ExoticA

ExoticA is an Amiga and retro gaming/computer music interest wiki including search-able computer music collections, game and demo scene information and plenty more. I started the website back in 1997 – and in 2006 we moved it to a wiki based set up.

This category contains the latest news posts from the ExoticA website as well as posts relating to the project.

High Voltage SID Collection #59

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Monday, 22 July 2013


On the 28th June, v59 of the High Voltage SID Collection was released by the HVSC Team. The Exotica mirror and search is now updated to the latest version (A few weeks late). The collection now contains 43,856 SIDs. You can download the complete collection or use the web based search interface to browse and search the collection, as well as stream mp3/ogg recordings on demand. Note that the official page for the HVSC is at http://www.hvsc.de.

New Amiga video game music album – “Paula Agnus Denise”

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Tuesday, 7 May 2013


“Paula Agnus Denise – Best of Amiga and CD32 Video Game Music” is a collaborative compilation album released on May 6th, 2013 in CD, download and streaming formats. The album includes a total of 19 tracks which are either remastered, studio versions or remixes of Amiga game music, with five of the recordings being previously unreleased.
The album includes the catchy melodies from legendary games such as Speedball 2, Cannon Fodder, Turrican 2, Hired Guns, Battle Squadron and Pinball Dreams.
The CD version comes in a Super Jewel Box with a 12-page booklet.

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Music Collection Updates

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Sunday, 6 January 2013


v58 of the High Voltage SID Collection has been released by the HVSC Team. The collection now contains 43,116 SIDs. You can download the complete collection or use the web based search interface to browse and search the collection, as well as stream mp3/ogg recordings on demand. Note that the official page for the HVSC is at http://www.hvsc.de.

The Atari SAP Music Archive was also recently updated to v3.6 with 315 new tunes (4630 in total). The main site for the Atari SAP Music archive is at http://asma.atari.org/, however we offer an alternative web interface at ExoticA that allows to search and download recordings from the collection (as ogg or mp3) over at the ASMA Search page. There was a v3.5 out previously that we missed, and it looks as though our download page got forgotten too, as it linked to a very old version. This is now all fixed.

The UnExoticA music collection got a small update with some composer and comment corrections. Thanks to those who submitted fixes. There is still lots of stuff outstanding, and the collection has not had much love over the last few years. Maybe XtC and Kyzer will come back to help in 2013 :)

Just under a week ago Allister Brimble’s kickstarter album project The Amiga Works got funded, with 524 backers bringing in a total of £18,848. Congratulations Allister! It was also announced that Allister and Chris Huelsbeck would both be remixing one track on each others albums, which I look forward to hearing.

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Bitfellas “Alien Breed vs Superfrog” podcast

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Friday, 14 December 2012


To celebrate Allister Brimble’s new album project “The Amiga Works” – This coming Sunday (16th December) Bitfellas will be releasing an Allister Brimble podcast entitled “Alien Breed vs Superfrog”. It will contain a selection of his Amiga classics combined with some of his newer works. We hope this musical face-off will bring back some happy gaming memories for you! You will be able to download the podcast on the Bitfellas podcast page.

Allister’s Kickstarter project has done very well and has already reached the £13,000 goal, with still a couple of weeks left. If you want to guarantee yourself a copy of this double album containing modern remakes of his Amiga classics, get over to the Kickstarter page now and make a pledge.

Big thanks to Allister and the Bitfellas team.

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“The Amiga Works” by Allister Brimble

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Friday, 2 November 2012


Allister Brimble has just launched a Kickstarter project for his new double album “The Amiga Works”. He will create up to date CD quality versions and remixes of his best musical works from the Commodore Amiga. The album artwork and an A2 poster will be designed by Rico Holmes who was the inspiration and artist behind the original Alien Breed series and other Team 17 games. Visit Allister’s Kickstarter page.

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I have received many requests to create new versions of my tracks in the past, but I never felt I could improve on them.. until now. The technology exists to inspire me to create new versions of my tunes for these much loved games from the Commodore Amiga.

” – Allister Brimble

As big fans of his work over here at ExoticA we are very excited about this project. We recommend you get over to the project page now and make a pledge!
Link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2059538678/the-amiga-works