*********************************** AM/FM ***********************************  Welcome to the MUSIC section of this issue's AM/FM! How to use the menu First, some general info about how things work around here. You pick a song from the menu - the song will load, decrunch and play. Please be aware that when the drive light goes out, and there's still no music, just hang in there for a little while longer, because the player program is now decrunching the song before it starts playing it. This can take some 2-10 seconds, depending on the size of the song, so just have little patience. Second, there's nothing really stopping you from running a song while another one is already playing, but I wouldn't recommend this, because the sound will be an awful mess. So before you choose another song to listen to, make sure you stop the one that's already playing, by pressing both mouse buttons simultaneously, anywhere on the screen will do fine. YOUR music on the next issue of AM/FM? The music brought to you through AM/FM will always be new, fresh, never earlier released material (except under very special circumstances). The composers are mainly the musicians working with AM/FM, showing off some of the newest techniques and a whole lot of creativity to create what we like to think of as some of the best Amiga-produced music around. In addition to our "regular" contributors, anyone who feels like having their music in the hottest music magazine around should send it to us - and if we think it's good enough, we will publish it in the next issue of AM/FM, and of course you will get your disk back with that issue on it. Having said that, keep in mind that the people who are running this magazine aren't millionaires, so please include return postage, or else we cannot guarantee that you will get your disk(s) back. If sufficient return postage is included, you will get everything you send to us sent back - and that's a PROMISE. So before you send anything to us, go to the post office and ask for international return coupons, and include them in your letters. Ok, that was the general smalltalk, and now that it's out of the way, let's get into the music on this issue's AM/FM: *********************************** AM/FM ***********************************  "Organic Dreams" by Kim Jensen and Anders Hamre, also known as Decibel Desperados *********************************** AM/FM ***********************************  "Basement Groove" by Kon Wilms Playing time approx. 2:30. This tune was made quickly for this issue of AM/FM (I felt I had to submit more than just 2 articles) :-) and is dedicated to my girlfriend Anne with thanks for her love and moral support. The Sounds: Most of the samples come from the Valhalla International Gold patchcards for the Korg M1. (With MANY thanks to Espen Beranek Holm) Other credit must go to Jesper Kyd for the percussion & some other samples. The Tune Itself: Its a mixture of jazz here and there and... well you figure it out for yourself. Almost a 6/8 beat but if you study it carefully it's not QUITE 6/8. It was basically an experiment to try and see if I could duplicate the same crazy piano-chord solos which I like to use a lot in my MIDI sequences. Personally I think it worked quite well; although it would have been nice to have another channel to make the piano sounds "fuller". $10 to the person who can tell us all just WHAT style this is! *********************************** AM/FM ***********************************  "White Eagle" by Wiggo Johansen It's like bringing India into your living room when Wiggo blows that sax in "White Eagle" - combined with a techno beat and a nice bass, this is one of the more original pieces that's showed up lately. Thanks, Wiggo for this nice tune - hope you will let us use more of your stuff in the future. *********************************** AM/FM ***********************************  "Session" by Bjørn A. Lynne While all the other songs on this issue of AM/FM were made with ProTracker, only using sampled sounds, this here piece was composed with MED v3.2. It uses only a few, short samples and most of the sounds are synthetic, created with MED's built-in synthesizer. As a result of this, it is not very diskspace- or memory-consuming. It only occupies some 34 kb of chip mem, making it by far the smallest piece on this disk. It was made in sort of a hurry, so don't expect any musical breakthroughs, but we thought it would be nice with some good old synthesis inbetween all those samples. Enjoy! *********************************** AM/FM ***********************************