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#3633: vurtX - Short Circuit 4 (Dischord Disco)
Added to rotation: 2009-06-03 11:53:48
Song last played: 2026-04-24 14:42:06
Song last requested: 2025-07-26 22:16:08
Artist last played: 2026-04-29 00:40:15
Number of plays: 523
Requests: 44
Votes: 188
Song length: 05:26


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SID INFO
HVSC path: MUSICIANS/G/Galway_Martin/Short_Circuit.sid
Title: Short Circuit
Composer: Martin Galway
Copyright: 1986 Ocean
Subtunes: 5
SID model: MOS6581

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STIL comment"I believe it to be my most elaborate, complete and successful conversion of a 'digital audio sourced' tune. ZZAP! 64 only gave the music 79%, my worst score since 'Roland's Rat Race', so you can imagine my disappointment. One of the other tunes was easy, that's the simple ballad melody 'come and follow me', which I was able to arrange quite successfully. The other one was a nightmare since it's the tune right from the beginning of the movie with all the robotic short notes & arpeggios. The tune just built up so massive that the poor C64 was short of notes by about 30 seconds into it, so I had to fudge the end a bit and make it repeat, basically." (MG)
 
SUBTUNE INFO
 
#1 - Who's Johnny? [from the movie Short Circuit]
 
  Artist: El DeBarge
  Comment: "I also had to do 'Who's Johnny?' by El DeBarge for the 'Short Circuit' game, that took 4 weeks to program in with all those slides and copies of what the record does, I regarded that as quite an achievement since it was kind of a neat tune." (MG)
 
#4 - Main Title [from the movie Short Circuit]
 
  Artist: David Shire
  Comment: This music is played when Johnny 5 comes alive!
 
#5 - Come and Follow Me [from the movie Short Circuit]
 
  Artist: David Shire, Will Jennings & Max Carl
  Comment: This is the song played under the credits at the end of the movie. It is also the theme song of "Number Five".
 




REMIX64.COM
OVERALL REMIX64 VOTE:

wobbler:
Rad (and red)
AdSalusNonAptus:
This is so freaking great!
wyz:
Very progressive remix, I like it
infamous:
Im not to sure why this is getting low voted for sounding chaotic, have you heard the original sid? Or even the movie version for that matter as it was a cover by galway… This is a brilliant remake of it
dokmatik:
Pays great tribute to the original.
LaLa:
At first it's not much different than the original movie score, but there are lots of other things here to keep me interested. The instrumentation could be more polished, but it's a very respectable effort, nevertheless.
apple:
Not bad at all. And I just watched Short Circuit movie: P
condor:
Really really weird. Either you hate it, either you love it. I'm in the middle.
YogibearRenoise:
Hmm! An intriguing and chaotic RMX! Like it!
Master Baator:
Very different than other remixes here, and that is normally refreshing. However it is more odd than brilliant due to the many disharmonies and sometimes false chords. I am looking forward to your next composition, but keep it more streamlined
Dan:
What starts out promising turns into a horrid mess which is not helped by a poor choice in instruments or samples from the film
prowler:
Really too confusing to be enjoyable…
Raffox:
NAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAaaaaa