Added to rotation: 2005-08-02 14:21:11
Song last played: 2026-05-26 12:20:20
Song last requested: 2024-08-07 10:31:06
Artist last played: 2026-05-29 18:55:17
Number of plays: 789
Requests: 137
Votes: 210
Song length: 05:38

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OTHER REMIXES OF THE SAME SUBTUNE

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SID INFO
HVSC path: MUSICIANS/G/Galway_Martin/Rolands_Ratrace.sid
Title: Roland's Ratrace
Composer: Martin Galway
Copyright: 1985 Ocean
Subtunes: 20
SID model: MOS6581

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STIL comment	"Once I had finished on 'Roland's Rat Race', which took a month, [Ocean] agreed to suspend my tasks as a programmer and my employment as game sound guy began." (MG) "[...] the sounds are a bit poor. I didn't develop pulse-width modulation until the next project, which at the time was called 'Cyclone'. It later came out as 'Helicopter Jagd'. On 'Roland's Rat Race' I guess you could say I was still mastering the C64. It was January/February 1985, my first project on staff at Ocean (I had done quite a few before that as a freelancer but they weren't comfortable employing someone SOLELY TO DO MUSIC... those were the days!)." (MG)
SUBTUNE INFO
#1 - No.1 Ratfan [from The Cassette of the Album]
Artist:	P. Hammond and R. Matthews, performed by Roland Rat Superstar (David Claridge)
Comment:	The first 23 seconds are taken from the 12" version of "No.1 Ratfan".
#4 - Bonus Stage [from the arcade game Super Locomotive]
Artist:	<?>

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OVERALL REMIX64 VOTE:

eliot:
Unbalanced but like it anyways 😉
omoroca:
Quest not fulfilled! The electronic bird twitter is nice, the female voice too, but still something's missing. Not Jarresque enough to be named like that.
Tas:
Well, this is mighty strange. Think the jarre effects are slightly too loud at times and a little out of place… Less is more I think. It's a strange concept and I'm not entirely sure if it works very well.
romeo_knight:
A pity! The best about RRR is the great groove and bassline. I can't find them here. Though it is a nice electronic effort.
Dan:
Great idea but not as smooth as it could have been, take a look at Marcels work to see what I mean
Waz:
The Jarre effects are too loud - a bit of EQ tweaking is needed. It also sounds a little out of tune in places. That said, it's a very different idea and for that alone I quite liked it.
LMan:
Nice idea and a different take on the SID.
anaconda:
Well done synth tune.
LaLa:
A lot of Oxygene-esque effects alone don't make Jarre, his tunes are a lot more complex than that. A nice effort, as an exercise it works fine, as a final product it lacks direction, cohesion and emotion.
immacolata:
I rather find the drum track misplaced. The jarreish and the vocal works fine together, the drum track is perhaps out of fear that if it hasnt got drums, no one will listen.
cosmic_gerbil:
It's OK, but a bit dull.
infamous:
Jarre stuff again… Been done a thousand times before and better (quality wise) but for me this sort of stuff never really gets off the ground and is a tired and old genre that should have been left in the 80's… Show's artistic potential though.
nettuno:
Too soporific
c64glen:
Please, no more Jarre'ing up random tunes. It doesn't work.
ifadeo:
It doesn't sounds like jarre, maybe marcel could do a jarre version of this track…