What ay-riders is?
by Yerzmyey
At first, I found micromusic scene. Lots and lots of fans
chiptune / low-tech sound. People dancing at a chiptunes
discos, DJi who write on these remixes chiptunes .. I was very
surprised. Low-tech music ooooochen popular all over the world.
There are many sites related to micromusic,
people play them on the Atari ST, Amiga, PC sometimes, Atari
8-bit, C64, Gameboy, MSX, Vic20, Atari 2600 and many others ...
And I wanted to do the same on the ZX Spectrum'e. I do not
known ZX only on the Speccy-stage. And he did it. Now, many
people aware of the excellent sound ZX Spectrum, and thank you
to say so amazing musicians, like C-jeff, Factor6, Gasman, TDM,
Megus and others ...
At the 2002nd we formed the band AY-Riders. At first I found on
the net low-tech group. One of them, Ym-Rockers, consists of
fans Atari St - they use the same chip as we do; AY / YM. They
publish their stuff online in a kind of "release" in
mp3-files. And it was great, because that other people do not
having a computer Atari, to listen to their music. This was
great idea: give people the opportunity to hear the offstage
music with other platforms.
So I decided to collect the best ZX musicians and put our
music to the Internet, MP3-files - to non-zx-fans to know that
Speccy is still alive and kicking. And it can generate a nice
music:)
At the moment we have 3 records - the year 2002, 2003, 2004.
All of them you can download from the Internet. We have
received many positive responses from people around the world:)
(I wonder what for the most part - from the Japanese).
Our music is played on some radio stations, and once even
had a radio show about us:) We played a gig, and hope
that everything will be alright ... Our goal - to give maximum
pleasure all chiptune-maniacs:) We are - fans are very
synthetic sound, and chiptune-aesthetics. We love our computer
and its soundchip. We want to bring Speccy-music-scene to
people outside the zx-scene.
As I wrote on our web site: "Here you can find
really good chiptunes, and you do not need Speccy - needed
only Winamp, and you find yourself in a synthetic paradise. Be
with You chiptune-aesthetics. "
