Stumbled across this guy when looking for Amiga pictures! He posted a happy picture of his younger self using his A600. Nice

https://deskgram.net/p/1039274869143023565_4334266

He does some pretty dark looking art these days and has lots of tats. Did his Amiga help him to express himself earlier on in his life and now that it's been taken away I guess he uses his body and the internet instead?!

Just got me thinking that's all. I hope he's happy. Working out to leave a beautiful corpse doesn't seem like the best life mantra. For one thing all that muscle won't take long to rot away and then the tats will look pretty naff

https://deskgram.net/mattzodiak

I'd stick to Amiga art and Deluxe Paint if I was him

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I'm also guessing a Tabor or a Vampire Standalone V4 might be a hard sell to get him back into the Amiga community? I guess if it's got a killer fitness or art program there's a chance or perhaps we could encourage him to work out to Amiga mods!

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The Amiga made Calvin Harris into a megastar

His debut 'I Created Disco' album - was entirely composed on an Amiga 1200 with OctaMED including 'Acceptable in the 80s'!


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Created_Disco

Quote:

Writing and recording Writing and recording for I Created Disco started in 2006 when Harris moved back to his hometown of Dumfries, Scotland, after living in London for two years. All recording and producing for the album took place on an Amiga computer with audio tracker OctaMED in Harris's home studio, called Calvinharrisbeats Studio. All 14 tracks on the album were written, produced and performed solely by Harris.

https://mixmag.net/feature/i-created-disco-by-calvin-harris-is-a-conceptual-masterpiece

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Calvin Who?

@Raziel

Calvin Kein?

@Raziel

So I guess you weren't born in the 80s?

Acceptable in the 80s Music Video - produced on OctaMED on a A1200

I think he dated Taylor Swift for a while, I'm guessing you know who she is or is Borat the only international celebrity you're aware of in the Bavarian mountains?

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Not only Calvin Harris. Found this in an interview with Axwell from Swedish House Mafia.

Translated from Swedish:

"Unfortunately I didn't have the money for an Amiga 500, so I had to use it at my mates' house. After a summer job I was recommended to buy and Atari, which I did. It wasn't nearly as cool as the Amiga. It was more of a proper music computer, but only if you had lots of keyboards and a studio. It was MIDI and -- what the hell, what a bad purchase. Fortunately I persuaded my neighbour to buy it from me so I could use the money for an Amiga 500 instead. It was called the demo scene at that time. I was part of a demo group and we went around what was called copy parties. You slept on the floor and competed in being nerdy. I thought it was lots of fun. The rest of your life isn't necessarily that great in that age. You're 13, there's school. Suddenly all is weird: you're slowly realizing that there are girls and that they don't want you. You realize there's a lot of cool guys into fighting and sports. For me the demo scene was so nice. No one is there to be cooler than the other. All are united by a bond of nerds and a burning interest in computers. It's weird to glamorize that scene today but it was really good for me to be a part of it. It stopped me from doing lots of shit. We gathered on the weekends in someones basement, drank lots of Coke and competed in who could make the best tune, or draw the best image. It sounds idyllic, when you think about it. It's creative, you could be yourself, everyone hung out no matter where they came from. The only criteria was that you needed to know your Amiga 500. It was a wonderful phenomenon in a very delicate phase of your yooth. I can recommend it. I don't know if there's something like it today."

Article in Swedish

Axwell's protracker music

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Renovation Man, Hobby this and cars, 20 chics before the wife and another 20 years nearly Married with two blond Amiga Girls who run around the house in the sun and Love Playing with the A1200 and 500 a game or two or draw in DP impressive stuff. Stocks, roof or nearly anything comes by after the Hotel Jobs.

Multi taught me to think and listen when doing animations, music, gfx and all.

Last time build a shower-toilet+washing machine place and yard to work as raining too much todays+roof so not very nerd.

15 Iron Maiden Gigs+some Motörhead.

Call me a nerd.

Work done with the Miga. Still sometimes.

@BigD

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BigD wrote: @Thread The Amiga made Calvin Harris into a megastar His debut 'I Created Disco' album - was entirely composed on an Amiga 1200 with OctaMED including 'Acceptable in the 80s'! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Created_Disco Quote: Writing and recording Writing and recording for I Created Disco started in 2006 when Harris moved back to his hometown of Dumfries, Scotland, after living in London for two years. All recording and producing for the album took place on an Amiga computer with audio tracker OctaMED in Harris's home studio, called Calvinharrisbeats Studio. All 14 tracks on the album were written, produced and performed solely by Harris. https://mixmag.net/feature/i-created-disco-by-calvin-harris-is-a-conceptual-masterpiece

OctaMED was what got me into the Amiga back in 1990 or so.

My musical hobby has continued but OctaMED fell by the wayside some time ago.

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Quote:

OctaMED was what got me into the Amiga back in 1990 or so. My musical hobby has continued but OctaMED fell by the wayside some time ago.

A-EON own it now so there will be an update at some point to usher in the new generation of superstar DJs (Here we go)!

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I listen to that stuff and just don't know how it was passed as commercial quality. To me it doesn't sound as good as stuff five years before it and the limitations of the Amiga audio make it sound simplistic and "fake". One machine doing two track stereo in 8-bit even with the best samples just doesn't cut it for me.

To do "real" music that doesn't sound wierd, like even my best modules, you really need unlimited tracks and be able to put FX on those tracks. I just cant imagine doing that on an Amiga.

It's okay to stoyboard your song, but for the final product, you really need to hook up the samplers. keyboards and what not. And in reality not mix them in the analogue domain. But have one device to digital downmix. The whole process is computerised after all. And would be pressed to CD.

I guess I just can't get my head around it. Sure techno and house is "fake" to begin with. But it is still produced with "real" methods so it all sounds "normal".

@Hypex

Apologies, missed this at the time:

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To do "real" music that doesn't sound wierd, like even my best modules, you really need unlimited tracks and be able to put FX on those tracks. I just cant imagine doing that on an Amiga.

Yes, without some hardware hooked up to a MIDI interface and relying purely on 8-bit samples, OctaMED is very limited.
That's why I gave up on the OS4 version - no MIDI.

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