I can't believe it.

Max has asked me to move in with him.

I mean, you practically live with each other already, but that's great.

Did you hear that, Joe?

Yes, thanks for letting us know.

I see you've updated your universal credit claim.

Now you're going to be living together.

If you're telling other people about a change in your circumstances, tell us too to avoid a penalty. Search tell DWP. Hello and welcome to the

Retro Hour podcast episode number 27, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me Dan Wood and me Ravi Abbott.

Now if you're a new listener to the show, we are 27 episodes in. First of all, where have you been?

Secondly, welcome on board. And we do the show every single Friday. The show comes out.

Explain how it works, Ravi, for those that may be new. Okay, so first off, we have news and opinions.

And these are usually

kind of things that me and Dan have just been searching through in the week, or listeners

have submitted and they've got our interest. So we kind of talk about that and keep you updated

in the retro scene. But then we have a special guest in the second half every single week.

The main event. Now, this week, it's actually a guy who, we've had a lot of requests for this guy. Whenever I chat to people, they always like, can you try and get him on? And whenever we have, other musicians who worked on like the Commodore 64 or the Amiga, and they list their biggest influences and people they really look up to, this guy's name always gets mentioned

every single time. Yeah, Chris Horsbeck. He's done over 70 games soundtrack, including Torrican, the great Guyana sisters, and even Scooter have sampled his tunes. That's crazy, isn't it? Yeah. Well, we'll find out more about that in just a bit because I think, you know, a lot of musicians now are kind of seeing the Commodore 64 in the Amiga scene.

It's kind of rich pickings for like these gritty raw samples now, aren't they? And also, if you talk about Euro scene and you talk about the Euro scene of gaming, Chris Hulsbeck's music was at the center of it, I think. Well, even like, you know, going right back to it, I mean, he, you can kind of trace the first, you know, trackers.

Trackers really came out of a... was at the centre of it, I think. Well, even, like, you know, going right back to it, I mean, he, you can kind of trace the first, you know, trackers.

Trackers really came out of a, you know, a program that he wrote on the Commodore 64. So you could call him the father of, like, mods and trackers, really, didn't you? Yeah, you had the kind of development of technology. and, you know, the music technology, digital music technology,

is down to this guy.

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