WELCOME TO [ROB HUBBARD'S 1985 RECOLLECTION', FEATURING 40 C64 SID TUNES. TO SELECT A TUNE, USE CURSOR KEYS AND RETURN TO PLAY. THIS DISK WAS RELEASED AT THE [ZZAP! LIVE 2023' EVENT, HELD IN KENILWORTH, COVENTRY, ENGLAND ...AND IT'S A VERY LONG WAY TO TRAVEL FROM WALES, I CAN TELL YOU! LUCKILY, I HAD JAMES FROM RHAYADER COMPUTERS ALONG FOR THE RIDE. ANYWAY, THE FIRST TRACK, WHICH YOU CAN HEAR UPON LAUNCH, IS APTLY NAMED, [THE BEGINNING' AND WAS COMPOSED BY MY DANISH FRIEND, SIDWAVE. THE OTHER 39 TUNES ARE OF COURSE BY THE C64 SID LEGEND, ROB HUBBARD. CREDITS GO TO MOTION FOR CODE AND GRAPHICS. ADDITIONAL CODE BY IL SCURO AND PHS (FOR THE PLAYSID LIBRARY), WHICH MAKES THE SID SOUND POSSIBLE ON THE AMIGA'S PAULA CHIP. FINALLY, A BIG [THANK YOU' TO THE HVSC CREW FOR EXTRACTING ALL THE SID TRACKS. OK, TIME TO HAND THE KEYBOARD OVER TO JD...  HELLO WORLD, I'M JUDGE DROKK, AND YOU FIND ME IN A NOSTALGIC MOOD AS I WRITE THIS. NOT ONLY IS IT ONLY TWO DAYS UNTIL THE FIRST EVER ZZAP! LIVE EVENT THIS COMING WEEKEND, I AM ALSO PUTTING THE FINISHING TOUCHES TO A PROMOTIONAL VIDEO LOOKING AT THE THREE SERIES I PRODUCE FOR ZZAP! AMIGA MAGAZINE FROM FUSION RETRO BOOKS. THESE ARE:- DEMOSCENE LEGENDS, AMIGA PARTY CULTURE AND CONFESSIONS OF AN AMIGA SCENER. FEATURING VALUED CONTRIBUTORS, INCLUDING THE AUTHOR OF THIS VERY RELEASE, MOTION OF ARTSTATE. WE AIM TO EXPLORE THE AMIGA DEMOSCENE FROM ALL ANGLES. IN [DEMOSCENE-LEGENDS' WE CELEBRATE THE LEGENDARY DEMOS THAT BLEW OUR MINDS IN THE 1990S. THEN IN [PARTY-CULTURE', I GO BEHIND THE SCENES OF WORLD FAMOUS, THOUGH SOMEWHAT UNDERGROUND WORLD OF AMIGA DEMO-PARTIES OF THE 1990S AND COME RIGHT UP TO DATE, EXPLORING THE MODERN PARTY EVENT. FINALLY, I EXPLORE THE (SOME MIGHT SAY) SHADY SIDE OF THE AMIGA SCENE AND SPEAK TO INDIVIDUALS WITH A GUILTY SECRET IN THEIR PAST, THAT FEEL THEY ARE READY TO CONFESS! THIS IS A SIDE OF THE AMIGA I LIKE TO THINK OF AS THE [FUN-SIDE'. I WONDER HOW MR. HUBBARD MIGHT HAVE SOUND TRACKED SUCH A VIDEO? I HAVE A HUNCH IT WOULD START WITH A MELODY REMINISCENT OF THE C64'S DRAGONS LAIR II SUITE AND PERHAPS FINISH WITH THE DARK AND MURKY BASS OF KNUCKLE BUSTERS? ALAS, HE'S UNABLE TO MAKE HIS PROMISED APPEARANCE AT ZZAP! LIVE, OR I MIGHT HAVE ASKED HIM MYSELF!  ...MOTION BACK ON THE KEYS. YES, SUCH A SHAME ROB WON'T BE PRESENT, BUT THANKFULLY, YOU'VE GOT THIS MUSIC COLLECTION TO EASE THE PAIN. TIME FOR SOME GREETS TO: 4-MAT, 4PLAY, ADKD, AGHNAR, AMIGA BILL, ANDY OF ARKANIX LABS, ANDY OF HEWCO, ASLE, BIFAT AND OKEANOS OF TEK, CHRIS ABBOTT, CRITIKILL, DEFEKT, DEPECHE, DIGITAL, DOKK, ELKMOOSE, EMOD, FRANCIS, FRANK GASKING, GALAHAD, GEEZER, GRIP, HAM, HOFFMAN, JAMES, MAGIC, MIBRI, MUG UK OF ATARI LEGEND, ODIE OF COSINE, PAV, PHOTON, PUNI, SIDWAVE, SIM, SIR LUCAS, SNABEL, STINGRAY AND YAK!  THAT'S IT FROM ME... SEE YOU ALL VERY SOON IN OUR NEXT RELEASE! (MOTION 12.08.23)