Tim Follin

[Anonymous No.6056790]

This guy is the Mozart of game music.

[Anonymous No.6057072]

thank you, tim follin

[Anonymous No.6057075]

>>6056790
Pretty overrated even if he has a few great songs to his name

[Anonymous No.6057087]

>>6057075
Hes not overrated

[Anonymous No.6057150]

Without the Speccy, we would have never got Follin. Remember that next time you trash the ZX Spectrum, Yanks.

[Anonymous No.6057152]

>>6057150
I mean he probably would’ve just bought something else man. The speccy was trash

[Anonymous No.6057165]

>>6057075
No he is not. Made great music.

[Anonymous No.6057531]

>>6057150
nobody calls it a speccy.. you fucking faggot bitch

[Anonymous No.6057553]

>>6057531
nigger

[Anonymous No.6057640]

>>6056790
He made very few tunes but most of them are fucking A.

[Anonymous No.6057642]

>>6057150
Follins' genius was limited by this brishit mono buzzing piece of shit that was a speccy.

[Anonymous No.6057648]

>>6057152
Faggot.

>>6057531
Dog-fucker.

>>6057642
Irredeemable human trash.

[Anonymous No.6057659]

>>6056790
TIME FOR SOME FUKKEN WIZARD MUSIC FAGETS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_gObHt1uZA

[Anonymous No.6057660]

Weebs suck his dick because it's the only European composer they know. But here he is just one of many. He is nothing compared to Rob Hubbard, Martin Galway and Jeroen Tel.

[Anonymous No.6057670]

>>6057660
If only any of these people, including Follin, EVER happened to have worked on an even remotely decent video game in their entire fucking lives.
Shit, the horrible local industry completely buried their talents.

[Anonymous No.6057673]

>>6056790
That's not David Wise

[Anonymous No.6057680]

>>6056790
You're a dumbfuck fanboy if you think this guy is anything close. I could name half a dozen Japanese composers that stomp all over him.

[Anonymous No.6057687]

>>6057680
He's not comparing him to Mozart or anything, you know.

[Anonymous No.6057692]

Most of his C64 music is pretty bad. Is it just me, or does SID music have this really squealy sound to it that ear rapes you?

[Anonymous No.6057732]

It's kinda funny to see people praise him since Follin himself doesn't really care much for his work (specifically his ZX Spectrum and C64 tunes which he considers in his own words "rubbish").

[Father Electronics Couture No.6057770]

>>6056790
Oh, Tim Follin, I want to rim your colon.

[Anonymous No.6057847]

>>6057660
Nice joke. Tim Follin is like an 18ft giant walking aside all the other tiny peasants, no matter the regional scene, console, or year.

[Anonymous No.6057860]

Tim sucks a dump out of a hobos ass

[Anonymous No.6057878]

>>6057648
kys speccyfag

[Anonymous No.6058162]

>>6057075
If anything, he's very underrated.

[Anonymous No.6058879]

>>6058162
Tim Follin is in a bizarre state where he is overrated among the underrated. The wide masses still don't know him at all, while people who know him can't shut up praising his music style which actually wasn't limited to Tim and Geoff.

[Anonymous No.6058915]

>>6058879
So he’s like the Sega Saturn.

[Anonymous No.6058921]

>>6056790
Mozart of the digital age and everyone forgot about him :(
This is 90K brit retro computing channel btw

[Anonymous No.6058949]

Tim Follins is a genius, although I prefer Matt Furniss.
Alien 3, stage 4 on Sega Genesis.

[Anonymous No.6058969]

>>6058949
I'm going to go listen to it. If I hear warbling arpeggios, god help me. You've been warned.

[Anonymous No.6058974]

>>6058949
>>6058969
Uh I can write an endless generator of such music in under ten minutes. Far from being "genius", this is so basic it does not even require a human being to "compose" this kind of stuff. Wow, dude. You gotta develop some taste in music asap.

[Anonymous No.6058975]

>>6056790
>Dude arpeggios
>Lol, now I'm gonna through a bunch of melodies at the wall and see what sticks under the guise of complexity
Lol, got a bunch of songs here that have no bearing on the game's themes or atmosphere, lol.
The guy made trash music for shovelware then completely disappeared. Stay mad.

[Anonymous No.6058979]

>>6057680
%100 this
Ryu Umemoto, Hitoshi Sakamoto, Koji Kondo and Shinji Hosoe just for starters.

[Anonymous No.6058981]

>>6058979
>just for starters.
I love your list. Do you have any more? I am in a mood for retro vidya music.

[Anonymous No.6058984]

>>6058949
>>6057660
>All these western trash composers
I understand the west needs heroes, but this is pathetic.

[Anonymous No.6058989]

>>6058981
Ryo Yonemitsu, 90s Namco soundteam starring Sandog, Toshiya Yamanaka

[Anonymous No.6059001]

>>6058979
Who the fuck is shinji whorio or whatever you called him that you mention him in one breath with Sakimoto and Kondo?

[Anonymous No.6059004]

>>6059001
Remember the arcade sound of the 80s and early 90s? Guitar, slap bass, funk, ect? You can thank Hosoe for that.

[Anonymous No.6059005]

>>6059001
Nigga are you serious?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nlGr3GUMkw
Fucking hot fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvyC1JTO3mU

[Anonymous No.6059009]

>>6059001
You never played Ridge Racer or Tekken son?
He's the Big Chungus of the arcade OST:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axibQV5YsOk

[Anonymous No.6059020]

>>6058979
>>6059004
If we're listing off 90s fm synth composers, I feel Masahiro Kajihara is worth a mention. Not as prolific as the others listed, but definitely underrated.

[Anonymous No.6059062]

>>6058915
Except actually good

[Anonymous No.6059085]

>>6056790
Falcom sound team here to shit all over your meme boy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EceIW-yUiiY

[Anonymous No.6059096]

>>6058979
Absolutely
Fucking
Based
Shout out to Kenichiro Fukui for Einhänder.

[Anonymous No.6059141]

>>6056790
>muh apreggios
>muh hide mediocre compositions with quirky instruments

[Anonymous No.6059182]

https://www.gamejournal.it/the-sound-of-1-bit-technical-constraint-as-a-driver-for-musical-creativity-on-the-48k-sinclair-zx-spectrum/

>Follin’s earliest soundtracks showcase the incremental development of both his sound engine and his emerging musical style. The soundtrack for his first Spectrum game, Subterranean Stryker, is interesting only insofar as it demonstrates some of his engine’s nascent capabilities. It features a single-channel melody line which drifts stylistically and with little in the way of melodic coherence. Beneath the notes, however, can be heard amplitude enveloping, a far-from-trivial task on a speaker that can only be either on or off, and a phasing effect, creating a dynamically-changing timbre, both features that Follin would continue to develop. For his next title, Star Firebirds, Follin introduced a portamento effect, creating quite dramatic pitch glides in places, but it was Vectron, a 3D maze game inspired by Disney’s Tron where both the engine and Follin’s musical style really begin to shine through. The soundtrack in Vectron manages three independent voices during playback and begins with a phased, enveloped synth leading into an electronic fanfare, before a fast blues-scale riff, not unlike the percussive organ lines of Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman, begins. The score then breaks style, directly referencing Wendy Carlos’s original score from Tron, before returning to a series of blues-scale sequences.


>Follin published his three-channel music routine as a hexadecimal type-in program listing in Your Sinclair magazine, making it freely available for use in non-commercial programs. The listing contains just 167 lines of code, and the entire routine, complete with note data weighs in at just over 1K in size. The article noted that, at the time, Follin was working on a new 6-channel routine with chorus, bass, echo, portamento and full ADSR, all elements that would turn up in his later soundtracks

[Anonymous No.6059258]

>>6058974
>Uh I can write an endless generator of such music in under ten minutes.
see you in ten minutes

>>6059004
>Remember the arcade sound of the 80s and early 90s? Guitar, slap bass, funk, ect? You can thank Hosoe for that.
I'll make a confession, I hate that shit

[Anonymous No.6059491]

>>6059020
Based and excellent taste, Anon.

[Anonymous No.6059494]

>>6058979
Lets not forget Manabu Naimiki, Anon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BK5ACIbJRI

[Anonymous No.6059495]

Well he did make one of my favorite soundtracks of all time.

[Anonymous No.6059568]

>>6056790
He's not bad, but being a Brit means he can never have even half the IQ required to compose at Mozart's level. He probably composed most of his Spectrum (excuse me, "Speccy") and NES (excuse me, "Nez") works while drunk, mispronouncing swear words under his breath every time he hit the wrong note while Dr. Who (excuse me, "Doctor") played in the background on a black-and-white television (excuse me, "telly"). Most Englishmen are too brutish to write anything emotionally resonant except through blind luck.

[Anonymous No.6059727]

>>6057531
I certainly did. Your Sinclair and Crash, the Spectrum's two biggest monthlies did.

[Anonymous No.6060043]

>>6058979
None of which created the single greatest piece of 8-bit music like Tim Follin did.

Quality > quantity

continue to seethe weaboos

[Anonymous No.6060097]

>>6060043
see >>6059141

[Anonymous No.6060268]

>>6060097
>doesn't dare to try and name a superior track
>resorts to simple minded insults

This just goes to show that Tim Follin is the greatest, and people who disagree with that are nothing more than contrarian brainlets.

[Anonymous No.6060382]

>>6059495
How's the game itself?