My Favorite SID Tunes by JCH

This is page 2. See also page 1, page 3, page 4, page 5 and page 6.

Easy Does It
1991 Vibrants
A digi tune with a fourth track with digital samples. Used here for chords as well as drums.

Electric Toothbrush
2017 Vibrants
The first SID tune I made in 25 years. It runs in 4x speed and was made in CheeseCutter.

Ending
1989 Vibrants
Conversion of an Amiga MOD tune by ICE of Channel 42.

Feel It
1989 Vibrants

Forever Cry
1989-90 Vibrants
Cooperation between The Saint and JCH.

George Carl
1989 Vibrants
The slow part from 1:18 to 1:56 is the mouth organ piece played by George Carl in his show. There’s also an interesting part at 3:58 that might be worth checking out.

Glider Pilot
1989 Vibrants
Recreation of the primitive title tune from the C64 game Glider Pilot with better instruments.

Going Up
1990 Vibrants
The part at 0:15 was used as inspiration for my own FastTracker II tune Dim Jingle in 1998.

Gold Digger (Hiscore)
1989 JCH & Link
Originally made for a Boulder Dash clone, but the game was never finished.

Gold Digger (Bouncy Bonus)
1989 JCH & Link

Gone
1990 Vibrants
There’s an interesting change at 0:26.

Groovy #4
1989 Vibrants

Guldkorn Ekspressen (Hiscore)
1991 SilverRock Productions
Uses filter in all three voices. Used in the C64 game Guldkorn Ekspressen.

Guldkorn Ekspressen (Title)
1991 SilverRock Productions

Guldkorn Ekspressen (Intro)
1991 SilverRock Productions
Conversion of a jingle used in a commercial for the product the game is based on.

Guldkorn Ekspressen (Level #1)
1991 SilverRock Productions
All level tunes only use two voices. The third voice was supposed to be used for sound effects, but the programmer had to avoid mixing them because of memory restraints on the cartridge.

Guldkorn Ekspressen (Level #2)
1991 SilverRock Productions

Guldkorn Ekspressen (Level #3)
1991 SilverRock Productions
Adaptation of “The Loco-Motion” originally sung by Little Eva. It wasn’t used in the game.

Guldkorn Ekspressen (Level #4)
1991 SilverRock Productions

Guldkorn Ekspressen (Level #5)
1991 SilverRock Productions

Hacktrick
1989 Vibrants
Cooperation between The Saint and JCH. He hummed the bassline and I added all the rest.

Hard On
1989 Vibrants
The title indicates that this was the first tune to use a technique called hard restart.

Hawaii
1990 Vibrants
Cooperation between MSK and JCH. MSK made the bassline (the part you can hear in the beginning) and the drums. Features probably the longest solos I’ve ever done, starting at 1:37.

Heavy Hit
1991 Vibrants
Imagined as a tune for an end level boss in a game.

Hexagon Party
1988 Jens-Christian Huus
There are a few disharmonic mistakes caused by lazy sequence transpositions.

Highscore
1989 Vibrants

Hiscore
1989 Vibrants

Hit Song
1989 Vibrants
Conversion of “Turn It Up” by Michael Davidson, used as a sample in an early Amiga intro by ECA.

Hollow+
1989 Vibrants

Hollywood
1990 Vibrants
A sad tune that reaches a climax at 3:07.

Horizon Copy-Party
1990 Vibrants
Made at the party in Sweden that the title refers to.

Hurricane
1991 Vibrants
Experimental tune that tests the speed changing ability of a new player. The change happens at 0:15.

Illegal Man
1989 Vibrants
Made in 20CC’s music player. A source code was leaked and I had to check it out. Goes crazy at 0:15.

Intro Zak
1989 Vibrants
Originally made for an intro by Channel 42.

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2 comments on “My Favorite SID Tunes by JCH

  1. Greets from a former Toronto Canada C64 user! Wow — a lot of memorable tunes in this list! I use to rip the music from various intros and demos so I could play it back at my leisure.

    What are the licensing and attribution requires for the music you authored? I am putting together some DIY/electronics-modification videos for YouTube, and would like to use one or more of these tunes as background music.

  2. Thanks, and greetings to you too.

    Remember to check out my online player DeepSID too. There’s a link in the side bar.

    Regarding the licensing and attribution, I reckon it’s the same as stated by HVSC. See the bottom of this FAQ page about releasing a cover of a SID tune commercially.

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