Hello, Peter! Thank you for making this. TH-cam decided to place this on my front page today, and I'm glad they did. Somehow, the algorithm must have known I played Tetris Max in the mid-90s. I think I first heard this song in 1995, when I touched a PowerPC Mac for the first time, but memory is hazy. It could have been earlier. I definitely remember opening it up in ResEdit and being blown away seeing how the song up into individual parts so the game could loop them. It was the first time I encountered something like that. Anyway, it's really great hearing this song so many years later, and this is a fantastic version. Thanks for sharing, and stay well.
Howdy! Thanks for the awesome comment! Yup, you could even add your own music using ResEdit. It was pretty interesting how Steve Chamberlin (the programmer) set that up. You can read about how he did it here: bigmessowires.com/2015/12/11/the-story-of-tetris-max/
My cousin had a Mac and Tetris Max was on there. This song came on and I immediately loved it and would sometimes just sit there and let the pieces fall without positioning them, just so I could listen to this song. Today this song came in my head and I went on YT to listen to it again. THEN I saw you were on here and had remade it. I subbed, then clicked on the video and have been listening to it nonstop. Mr. Wagner, thank you for making one of my fav songs. The nostalgia is so so good.
What a gem this is, a truely marvellous piece of art. Peter, this track basically summons all memories of my childhood (80s ... those were the golden days) at once, it really touches my soul and I'm not gonna lie, it doesn't come without some sense of saddening that those times are now lost. Guess lookin' out the back door always has some emotional downsides. Anyway, thank you Peter for this, the world is in dire need of more like it.
Thank you so much for listening, taking a stroll down memory lane, and commenting. Your kind words made my day. I have a bunch of new material in the works...
@@peterrwagner3289 Where can I listen to more of your music at? I remember you mentioned something about SoundCloud but I found several different Peter Wagner's on there.
@@iLL_Corvo The soundcloud stuff is here: soundcloud.com/prwmusic it's been a while since I"ve made any new songs public there, but I have a TON of private songs that I've been working on. I'm hoping to come out with an "album" of all new material before the end of this year that will be available for streaming on most streaming services. Stay tuned!
@@iLL_Corvo Thanks for checking in! Unfortunately, I've had to put the "album" on the back burner, hopefully only temporarily. Life, family, and work have kept me extremely busy, to the point where I'm just fried when I have free time. To do an album correctly with proper mixing and mastering also requires funds that I'm just not able to part with right now. I'm hoping that with the winter weather approaching my home schedule will free up a bit, and maybe I'll just upload songs (mixed to the best of my abilities) to Soundcloud or something. Again, thank you for checking in -- it means the world to me.
I first heard T-Maxx in all its compressed glory back when I was 14 and I discovered BrickLayer on one of those 90s shareware CDs. I was so impressed that I went through the trouble of stitching all the wav files together into the full track and burning it onto a CD. Ever since finding the full version on youtube, it's been a staple on my "concentration" playlists and has contributed to hundreds of hours of productivity, so I really have to thank you for being a part of my childhood and formative years in this small way! It's still one of the most obscure "favorite" mp3s I have, and I'm really happy it's gotten a remake all these years later. I also love introducing people to my obscure favorites, and various versions of T-Maxx have gotten parts in music mods and hobby game projects I share with friends, in the hopes that I can bring some more people to appreciate it as much as I have.
Wow, this is one of the most thoughtful comments I have ever received. Thank you so very much for listening to it over the years and taking the time to stitch it together and share it with your friends. I'm glad you came across this newer version (I had a blast making it). It's comments like yours that inspire me to write again, so thank you for that.
Hah! I also discovered Bricklayer from a shareware CD, was a few years younger than you though, loved to play the game and listen to its music. I never bothered to stitch the files, but I fondly remember that I discovered that the music was indeed as pieces in several wav files, which I considered uniquely unusual way. Didn't know much about software technicals, but just liked to tinker and do very rudimentary intuitive reverse engineering by looking what kind of files every game and program contains. Usually the games had their music either as a mid file containing entire song in one file, or as some file type I couldn't recognize nor play with any generic software.
@@TheSimoc If you wanted to learn more about the game, here's an awesome article and a podcast from the game's author. article: bigmessowires.com/2015/12/11/the-story-of-tetris-max/ podcast: macfolkloreradio.com/2020/05/27/steve-chamberlin-the-story-of-tetris-max.html
@@peterrwagner3289 Interesting, thanks a lot! Actually, as I saw you commenting about your contribution with music, I wondered if you have some special relationships with the game author..
I grew up playing this game! My mom and I would compete to see who was best. She has since passed and I happen to have the CD it came on! I run the game in a virtual machine. Such good memories!
You are the man! I remember being a kid and laying next to the computer desk whenever my sister would play Tetris max just so I could listen to this captivating tune!
hellaacapella hah hah, that’s awesome. I hope your sister let you play once in a while, too. I’m glad you liked the song back then and were able to come across it here. Thanks for listening and commenting.
When I was a kid my parents had a purple CD -RW with a bunch of retro games on them. I wasn't into tetris, but I played "bricklr" as the file was named on the disc just for this song, along with gemstorm for its midi tracks like Hotel California
The time I spent in the computer lab before school while in 6th grade, just to play Tetris on those Macintosh computers, and choose the OG version of this song is countless. I appreciate this modern remake decades later.
I love that all these years later, you are still around doing your thing! This masterpiece will forever be burned into my memory from all those hours I played Tetris Max back in the 90s. Me and my friend used to take turns and try to beat each other's scores :D It's easy for puzzle-game music to get annoying after awhile of playing, but this track NEVER did!! Love the remake as well!
Wow, thank you for the very kind words. I'm really glad you liked the song way back then and I'm happy you took the time to look it up again. And I'm thrilled that you like the new version as well.
This song needs a comeback in a new game for like xboxone and newer computers. I used to love playing bricklayer and hearing this song. This new version is cool too.
I never got to hear this as a kid but I wish I did. My childhood Tetris playing was done mostly on the Gameboy, which used the Russian folksong "Korobeiniki," known to many as "the Tetris song." This is so much more intense and fitting for the fast-paced play of Tetris. I wish this was my default music when i thought of the game...
Hey Peter, so glad I found this. Fell in love with your track on Tetris Max back when I was 8, now here I am 34, and I STILL love it just as much. :D If there is only ONE thing I wish about this track, the part that begins at 1:17, I wish that it was played for just as long when it happens the second time at 2:29, even back when, haha. But regardless, still a great track overall!
Thank you! I'm so glad you liked it when you were a kid, and enough to look for it as an adult. I had a lot of fun making it way back when and I had a blast remaking it -- brought back lots of memories!
I found Tetris Max on "CD-ROM Today" in 1992 or 1993. It was my first and for a long time, only exposure to Tetris. Great to hear that it was nostalgic for so many other people.
This was my childhood, i wished Tetris effect added this song on the game. This was the BEST i mean best theme i have ever heard on any tetris game and still to this day its legendary.
Thanks for posting, found your comment on another video featuring the original version. Sometimes the bell motif just pops into my head. To me, the song feels bleak, but with beautiful sense of determination. It's truly a great accompaniment to an endless game like Tetris. This new mix sounds awesome, very polished.
Thank you so very much for taking the time to comment! I know what you mean about the "bleak" sound, or a feeling of desperation. When I presented a few options to the author of the game (Steve Chamberlin) I was honestly surprised he picked that one! But I'm glad he did. I had a lot of fun re-recording it.
One of my all time favorite games and the very best ever music to ever be in a game.. if music could get you high, this track would be it!! [Redacted] IS it!!
Thank you for posting! The original song is brilliant and brings me back to the countless hours and days and years I spent listening to it as a child. I love the new re-make.
Thanks!!! I'm glad you remember the original and like both it and the new version. I wonder if I should upload the original to TH-cam under my account (even though it's already uploaded by so many other people already...)
Oh wow, I remember being in Mr.Murray's 7th period shop class playing T-max and this song would come on and it would just build the tension in the game lol. Thanks for bringing back some great memories, Peter!
hah, i haven't heard this in over 25 years, just heard the original and now this remake, and it suddenly clicked why i like Opus Number One somewhat inexplicably (Clayton Stroup's version here on youtube is great)
I wish I could have heard that! Do you remember what the game-maker was called? A few people did covers/midi versions of my song and I always love to hear them.
Thank you for doing this new recording and for sharing it! Have you been active musically over the last thirty years? I'd love to listen to more of your work if there is any. (EDIT: I see you have some more stuff on your SoundCloud! Looking forward to checking it out.)
Chris Porter sorry, only seeing this now. Thanks for listening and commenting! Music has always just been a hobby, and sometimes I wouldn’t play for many years. Right now I’ve got four or five new songs in the works, most in the synthwave genre (little did I know when I was writing synthwave songs as a teenager in the 80s that it would make a comeback today...). Glad you saw my Soundcloud. I have more videos on my TH-cam page.
Howdy. So long as the video doesn't contain any "questionable" content, then sure. All I ask is that you include a link back to the song in your video's description.
though i was even born after this (particular version) of tetris, and have touched neither macintosh nor windows 3.1, while looking for all kinds of old tetris games created by people, this song hit me hard! to name some of the other, tetris c64 by Wally Beben also a great one. but i program tetris! the rotation system (where and how the pieces *exactly* spawn, and their colors) is available at farter.cn/tetr.js in settings -> rotation system: "Max".
Would you happen to have a copy of T-Maxx in its original uncompressed form? I'd be happy to toss a couple of dollars towards a FLAC download so I can have it in all of its early 90s glory.
Well, it's not uncompressed, but there's a link at the end of the description where you can download the MP3. The original source files are, unfortunately, long gone.
I loved slamming the pieces down to the beat. So satisfying.
Hah hah, awesome!
Hello, Peter! Thank you for making this. TH-cam decided to place this on my front page today, and I'm glad they did. Somehow, the algorithm must have known I played Tetris Max in the mid-90s. I think I first heard this song in 1995, when I touched a PowerPC Mac for the first time, but memory is hazy. It could have been earlier. I definitely remember opening it up in ResEdit and being blown away seeing how the song up into individual parts so the game could loop them. It was the first time I encountered something like that.
Anyway, it's really great hearing this song so many years later, and this is a fantastic version. Thanks for sharing, and stay well.
Howdy! Thanks for the awesome comment! Yup, you could even add your own music using ResEdit. It was pretty interesting how Steve Chamberlin (the programmer) set that up. You can read about how he did it here: bigmessowires.com/2015/12/11/the-story-of-tetris-max/
My cousin had a Mac and Tetris Max was on there. This song came on and I immediately loved it and would sometimes just sit there and let the pieces fall without positioning them, just so I could listen to this song. Today this song came in my head and I went on YT to listen to it again. THEN I saw you were on here and had remade it. I subbed, then clicked on the video and have been listening to it nonstop. Mr. Wagner, thank you for making one of my fav songs. The nostalgia is so so good.
What a gem this is, a truely marvellous piece of art. Peter, this track basically summons all memories of my childhood (80s ... those were the golden days) at once, it really touches my soul and I'm not gonna lie, it doesn't come without some sense of saddening that those times are now lost. Guess lookin' out the back door always has some emotional downsides. Anyway, thank you Peter for this, the world is in dire need of more like it.
Thank you so much for listening, taking a stroll down memory lane, and commenting. Your kind words made my day. I have a bunch of new material in the works...
I can't tell you what an influence you've been on me from this one song alone.
Wow, thank you so much for saying that! I'm glad you like the song.
@@peterrwagner3289 Where can I listen to more of your music at? I remember you mentioned something about SoundCloud but I found several different Peter Wagner's on there.
@@iLL_Corvo The soundcloud stuff is here: soundcloud.com/prwmusic it's been a while since I"ve made any new songs public there, but I have a TON of private songs that I've been working on. I'm hoping to come out with an "album" of all new material before the end of this year that will be available for streaming on most streaming services. Stay tuned!
@@peterrwagner3289How is the album coming along?
@@iLL_Corvo Thanks for checking in! Unfortunately, I've had to put the "album" on the back burner, hopefully only temporarily. Life, family, and work have kept me extremely busy, to the point where I'm just fried when I have free time. To do an album correctly with proper mixing and mastering also requires funds that I'm just not able to part with right now. I'm hoping that with the winter weather approaching my home schedule will free up a bit, and maybe I'll just upload songs (mixed to the best of my abilities) to Soundcloud or something. Again, thank you for checking in -- it means the world to me.
It's a song I met when I was 6. Since then, I kept this song on my mind until I found in youtube. It's simply exceptional ❤️
Thanks so much!!!
So glad I found this! I also used to stitch DEFAULT.BLM from Bricklayer 1.70 back together to listen to the song.
Glad you found it! And that's neat to hear about the stitching.
I first heard T-Maxx in all its compressed glory back when I was 14 and I discovered BrickLayer on one of those 90s shareware CDs. I was so impressed that I went through the trouble of stitching all the wav files together into the full track and burning it onto a CD. Ever since finding the full version on youtube, it's been a staple on my "concentration" playlists and has contributed to hundreds of hours of productivity, so I really have to thank you for being a part of my childhood and formative years in this small way! It's still one of the most obscure "favorite" mp3s I have, and I'm really happy it's gotten a remake all these years later.
I also love introducing people to my obscure favorites, and various versions of T-Maxx have gotten parts in music mods and hobby game projects I share with friends, in the hopes that I can bring some more people to appreciate it as much as I have.
Wow, this is one of the most thoughtful comments I have ever received. Thank you so very much for listening to it over the years and taking the time to stitch it together and share it with your friends. I'm glad you came across this newer version (I had a blast making it). It's comments like yours that inspire me to write again, so thank you for that.
Hah! I also discovered Bricklayer from a shareware CD, was a few years younger than you though, loved to play the game and listen to its music. I never bothered to stitch the files, but I fondly remember that I discovered that the music was indeed as pieces in several wav files, which I considered uniquely unusual way. Didn't know much about software technicals, but just liked to tinker and do very rudimentary intuitive reverse engineering by looking what kind of files every game and program contains. Usually the games had their music either as a mid file containing entire song in one file, or as some file type I couldn't recognize nor play with any generic software.
@@TheSimoc If you wanted to learn more about the game, here's an awesome article and a podcast from the game's author. article: bigmessowires.com/2015/12/11/the-story-of-tetris-max/ podcast: macfolkloreradio.com/2020/05/27/steve-chamberlin-the-story-of-tetris-max.html
@@peterrwagner3289 Interesting, thanks a lot! Actually, as I saw you commenting about your contribution with music, I wondered if you have some special relationships with the game author..
@@peterrwagner3289
This is an awesome track. Didn’t you have a webpage with the mp3 version?
Think I just officially found my new ringtone lol.
Thank you! I'm glad you like the song!
When I was a wee lad, I would play Tetris Max just to hear this. It was among the first tunes that had an effect on me.
That's awesome! I'm glad you liked the song. Thanks for listening and commenting.
Oh man, this brings back memories of playing Tetris Max when I was a teenager. Thanks for this great recording!
@@danielmillermusic7806 I’m glad you liked the game and I’m super happy you like the song!
Rik's Random Retro sent me here. What a jam!
Thanks for the tip! I hopped on to see the remainder of his live stream. He even loaded Tetris Max up a second time!
I grew up playing this game! My mom and I would compete to see who was best. She has since passed and I happen to have the CD it came on! I run the game in a virtual machine. Such good memories!
Thank you for sharing that amazing memory! I'm happy you found this and took the time to comment.
Beautiful. This is a song that has been living in my brain since childhood, and this new version is awesome. Thanks for the music.
So glad you liked the original back then and I'm happy you found the remake!
You are the man! I remember being a kid and laying next to the computer desk whenever my sister would play Tetris max just so I could listen to this captivating tune!
hellaacapella hah hah, that’s awesome. I hope your sister let you play once in a while, too. I’m glad you liked the song back then and were able to come across it here. Thanks for listening and commenting.
Legendary track, brings me back beautiful memories. Thank you Peter!!!
Thank you, I'm glad you like it! Thank you for listening and commenting.
This is absolutely amazing! I remember playing Bricklayer in computer lab in school as a young kid and loved this song! Excellent Re-make! You Rock!
Thanks so much for listening and commenting! I'm glad you liked the song back then and also now.
the new version is great!
Thanks so much!
When I was a kid my parents had a purple CD -RW with a bunch of retro games on them. I wasn't into tetris, but I played "bricklr" as the file was named on the disc just for this song, along with gemstorm for its midi tracks like Hotel California
That's great! I'm glad you like the song. Thanks for listening and commenting!
The time I spent in the computer lab before school while in 6th grade, just to play Tetris on those Macintosh computers, and choose the OG version of this song is countless. I appreciate this modern remake decades later.
That's awesome! I love hearing stories like that. Thanks for taking the time to listen and comment.
I love that all these years later, you are still around doing your thing! This masterpiece will forever be burned into my memory from all those hours I played Tetris Max back in the 90s. Me and my friend used to take turns and try to beat each other's scores :D It's easy for puzzle-game music to get annoying after awhile of playing, but this track NEVER did!! Love the remake as well!
Wow, thank you for the very kind words. I'm really glad you liked the song way back then and I'm happy you took the time to look it up again. And I'm thrilled that you like the new version as well.
This song needs a comeback in a new game for like xboxone and newer computers. I used to love playing bricklayer and hearing this song. This new version is cool too.
RodBeFilms hah hah, that would be cool! I wish it were in Tetris Effect.
I never got to hear this as a kid but I wish I did. My childhood Tetris playing was done mostly on the Gameboy, which used the Russian folksong "Korobeiniki," known to many as "the Tetris song." This is so much more intense and fitting for the fast-paced play of Tetris. I wish this was my default music when i thought of the game...
Thanks so much for listening and commenting!!! Glad you like it.
Hey Peter, so glad I found this. Fell in love with your track on Tetris Max back when I was 8, now here I am 34, and I STILL love it just as much. :D
If there is only ONE thing I wish about this track, the part that begins at 1:17, I wish that it was played for just as long when it happens the second time at 2:29, even back when, haha. But regardless, still a great track overall!
Thank you! I'm so glad you liked it when you were a kid, and enough to look for it as an adult. I had a lot of fun making it way back when and I had a blast remaking it -- brought back lots of memories!
Bless you for this amazing yet critically hidden gem
Thanks so much -- I'm glad you like the song.
I always loved that music, it was the reason I kept playing Tetris, great
Thanks so much for listening and leaving a comment! Glad you like the song.
Bricklayer was one of those games where I played it 90% just for the song. Cracking good tune full of desperation.
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed the game and the song. Thanks for listening!
I found Tetris Max on "CD-ROM Today" in 1992 or 1993. It was my first and for a long time, only exposure to Tetris. Great to hear that it was nostalgic for so many other people.
TenPoundHammer that’s awesome, thanks for sharing your story!
THANK YOU PETER!!! Everyone hit like now to spread the childhood again, we need a break from our working lives now with this epic remaster.
Hah hah, thanks so much! Glad you like it.
This was my childhood, i wished Tetris effect added this song on the game. This was the BEST i mean best theme i have ever heard on any tetris game and still to this day its legendary.
Thanks so much! Wow, how cool would that be, having a song in Tetris Effect? I just played it last night (it's so good in VR)
Thanks for posting, found your comment on another video featuring the original version. Sometimes the bell motif just pops into my head. To me, the song feels bleak, but with beautiful sense of determination. It's truly a great accompaniment to an endless game like Tetris. This new mix sounds awesome, very polished.
Thank you so very much for taking the time to comment! I know what you mean about the "bleak" sound, or a feeling of desperation. When I presented a few options to the author of the game (Steve Chamberlin) I was honestly surprised he picked that one! But I'm glad he did. I had a lot of fun re-recording it.
This is so good! Thank you for making this!
Thank you! I'm glad you like it.
One of my all time favorite games and the very best ever music to ever be in a game.. if music could get you high, this track would be it!! [Redacted] IS it!!
Thank you! I'm so glad you like the song. And thanks for posting such an awesome comment.
Iconic track! A feast of emotion. Ingrained in my mind for the past 25 years and counting. Keep up the amazing work legend!
Thanks so much! I appreciate your listening and comment! I'm glad you liked it back then and still today.
Thank you for posting! The original song is brilliant and brings me back to the countless hours and days and years I spent listening to it as a child. I love the new re-make.
Thanks!!! I'm glad you remember the original and like both it and the new version. I wonder if I should upload the original to TH-cam under my account (even though it's already uploaded by so many other people already...)
@@peterrwagner3289 Why not? They belong together. And it'd be easier for people to find both
The song has always been great but the new video is mesmerizing.
The legend!!!!
This is amazing!!! I played this game all the time on Mac as a kid. I'd love to hear "Animal Instinct" too. I haven't found that song anywhere.
Glad you like it. Was Animal Instinct another song in the game? I don't remember that one.
Oh wow, I remember being in Mr.Murray's 7th period shop class playing T-max and this song would come on and it would just build the tension in the game lol. Thanks for bringing back some great memories, Peter!
I love your comment. I’m happy this was able to bring back memories. We didn’t have any computers in shop class back in the mid 80s!
OMG I LOVE THE ORIGINAL AND THIS TOO
Awesome, thanks! I'm glad you like them.
hah, i haven't heard this in over 25 years, just heard the original and now this remake, and it suddenly clicked why i like Opus Number One somewhat inexplicably (Clayton Stroup's version here on youtube is great)
Thanks for listening (to both versions!) and commenting! I'll check out that song.
@@peterrwagner3289 it's the famous Cisco hold music! (in explicably because i don't think i ever heard it on the phone)
As the kids say, this totally slaps. Brings back such memories; thanks for sharing :)
Heh, being a teen of the 80s, I'm not sure what the kids are saying these days, but "slaps" sounds good to me! Thanks for listening and commenting.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a Tetris prodigy when I grew up.
Thanks for posting! This is a great update to one of my favorite tracks. :)
Thank you for listening! I'm glad you like it!
I never played Bricklayer Tetris but I really enjoyed a .mid rendition of it when that was used in an RPG Maker game.
I wish I could have heard that! Do you remember what the game-maker was called? A few people did covers/midi versions of my song and I always love to hear them.
This is so badass! You still got it after a quarter of a century, sir! Less than three hundred views in three months, though? You're getting ripped.
Thanks! And hah, I wish I could get more views/listens -- wish I knew how to go about it.
Sweet memories!
Thanks for listening, and for the comment! No, no relation to Richard Wagner (that I know of, lol)
Thank you for doing this new recording and for sharing it! Have you been active musically over the last thirty years? I'd love to listen to more of your work if there is any. (EDIT: I see you have some more stuff on your SoundCloud! Looking forward to checking it out.)
Chris Porter sorry, only seeing this now. Thanks for listening and commenting! Music has always just been a hobby, and sometimes I wouldn’t play for many years. Right now I’ve got four or five new songs in the works, most in the synthwave genre (little did I know when I was writing synthwave songs as a teenager in the 80s that it would make a comeback today...). Glad you saw my Soundcloud. I have more videos on my TH-cam page.
@Peter R Wagner: Can this be used for a youtube video? If so, what are the conditions?
Howdy. So long as the video doesn't contain any "questionable" content, then sure. All I ask is that you include a link back to the song in your video's description.
@@peterrwagner3289 Uh, nice! Thank you. It's a video about a new capture method for Game Boy Tetris.
@@tolstoj_ awesome! Shoot me a note when it’s done. I’d watch that!
@@peterrwagner3289 I hope I'll be done in couple of days. I'll let you know!
@@peterrwagner3289 It's been longer than a couple of days... :-) I decided to make the video a series. Part 1 premiers in around 3 hours.
though i was even born after this (particular version) of tetris, and have touched neither macintosh nor windows 3.1, while looking for all kinds of old tetris games created by people, this song hit me hard!
to name some of the other, tetris c64 by Wally Beben also a great one.
but i program tetris! the rotation system (where and how the pieces *exactly* spawn, and their colors) is available at farter.cn/tetr.js in settings -> rotation system: "Max".
Thanks so much! I'll check out the c64 version. And I played your Tetris game, very nice!!!
Would you happen to have a copy of T-Maxx in its original uncompressed form? I'd be happy to toss a couple of dollars towards a FLAC download so I can have it in all of its early 90s glory.
Well, it's not uncompressed, but there's a link at the end of the description where you can download the MP3. The original source files are, unfortunately, long gone.
1:16 is the part that Coldplay nicked for "Paradise"
I would certainly be flattered if they did! (but I'm sure it's coincidence)