couple of recent web-shows! Firstly it received another mention from the excellent chaps at Amigos Retro Gaming in their latest Everything Amiga podcast (from about the 24-minute mark), which can be viewed below... [ Show youtube player ] Secondly, top bloke Amiga Bill of TheGuruMeditation was kind enough to give the album a shout-out in Sunday's edition of his Twitch show REPLAY (from 28:15), which you can see via the accompanying link. Hurrah! https://www.twitch.tv/videos/397306925

23 March 2019, 11:32	#11
Matthew Smith Registered User Join Date: Jan 2019 Location: England Posts: 28	With less than a week to go before the AP album Kickstarter campaign launches, it's time to share a remix preview with you all, courtesy of the extraordinary Brian Sadler (composer on Harry Partridge's spifftacular Starbarians series). As you'll discover, he's created a frankly fantastic orchestral arrangement of the theme from Banshee, as featured on one of AP's May 1994 coverdisks. Zounds, eh? [ Show youtube player ]

25 March 2019, 23:51	#12
Matthew Smith Registered User Join Date: Jan 2019 Location: England Posts: 28	[ Show youtube player ] As the AP album Kickstarter draws closer, here's an extra-special promo treat from the amazing Farook Shamsher of Joi. It's the first of three studio remixes that he and his late brother Haroon created back in 1993 while working on the soundtrack for The Chaos Engine. The third of the tracks – nicknamed the Play With Me Mix – will be available exclusively on the Amiga Power album; and as a special bonus for everybody to enJoi, Farook has fantastically kindly agreed to allow Chaos Engine Remix 1 to be released for free on YouTube and SoundCloud. Hurrah! https://soundcloud.com/matthewsmith2...remix-1-by-joi As you'll discover, the SoundCloud version of the track includes a download link so you can nab a copy of the mp3. Hurrah 2!

28 March 2019, 12:10	#13
Matthew Smith Registered User Join Date: Jan 2019 Location: England Posts: 28	[ Show youtube player ] The Kickstarter campaign for Amiga Power: The Album With Attitude launches at 9am (GMT) tomorrow (Friday, March 29), but you can hear a whole bunch of remix clips from the album right now via this handy-dandy YouTube vid, featuring the work of Joi, Barry Leitch, Allister Brimble, Jogeir Liljedahl, Mike Clarke, Fabian Del Priore, Patrick Nevian and Jason Page. Splends! This compilation is also available on SoundCloud, just over here: https://soundcloud.com/matthewsmith2...ip-compilation

29 March 2019, 10:02	#14
Gerry Registered User Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Cologne / Germany Posts: 213	The Kickstarter is online: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...-with-attitude.

29 March 2019, 21:46	#18
Matthew Smith Registered User Join Date: Jan 2019 Location: England Posts: 28	As noted above, Amiga Power: The Album With Attitude is now up and running on Kickstarter! You can view the campaign video below (featuring a very silly voiceover from someone or other), and if you'd care to lend your support by making a pledge and/or spreading the word about the project, that would be utterly splendid. The Kickstarter homepage can be accessed via this link. Many thanks, one and all! [ Show youtube player ]

01 April 2019, 09:01	#19
Lorfarius Registered User Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Glossop/UK Posts: 532	C'mon guys lets show a bit of support! Not everyday we see something like this especially with Drop the Bomb on a CD. Once I saw the track listings I had to jump right in and pledge, itching to get mine. For things like the extra albums those are worth fresh Kickstarters of their own

02 April 2019, 09:20	#20
TheBoss Registered User Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Denmark Posts: 840	I already backed since this just looks too good to miss out on

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