Acidjazzed Evening as it's supposed to be played

This is the (in)famous "Acidjazzed Evening" by Tempest/Damage as you've no doubt recently heard about.
The way it's meant to played. On an Amiga, with OctaMED!
Showing off various features of OctaMED, such as the notation view, sample & instrument listing and tempo settings.
This is the original ProTracker .MOD version. The one stolen is GRG's conversion to .sid format. They sound nearly identical.

[@ZILOGz80VIDEOS]

I love the fact that PIPA and SOPA was made to "protect" people like Timbaland from pirates.

[@mentaltfladdrig]

lololol :D

[@dirtywojta]

Wow, I remember when those were a thing... Anyone remember ACTA?

[@JustALilCrowny]

Sorry, never heard of it

[@peashooterman3]

@@JustALilCrowny i heard of it through some roblox nyan cat game in like 2013-14. it seemed to be some bs anti-piracy law that failed to pass as far as i've seen when looking it up, so thats probably all you really need to know

[@likepoco]

2007: acidjazz Evening 2014: chrismas acidjazz. 2024: 489

[@Misdrii]

Yeah. The 489 "meme" made a 'BOOM!💣' on the internet

[@theillmeister]

only the sound of the instruments makes this old, but in my opinion, the actual composition and arrangement is very new and fresh. very catchy stuff. you can see why timbo was quick to snatch this up and turn it into a hit.

[@jayaantilofi2422]

THIS EXISTED 18 YEARS AGO SUCH A BOP OMG

[@dogsoap]

Timbaland didn't sample it, he straight up used it and called it his own.

[@modiFive]

He sampled mod of samples. But seriously in Do It it sounds like it wasn't sid version, but the original amiga, sid version sounds more dirty and it would be much easier to do it without much effort, WinAmp could play formats from Protracker and Fasttracker and the fact that he owns a sid device is a false clue. Some evil force complicated this case and there was no output. But after that decade scene started its renaissance and Retrogames started their business alongside with others, all coincidentally. Could it be the output? So Tempest could be a scene's christ alongside with the government of Finland, which has brought up demoscene to the national heritage rank.

[@dogsoap]

@@modiFive I wish I could remember commenting on this when I was 18, dang, blast from the past. 13 years!

[@giovanigeorgis3848]

@@dogsoapI know this is another year late but he only sampled 18 seconds of a 3+ minute long song and then looped it. He got the song off of a library of public C64 made songs.

[@nikukit]

​@@dogsoap i wasnt even alive when you commented that

[@kassyingberrys]

​We are young aren't we ​@@nikukit😭 (i was literally just born)

[@IanPiepenbrock]

Real men sequence vertically, tracker for life

[@carminone]

Well said

[@e__egg]

yes

[@RoshwyinsTaicoon]

yep

[@NiGHTSaturn]

I just realized this could have been an act theme on a Sonic game. It would have fit quite nicely.

[@TailsandLuther]

Me TOO BRO

[@mickjt84]

You need to realise it's not "close", it's an absolute 100% perfect match with GRG's SID version. There are some torrents going around with the sid version extracted out of the main sound through advanced techniques, and switching between sid and extracted version every 3 seconds. You cannot tell when the switches are taking place.

[@bluar.]

real

[@winnienyale6926]

2007: original 2008: acidjazz evening 2014: Christmas acidjazz 2024:489

[@Inseticidacontrahu.]

The song is from 2000

[@drdirs]

Yeah, Timbaland rocks. I'm sure one day he'll even learn how to write his own music.

[@Cirksstudiosoffical]

What a fantastic music 🎶

[@uglyboy3000]

i hope the person who made this get some credit for this. This is kind of good for a song that sounds like a SNES game. Timbo you should pay some respect for using this no matter if you didn't know who made this.

[@carlpencil5126]

Non ha ricevuto niente

[@Atreiides_]

ok knowing this is a song made on amiga makes me love it even more

[@KrazPunch]

I still love this track.

[@vietanhnguyengia2422]

me2

[@sub-zero-kitty]

nice pfp

[@AndrewGorny]

Really great arranging, I remember when this came out in 2000, that V chord to the VI is so rad, makes the song almost

[@samitiittanen2239]

I was at Assembly when I heard this song in the compo and I swear the song played in my head for a week after only one listen :) Such an amazing song.

[@Victinho6D]

Video game music is still music. And Tempest still deserves his cut and recognization for it.

[@paulfromantonball]

FUCKING *P R E A C H*

[@grumblekin]

Chips and demotunes bring back some good memories of the olden days. I loved me some MODs.

[@larodepapel]

I didn't know that they made such bangers at that time, bro this is better than most songs that my friends listen

[@steamsoldier]

So cool, thanks for posting it!

[@Mixava]

I feel like this could go with anything, sort of like how Guiles theme goes with everything...

[@KurtCobainsSon]

This videos comment section is full of KZbin veterans, leaving mine here to join them some day.

[@SheepyChris]

What a masterpiece!

[@LouigiVerona]

It's not similar, it's ideantical. And because demoscene musicians release lots of music for free, they have a higher "defence" feel. It's only natural I think, that the fuzz will be big, when someone rips from a demoscener. Demoscene may be a geeky community to most people, but it is a very large group of people who would support each other.

[@giovanigeorgis3848]

He only sampled 18 seconds of it

[@LouigiVerona]

@@giovanigeorgis3848 The issue was more a lack of credit that the sampling. He claimed he made it.

[@heactictiti]

17 years later...

[@LouigiVerona]

@@heactictiti And I have a typo in my original comment but I'm opting to keep it for historical purposes 😄

[@CTRIX64]

"as it's supposed to be played" Ahh, but is it?! Played on a real Amiga 1200 or 500 it would hard pan left (ch 1,4) /right (ch 2,3). This sounds average for most MODs (instrument seperation) so most tracker musicians use an external mini-mixer to do a channel sum. Any L/R panning is at users disgression. This vid sounds like approx 30/70 panning. Knowing the Assembly system (I was on the jury in '06) it was more likely to be a mono playback at the party ;-) Still awesome you capped this!

[@Wh0rse]

this is such an amazing song

[@zacskou]

This never gets old. :D

[@ImaginationUser]

I find it amusing that to this day any rules description for any music competition at any demoscene party in any country in the world contains the phrase: "no timbaland". The guy's nickname became synonymous with plagiarism. XD

[@Unicornasmr12345]

2007:I like this song 2025: four eight nine *also it's almost 2025*

[@MercifulArchitect]

I can listen to this all day long!! I love it SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!! XD

[@Cirksstudiosoffical]

Same

[@Cirksstudiosoffical]

It'd a meme now lol

[@SaturnTypeBeat]

Thats because the composer of this song " Tempest " Is or was a part of the 8-bit community, well either that or he was an 8-bit artist. 8-bit people make techish sounding music (such as this) using old outdated sound chips from home made systems or old video game systems such as Gameboy, nintendo, commodore 64, ect. Great song though, it makes me happy =D

[@SitarKnight]

The original artist of this song is awesome, this song is amazing!!

[@Dionthebacon]

anyone didnt realized that the song is basically remixed with an hhgreg ad

[@Exoforexotics]

I listened to the battle for acidjazz island

[@malloreddusrabies]

@MarielaJoyRabara why are u so pressed lol

[@Dionthebacon]

​@MarielaJoyRabaraik, but, u dumb, THE MEXICAN DUDE IS THE ONE WHO MIXED IT

[@Dionthebacon]

​@MarielaJoyRabaraand the thing u be surprised, U CANT BE MEASURED FOR THE FUCKING HHGREG AD?, A FUCKING SONG MIXED INTO AN AD?, THR 489 HAD TAKEN OVER ABOUT A MONTHH AGO

[@samanthachott8589]

*hhgregg

[@PolybiusArcadia]

16 years later

[@kalsolarUK]

Good to see the sounds of the old sid chip still doing the rounds! Nicely made, well done!

[@UserNotAvaiIabIe]

Real Christmas In July vibes.

[@mickjt84]

It's the latest. Unless you count some beta version. I think you are thinking of ProTracker. Or you had plain "OctaMED" not OctaMED Soundstudio.. and yes this one has oscilloscopes too for recording, but I didn't show it.

[@plasmiesnail]

FREAKING AWESOME

[@PearlsphereBiophilia]

Original is MUCH better than that fake "Do It". I loaded it straightaway into my phone's Mp3 player. I love this song! 5Stars

[@jonah1976]

That would depend entirely on how much memory you had in your Amiga. My old A500 had 6 megabytes of Fast RAM. Normal CD quality would be 10 megs per minute, but the Amiga had 8-bit sound, not 16-bit. So, I could record a little over 1 minute of sound, in stereo at 44,100khz. You could quadruple it if you only recorded in mono, at half the rate. But, again, it depends on the amount of free memory in your Amiga.

[@misterknite]

Man the top comments should be about how great this song is

[@StarYayyRBLX]

This is my favorite song❤❤❤

[@mickjt84]

You may have been replying to the post I removed where the guy mentioned it was 50 years old (along with other insulting things). For the record, the Amiga came out in 1985. The first Amiga, the A1000, should be able to play this .mod without problems.

[@lallarolle]

Better than timbaland :D

[@KeithMarvK]

Timbaland's imdb page brought me here 🤣

[@logo-6826]

Wth is timbaland

[@otakurocklee]

I love this song! It is perfect! Timbaland just corrupted perfection. Janne's other songs are also great!

[@crumb_]

I'm just going to leave one comment to those users leaving a message in the context of "stop hating on timbaland, he was sampling some music." Don't even try bringing the "sampling" argument into this. Timbaland made is song sound _exactly_ like Acidjazzed Evening. If he took a small part of the song and fused it into something completely different from what Acidjazzed Evening is, then that's fine in my book. But you can't sample whole songs, it doesn't work that way.

[@LightTheUnicorn]

Sounds like something you'd hear when playing pinball, love it ;)

[@digoxin410]

Now THAT'S why Acidjazzed Evening sounds like it was played in a Game Boy or a 16 bit computer because it's actually IS

[@BeeVRwants_kitkats]

Woah.

[@superandroidtron]

@dds12345res The Amiga has 4 sound channels with two panned left and two panned right. The panning is done in hardware and can not be changed.

[@skhanifar]

this song is awesome

[@mamabearmaillet792]

0.25: Death 0.5: Kinda swag 0.75: jus' chillin"' 1: boring... 1.25: Hype. 1.5: Dope stuff. 1.75: Crazy! 2: THERE IS LITERALLY SOAP EVERYWHERE!

[@EuAmoGTASanAndreas]

bro has the worst taste in music

[@nobody-wo3xl]

​@@EuAmoGTASanAndreasfr

[@otakurocklee]

Me too! It's a cool song. Very catchy!

[@Exarian]

love this song...

[@jullsan]

Seriously you guys argue over internet that Timbaland stole a beat which he didn't . The beat was already on the keyboard he bought which he said in a interview. At the end of the day Timbaland is still gets his bread and what are you guys going to do about it. Haha too funny

[@mickjt84]

The clicking around is to show various features of the program. Just having it sit there playing would be rather boring. As for the mouse moving fast, it's because while it's being recorded under emulation, the framerate is extremely slow. I try to move the mouse slow to compensate but what can you do ;-)

[@Majeed.]

Move the mouse *fast**

[@shiryu22]

there are a few out there in youtube that actually restore some of my faith in humanity. not many, though :(

[@ema1l]

This song is from assembly 2000 winner of the music combo and the name is acid jazz made by tempentis

[@MrFunBotty]

H-H-GREGGG

[@NiGHTSaturn]

That's a really great tune!!! I love old skool music like that! ;) 8BIT ;) felix

[@grezy_mechta6809]

NiGHTSaturn omg 12 years ago ass old comment hope ur still alife ;) xD

[@NiGHTSaturn]

@@grezy_mechta6809 HAHAHA! Yes! XD Still on KZbin after all these years! My channel has been here since 2006!

[@microfighterz]

This sounds better but I don't know how. It's nice.

[@NaviciaAbbot]

The Amiga line of computers had much more advanced sound processors. The main positive about the Amiga was that it made use of samples 100% of the time, unlike the C64, which used a form of wave synthesis, which was programmable to boot. Both computers are epic for what can be done by them.

[@microfighterz]

Two years later and I can say that both versions have their own perks. This Amiga version seems to do well with the stereo (which I can't hear in the C64 version, but I could be wrong) but the C64 version sounds smooth.

[@NaviciaAbbot]

Well, again, both computers are epic for what they can do. If you have not seen it - find the 8-bit guy's video on Classic Computer music.

[@markpenrice6253]

C64 only had mono output, so you won't hear stereo there unless it's simulated via an emulator splitting the individual tracks out. The Amiga stereo is all well and good unless you are - like myself - listening through headphones, where the extreme separation is a bit disorienting (rather like early Beatles stereo recordings) and makes the thing a bit harder to listen to coherently, as it's more like two different songs playing, one in each ear. A bit of spatial reverb processing and intermixing gives a nicer feel to it overall, but IDK if there's any physical way to mod that into an original amiga. Obviously a bit tricky with the software...

[@djlobb]

yeah, but this is showing off the macine doing it! and the fact that a macine thats "50" years old was capable of this back then is pretty awsome!

[@null1023]

Ooh. This is nice. Reminds me of the music in Marina Madness on Knuckle's Chaotix.

[@nezmaster1]

Guess what guys, he's making money isn't he? What's the huge deal, you'd do the same thing if you came across something this good.

[@CharlotteDoesGacha]

17 YEARS AGO

[@Burger_guychez]

The people who make bangers a long time ago have less videos and just leave after years

[@nesatcatic1303]

Example: tally hall

[@iusegentoobtw]

How it's supposed to be played... All of the bass panned to my left ear.

[@WickedTwitches]

This is nice.

[@Rinkul]

Yeah, seriously! Timbaland (or whatever he calls himself) is just trying to save face because he got caught ripping off this track. I know this happened a while ago but it still makes me rage. The original artist made such a great song!

[@valeriekeefe8898]

Worst part is: I think he should totally be able to do what he did. Copyright is theft. But bad form to act like a jerk while doing it.

[@taxtherich]

ooh, neat. wish I could do that. thanks!

[@MattNF]

Classic. Relistening to this after many years. Has pirated software keygen vibes.

[@MichaelChristoffersen]

OctaMED... those memories

[@seuck1870]

I find it a little strange that the apparent similarities to Grover Washington Jr's, Just The Two Of Us, is rarely mentioned when adressing this controversy. Just saying.

[@mickjt84]

I don't know. If it was on the real thing, you'd have to hook up the RGB output direct into a digital recording device, to remove shimmer, aliasing, colour bleeding etc.. It's quite obvious I did this on WinUAE.. The sound gets slowly out of sync towards the end, and I have no idea why, perhaps it's an artefact of converting the audio from one format to another, and the video to 30fps per KZbin's recommendations.

[@yousuffahimuddin]

...This is kind of awesome.

[@m134mr]

was this a MOD origanly, or was it first made as a SID? Great tune!! :)

[@petethomson]

There was also a condition that they (Thomas and Guy-Manuel) appeared in his video.

[@westygw]

@ssonicblue They're pretty commonplace. You could find your own at a thrift store, garage sale or eBay. They're everywhere, just like their big brother the Commodore 64.

[@Tv_man_editz]

This song makes me sleepy in the car 😂

[@metal78]

this is too hot for a video game

[@derblack31]

ok, my comment was a little outta line. It is a full blown computer though and not merely a game console. That's what I meant to say... or was it made on the "CD32", the only Amiga-"console"?

[@drdirs]

It was written for a competition.

[@DooGie17]

What kind of music is this? I looked for C64 music but no results, it's just impressive. Tempest is great :)

[@shrimp73]

My guess is people is thumbing him down because this is a chip tune composed to mimic the sound of sound chips that cost about 10$ in the beginning of the 80:s, anyone even without any talent would be able to improve this tune by simply using better samples (and not just simple waveforms)...and yet I still find Timbaland's version worse.

[@ThunderFoxMusic]

DIG IT

[@Graedius]

Yeah, your best chance seems to be with grabbing some sample files and learning yourself, just looking at the thing. That's how I've been doing it~

[@Blaze_Dady]

Which OS is this? Windows? Classic Mac OS? OS/2?

[@mickjt84]

Does anyone want another video with this played using ProTracker?

[@mentaltfladdrig]

I think there is some versions of it out on the utube already, but Yes please :) (if youre still alive man. 11 years. Whoa. Necroing this thread like a Pro!

[@Victinho6D]

Description: "(...)This is the original ProTracker .MOD version. The one stolen is GRG's conversion to .sid format. They sound nearly identical."

[@cosine303]

pc and amiga trackers are pretty easy to use / compose on. theres 2 main parts, the sequence window itself and the instruments/samples.. download one and mess around with one of the demo tunes, it's pretty straight forward. although the c64 trackers are tuffer to use as you can't use samples (except a digi channel) and it's only 3 channels of sound.

[@Yitohr]

This is a totally awesome song, and I can't forgive Timbaland for stealing it. Just heard the offending Nelly Furtado song on the radio yesterday... I wonder if she knew about it beforehand.

[@_EyeOfTheTiger]

Usually artists don't know the background they're just given a background track and a background artist who shows them how to sing the chorus

[@atomicplayboy6680]

@@_EyeOfTheTiger what an easy job that must be lol

[@_EyeOfTheTiger]

@@atomicplayboy6680 well yeah lmao the label makes shit tons of money using the artists voice and name. Most of the time they have tight release schedules and artists have very little creative freedom. That’s why artists tend to go independent after a while.

[@isachaley88]

i like it its like an old mario game

[@SaturnTypeBeat]

Im almost certain it was for personal enjoyment.

[@martbigz]

@rae5r: If one guy saves a hundres people out of a burning building, then proceeds to go home and shoot his wife, he's not a hero. He's a criminal. Just because Timbaland has helped some people get to the top in his past, doesn't mean he can just go rip someone's song off and stamp his name all over it. And even if Suni is not known at all to most people, he still made the original track and has the copyright.

[@hexpinteas]

this reminds my of the old games of pokemon on the gameboy

[@gthreek]

OctaMed only displayed one order at a time? Wow.

[@Booshibonton]

How long would it take someone to make a song like this in the way it looks like in the video??? months lol wow, soo cool

[@SamplrOfMoonshine]

15 years passed and we have winuae and protracker in

[@lasskinn474]

i guess it took me long to answer but some tunes that were used in keygens later and stuff were cranked out in like in an evening once the artist had the idea. it wasn't that slow of a method to create using trackers.

[@bjcsupertortoise]

I need an Amiga. NOW.

[@grezy_mechta6809]

KZbin, your website is deprecated. hope u find one after 8 years ass old comment

[@ratsouffle]

Yeah, I knew that this was the Amiga MOD, but he mentioned C64 in his post so I assumed he wanted the version at the center of the Timbaland controversy. Personally, I prefer this version.

[@blarrer20]

Look in the description ;)

[@shiryu22]

it isn't from a video game. simple as that. it's one thing to make comments and be wrong, but to refuse to listen is another thing. THIS IS AN ORIGINAL COMPOSITION, NOT FROM A VIDEO GAME. no animosity towards you, 0ephriam0.