Back In The Day - Atari ST

by Tufty

supported by

Rich H Great example of Atari ST sampled music. Really enjoy the trackered, sample stuff. KnuckleBusted!!! Favorite track: Knucklebusted (Rob Hubbard).

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.

BONUS ITEMS :
Side B of the album with another 20 tracks including Robotix, UB40s 'Don't Break My Heart' and some Amiga conversions as well as a long lost track I found on an old cassette tape. I've also included re-mastered recordings of my 8 track 'Roger Rabbit- Out Of Time' music disk from 1990. Plus a small iPod friendly video of my 1989 demo 'Humanoid Mix'

Purchasable with gift card

name your price

1.	Ambiance 04:34	info	buy track
2.	Donna Rhapsody (G.Moroder/P.Bellotte) 07:28		buy track
3.	Hypnotic 01:44		buy track
4.	Hot Guitarin' 02:43		buy track
5.	Knucklebusted (Rob Hubbard) 05:07		buy track
6.	N-Synth 01:00		buy track
7.	Killer (Adamski) 03:08	info	buy track
8.	Numero Uno (Starlight) 01:15	info	buy track
9.	Pandemonium Acid 02:26	info	buy track
10.	A Hint Of Gershwin 01:24		buy track
11.	Chung Kuo (Vangelis) 01:40	info	buy track
12.	Paradise (Sade) 02:55	info	buy track
13.	Roger Rabbit - Wierd ! 01:28		buy track
14.	Half A Minute (Matt Bianco) 03:59	info	buy track
15.	Missing (Vangelis) 01:33	info	buy track
16.	Numan Synthy Ariston 01:11	info	buy track
17.	Beagle's About ! (David Whittaker) 02:26	info	buy track
18.	Lazy Bed (Matt Bianco) 02:28	info	buy track
19.	C64 Caz 01:10		buy track
20.	Back In The Day 01:01		buy track
21.	Hmmm... 00:45		buy track
22.	[BONUS] Digi-Music Demos V1 (1991) 13:44	info	buy track

about

Jan 2023 - You Tube Oscilloscope visualisations added:

youtu.be/iOZ0Equ3QoI
youtu.be/O7USW2GGJ8U

This is a re-mastered collection of retro digi-music I made on the Atari ST between 1988 and 1992.

"Back In The Day" in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when the Atari ST was enjoying its peak, everyone I knew who owned one (whether they had any musical skill or not) had a go at creating tunes using the packages available.

I chose a program called "Quartet" which allowed the creation of 4 channel 'Digi-sound' using standard musical notation to input notes.
It was one of the 1st 'Digi-music' packages for the Atari ST and became very popular.

These are the tunes I made as a teenager.

Corny and dated, of course, but maybe they provide a glimpse of the musical styles and sounds popular at the time.

Update June 2020, track 22 added:

Digi-Music Demo 1 (Atari STFM)
Old unreleased demo from 1991 for the Atari STFM including 8 Quartet tunes.

1. Dave Made Me Do It V2 (Expansion of tune by unknown composer)
2. Hot Guitarin'
3. Piano Plinker (Amiga conversion of tune by Walkman)
4. Funky Tuesday (orig. JC)
5. Good Morning Sunshine (orig. JC)
6. SLL Tune 8 (Amiga conversion, orig. SLL)
7. Missing (Vangelis)
8. Get Out Of Your Lazy Bed (Mat Bianco)

Atari ST demo file is here:
demozoo.org/productions/78563/

My old archived Atari ST demo website is preserved here:
web.archive.org/web/20070619090140/http://www.ataritufty.com/

credits

released May 15, 2015

license

about

Tufty UK

Rich 'Tufty' Hollins has been interested in making music on the ZX Spectrum and Atari ST since the mid 1980s. Active in the Atari ST demo scene in the early 90s and now in the 1-bit ZX Spectrum and chipmusic scene

Recommendations

contact / help

Contact Tufty

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

Tufty recommends:

dat fuzz
by irrlicht project

A varied collection of imaginative, quirky and psychedelic 1-bit music. One of the best ZX Beeper albums available. Tufty
go to album
4000AD
by PROTODOME

Truly amazing 1-bit album, highly recommended. Tufty
go to album

If you like Tufty, you may also like:

Impostor Nostalgia
by Big Giant Circles

featured on Bandcamp Radio Nov 5, 2013
go to album
Lines You Forgot
by Joyest_Day

Thirty wild, surreal songs from this Virginia artist with playful melodies and a colorful array of moods. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 7, 2021
go to album
Fastfall
by Lifeformed

featured on Bandcamp Radio Nov 5, 2013
go to album
The Work
by Gold Panda

More warm, uplifting, rapturously off-kilter grooves from the veteran UK producer, whose keen ear for samples remains sharper than ever. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 19, 2022
go to album