Amiga Immortal

[Turrican]

http://www.amiga-immortal.com/

http://www.remix64.com/board/viewtopic. ... sc&start=0

http://www.maz-sound.com/Immortal/

After being delayed for quite a while, it seems that Immortal 3 is going to be released this september. Immortal is a series of audio cds that feature remixes of classic amiga tunes redone in studio quality, often by the original musicians.

The first volume already had a great version of Project X main theme by Allister Brimble, as well as the obscure Gunbee F99 shmup (a twinbee clone, apparently).

The second volume however is truly a great cd for shmups fans, as it features tracks for SWIV, Carcharodon, Z-Out, X-Out, Battle Squadron and Lethal Excess. The X-Out theme by Hulsbeck and Lethal Excess by Hippel are worthy alone the purchase, and overall I can't recommend Vol. 2 enough, truly awesome music!

Well, finally the tracklist for Immortal 3 is out and definitive. Check all three albums so far (shmups-related tracks in green):

Immortal

02. Shadow of the Beast - Intro (Whittaker, arr. Monteiro)
03. SotB - Eerie Forests (Whittaker, arr. Monteiro)
04. SotB - The Cavern (Whittaker, arr. Monteiro)
05. SotB - Beast´s Stronghold (Whittaker, arr. Monteiro)
06. SotB - Underwater (Whittaker, arr. Monteiro)
07. SotB - Game Over (Whittaker, arr. Monteiro)
08. Dafel: Bloodline (Monteiro)
09. Project X'99 (Brimble)
10. Superfrog (Brimble)
11. The Final Odyssey (Sloan)
12. Blockhead 2 (Sloan)
13. The Strangers (Sloan)
14. Harlequin (Leitch)
15. Utopia (Leitch)
16. Space Station 3000 (Heizmann)
17. Gunbee F-99 (Heizmann)
18. Turrican (Hülsbeck, arr. Monteiro)
19. Alien Breed 3D (Lynne)

Immortal 2

01. Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 (Leitch)
02. Lionheart "Dragonflight" (Steinwachs)
03. Final Countdown (Gellrich)
04. SWIV "Decimation" (Barnabas)
05. Body Blows (Brimble)
06. Carcharodon: White Sharks (Gellrich)
07. Jim Power "Main Title" (Hülsbeck, arr. Del Priore)
08. Z-Out "Level One" (Stember)
09. Shadow of the Beast 3 "Gottabe" (Wright)
10. James Pond: Robocod (Joseph)
11. X-Out (Hülsbeck)
12. Battle Squadron (Klaren)
13. Lethal Xcess (Hippel)
14. Hero Quest "Ingame" (Leitch)
15. Rain (Zottmann, arr. Zottmann & Del Priore)

Immortal 3

01 Apidya "Suite" (Hülsbeck) 4:39
02 Gods "Into the Wonderful" (Nation 12, arr. Zottmann & Del Priore) 3:19
03 Theatre of Death (Clarke) 7:04
04 Ghouls'n Ghosts (Follin, arr. Nugel Bros.) 3:40
05 Turrican 2 (Hülsbeck) 4:22
06 Turrican 3 (Hülsbeck) 3:27
07 Fire and Ice (Page) 4:07
08 Pinball Dreams (Gustafsson) 5:15
09 Disposable Hero (Hoekman & Holt) 3:35
10 The Chaos Engine (Joseph) 5:22
11 Agony (Wright) 5:34
12 Death Mask "Something Evil" (Owens, arr. Holler) 6:37
13 Defender of the Crown "Castlekeep" (Cuomo, arr. Paviot) 2:32
14 Lotus 3: The Ultimate Challenge (Phelan, arr. Del Priore & Zottmann) 2:35
15 The Plague (Klaren) 2:48
16 Alien Breed (Brimble) 3:14
17 Aquaventura (Wright) 6:15
18 Ambermoon (Steinwachs) 1:48
playing time 1:16:30

01 Wings of Death (Hippel) 7:48
02 No Second Prize "Grand Prix of India" (Steinwachs) 5:44
03 Speedball 2 "Brutal Deluxe" (Nation 12, arr. Pignon) 3:33
04 Brat (Lynne) 3:09
05 Amberstar (Hippel) 5:23
06 Shadow of the Beast 2 (Wright, arr. Zottmann, Prievert & Monteiro) 4:05
07 Uridium 2 (Page) 4:29
08 Cardiaxx (Simmonds, arr. Nugel Bros.) 2:48
09 Pinball Fantasies (Gustafsson) 6:33
10 Elfmania (Eeben, arr. af Ursin) 3:51
11 Overdrive (Brimble) 3:08
12 Ork (Bartlett) 3:23
13 Leander (Simmonds, arr. Kaunisto) 5:20
14 Obsession "Desert Run" (Almered) 4:00
15 Katakis (Zendeh) 3:36
16 Super Cars 2 (Leitch) 5:11
17 Trolls (Nixon, arr. Kaunisto) 4:27
playing time 1:16:48

Immortal 4

01 LED Storm (Follin, arr. Liljedahl) 4:26
02 Lemmings "March Of The Green Tops" (Wright) 5:09
03 Tales From Heaven "Thousand Tales" (Linzner) 2:08
04 Gauntlet 3: The Final Quest (Follin, arr. Steffen) 4:08
05 Flink "Forest" (Steinwachs) 5:22
06 Pickled Onions (Nixon) 5:45
07 Jaguar XJ220 "Moody Breeze" (Iveson, arr. Nagel) 5:34
08 Cannon Fodder "War" (Joseph & Hare, arr. Zottmann, Barnabas & Hare) 3:27
09 Paradroid 90 (Page) 5:39
10 Wolfchild (Iveson, arr. Del Priore) 4:27
11 Leisure Suit Larry "Larry’s Theme" (Lowe, arr. Zottmann) 2:06
12 Walker (Usher, arr. Ross) 3:28
13 Big Run (Myers, arr. Nugel) 3:27
14 Liberation: Captive 2 (Knight) 5:42
15 Future Wars "Les Voyageurs Du Temps" (Baudlot) 3:18
16 Fury Of The Furries "Lagoon" (Motte) 2:58
17 Fascination (Motte) 5:35
18 Cannon Fodder "Narcissus" (Hare) 5:45
playing time 1:18:24

01 Flashback (Baudlot) 3:23
02 Benefactor (Gustafsson) 2:36
03 F17 Challenge (Tomljanovich) 4:07
04 Turrican 2 "Desert Rocks" (Hülsbeck, arr. White) 4:50
05 T-Zero "Alien Scratch" (Barzagli) 6:09
06 Final Fight "Lost In Time" (Myers, arr. Böhm & McLellan) 4:21
07 Zarathrusta (Dahlgren, arr. Zwang) 3:33
08 Capital Punishment (Tomic) 4:47
09 Zeewolf "Medley" (Brimble, arr. Pignon) 4:57
10 Atomino (Franck) 4:21
11 Ultimate Body Blows (Blenkinsopp) 4:51
12 First Samurai (Davis, arr. Burt) 4:26
13 Dangerous Streets (Gazzoldi) 5:13
14 TFX "Anarchy" (Leitch) 9:32
15 Don’t Waste My Time (Nixon) 4:25
16 Puggsy "Puggs In Space" (Wright) 4:06
17 Wing Commander (Govett) 2:53
playing time 1:18:30

What more can I say? I hope it even surpasses the previous efforts. Besides shmups, it covers some of the most loved and cherished Amiga games ever, and more important, it features an impressive list of legendary game musicians!

Order your copy as soon as it's available!

[Sly Cherry Chunks]

Excellent. I have 1 and 2. I'll definitely be picking this up.

[Turrican]

http://www.zottmann.com/testbild.jpg

A preview of the cover... sadly the cd has been delayed again and again.

[Super Laydock]

Ooh, nice Psygnosis style cover there!

Any news on a new release date?

[ST Dragon]

http://www.amiga-immortal.com/

http://www.remix64.com/board/viewtopic. ... sc&start=0

After being delayed for quite a while, it seems that Immortal 3 is going to be released this september. Immortal is a series of audio cds that feature remixes of classic amiga tunes redone in studio quality, often by the original musicians.

The first volume already had a great version of Project X main theme by Allister Brimble, as well as the obscure Gunbee F99 shmup (a twinbee clone, apparently).

The second volume however is truly a great cd for shmups fans, as it features tracks for SWIV, Carcharodon, Z-Out, X-Out, Battle Squadron and Lethal Excess. The X-Out theme by Hulsbeck and Lethal Excess by Hippel are worthy alone the purchase, and overall I can't recommend Vol. 2 enough, truly awesome music!

Well, finally the tracklist for Immortal 3 is out and definitive. Keep in mind that this time it will be a double cd set. Shmups tracks are in bold:

Agony
Alien Breed
Ambermoon
Amberstar
Apidya
Aquaventura
Brat
Cardiaxx
The Chaos Engine
Death Mask
Defender of the Crown
Denaris
Disposable Hero
Elfmania
Fire & Ice
Ghouls'n Ghosts *Tim Follin's one, not Capcom's*
Gods
Leander
Lotus 3: Ultimate Challenge
No Second Prize
Obsession
Ork
Overdrive
Pinball Dreams
Pinball Fantasies
The Plague
Shadow of the Beast 2
Speedball 2
Supercars 2
Theatre of Death
Trolls
Turrican 2
Turrican 3
Uridium 2
Wings of Death

What more can I say? I hope it even surpasses the previous efforts. Besides shmups, it covers some of the most loved and cherished Amiga games ever, and more important, it features an impressive list of legendary game musicians!

Order your copy as soon as it's available!

That's a very interesting list of AMIGA game tunes!
I would love to hear them in CD quality.

But Where is Turrican 1?


On a side note, Denaris is also available for cell phones:
http://www.fakt-software.com/fakt.php?s ... 42&lang=de

[Turrican]

That's a very interesting list of AMIGA game tunes!
I would love to hear them in CD quality.

But Where is Turrican 1?

http://www.amiga-immortal.com

Turrican 1 is on the first Immortal cd - there's an arrangement of world 5, stage 2, performed by Ruben Monteiro. It's not bad but I felt that Immortal 2 was a significant step forward in quality overall.

Also, these cds don't have the original amiga tunes in "cd quality" - they are all new arrangements, often done by the original composers. Just to clarify.

[dave4shmups]

That is pretty cool, but I really wish there were some Amiga shmup Super Plays up somewhere on the internet. I've been told that it's a lot harder to capture videos from computers, but a lot of those shmups are on the CD32, and that's obviously TV-based.

[Randorama]

Bizarre note: Chris Huelsbeck arranges the OSTs for Petra Verkaik's videos. Who's Petra Verkaik? Well...

(Where's Lionheart, btw???)

[Super Laydock]

(Where's Lionheart, btw???)

Immortal 2

01. Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 (Leitch)
02. Lionheart "Dragonflight" (Steinwachs)

[Turrican]

(Where's Lionheart, btw???)

Immortal 2

01. Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 (Leitch)
02. Lionheart "Dragonflight" (Steinwachs)

And is one of the best tracks I might add!

[it290]

On the cover, that picture on the top left (I guess it's the Immortal 1 cover) is an homage to a picture from some demo. Can anyone remember what it is? It looks like Facet's work, or something.

[zinger]

Bizarre note: Chris Huelsbeck arranges the OSTs for Petra Verkaik's videos. Who's Petra Verkaik? Well...

[Randorama]

ok, two things:

1. Thanks guys, it's pretty clear that i'm becoming blind, though.
2. Zinger:

[DC906270]

Bizarre note: Chris Huelsbeck arranges the OSTs for Petra Verkaik's videos. Who's Petra Verkaik? Well...

I take it from the winks exchanged between you two, that Petra Verkaik is a european porn star/director, or other humourous profession?

[Randorama]

"The most famous playmate ever", i think

[zinger]

"The most famous playmate ever", i think

Yeah, something like that. I remember her from the days of puberty.

Where did you hear about this Hülsbeck connection though?

[Randorama]

"The most famous playmate ever", i think

Yeah, something like that. I remember her from the days of puberty.

Where did you hear about this Hülsbeck connection though?

I saw a couple of videos with a nice " theme by Chris Hülsbeck" add, so...

[Turrican]

Our beloved Amiga Chapter.One site has now a radio blog feature, and among the many great tracks you can listen to at this moment, there's the original intro tune Allister Brimble wrote for Team 17's Overdrive. A remix of which is supposed to be on the third Immortal release.

I recommend everyone to listen at it - Brimble at his best!!!

*ps, the other radio tracks are excellent too, of course, although probably much more widely known by the shmups community.

[Shocky]

The selection of tracks on the Immortal cd:s is truly great, but.. the remixes themselves aren't really interesting (haven't listened to AI3 yet though).

The Overdrive track is nice, but I don't think it's anywhere near Allister's best.. even Miami Chase is better, and especially the Alien Breed games and Project-X. That Team 7 karate game had killer music too, anyone remember what it was called?

Most of the other radio tracks are pure diamond though! They should put some less-known classics there too, like Hired Guns.

Edit: Now I remembered the name of the karate game. Full Contact. Highly recommended.

[Turrican]

The selection of tracks on the Immortal cd:s is truly great, but.. the remixes themselves aren't really interesting (haven't listened to AI3 yet though).

If by "not interesting" you mean that they stay true to the original tunes, this is mostly true, and understandable since these soundtracks were never published on cd before.
If you just mean "poorly done" - I found the quality to be noticeably different from track to track. Project X was the one to stand out from the rest in the first immortal, Leitch's work was also good. I didn't like Monteiro's arrangement though, especially Turrican.
The second cd has some truly fine pieces of music: Lionheart, X-Out, Lotus 2, Lethal Xcess, SWIV being the best of the bunch. I didn't like Stember's Z-Out, nor Gellrich's work. Among the arrangements on tunes by other artists, Del Priore did a good job with Jim Power.

Most of the other radio tracks are pure diamond though! They should put some less-known classics there too, like Hired Guns.

Oh, Hired Guns is pretty well known! Surely more than Dafel or Space Station 3000
Personally I'd like to see Menace on Immortal 4, and Martin Iveson' Jaguar XJ220 and Wolfchild. Of course...

[Shocky]

If by "not interesting" you mean that they stay true to the original tunes, this is mostly true, and understandable since these soundtracks were never published on cd before.

Exactly. I have all the important amiga game/demo tracks as mp3, and I listen to them frequently, so I wasn't impressed.. and I like them to sound 16-bittish, not cd-quality. But I give my full support for these cd's anyway, they are good compositions and should not be forgotten.

Oh, Hired Guns is pretty well known! Surely more than Dafel or Space Station 3000
Personally I'd like to see Menace on Immortal 4, and Martin Iveson' Jaguar XJ220 and Wolfchild. Of course...

Yes, I meant that Hired Guns is less known in the "good music" category than R-Type, SotB, Apidya, Turrican etc. It doesn't get mentioned as often as it should. As a game it's quite well known, as it should. I second those suggestions for Immortal 4 musics, especially I'd like to hear Menace with real instruments.

A funny thought came to my mind: It's too bad that non-game applications didn't evolve to include music. It's a crazy idea, but one of the best Amiga tracks ever is actually on a file compressing utility called Imploder. The music is by Paul Van Der Walk (Battle Squadron, Hybris). Do you Amiga freaks remember other applications with music? I think X-Copy II or something had music.

[Turrican]

Well, since this has pretty much become the official thread for teary-eyed amiga music lovers, let me give you another advice:

search this:

ebay item no° 8274222924

disguised as a PCE game, what you're really looking at is an awesome redbook audio soundtrack cd by Chris Hulsbeck. His first work ever released on cd media, actually. Definitely one of the best audio cds you can purchase.

And hey, it comes with the game too; who knows, the mighty Revolution could run it one day! (if not, there's always Magic Engine)

*P.S. it's the only one on ebay atm, but I suspect it can be bought for cheaper than that if you're patient enough.

[Super Laydock]

Our beloved Amiga Chapter.One site has now a radio blog feature

Thanks for the heads up!
Listening to your very own title track now!

Awesome stuff!

[Turrican]

news from remix64.com forums:

Release date: June 15th, 2006

Disc 1 - Playing Time 1:16:30
01 Apidya "Suite" (Hülsbeck) 4:39
02 Gods "Into the Wonderful" (Nation 12, arr. Zottmann & Del Priore) 3:19
03 Theatre of Death (Clarke) 7:04
04 Ghouls'n Ghosts (Follin, arr. Nugel Bros.) 3:40
05 Turrican 2 (Hülsbeck) 4:22
06 Turrican 3 (Hülsbeck) 3:27
07 Fire and Ice (Page) 4:07
08 Pinball Dreams (Gustafsson) 5:15
09 Disposable Hero (Hoekman & Holt) 3:35
10 The Chaos Engine (Joseph) 5:22
11 Agony (Wright) 5:34
12 Death Mask "Something Evil" (Owens, arr. Holler) 6:37
13 Defender of the Crown "Castlekeep" (Cuomo, arr. Paviot) 2:32
14 Lotus 3: The Ultimate Challenge (Phelan, arr. Del Priore & Zottmann) 2:35
15 The Plague (Klaren) 2:48
16 Alien Breed (Brimble) 3:14
17 Aquaventura (Wright) 6:15
18 Ambermoon (Steinwachs) 1:48

Disc 2 - Playing Time 1:16:48
01 Wings of Death (Hippel) 7:48
02 No Second Prize "Grand Prix of India" (Steinwachs) 5:44
03 Speedball 2 "Brutal Deluxe" (Nation 12, arr. Pignon) 3:33
04 Brat (Lynne) 3:09
05 Amberstar (Hippel) 5:23
06 Shadow of the Beast 2 (Wright, arr. Zottmann, Prievert & Monteiro) 4:05
07 Uridium 2 (Page) 4:29
08 Cardiaxx (Simmonds, arr. Nugel Bros.) 2:48
09 Pinball Fantasies (Gustafsson) 6:33
10 Elfmania (Eeben, arr. af Ursin) 3:51
11 Overdrive (Brimble) 3:08
12 Ork (Bartlett) 3:23
13 Leander (Simmonds, arr. Kaunisto) 5:20
14 Obsession "Desert Run" (Almered) 4:00
15 Katakis (Zendeh) 3:36
16 Super Cars 2 (Leitch) 5:11
17 Trolls (Nixon, arr. Kaunisto) 4:27

There are some changes in the featured game as well, as you can see.

[Eps]

The Turrican 2 track had better be the main title theme Though it's hard to see how Huelsbeck can do that better than the original, which is still my favourite piece of Amiga music ever (and gets regular rotation on my portable mp3 player )

[Turrican]

The Turrican 2 track had better be the main title theme

The full main title theme is around 7 minutes - so it's probably another track!

I do hope these Turrican arrangements are newly done, not some reprise from earlier Huelsbeck cds.

[Shatterhand]

That Team 7 karate game had killer music too, anyone remember what it was called?

Full Contact

http://hol.abime.net/633

[Fenrir]

I WILL buy it may it be the last thing I do in my life.

ps.

Our beloved Amiga Chapter.One site

I will love you big time for this

[Turrican]

Our beloved Amiga Chapter.One site

I will love you big time for this

Maybe you just mean to thank me for the heads up, but in any case, let me specify that when I said "our beloved" I didn't mean that I've any affiliation with the site! I'm just a faithful reader

[Turrican]

My copy of Immortal 3 just arrived and I listened to the first cd - so, how did it fare? Does it surpass the previous efforts? Was it worth the wait?

The answer is a big "YES", definitely. This first cd is amazing both in sound quality and in track selection. Huelsbeck is once again the cream of the crop with the Apidya suite performed by real orchestra, and stunningly good versions of Turrican 2's Secret Dungeons and Turrican 3.

Tim Wright's Agony intro sounds incredible, Richard Joseph's Chaos Engine is not the expected intro tune but a well done medley that features the unforgettable game speech ("node activated")... The Ghouls'n Ghosts remix is also very good.

Page's Fire and Ice stays very true to the original and I enjoyed it much more than Robocod's remix on Immortal 2. Also very good is Pinball Dreams by Gustafsson, though I have to compare it with the original yet.

The Disposable Hero track, while good, definitely surprised me as I expected the Intro music. Instead it's a level tune, a weird choice perhaps.

Out of 18 tracks, just three games were unfamiliar to me Theatre of Death, Death Mask and the Plague, but unlike the first immortal, these tracks actually weren't bad surprises at all, Theatre being the best of the three, I'd say.

Well, no album is perfect so here comes the not-so-good part:
the Gods remix doesn't live up to the original. it's probably the lowest point of the cd, unfortunately. I also didn't feel much about the Defender of the Crown track - it wasn't an outstanding piece of music to begin with, and the arrangement doesn't make it any better. I guess not liking two tracks out of 18 is already an impressive achievement.

"Secret Dungeons" and Agony are my favorite so far, and Chaos Engine, Turrican 3, Ghouls'n Ghosts, Apidya, Aquaventura, Ambermoon all rank in the "excellence" category. The second cd has a lot to live up to! More impressions will follow of course.