NecroPolo - Jack the Nipper

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First of all, even though this C64 tune was composed by the great Ben Daglish who is one of the most inspiring C64 composers ever to me, this rendition of mine would have never happened without vurtX. His 2010 take on Jack the Nipper was bloody inspiring and it's still one of my most fav C64 remixes to date. I can recall that with Sidrip Alliance, during a rehearsal afterparty after drinking some alcoholic beverages, I asked the guys that maybe, shall we perform this one some time? They said: No way, Ben Daglish, in this crazy tempo? 😃

So this rendition of mine is an instrumental version, nothing is programmed, everything is recorded. The first couple of minutes is based more or less on vurtX's 2010 track. As far as the synth goes I'm not a keyboard player just a guitarist who can more or less apply some guitar fingering on the blacks and whites. This track certainly clipped my limits. I had to record the parts with this blistering tempo in tiny pieces from bar to bar, like 1-2-3-4-PLAY-2-3-4-STOP. Next bar. You don't want to know the time I needed to record it 😃 But it was fun. A, how to say, timewise demanding fun, but fun nevertheless.

This track is a part of my expanding pack of remixes of the recent years. An EP was planned but that slowly starts to grow into an album:

Dark Flow - The expanding album

So, that's my humble take on this crazy Ben Daglish tune. Ben was a genius. I'm really sad that he's gone, so early. I hoped that one day we'll share the stage at some point. It will never happen. Sir, you're sorely missed - and thanks for all the inspiration.

Closing picture: from Ben's facebook page.

Amiga mid-break finger drumming 'choir': total coincidence. I wasn't aware at all that I was doing that. I noticed only during video editing.

William Wobbler 4-channel tracker bits: it is there for the Amiga / Paula criterium only. Seemed to be a good idea. Maybe not. You decide.

Tech side:

• Guitar: Warmoth LPS zebra drop-D, single track recorded into stereo splitter
• the HILS HN3 headless was used for the video only, not in the mix
• Guitar amp sim pre: Neural DSP Nolly X (transposed -6) into Mercuriall SPARK JCM800 (left), Silver (right)
• Bass: Ibanez SR305DX
• Bass amp sim: Neural DSP Parallax X (transposed +1)
• Keyboard: M-Audio Ozone
• Drum sampler: EZD2 + Melda drums
• Processing: Stillwell, Melda, SSL
• Mastering plug-in: Ozone 11
• DAW: Reaper 7
• cam: Panasonic LUMIX DMC-G7, fuzzy guitar cam: Zoom Q2HD
• Video editor: Vegas Pro 19

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