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| '''Jochen Hippel''' is a musician from Kirchheimbolden in southwest Germany. He played a prominent role in computer music during the 16 bit micro era. | |||
| It just began simply. One day Jochen presented Christmas songs in a rock version, in the school's computer room, on a C64... | |||
| Jochen's first computer music was a set of Christmas songs that he arranged in a rock style on his schools Commadore 64. | |||
| In the 68000 era '''Jochen Hippel''' was a member of the 'demo' crew ] (TEX). Let's say they initiated the ]. Jochen, already known as Mad Max, was the music coder. On his couch in Kirchheimbolden, in the southwest of Germany , he codes mostly sounds for the ] soundchip. The Yamaha Sound Chip, which was in that machine, was not as good as the chip in the older C64, but Mad Max found a way and presented a nine voice sound on a three voice machine. In the biggest Demo of his crew, the B.I.G.Demo (Best In Galaxy) he ported many sounds from the ] onto the ]. | |||
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| As a memeber of the ], using the handle Mad Max, he wrote most of the music for their demos including the B.I.G. Demo (Best In Galaxy). The demo was essentialy a large collection of ] tunes that he ported across to the ST's inferior ] soundchip using his own driver to get the most out of it. | |||
| He made sounds for games by Thailon-Soft | |||
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| He worked as a freelance musician doing music for many 16bit games. He eventually joined ] and wrote music for them. | |||
| He has released a album called ''Give it a Try'' | |||
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Jochen Hippel is a musician from Kirchheimbolden in southwest Germany. He played a prominent role in computer music during the 16 bit micro era.
Jochen's first computer music was a set of Christmas songs that he arranged in a rock style on his schools Commadore 64.
As a memeber of the The Exceptions, using the handle Mad Max, he wrote most of the music for their demos including the B.I.G. Demo (Best In Galaxy). The demo was essentialy a large collection of C64 tunes that he ported across to the ST's inferior Yamaha YM2149 soundchip using his own driver to get the most out of it.
He worked as a freelance musician doing music for many 16bit games. He eventually joined Thalion Software and wrote music for them.
He has released a album called Give it a Try