Press Play on Tape

Press Play on Tape

Infobox musical artist
Name = PRESS PLAY ON TAPE


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Years_active = 1999 – present
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URL = [http://www.pressplayontape.com/ www.pressplayontape.com]
Current_members = Theo Engell-Nielsen, Uffe Friis Lichtenberg, André Tischer Poulsen, Jesper Holm Olsen, Martin Koch Søren Trautner Madsen

PRESS PLAY ON TAPE is a revival and tribute rock band to the music used in games on the 1980s' Commodore 64 home computer. The six-member band, hailing from Copenhagen, Denmark, has released two albums and has done several concerts in Britain, Norway, Germany and their home country Denmark. Fans are found all over the globe and some fans have even travelled from far away to attend the band's concerts. Pirated versions of their albums can even be found in some Asian countriesFact|date=July 2008.

The band's name comes from the message "PRESS PLAY ON TAPE" that the Commodore 64 displayed when the user issued a command to load a program from the tape drive. Upon pressing the play button on the tape drive, the program would then load. Sometimes PRESS PLAY ON TAPE is referenced as PPOT, pronounced 'pE'pät.

PRESS PLAY ON TAPE have performed live with some of the original composers, namely Rob Hubbard, Ben Daglish and Jon Hare.

History

PRESS PLAY ON TAPE was formed in the fall of 1999. The game tunes from the C64 had for a few years prior to the band's existence been interpreted by numourous remixers as dance club music or techno music. PPOT was the first "band" to perform C64 game themes live and as rock. PPOT's first public concert was in December 1999 at the demo competition event "The Party" in Aars, Denmark.

The members met at the Department of Computer Science at The University of Copenhagen. They have now all graduated and work with computer games at Deadline Games, IO Interactive and NDS Group.

After the band formed video game music's sound has grown more and more popular being widely used in contemporary popmusic, and too awareness of video game theme bands has grown in Europe and the US. Specifically this has reached many of the people in Europe that had a C64 in their early youth (the number of C64s is unknown but lies somewhere between 16 and 20 million units sold) making existence possible for a band that plays music from a home computer that had its prime in the mid 80ies.

* In 1999 the band formed.
* In 2000 their first album, "LOADING READY RUN", was released.
* In 2002 the band released their first music video which was a spoof boy band video based on the C64 classic Comic Bakery by Martin Galway.
* In 2002 the band performs together with composer Ben Daglish for the first time.
* In 2003 the band performs together with composers Ben Daglish and Rob Hubbard.
* In 2004 their second album, "RUN/STOP RESTORE", was released.
* In October 2005 PRESS PLAY ON TAPE performed as warm up band to Danish band Mew, playing at two of Denmark's largest concert venues.
* In November 2005 the band hosted the concert Copenhagen Retro Concert "(CRC 2005)" in Copenhagen, Denmark. This event featured the bands "Visa Röster", "Stuck in d'Eighties", "Axes Denied" and Rob Hubbard. It was at this event PPOT introduced their performance of Cannon Fodder played solely on game controllers using proprietary software. They performed this with composer Jon Hare.
* PRESS PLAY ON TAPE performed at the 2008 Roskilde Festival [ [http://www.roskilde-festival.dk/2008/forside/system/band/singleband/press-play-on-tape/ Roskilde Festival: Band: PRESS PLAY ON TAPE - 2008 ] ]
* ... PRESS PLAY ON TAPE is currently working on their third album, rumour says. [ [http://www.berlingske.dk/article/20071002/kultur/71002102/ Berlingske Tidende, 2 October 2007: "Commodore 64 - nu som band"] , Langhoff, Rune.]

Discography

LOADING READY RUN

PRESS PLAY ON TAPE's first album title comes from the text sequence in the Commodore 64's loading sequence: "LOADING READY RUN". After pressing the tape drive's play button, the computer would display "LOADING" while transferring the program into the computer memory. At completion, the prompt "READY." would appear, and the user could then "RUN" the program. LOADING READY RUN was released in December, 2000.

Track list:
* Rambo: First blood part II - Martin Galway
* Ghosts'n Goblins - Mark Cooksey
* Warhawk - Rob Hubbard
* Monty on the Run - Rob Hubbard
* Beyond the Ice Palace - David Whittaker
* Wizardry - Mike Alsop
* Commando - Rob Hubbard
* Thing on a Spring - Rob Hubbard
* Aztec Challenge - Paul Norman
* Auf Wiedersehen Monty - Rob Hubbard and Ben Daglish
* Paperboy/Game Over - Mark Cooksey / Martin Galway
* Krakout - Ben Daglish
* Thrust - Rob Hubbard
* Master of Magic - Rob Hubbard/Larry Fast

RUN/STOP RESTORE

The second album's title, "RUN/STOP RESTORE", refers to two specific keys on the C64 keyboard. RUN/STOP was the button to stop a BASIC program's execution. RESTORE was used in combination with RUN/STOP to break ongoing interrupt loops, restore the corresponding interrupt vectors, and reenter the operating system at a known program location (all this constituting a "warm start"), thus (hopefully) bringing the C64 back to a responsive state. RUN/STOP RESTORE was released in January, 2004.

Track list:
* Hypa-ball vs Mission AD - Keith Tinman / Fred Gray
* Arkanoid - Martin Galway
* Tiger Mission - Johannes Bjerregaard
* Phantom (of the Asteroid) - Rob Hubbard
* Kettle - Ben Daglish
* Bionic Commando - Tim Follin
* Comic Bakery (PPOT remix remix) - Martin Galway
* Nemesis the Warlock - Rob Hubbard
* The Way of the Exploding Fist - Neil Brennan
* Fairlight - Mike Alsop
* Star Paws - Rob Hubbard
* Flimbo's Quest - Reyn Ouwehand
* Defender of the Crown - Jim Cuomo/Richard Joseph
* Roland's Rat Race - Martin Galway
* Wizball Game Over - Martin Galway
* Wizball High Score - Martin Galway
* Sacred Armour of Antiriad - Richard Joseph
* Crazy Comets - Rob Hubbard

Webography

* Warhawk (live) - "Rob Hubbard"
* Warhawk (PSB mix) - "Rob Hubbard"
* Pumpkin Man - "Richard Joseph"
* Cannon Fodder (live video) - "Jon Hare"
* Tiger Mission (live) - "Johannes Bjerregaard"
* Crazy Comets (live) - "Rob Hubbard"
* Crazy Comets (live video) - "Rob Hubbard"
* Ark Pandora - "Ben Daglish"
* Comic Bakery - "Martin Galway"
* Comic Bakery (video) - "Martin Galway"
* Comic Bakery (DHS remix) - "Martin Galway"
* Monkey Island (live) - "Michael Land"
* Monkey Island (live, video) - "Michael Land"
* Out Run - "Horoshi Kawaguchi"
* Space Tanks (Dezecrator) - "Markus Meriläinen/ Linus Walleij"

Members

* Theo Engell-Nielsen, Synthesizer
* André Tischer Poulsen, Synthesizer
* Søren Trautner Madsen, drums
* Uffe Friis Lichtenberg, Bass
* Jesper Holm Olsen, Guitar
* Martin Koch, Guitar"Unchanged"

Covered Tunes

The list of tunes covered by PPOT can be seen below. The list is supposed to be complete [ [http://www.pressplayontape.com/?pid=concerts PRESS PLAY ON TAPE, concert page] , PRESS PLAY ON TAPE.] .

* Antiriad - "Richard Joseph"
* Ark Pandora - "Ben Daglish"
* Arkanoid - "Martin Galway"
* Auf Wiedersehen Monty - "Rob Hubbard"
* Aztec Challenge - "Paul Norman"
* Beyond the Ice Palace - "David Whittaker"
* Bionic Commando - "Tim Follin"
* Bubble Bobble
* Cannon Fodder - "Jon Hare"
* Comic Bakery - "Martin Galway"
* Commando - "Rob Hubbard"
* Commodore - Sash
* Crazy Comets - "Rob Hubbard"
* Das Gamer (Das Model) - "Kraftwerk"
* Dezecrator (Space Tanks) -"Markus Meriläinen/ Linus Walleij"
* Delta (video game) - "Rob Hubbard"
* Exploding Fist - "Neil Brennan"
* Flimbo's Quest - "Reyn Ouwehand"
* Ghosts'n Goblins - "Mark Cooksey"
* Giana Sisters - "Chris Huelsbeck"
* Human Race - "Rob Hubbard"
* Hypa-ball/Mission AD - "Keith Tinman"/"Fred Grey"
* Karl Koder - "Eminem"
* Krakout - "Ben Daglish"
* Last Ninja - "Ben Daglish"
* Master of Magic (Mastertronic) - "Rob Hubbard"
* Monkey Island - "Michael Land"
* Monty on the Run - "Rob Hubbard"
* Nemesis the Warlock - "Rob Hubbard"
* Non Terraquous - "Ben Daglish"
* One Man And His Droid - "Rob Hubbard"
* Out Run - "Hiroshi Kawaguchi"
* Pacman - "Toshio Kai"
* Parappa the Rapper - Beard Burger Song
* Phantom of the Asteroids - "Rob Hubbard"
* Pumpkin Man - "Richard Joseph"
* Rambo Loader - "Martin Galway"
* Roland's Rat Race - "Martin Galway"
* Sanxion - "Rob Hubbard"
* Still Alive - "Jonathan Coulton"
* Spy vs Spy - "Nick Scarim"
* The Product - "Tammo Hinrichs"
* Thing on a Spring - "Rob Hubbard"
* Thrust - "Rob Hubbard"
* Tiger Mission - "Johannes Bjerregaard"
* Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny - "Lemon Demon"
* Warhawk - "Rob Hubbard"
* Wizardry - "Mike Alsop"
* Wizball - "Martin Galway"
* 80's TV Medley - "Knight Rider / Miami Vice / Ghostbusters / The A Team / Dallas / Dempsey & Makepeace / McGuyver / Bravestar / Transformers / V / Dick Turpin / Airwolf"

amples

* [http://www.pressplayontape.com/?pid=cd Samples] and [http://www.pressplayontape.com/?pid=streamingvideos videos] are available at the band's website.
* (Ogg Vorbis sound file) – The theme from "Commando"

ee also

*The Minibosses, one of the very first game-music cover bands, focusing mainly on NES tunes.
*The Black Mages, a metal band founded by Nobuo Uematsu to play Final Fantasy arrangements.
*The Advantage, another band which plays covers of Nintendo theme music.
*The OneUps, another band which plays covers of video game music (although with a more jazz-inspired sound).
*The NESkimos, another band which plays covers of Nintendo music, but adds a very heavy style to it.
*MegaDriver, another band which plays covers of video game music, mostly of the Sega Genesis (or "Mega Drive" outside North America) but also plays Nintendo covers, with a heavy metal style.
*The Megas, a band which covers Mega Man songs, adding lyrics to expand on the game's story.

External links

* [http://www.pressplayontape.com PRESS PLAY ON TAPE's official website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/c64band PRESS PLAY ON TAPE's official MySpace]
* [http://musicbrainz.org/artist/e9349c74-404d-4548-b500-711fd2a491b8.html PRESS PLAY ON TAPE] on MusicBrainz.
* [http://www.last.fm/music/PRESS+PLAY+ON+TAPE PRESS PLAY ON TAPE] on Last.fm.
* [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Press+Play+On+Tape PRESS PLAY ON TAPE] on Discogs.

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