in Project Sidologie. As well as the
hefty 300-page book Rob Hubbard:
The Official Reference Book, the
project comprises some video material,
and, most importantly, a collection of
musical projects.
What sort of musical styles can
listeners expect from this new Rob
Hubbard experience?“There’s a bit of
everything,” we’re told by the veteran
musician. “There’s a couple of things
that are based on some stuff I wrote
many years before I did the SID stuff
when I was going through a bit more
of a jazzy type of phase, and there are
some other things that are a little bit
more traditional I would say, so I think
there’s a bit of a mixture.” And how
did he go about making them? “A guy
called Jason Page has been helping out
with a lot of that, I provided him with
some material to do some SID tunes
using a new piece of software that he
developed, using some of my old 6502
code which I managed to dig out,”
Rob explains. “So that’s about half of
it, and then the other half is basically
stuff that I’ve done recently, stuff that
I’ve created specially for this new
Kickstarter, using my old 6502 code
and a sampler just like I used to do back
in the day.”band covers of Rob’s music by Uncle
And The Bacon, and Rock Hubbard
is a rock remix album by Fastloaders.
Mark Knight’s Escape From New Rob
uses Rob’s Commodore 64 tracks
as a base for an epic soundtrack that
is somewhat reminiscent of John
Carpenter’s work, and Robdez-Vous is
a ‘best of’ collection for Rob’s tunesOne of gaming’s greatest composers revisits the C
with Project Hubbard and 8-Bit SymphonyON YOUR CD
W
hen considering the
greatest musicians ever
to use the C64’s iconic
SID chip, Rob Hubbard
is guaranteed to be amongst the
names mentioned – and lately,
he’s got a lot going on that will
delight his fans. For a start there’s
Project Hubbard, a multimedia
project funded via Kickstarter in
2017, comprising musical projects, a
book and more. Of course, the most
important part of any Rob Hubbard
project will be the music, and the
standard version of the Project Hubbard
collection collects three albums. Rob
Returns features new SID tunes by Rob
himself, ranging from SID renditions
of his Eighties synth pieces and Mega
Drive work to new tunes. Hubbard ’
is a ‘premix’ album that reimagines
Rob’s SID tunes as an electronic album
recorded using 1979 equipment. The
Rob Hubbard Archive is a double album
that collects Rob’s unused tracks and
other rarities.
The deluxe version of the project
includes four extra albums, as well as
a range of excellent bonus materials
including video interviews, the
RobTracker music editor and more.
Rob And The Bacon features big» Rob Hubbard has a lot of upcoming projects going on related to his work [Photo by Peter Sanden].» Seeing all of these representative characters together makes you realise just how prolific Rob was back in the Eighties.ROB AND SID
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