OUT NOW!
Long Lost Floppies Vol. 3
Lost UK rave tunes from 1992–93.
Recovered from floppy disks and remastered on Ensoniq EPS 16 Plus workstation.
Includes unreleased material!
Available on all streaming and download sites.
cygnusmusic.link/ebabbk0
This was always my favourite "review" of our rave movie!
Another compilation album of #retro #rave #nostaliga, remastered for your #oldksool ears, released today!
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The 20 year old me back in 1992 would never have imagined that 33 years later there would be represses of two of my #oldskool #rave EPs, and fantastic new 2025 remixes by Pete Cannon, Stu Keating and Paul Bradley!
Out now on Kniteforce Records.
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Our #indie #rave movie #BelushisToilet was briefly ranked #2,441 out of a whopping 1,205,389 movies on The Movie Database! It doesn't sound like much, but that's in the top group, along with many big budget productions. It was even higher than the classic rave movie "Human Traffic" at #13,236!
Shame they didn't have a passion for correct punctuation!
For the best part of the last year I've been trawling through 300 floppy disks of my old rave music I found from back in the early 90s, remastering them on a newly refurbished Ensoniq EPS 16 Plus. The first batch is out on a compilation album today! Enjoy!
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Ensoniq EPS 16 Plus SCSI adapter with a ZuluSCSI Mini RP2040 connected.
Ensoniq EPS 16 Plus SCSI board now installed, along with a ZuluSCSI Mini RP2040. What a difference in load and save times! My younger self 33 years ago dreamed of such things!
Film end credits roll showing the following music artists featured: Rob Hubbard Chris Abbott Marcel Donné Matt Gray Tonka Visa Röster Sidman 64
The best thing about being the music supervisor for a feature film is filling it with music from some of your favourite #commodore64 musicians! Big thanks to @c64audio.bsky.social for the licensing.
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Sony MDR-7506 headphones on a desk.
Out of all the equipment I've ever owned, I still consider these Sony MDR-7506 headphones to be the most important piece!
Ah yes, my original EPS 16 Plus had the flashbank. This one doesn't, but I'm hoping once I have the SCSI set up with the OS on it, it will be a similar experience (no OS disk swapping).
Two circuit boards mounted on top of each other with a SCSI port at the front.
My current Ensoniq EPS 16 Plus didn't come with a SCSI interface or the memory expansion board, but I found these aftermarket boards from the wizard Johan Sahlberg at ZIN Circuits. The next step will be to get all my disk images from the Gotek floppy emulator to a SCSI emulator.
zincircuits.flyh.se
Okay Bluesky, do me proud. Can anyone identify the track that was sampled in this old Commodore Amiga demo from 1989? It sounds like an Italo House track, but I've never found it in 35 years of searching!
#amiga #demoscene #oldskool @acidgrandads.bsky.social
The installation of the drive was pretty easy, but flashing the open source firmware to make it work on the EPS was a little confusing at first. Well worth it though!
The physical installation was fairly easy, but flashing the new firmware was a tad confusing! Works great though.
My god (literally!) I'm having flashbacks!
Installed a Gotek Floppy Drive emulator on the Ensoniq EPS 16 Plus, in place of the 3.5" floppy drive. Flashed it with open source Flashfloppy firmware. It was a mission, but it works! I've now got 291 floppy disk images of oldskool rave tunes I wrote in the early 90s to sort through!
Thanks Mike! So far it's going smoothly, but I don't want to jinx it!
Opening the case of an Ensoniq EPS 16 Plus keyboard, to reveal the floppy drive housing.
Removing the 3.5" floppy drive from the Ensoniq EPS 16 Plus. Will be installing a Gotek floppy emulator in its place.
Ah man! I can SMELL it!
If one image summed up the realities of independent filmmaking, it would be this behind the scenes photo from our first feature film, "Belushi's Toilet". Spare a thought for our Director of Photography!
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Old 3.5 inch floppy disk
33 years ago I wrote a bunch of tunes on my Commodore Amiga, which unexpectedly became underground bleep-techno hits. I remastered them using MadTracker and now you can enjoy "Rotor - Amiga 1991" on all popular streaming sites.
Ensoniq EPS 16 PLus keyboard
Got my hands on this beauty! Ensoniq EPS 16 Plus. Great condition. I can finally master all the unfinished rave tunes I wrote on my old one back in the UK in 1992! Just got to sort through hundreds of old floppy disks!
Amazing that a track we wrote 33 years ago is STILL appearing on compilation albums! Ours is the first track. I have very fond memories of Carl Cox playing it the first night I went to ESP at Milwaukee's in 1991. mentalgroove.bandcamp.com/album/bleeps...
Great to finally get out of the septic tank that Twitter has become! Please check out our indie feature film about drug legalization and harm reduction. Over 200 community volunteers made this happen! Now streaming. Please support indie film! belushistoilet.com
