This is easily one of the top 3 best C64 SID songs ever composed. In this track, Rob Hubbard tortures the 6581 like no one has ever done before, at times going over the limits. I keep listening to this song every once in a while over the last 20 years and get goosebumps each and every time.
People of Culture, we meet again. And we remember the first time the loading lines gave way to this... And we could not believe what we were hearing! A locked moment in time.
bro the old 8 bit songs, man they are filled with too much pure and innocent memories, when I listen to them, I just get teleported to a different time period, where I can live my childhood again
This was what persuaded me to switch from my Spectrum to the C64. Not the game, but this tune! It was then and, for me, still is the very best of what we were treated to as a Commie owner. This was the only game I never used my Freeze Frame to port to floppy disc, because that would've been sacrilege. I know the gaming PC I have now is a squillion times better and more powerful than my old C64, but I always get the feeling that the hardware is coasting, like it's not being asked to do anything complicated and, frankly, it doesn't inspire me like these old boxes from back in the day. I marvel at how programmers could squeeze so much out of 64k and how composers like Rob Hubbard and Martin Galway could get SID to do so much more than it was ever intended to do.
Man there used to be a video with this music and clips from the last starfighter movie cut into it. It was so good. Looks like I was asking about that video 14 years ago in the comments.. Just trying my luck for a reply from an another oldie..
There are many, many wonderful C64 tunes made by Rob Hubbard, Martin Galway, Ben Daglish et all, but this one of Rob Hubbard's is a real masterpiece! I used to press stop on the tape loader to listen to it in entirety rather then letting the game load ;o)
Once the 'cyber load' boot sequence was out the way this entire track took just 10.5 seconds to load from the 1530 tape deck.... when the face stopped flashing momentarily, this would run on its own ready for the rest of the game to load in the background....we used to take the tape out at that point and not bother loading the rest of the game 😂
I totally agree with cosine303, there were and still are a lot of gifted people out there, but I also have to admit, Rob does it for me. He made tunes that will be forever in my heart, right beside my youth. x
remember the time when i used to love watching it load starting with the dark screen followed by the sudden music, then the image starts filling in slowly from side to side starting from the top line, then slowly moving downwards to reveal the ship and eventually the title, the music went perfectly with this image and it still sends shivers down my spine at the age of 31 :D
Not everyone was gifted in the 80's. I just cherished the fact I got a c64, and not an Oric, MSX, TI99, Dragon, Amstrad, Spectrum or other.... That's why I have a love of this music, this Ocean loader, to see gaming machines evolve from a pong to shadow of the beast, something that I'll tell my grand children, again and again, and again, and... lol xx
Just awesome what he did with the SID. Man, what strange emotions listening to this stuff... Rob was like some kind of DEITY to us C64 kids, he really was... Monty on the Run is the best though :D (runs for cover)
I think it's because the gaming music today is pretty well like any other music. Big orchestral scores. The gaming music of old had that very distinctive chiptunes character. There were a lot of old C64 and Amiga games that I'd fire up just to listen to the music. Comic Bakery and Druid come to mind as well as Sanxion of course.
This is still one of the best gaming memories I have. Epic tune. Rob Hubbard made that thing sing. Current composers could learn a thing or two from this.
don't forget Galway and many more.. that's the thing though people go on about Hubbard a lot of the time, yet know little of others work.. which is a pity. Do I think anyone is the #1 sid maker? nope.. but I feel some of the people are sometimes not as rated highly.
Whoah...brought some memories back that did. Rob Hubbard was amazing (probably still is). I once had a recording of this direct from the synths...(before it was run through the SID chip)...I think it was on a freebie cassette stuck on the front of a ZZAP64 magazine.
Rob Hubbard and his music was keeping us play just to listen to his great soundtracks and also inspired me along with Jean Michel Jarre to electroninc music......Great memories!!!
truly the best piece Rob Hubbard has done. It belongs in a museum probably. Quite possibly the most exceptional middle section of any music as well. Stunning and I bet even Rob wonders how he managed it. Shame about the god awful practice of remixes
I think a lot of people probably do. If I'm honest I prefer One man and his droid to this in terms of catchiness and actually listening to it more often. Rob Hubbard wrote some very melodic stuff but I think Sanxion was his best for theme and how he structures it together.Not very keen at all on Monty on the run either for the most or Crazy Comets and sequel but I think people associate it's technical wizardry more when deciding what they figure best.
I guess it just depends. It's an unusual structure for sure and I could certainly pick fault with it myself but generally I like it. I'd very much argue that Rob Hubbard despite the deserving credit he gets did write mostly pieces that were not entirely consistent anyway. The first piece from The Human Race for example is very good up to a point and Knucklebusters main game tune is stunning early on and then fairly awful for much after. I really quite enjoy his stuff and probably rate around 10 or so of his tunes up there as faves but this aspect is never mentioned. Other musicians at the time that wrote on the C64 also
yes I would agree his understanding like a lot of greats is probably his own which is why nobody ever sounded that way. He did a lot for people like myself because I always saw his music at the time as the bar. Went on to listen to others too of course which were very likely spurred on by his work as well. And yes music is certainly very interesting when you start coupling it in ways outside of where it originally came from
I think it's a beautifully made piece of music. The middle section is emotionally powerful, a perfect counter to the medium of bleepy nasal chiptune. I had a ZX Spectrum in those days but I think as a kid this tune would have torn my heart out. I can't choose a favourite. Nemesis the Warlock is superb, as is Zoids, Thrust, in addition to the one's you've already mentioned. Really, the guy was top of the game, every tracks a banger!
The C64 was and is just an amazing machine and the SID chip and Rob Hubbard were such a phenomenal pairing!!! Long live the 80s and the tech it spawned!!!
I honestly have no idea how Rob Hubbard came up with this - its fantastic and lasted the test of time. I get hairs on my neck rising when I hear it even now... the game was rubbish though.
Heh heh, I just put this on at my house, playing the decks, they bloody loved it! *lol* Classic, right up there with Monty and the Last Ninja! I'll try them next! *lol*
sweeeeeet tune.. remember there being a studio recorded version on a tape given away with a magazine. other side of tape was pyjamara or somethin......
I loved that tune back in the days. I grew up and,guess what,I still love it!!! BTW there is a cool remix on 'Remix Kwed org' called 'Sanxion Loader (Acoustic)'.... Just two guitars and some rain that's all. Love that one too.
Same here. On Zzap! 64, they gave away a cover cassette which had Rob Hubbard playing this on a Fairlight. Beautiful piece of work, but then who expected any less of him?
Not even in BASIC, mate. Have you ever seen C64 BASIC? It's crap! Programming the SID chip required two commands: PEEK and POKE. After that, it was a shit load of memory addresses and registers. It was more akin to machine language than anything.
Stavros Fasoulas was the guy who coded both games. By the time he arrived on the scene, the gaming arena had become a bit stagnant (too many movie tie-ins and Ocean's laziness, mainly). He was like a breath of fresh air.
I did a remake of this. I'm sure they'll be plenty of people cursing its existence, but I was pretty pleased with the result. Tried to keep the essence of the original. soundcloud.com/angledsocks/sanxion
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This is easily one of the top 3 best C64 SID songs ever composed. In this track, Rob Hubbard tortures the 6581 like no one has ever done before, at times going over the limits. I keep listening to this song every once in a while over the last 20 years and get goosebumps each and every time.
Love your comment, I still listen to it now. Classic. XxX
People of Culture, we meet again. And we remember the first time the loading lines gave way to this... And we could not believe what we were hearing! A locked moment in time.
@@tonytuckwell2325Beautifully put, Tony. So true. A masterpiece.
You should put the name of the artist, Rob Hubbard, in the description and/or title...
Agreed. The guy is a genius.
Was this a Rob Hubbard one? If so, up there w/Auf Weidersein Monty, IK+ and Commando; used to put those games on as a kid just to listen to the music
Rob Hubbard.
bro the old 8 bit songs, man they are filled with too much pure and innocent memories, when I listen to them, I just get teleported to a different time period, where I can live my childhood again
Totally with you on that one !
Luv this
This was what persuaded me to switch from my Spectrum to the C64. Not the game, but this tune! It was then and, for me, still is the very best of what we were treated to as a Commie owner. This was the only game I never used my Freeze Frame to port to floppy disc, because that would've been sacrilege.
I know the gaming PC I have now is a squillion times better and more powerful than my old C64, but I always get the feeling that the hardware is coasting, like it's not being asked to do anything complicated and, frankly, it doesn't inspire me like these old boxes from back in the day. I marvel at how programmers could squeeze so much out of 64k and how composers like Rob Hubbard and Martin Galway could get SID to do so much more than it was ever intended to do.
leopold005 well said, i completely agree
what a fuckin waist
dont get a new computer just because one sounds better kids
Yes. So much. People used to do incredible things with hardware, now it's all high level.
@@bitchlasagna4720 Fifteen year old me apologises for being so shallow. I shall travel back to 1986 and give myself a slap.
ZX Spectrum version of this tune was also quite decent
How on earth he made the chip sing so well is beyond all reasoning. The guy is an utter genius and should be acknowledged.
The "Guitar solo" bit is astounding. It make the hairs stand up on the back of my neck.
That's my childhood, right there. Sitting in an atic on the old C64 with my bro. Great memories.
Going on 30 years later, and this track still sends shivers down my spine. Love it!
Man there used to be a video with this music and clips from the last starfighter movie cut into it. It was so good. Looks like I was asking about that video 14 years ago in the comments.. Just trying my luck for a reply from an another oldie..
I'm with you on that one
And I'm 54
There are many, many wonderful C64 tunes made by Rob Hubbard, Martin Galway, Ben Daglish et all, but this one of Rob Hubbard's is a real masterpiece!
I used to press stop on the tape loader to listen to it in entirety rather then letting the game load ;o)
Rob Hubbard. Just awesome.
Once the 'cyber load' boot sequence was out the way this entire track took just 10.5 seconds to load from the 1530 tape deck.... when the face stopped flashing momentarily, this would run on its own ready for the rest of the game to load in the background....we used to take the tape out at that point and not bother loading the rest of the game 😂
this was one of those games where u really didn't mind that much it u get a tape loading error at the end...
u get to hear the great music again :D
Really, this should be the loader from a real C64, including the glowing Thalamus logo and the screen drawing.
Used to pause the tape just to listen to this tune loop...one of Mr Hubbard's best from his cupboard.
I totally agree with cosine303, there were and still are a lot of gifted people out there, but I also have to admit, Rob does it for me. He made tunes that will be forever in my heart, right beside my youth. x
One of Rob Hubbard's finest tunes
Agreed, SID only makes sense for me in mono. Love this track, the guitar solo part gives me goosebumps every time.
Agreed. And I love that mad breakdown in the middle that sounds like something RDJ would have come up with his heyday.
God tier work by RH.
One of the very best c64 themes of all time
Great memories of this. I taught myself to play it on the piano.
remember the time when i used to love watching it load starting with the dark screen followed by the sudden music, then the image starts filling in slowly from side to side starting from the top line, then slowly moving downwards to reveal the ship and eventually the title, the music went perfectly with this image and it still sends shivers down my spine at the age of 31 :D
spot on!
PLATYPUS 2ND LEVEL!!!
OH HELL YEAH!!
Hated Area 8 / 2-3, those damned mine shrapnels >_
Are you saying they used this tune in it?
Rob 'Thee God' Hubbard, how many of us grew up with his music? I hope he understands how much he meant to us. x
SUPER Rob Hubbard
Platypus 1 level 2 theme
Not everyone was gifted in the 80's. I just cherished the fact I got a c64, and not an Oric, MSX, TI99, Dragon, Amstrad, Spectrum or other.... That's why I have a love of this music, this Ocean loader, to see gaming machines evolve from a pong to shadow of the beast, something that I'll tell my grand children, again and again, and again, and... lol xx
MSX had very few decent games in the UK and Europe. Better served in Japan. In the UK it just got quick and dirty spectrum ports.
Can anyone else claim such originallity? I keep coming back, it's a masterpice, no doubt. x
Still the best tune ever!
Still THE best game music ever. Rob Hubbard, God bless you!!
and to think this was just the loading music!
I can't imagine the game living up to this masterpiece.
It was a pretty good game, a bit hard, but definitely playable. But no, it didn't.
It didn't - it was a pretty awful game.
Just awesome what he did with the SID. Man, what strange emotions listening to this stuff... Rob was like some kind of DEITY to us C64 kids, he really was... Monty on the Run is the best though :D (runs for cover)
Was at one of his lectures, he is a God, and he doesn't even know it, Rob, as I said, just admit the gift you gave the world.
This music is epic! Rob Hubbard music is epic! I came here from Platypus actually, level 2!
My fave c64 music
Music maestro! Three tracks of audio and such a soundscape! Emotional overload too, fuckin' heavy
I think it's because the gaming music today is pretty well like any other music. Big orchestral scores. The gaming music of old had that very distinctive chiptunes character. There were a lot of old C64 and Amiga games that I'd fire up just to listen to the music. Comic Bakery and Druid come to mind as well as Sanxion of course.
Best C64 tune. I now realise that it was this type of music that got me into deep house music.
The loader to this was better than the game.... wow
Stereo, mono, quadrophony-- the sound of SID is just A*W*E*S*O*M*E, no matter what! ;-)
Cheers,
Phoxx.
I am a little bit out of this era of gaming, so I can't speak of nostalgia; but I'll totally reload the game just to listen this over and over!
This is still one of the best gaming memories I have. Epic tune. Rob Hubbard made that thing sing. Current composers could learn a thing or two from this.
don't forget Galway and many more.. that's the thing though people go on about Hubbard a lot of the time, yet know little of others work.. which is a pity. Do I think anyone is the #1 sid maker? nope.. but I feel some of the people are sometimes not as rated highly.
Godlike! Still makes me feel like I just heard music for the first time, never stop loving this. x
the best part from 2.50, I missed that times.. my mother bought me this game
Ironman's favorite C64 loader tune
I still love listening to this ... its just amazing
2:50 onwards is 100% made of pure win!! Awesome tune! :)
God bless Rob, God Bless Platypus.
YES, and pressed stop on the tape so it wouldnt end... many many times :)
Me too! :)
best c64 music by a mile , i remember reloading it time after time just to listen to it....lol
Still sounds mint today
Whoah...brought some memories back that did. Rob Hubbard was amazing (probably still is). I once had a recording of this direct from the synths...(before it was run through the SID chip)...I think it was on a freebie cassette stuck on the front of a ZZAP64 magazine.
awesome man good old times are Perfect
thanks to these people we have the best computers now
Rob Hubbard and his music was keeping us play just to listen to his great soundtracks and also inspired me along with Jean Michel Jarre to electroninc music......Great memories!!!
One of my all time favorite tunes. Never even played the game. Ever.
Thank you. Still coming back. x
One of the best C 64 songs ever! Thanks for uploading in that quality!
Thanks you so much for uploading this!
truly the best piece Rob Hubbard has done. It belongs in a museum probably. Quite possibly the most exceptional middle section of any music as well. Stunning and I bet even Rob wonders how he managed it. Shame about the god awful practice of remixes
I think a lot of people probably do. If I'm honest I prefer One man and his droid to this in terms of catchiness and actually listening to it more often. Rob Hubbard wrote some very melodic stuff but I think Sanxion was his best for theme and how he structures it together.Not very keen at all on Monty on the run either for the most or Crazy Comets and sequel but I think people associate it's technical wizardry more when deciding what they figure best.
I guess it just depends. It's an unusual structure for sure and I could certainly pick fault with it myself but generally I like it. I'd very much argue that Rob Hubbard despite the deserving credit he gets did write mostly pieces that were not entirely consistent anyway. The first piece from The Human Race for example is very good up to a point and Knucklebusters main game tune is stunning early on and then fairly awful for much after. I really quite enjoy his stuff and probably rate around 10 or so of his tunes up there as faves but this aspect is never mentioned. Other musicians at the time that wrote on the C64 also
yes I would agree his understanding like a lot of greats is probably his own which is why nobody ever sounded that way. He did a lot for people like myself because I always saw his music at the time as the bar. Went on to listen to others too of course which were very likely spurred on by his work as well. And yes music is certainly very interesting when you start coupling it in ways outside of where it originally came from
I think it's a beautifully made piece of music. The middle section is emotionally powerful, a perfect counter to the medium of bleepy nasal chiptune. I had a ZX Spectrum in those days but I think as a kid this tune would have torn my heart out.
I can't choose a favourite. Nemesis the Warlock is superb, as is Zoids, Thrust, in addition to the one's you've already mentioned. Really, the guy was top of the game, every tracks a banger!
People forget the music he did for Kentilla too... never gets boring!
The C64 was and is just an amazing machine and the SID chip and Rob Hubbard were such a phenomenal pairing!!! Long live the 80s and the tech it spawned!!!
One of the best tunes out there? Long live Rob Hubbard!
@FeNsTa it was on the front cover of ZZAP 64 ... ahhh awesome days
Another classic C64 track on the SID sound chip that was well WELL ahead of it day since the C64 was first produced in 1982!
I honestly have no idea how Rob Hubbard came up with this - its fantastic and lasted the test of time. I get hairs on my neck rising when I hear it even now... the game was rubbish though.
Me and you both bud, I couldn't put it any better, kudos. x
Heh heh, I just put this on at my house, playing the decks, they bloody loved it! *lol*
Classic, right up there with Monty and the Last Ninja!
I'll try them next! *lol*
sweeeeeet tune.. remember there being a studio recorded version on a tape given away with a magazine. other side of tape was pyjamara or somethin......
YES 45 minutes of pure please loading. Multi Tasking ! eat that MS DOS!!!
@elvirtnt
Thanks mate, didn't know that, was nice to let me know, I apprecaite it. x
A master of the SID chip and fantastic composer
The privelidge of time. Good on you Mr Na... x
Rob is god. And he just lived down the road from me, in Newcastle Upon Tyne. Good Old Days.. :)
Woah it's the song CGR uses. Had no idea it came from this.
Bloody amazing, if the C64 had been stereo and a bit more bass it would have been even more awesome
To be honest Enjoyed loader music much more than the game back in the day. Actually do know too
Oh God this song is so catchy! I love it!
The loader to this was better than the game.... wow the music is ace
I loved that tune back in the days.
I grew up and,guess what,I still love it!!!
BTW there is a cool remix on 'Remix Kwed org' called 'Sanxion Loader (Acoustic)'....
Just two guitars and some rain that's all.
Love that one too.
Same here. On Zzap! 64, they gave away a cover cassette which had Rob Hubbard playing this on a Fairlight. Beautiful piece of work, but then who expected any less of him?
Rob at it's finest!
Robb Hubbard, the music genius of the commodore 64, how the hell did he managed to program this outstanding tune in basic
Not even in BASIC, mate. Have you ever seen C64 BASIC? It's crap! Programming the SID chip required two commands: PEEK and POKE. After that, it was a shit load of memory addresses and registers. It was more akin to machine language than anything.
There is a God Forgot how f-ing cool the loading tunes for Thalamus games were enjoy.
Awesome, awesome song.
Amazing, Rob changes the waveform on the fly. SID quasi FM on the fly. He is a programmer as well as a musician.
ALL HALE ROB HUBBARD ! Thank You MASTER !
Platypus!!!!!!!
This is superb, though I do think the in-game music in Delta was even better...(also by Rob Hubbard, and game by same programmer)
Stavros Fasoulas was the guy who coded both games. By the time he arrived on the scene, the gaming arena had become a bit stagnant (too many movie tie-ins and Ocean's laziness, mainly). He was like a breath of fresh air.
Rob Hubbard's best piece
oh this is really cool.
I did a remake of this. I'm sure they'll be plenty of people cursing its existence, but I was pretty pleased with the result. Tried to keep the essence of the original. soundcloud.com/angledsocks/sanxion
Rob Farley if soundcloud wasn't such a cunt with its ads I'd pop over and listen, but fuck soundcloud. I'm sure it would have been a good remix.
Very good ! good memories !
Haha awesome - best computer game music ever; gives me goosebumps
One of the best tunes ever. I would place this just below Delta (best tune ever imho), also by Rob Hubbard :)
rob hubbard is like tim follin but the difference is that he's still composing :D
Be honest, how many of us C64 reloaded this game just to hear this song?
@the1marauder2 : Those are some excellent observations. I agree completely.
nice tune indeed! cheers. I wonder what happened to that remix some guy did with clips from "The Last Starfighter" movie..?
I cant add anything. I fuckin love all of your comments!!!! Its 2024. THIS never gets old. NEVER>
Love IT ! The pic is Nice too 👍🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 ! Tie Fighters haha Yeah
This soundtrack also play on platypus
@jimreaper i remember a sanxion version on a tape from Zzap64. Was awesome