GridStream Productions

Posted: **Sun Aug 15, 2010 3:37 pm**

Hia all, Gridfan here, also known as Roger "Rescator" HÃ¥gensen.

I've just released three albums of retro music.
Originally created during the 1990's and then re-mastered as high quality 24Bit 48KHz FLAC (lossless) these albums will bring you that nostalgic Amiga 80's/90's feeling in all it's glory (and flaws).

The music is generally Electronica/Ambient (or Alternative/Experimental) but also touching sub-genres like Chip-music, pop, techno, a dab of jazz or rock, orchestral, or just plain weird.

You can read more about these albums on Rescator's music page, and find out how and where to get the 3 albums with a total of 58 tracks and over 3 hours of music.

Getting the albums through indieTorrent is advised due to tracks being available at very high quality there (48KHz 24Bit FLAC), although the albums will also be available as average quality MP3's at several retailers like iTunes and Amazon and Spotify (and more) around the 17th of September 2010, see each album's pages at Rescator's music page for more details.

(I've also made arrangements for GridStream to be able to play any track from the three albums on air, so request away.)

Posted: **Mon Aug 16, 2010 2:43 am**

If anyone want the albums "now" they can go to: http://www.emsai.net/music/rescator/
or directly to http://indietorrent.org/rescator/ for purchase and download of the 24Bit 48KHz FLAC files. (as close as you can get to my masters really, which are 48KHz 32Bit gigantic WAV's just FYI.)

However around the 17th of September 2010 (dates may vary)
the three albums will also be available as MP3s at:
http://www.itunes.com/
http://www.amazonmp3.com/
http://www.spotify.com/
http://www.napster.co.uk/
http://www.emusic.com/
http://www.thumbplay.com/
http://www.deezer.com/

Obviously I'd recommend getting the FLACs from indieTorrent, not just because of the quality but because they only take 10%, leaving 90% royalties for me. Besides, the albums are available there right now, no need to wait half a month to a month.
(I use RouteNote as a distributor for all the other stores/services, they also only take 10%, but obviously iTunes etc. has taken their cut before all that so what RouteNote and I get from them isn't that much really.)

All the information below is mostly repeated from http://www.emsai.net/music/rescator/
There you can find info/links to the albums and where to get them,
as well as a link to the free 2003 release of the Ryoko album, as well as a link to acidplanet where many of my songs are available, some of which can also be found on these albums, but also some which are not otherwise available.

Rescator - Ryoko
01. Intro Part 1 (Prologue) 2:23
02. Intro Part 2 (Titles) 2:43
03. The Rescator 3:25
04. Starship Dark Soul 10:18
05. Ryoko I 7:26
06. Ryoko II 5:03
07. Cyberfight 4:02
08. Am I Alone 3:34
09. Neverend 6:50
10. Ryoko III 5:29
11. Ryoko IV 5:01
12. Cyberphreak and The Phiberoptics
13. Do Not Fear 4:41
14. End Part 1 (Cross) 2:14
15. End Part 2 (Orgun) 2:59
16. Galactica (Bonus Track) 6:03
01:15:17

This is what happens when you love the past as much as the future as far as music is concerned! It's like a soundtrack, sci-fi/space fantasy, electronic, orchestral, industrial, etc. Yet it's a soundtrack without a movie, maybe one day I'll get to make the movie as well!

The music was composed on my old Amiga 1200 computer, a mix of 8bit and 16bit sounds was used. The tracks was composed using OctaMed Soundstudio, a old but very good Module Tracker.

That was back in 1997-1999, now 2010 I re-generated the tracks in 16bit 48KHz, processed them as 32bit 38KHz, cleaned up clicks and pops, raised the lower end a little, added some warmth, normalized to -20dBFS(RMS), and turned them into 24Bit 48KHz FLAC with no dithering.
So you will be hearing "computer" sound in all it's glory (and flaws)!

And how did I come up with the music? Well... I didn't. The music came to me. (yeah a cliche, I know) I normally start with a sound or note, hit keys on random and now and again that key leads to the next.

Sometimes the song morphs into something completely different throughout a song. What it may appear to be at the start, may not always be the end!

But most importantly, I have fun. And now and again I get nostalgic and
listen to my old tracks. And now on this album you can hear a few of them.

The bonus track was created a bit later than the rest, but it too was made on the Amiga... Enjoy!

Roger "Rescator" HÃ¥gensen
http://www.EmSai.net/

Rescator - ZXY
01. Title (Exodus) 2:18
02. Cities Assembly (Assembly) 0:28
03. Dark Revelation (Dark Void) 4:12
04. Project ZXY (Legend) 3:11
05. Aliens Approaching (Fraction Of A Thought) 2:05
06. Beauty And The ZXY 1:29
07. Project X Escape 3:04
08. Aliens Attack (The Stand) 3:45
09. Cities Evacuation 1:10
10. ZXY and X Confrontation (Desert War) 3:07
11. ZXY Is Dying (Ssh! Be Still You Are Dead) 3:39
12. The Battle (Un-curable) 3:15
13. Ruins (Battle Of Cytherion) 3:02
14. ZXY Is Alive 2:44
15. ZXY vs X (Stara-neh-sara) 2:56
16. ZXY Destroys X (ZXY Final Attack) 0:39
17. ZXY Battles Aliens (SF-FX) 3:50
18. End (Classic Adventure Legend) 1:37
19. Credits (Opal Species) 3:52
20. ZXY Exodus (End Title) 3:15
21. Kult (Bonus Track) 3:55
22. Sauria-1 (Bonus Track) 2:38
01:00:12

Like the previous album Ryoko, this album's style is also like a soundtrack, sci-fi/space fantasy, electronic, orchestral, industrial, etc. Yet it's a soundtrack without a movie, maybe one day I'll get to make the movie!

The music was composed on my old Amiga 1200 computer, a mix of 8bit and 16bit sounds was used. The tracks was composed using OctaMed Soundstudio, a old but very good Module Tracker.

That was back in 1997-1999, now in 2010 I re-generated the tracks in 16bit 48KHz, processed them as 32bit 48KHz, cleaned up clicks and pops, raised the lower end a little, added some warmth, master levels calibrated to the K20RMS (-20dBFS/83dBSPL) audio standard for consistent and comfortable listening levels similar to the SMPTE movie standard, and turned them into 24Bit 48KHz FLAC with no dithering.
So you will be hearing the "computer" sound in all it's glory (and flaws)!

The album is very experimental, and unlike the previous album Ryoko which was somewhat planned as to the tracks and album style, this album was pieced together using existing tracks to make an album.

Sometimes the song morphs into something completely different throughout a song. What it may appear to be at the start, may not always be the end!

The important thing is I had fun. And now and again I get nostalgic and listen to my old tracks as several of my favorites are also on this album.

There are two bonus tracks as well that didn't fit the "story" of the album, but I couldn't resist throwing in some freebies for you.... Enjoy!

Roger "Rescator" HÃ¥gensen
http://www.EmSai.net/

Rescator - Game Over
01. Fantasia, The Adventure (1994) 1:37
02. Knight Of Death (1995) 2:35
03. Vision (1996) 3:35
04. ChipRaver (1996) 0:48
05. Betrayed, Prologue (1997) 4:10
06. Betrayed, Title (1997) 5:12
07. Freedom, Section 3 (1997) 3:38
08. Therac I (1997) 3:30
09. X (1997) 2:17
10. Zone 99, Buy Menu (1997) 3:16
11. Zone 99, Menu (1997) 0:55
12. Maiga Ahima (1997) 3:38
13. Space 1998 (1998) 0:22
14. Amiga Doom, Game Over (1998) 3:32
15. Starlight Twisters (1998) 4:01
16. Child Of The Stars (1999) 4:21
17. Last Breath (1999) 0:28
18. Middle City, Bar (2000) 2:40
19. Walking Down The Street (Bonus Track) 3:01
20. Horrors Will Never Seize (Bonus Track) 2:49
56:24

Unlike the two previous albums Ryoko and ZXY, this album has tracks that was composed through most of the 1990's, many of which was for certain music projects like games, sadly none of the games where ever completed, some of them where commercial as well but failed for one reason or another and was never really completed, so I never got to see my name in the game's credits sadly.

The music was composed on my old Amiga 1200 computer, a mix of 8bit and 16bit sounds was used. The tracks was composed using OctaMed Soundstudio, a old but very good Module Tracker.

That was back in the mid to late 1990s, now in 2010 I re-generated the tracks in 16bit 48KHz, processed them as 32bit 48KHz, cleaned up clicks and pops, raised the lower end a little, added some warmth, master levels calibrated to the K20RMS (-20dBFS/83dBSPL) audio standard for consistent and comfortable listening levels similar to the SMPTE movie standard, and turned them into 24Bit 48KHz FLAC with no dithering.
So you will be hearing the "computer" sound in all it's glory (and flaws)!

I thought it would be a waste to let this music just vanish in dust, so I pieced together this with the music I made for games, demos, and various other projects.

As seems typical for me during those years, sometimes the song morphs into something completely different thruout a song. What it may appear to be at the start, may not always be the end!

This is a very nostalgic album, I'm not saying the previous ones where not but... there are some tracks here that was supposed to be the first of many for that game's soundtrack, and some may still be a bit rough around the edges.

Again I give you some bonus tracks, "Walking Down The Street" is a vocal experiment, and the second bonus track just seemed to fit with this album. Enjoy!

Roger "Rescator" HÃ¥gensen
http://www.EmSai.net/

GridStream Productions

Gridfan aka Rescator, music albums available.

Gridfan aka Rescator, music albums available.