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Chris Hülsbeck

He has written soundtracks for more than 70 titles, the latest being Star Wars Rebel Strike for Nintendo GameCube. Many of his scores for the Commodore 64 are regarded as classics among enthusiasts today, most notably Great Giana Sisters. He is best known for the soundtracks to the Turrican series of games. Chris's initial recognition arrived at age 16 when his composition "Shades" won first place in a music competition for the German "64er Magazine". This is a copyrighted promotional photo with a known source. ... This is a copyrighted promotional photo with a known source. ... The Nintendo GameCube (Japanese: ゲームキューブ; originally code-named Dolphin during development; abbreviated as GCN) is Nintendos fourth home video game console, belonging to the 128-bit era; the same generation as Segas Dreamcast, Sonys PlayStation 2, and Microsofts Xbox. ... Close-up of C64 Commodore 64 (C64, CBM 64) was a popular home computer of the 1980s. ... Categories: Stub ... Turrican was created by Manfred Trenz, a legend among the Commodore 64 programming scene, and first released by Rainbow Arts in 1990. ...

He created a music replay routine for the Amiga called TFMX -- "The Final Musicsystem eXtended", which featured far more musically-oriented features than rival SoundTracker, such as logarithmic pitch-bends, sound macros and individual tempos for each track.

Chris Hülsbeck at the Symphonic Game Music Concert in 2004

His music from Apidya and Turrican was performed live by a full symphonic orchestra in 2003 and 2004 at the Symphonic Game Music Concert-series in Leipzig, Germany. This is a copyrighted promotional photo with a known source. ... This is a copyrighted promotional photo with a known source. ... Apidya is a horizontally-scrolling shoot-em-up computer game released in 1992 by Kaiko for the Amiga. ... Turrican was created by Manfred Trenz, a legend among the Commodore 64 programming scene, and first released by Rainbow Arts in 1990. ... The European Symphonic Game Music Concert series started in 2003 (08 / 20). ...

Discography

• 1991 Shades
• 1992 Apidya
• 1992 To be on Top
• 1993 Turrican Soundtrack
• 1994 Native Vision - Easy life (single)
• 1994 Rainbows
• 1995 Sound Factory (This also features a data track with Hülsbeck sound samples and TFMX-format songs)
• 1997 Tunnel B1 Soundtrack
• 1997 Extreme Assault soundtrack
• 1998 Peanuts feat. Doc. Schneider - Leben betrügt (single)
• 2000 Bridge from the past to the future (released at MP3.com)
• 2000 Collage (released at MP3.com)
• 2000 Merregnon Soundtrack, Volume 1
• 2001 Chris Huelsbeck in the Mix (released by ZYX Music)
• 2004 Merregnon Soundtrack, Volume 2

Apidya is a horizontally-scrolling shoot-em-up computer game released in 1992 by Kaiko for the Amiga. ... Turrican was created by Manfred Trenz, a legend among the Commodore 64 programming scene, and first released by Rainbow Arts in 1990. ... MP3. ... MP3. ... Merregnon is a soundtrack CD project for which video game music composers contribute new titles. ... Merregnon is a soundtrack CD project for which video game music composers contribute new titles. ...

External links

• Official homepage (http://www.huelsbeck.com/)
• Chris's Amiga game tunes, archived at UnExoticA (http://exotica.fix.no/tunes/unexotica/composers/Chris_Hulsbeck.html)
• Chris's ElectronicScene.com profile (http://www.electronicscene.com/artist/index.cfm?a=2635)