Turbo Outrun Intro Music

[deenowski]

I cannot believe you made this, I was such a huge fan as a kid. I even dubbed onto tape for my walkman

[deenowski]

wow you composed this!!! I loved listening to this so much as a kid I put a recording of it in my walkman

[Xstioph]

<3

[MrFixer1983]

1 disliker have no taste for good 8 bit music.

[Reraiser777]

@MrFixer1983

im sure he just misclicked ;-)

turbooutrunintor is a masterpiece of its time. even today i still listen do it. respect and thanx to the composer!!!

[fcycles]

I am use to the NTSC version. Once you get use to a speed even if it's the wrong one you found the other version is either too slow or fast. In my case, I felt before Maniac of Noise was amazing for bringing music with fast rythm.. after I knew it was suppose to play at PAL speed.. I feel they should have increase the pace of this song... as it make sense to be fast for this racing game.

[MrFixer1983]

Very Nice music :D

@freejaytea: Bedankt voor het maken van de C64 muziek :D

Thanks for the c64 music :D

[MrFixer1983]

Very Nice music :D

@freejaytea: Are you Jeroen Tel?

[dpac0]

Truly the best C64 track ever! - I used to keep this intro running for hours in those days..

[SuperHelmer]

@freejaytea Amazing tune.

[ant3le]

THE most fantastic intro screen for a C64 game, ever. The music is just so far out,

ahead of its time... Chemical Brothers?? Simply fantastic. Brilliant. Awesome.

[BENDOKHOE]

Grande gioco, ero pproprio piccolo, avrò avuto 7-8 anni, ma me lo ricordo bene. Capolavoro la musica dei Maniacs of noise, grandi!!!

[mrchopper]

Hold on... I thought Dave Lowe did the music for this?

[inphanta]

Nope. You're probably thinking of Powerdift. Turbo Outrun was definitely MoN.

[M4R14NO94]

@mrchopper Dave Lowe did the music for the Amiga (and maybe ST as well) version

[rockattack]

Nope.. as far as I know it was Jeroen Tel (Netherlands, Maniacs of Noise)

[freejaytea]

@rockattack Yes, it was me... Jeroen Tel... and I'm still in the Netherlands. :-)

[gaspingduck]

this is the crack teams intro dude

[samplesun]

i had this game but had the later model of the c64 inwhich they modifyd the sid chip and mine at least couldent play alot of the samples in this track and others skateor die.i used to take this game to play on my mates older version 64 the CHUNK FUDGE all the samples went lol

nice post

[paulisthebest3uk]

Yeah the later models i noticed myself the sounds didnt sound nowhere as near as good as the older revisions! Anyone confirm why this was?

[sctriplefox]

There were two major revisions of the SID chip, the 6581 and the 8580. The 6581 was very far in several respects from the original spec, and had a few design bugs. Musicians exploited these bugs to do, among other things, digital samples, and when they were fixed in the 8580 that technique became inaudible.

Because of this situation where the "proper" spec isn't what composers used, 6581s are preferred among most C64 users.

[MyNameIsBucket]

I've seen a SID sound card you can buy for IBM PCs. Which of these is used in that card?

[sctriplefox]

There are several of those cards, but the most popular is hardSID and it comes in kit and premade forms, and it supports both versions of SID, and also multiple SIDs on the same card. So you can use both versions at once, stereo mode, etc.

[pigpenthegreat]

Though in most recent C64 productions most sceners tend to go for the 8580, with less pops and clicks from the analogue filters in the SID and a generally cleaner sound. Or maybe there are just more of them around these days :) Either way, this track still owns hard on my real 6581 equipped C64

[MyNameIsBucket]

@pigpenthegreat If the 8580 is the one in the 64C, I wouldn't go for it. It had a tendency to handle digitized sounds badly, especially the ones in this song.

[Audiosonicity]

@paulisthebest3uk

you're absolutely right Paul, I was after to write it like a question :-))) so this isn't a bug, it's just like that, I asked many times to my technician to change the chip just because the samples were almost inaudible, but one time it worked! I heard the samples, but never heard them anymore since then :-((( I confirm this, 20 years later, I realized why the samples were almost mute, thanks to have untied the knot :-))) thumbs up!!!

[svyat83]

просто потрясающе!!

it's really amazing! i even put this theme into my cell-phone )) I want to come to Rotterdam again, but now it would be great to see performance of Jeroen Tel...

[drezone]

Used to LOVE this!!!

Bits of this always reminded me of Salt'n'Pepa's "Push It".. maybe the Drums...

[mikeysyke]

I LOVED this when I was young, it surely has to be some of the best game music ever!

[freejaytea]

Hi BordeWollef,

Thanks for posting this! I was 16 or 17 years of age when I composed it. I prepared all the samples in a day and right after I went "clubbing" and got home pretty "drunk", but very inspired, after a lovely night dancing away with my gf. Then I sat down in front of my good old C64 and composed the tune (in assembler) in one session of 6/7 hours. Very pleased with the result! The (complete) Turbo Outrun music won the 1989 PCW Show "Best Music on 8 bit Computers" award! Yay! //JT

[DeSangre]

Hey Jeroen how are you doing? In any case maybe you can remember me as the guy who tried to use this song to seduce a girl on the phone (LOL). Strangely it didn't work quite as planned, but this tune still rocks on! :D

[drezone]

you were 17 programming in ASSEMBLER?!

WHOA!

[blade004]

The Legendary Jereon Tel :) Every game that ever had great music had a select few great names that would repeat themselves on SO MANY games with those being Matt Gray, Rob Hubbard, Jonathan Dunn, Jereon Tel ( of course ) and some others. But to me you were like this enigma or a supreme entity when i was in my early teens and all the way through to my early 20's and to this day its AMAZING what you achieved! THANK YOU for making my childhood and teenage years full of imagination with your music.

[marksims68]

JEROEN TEL!!!!

I am not worthy........

CYBERNOID RULES!!!!!

BTW I was friends with Hagar (Wally Beben) and I heard the intro to Turbo Outrun months before its release, it was awesome then and awesome now!!!

[freejaytea]

@marksims68 How can I thank you enough for still remembering this now?! I only met Wally once during one of the Commodore Shows... it was great fun!.

[blade004]

@freejaytea Myself and a couple of friends talk about your music to this game and others you have done on the C64 at least once year to this day!!!! :) You left a massive impact on a generation Jereon so you can be proud!

[freejaytea]

@blade004 Thanks man! :-)

[samplesun]

one of my fav 64 gaME tracks dident most samples id ever heard in a game sng back in the days .nice love the saltnpepper beat

ahhhh push itt!!!

[SpiralPegasus]

From a hardcore retro fan - Let me congratulate you, this sounds bloody fantastic!!!

Although I never played this game, this track is enough reason to go get the game :D

[freejaytea]

Thank you all for the very kind compliments! :-)

[tatsujincorp]

@freejaytea I was like 14~15 years old when I got the game and I was lissening to its title for almost any possible occasions (home works, cleaning up the room, reading game mags, sleeping etc...).

And still today i'm lissening to it for almost any possible occasions.

And this goes for almost any of your works ;).

THIS IS HISTORY!

[freejaytea]

@tatsujincorp Thanks! I'm glad my music has given you this much pleasure! :-)

[pigpenthegreat]

Seriously, this tune blew me away when I heard it as a nipper. It's still fantastic listening to it today.

Jeroen Tel, you are my hero.

[glenponder]

still fantastic after all these years :-D

[madonnacrackinggroup]

GREAT Stuff - JT is besides Hülsbeck some kind of god ..

[ukmarkh]

Best music in a game ever!!! Shame about the game.

[cosine303]

are u crazy? mark kelly was an great coder. chris butler was good at 3d games though, e.g. power drift. try coding something like that, then u'll see the limits u have to deal with. although my fav coder is prolly archer maclean (dropzone / ik+ etc)

[cosine303]

and how could i forget cyberdyne systems who did a very well known shoot em up =)

[ukmarkh]

And why am I crazy??? because I have an opinion... the game was nothing special, try playing it if you don't believe me! As I stated earlier, the title music and presentation including spot effects were awesome, but the game played like a badly curled poo!

[cosine303]

it played very well.. I can't understand your comment. Ofcourse your entitled to your opinion, but did you ever code on the c64 in assembler? if you did, you'd relise it's tricky to do such a game engine, due to scaling etc. compare it to the ORIGINAL s*** outrun...check out turbo charge/vendeta/power drift also. see what you think. Kelly/crow did other decent games though, golden axe conversion etc etc.

[neytosh]

I have to agree, after all the anticipation hearing the AWESOME music during loadup, selecting whether I wanted auto or manual, waiting an eternity for the damn cassette loader to do its thing, the game was just a disappointment.

[sisterbrothers]

Best C64 music ever. I still own this game in its box! This was a brilliant piece.

[ET22RULZ]

Jeroen Tel is my God.

[slackie85]

This brings back lot of memories. I now know where I got the "electro-lovin'" from :)

[BordeWollef]

Thanks :)

[Schnitz1]

Voice-samples, like in this tune, on a SID is just awesome! That's more common in .mods.

5 stars for nice choice of tune, excellent ripping and using the real deal instead of emulator!