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Chris Huelsbeck

Chris Hülsbeck (born March 2 1968) is a game music composer from Germany.

He has written soundtracks for more than 70 titles, the latest being Star Wars: Rebel Strike for Nintendo GameCube. Many of his scores for the Commodore 64 are regarded as classics among enthusiasts today, most notably Great Giana Sisters. He is best known for the soundtracks to the Turrican series of games. Chris's initial recognition arrived at age 16 when his composition "Shades" won first place in a music competition for the German "64'er" magazine.

He created a music replay routine for the Amiga called TFMX -- "The Final Musicsystem eXtended", which featured far more musically-oriented features than rival Soundtracker, such as logarithmic pitch-bends, sound macros and individual tempos for each track.

His music from Apidya, Turrican and Giana Sisters was performed live by a full symphonic orchestra in 2003, 2004 and 2005 at the annual Symphonic Game Music Concert-series in Leipzig, Germany. In 2006, a piano arrangement of his music from Turrican 3 was performed at the fourth Symphonic Game Music Concert. In 2007, an arrangement of music from Turrican 2 will be performed by full symphonic orchestra again.

Discography - Audio CDs

  • 1991 Shades
  • 1992 To be on Top
  • 1992 Apidya
  • 1993 Turrican Soundtrack
  • 1994 Native Vision - Easy life (single)
  • 1994 Rainbows
  • 1995 Sound Factory (This also features a data track with Hülsbeck sound samples and TFMX-format songs)
  • 1997 Tunnel B1 Soundtrack
  • 1997 Extreme Assault soundtrack
  • 1998 Peanuts feat. Doc. Schneider - Leben betrügt (single)
  • 2000 Bridge from the past to the future (released at MP3.com)
  • 2000 Collage (released at MP3.com)
  • 2000 Merregnon Soundtrack, Volume 1
  • 2001 Chris Huelsbeck in the Mix (released by ZYX Music)
  • 2004 Merregnon Soundtrack, Volume 2 (English and Japanese edition)
  • 2007 HCD9 (Unreleased)

Notable music for home computers

  • Apidya (Amiga)
  • The Baby of Can Guru* (C64)
  • Dulcedo Cogitations* (C64)
  • Great Giana Sisters (C64)
  • Jim Power (Amiga)
  • R-Type intro music (C64, Amiga)
  • Shades* (C64)
  • To be on Top (C64)
  • Turrican 1-3 soundtracks (Amiga)

(tunes marked with asterisk are individual songs, other titles are game soundtracks)

TFMX & Soundmonitor

Huelsbeck Profile Pages

Fansites

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