Zapped to the Past

This week we take a walk on the dark side as we explore the scares and scores of director and composer John Carpenter. We explore how he popularised the slasher genre, tackled aliens from other worlds, told tales of seabound lepers and possessed cars, and even did a biopic of the King himself. On top of this, we examine some of his musical themes that would become as iconic as anything by Williams, Morricone or Hermann.

Films covered in this Episode

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Additional Links

John Carpenter - Wikipedia

John Carpenter

Albertus (typeface) - Wikipedia

Directed by John Carpenter - Fonts In Use

John Carpenter: The Most Overrated Director of All Time 

John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies' “What’s In My Bag?” | Amoeba Music 

A Five-Point Guide to Horror Movie Maestro John Carpenter | AnOther 

The 30 must-hear cult electronic soundtracks 

25 Awesome Electronic Film and Television Scores 

The 10 Best Electronic Film Scores of All Time | Taste Of Cinema 

‘Everything I know about evil I learned in that small town’: John Carpenter on terrifying the world with Halloween, The Thing and The Fog

John Carpenter, Dark Lord of the Film Score

The Coupe De Villes - Big Trouble in Little China (Upscaled HD) (1986)

Over 1993 and 1994, some games were released for the Commodore 64 and reviewed in the magazine Commodore Force. In episode Two-Hundred-and-Thirty-Five of Zapped to the Past, we look at some of those games, including the wrongly named World Championship Squash, the awful All-American Basketball, and the stinky Suburban Commando, and wonder why a Japanese folk demon would be eating a banana at a tennis match…

Games covered in this episode:

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https://www.lemon64.com/doc/world-championship-squash/679

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/zxdb/sinclair/entries/0000168/All-AmericanBasketball_Back.jpg

https://www.lemon64.com/doc/suburban-commando/573 

This week we roll our D6s for Skill, Strength, and Luck as we take a dive into the world of Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks. This series of books entertained a generation of kids with their tales of derring do and fantasy worlds where YOU were the hero. Starting out as pure fantasy with minotaurs and mazes, they soon encompassed magic, outer space, superheroes and the darkest pits of horror, where anything could happen. It was usually a horrible death, but wasn’t that just part of the fun? Turn to page 64 to find out!

Books Played for the Podcast

City of Thieves

Deathtrap Dungeon

House of Hell

Blood of the Zombies

Assassin

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Over 1993 and 1994, some games were released for the Commodore 64 and reviewed in the magazine Commodore Force. In episode Two-Hundred-and-Thirty-Three of Zapped to the Past, we look at some of those games, including the Ugly Ugh, the crappy Crazy Cars 3 and the boring Bee 52.

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This week we take a look at a time of bulging biceps, thunderous thighs, and gigantic glutes. We pitch Schwarzenegger against Stallone and ask who provided the most burl for your buck? Who served up the best bicep curl and bulging vein? Who filled the cinema screen with so much man-muscle that not even Cinemascope could cope with it? We look at the films released from 1981 to 1989 from both hunks and dare to answer the question: who was the burliest of them all?

Films Considered for Burliness

Nighthawks

Conan the Barbarian

Rocky III

First Blood

Conan the Destroyer

The Terminator

Rambo: First Blood Part II

Red Sonja

Commando

Rocky IV

Cobra

Raw Deal

Over the Top

Predator

The Running Man

Rambo III

Red Heat

Twins

Lock Up

Tango & Cash

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Over 1993 and 1994, some games were released for the Commodore 64 and reviewed in the magazine Commodore Force. In episode Two-Hundred-and-Thirty-One of Zapped to the Past, we look at some of those games, including the flaccid Football Manager 3, the awful American Tag-Team Wrestling, and the loopy Locomotion.

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https://ia800101.us.archive.org/32/items/uta_Sleepwalker_1992_Ocean_Software_Ltd_12497/Extras/Instructions.pdf

https://archive.org/details/American_Tag_Team_Wrestling_1992_Zeppelin_Games/page/n1/mode/2up

https://dn710006.ca.archive.org/0/items/uta_Football_Manager_3_1992_Addictive_Games_Ltd._6792/Extras/Instructions_text.pdf

This week we take a look at one of the most influential musicians in electronic music and certainly on those composers working on the Commodore 64. Come with us then on a magical journey of light harps, Moogs, and songs that seem to go on forever as we wait patiently for Cousteau on our beach of electronic enigmas and dive into the world of Jean-Michel Jarre. 

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Additional links mentioned in the Podcast:

Discography | Discover all albums of Jean-Michel Jarre

Yie Ar Kung Fu (C64) Main Theme 

Magnetic Fields, Pt. 4 

 Jarre arr. by Rob Hubbard - Zoolook (Oscilloscope View) 

Zoolook (new mastering) 

https://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/MUSICIANS/G/Gibson_Tony/Jammin.sid&subtune=10

https://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/MUSICIANS/C/Crowther_Antony/Son_of_Blagger.sid&subtune=2

https://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/MUSICIANS/D/Daglish_Ben/L_O_C_O.sid&subtune=1

https://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/MUSICIANS/H/Hansford_Graham/Trollie_Wallie.sid&subtune=3

https://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/MUSICIANS/C/Cooksey_Mark/Bomb_Jack.sid&subtune=1

https://www.lemon64.com/game/captain-blood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCPOZRG-yGs&list=RDeCPOZRG-yGs&start_radio=1

John Keating - Space Agent 

Shibolet

Whip Blow (Remastered) 

Ancestors 

Last Ninja 2 (C64) tune "inspired" by "Midnight in Tula" 

Alchemy of the Heart

“Switched on Rock” 1969 and all the Moog-related albums that sprang up in early 70s

Isao Tomita

“Snowflakes Are Dancing” 1974

“Firebird” 1976

Walter/Wendy Carlos

“Switched On Bach” 1968

“The Well-Tempered Synthesizer” 1969

“Sonic Seasonings” 1972

“A Clockwork Orange” 1972

Tangerine Dream

“Atem” 1972

“Zeit” 1972

“Phaedra” 1974

“Rubycon” 1975

“Stratosfear” 1976

“Sorceror OST” 1977

“Encore” 1977

Edgar Froese

“Epsilon In Malaysian Pale” 1975

“Ages” 1978

“Stuntman” 1979

Klaus Schulze

“Irrlicht” 1972

“Cyborg” 1973

“Black Dance” 1974

“Moondawn 1976

Vangelis

“Heaven and Hell” 1975

“Albedo 0.39” 1976

“Spiral” 1977

Kraftwerk

“Ralk & Florian” 1973

“Autobahn” 1974

“Radioactivity” 1975

“Trans Euro Express” 1977

“The Man Machine” 1978

Brian Eno

“Evening Star” 1975 (with Robert Fripp)

“Another Green World” 1975

“Ambient 1” 1979

Popol Vuh

“Affenstunde” 1970

“Seligpreisug” 1973

Harmonia 

“Musik Von Harmonia” 1974

Manuel Göttsching

“Inventions for Electric Guitar” 1975

John Carpenter

“Assault on Precinct 13 OST” 1976

Absolute Everywhere - In Search of the Ancient Gods (concept album on the work of Daniken)

1976

William Sheller (French composer)

“Lux Aeterna” 1972

Yellow Magic Orchestra

“Yellow Magic Orchestra” 1979

Steve Hillage

“Rainbow Dome Musick” 1979

Laurie Anderson

“Big Science” 1982

Gershon Kingsley - “Popcorn” 1969

Joe Meek/The Tornados - “Telstar” 1962

The Shadows - “Apache” 1960

One-off melodic instrumental hits!

Krautrock bands - Neu! / Faust / Can / La Dusseldorf / Harmonia / Kluster/Cluster. 

The “Berlin” school - Tangerine Dream / Klaus Schulze / Ashra - emphasis on long form improvisations. Jarre added melody and “pop” elements to this way of working.

Modern composers: Stockhausen / Erik Satie / John Cage / Arvo Part / John Adams / Henryk Gorecki

Minimalists: Steve Reich / Philip Glass / Terry Riley

modular synthesists: Don Buchla / Suzanne Ciani 

Avant-garde composers in the electro-acoustic fields: Eliane Radigue / Alvin Lucier (“Sitting in a Room”) / Xenakis / Stockhausen / Pierre Henry / Edgard Varèse /  Pierre Schaeffer and musique concrete and all that bollocks

https://thequietus.com/interviews/bakers-dozen/jean-michel-jarre-favourite-albums-interview/

Over 1993 and 1994, some games were released for the Commodore 64 and reviewed in the magazine Commodore Force. In episode Two-Hundred-and-Twenty-Nine of Zapped to the Past, we look at some of those games, including the wet egg filled Alien 3, the janky Jimmy’s Super League and the burgerless McDonald Land.

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https://www.lemon64.com/doc/alien-3/45

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/zxdb/sinclair/entries/0009866/JimmysSuperLeague_Back.jpg

https://www.lemon64.com/doc/mcdonald-land/375

https://www.lemon64.com/doc/wwf-european-rampage-tour/658

This week we take a look at one of the strangest, visually arresting and most enduring science-fiction franchises from the 1980s, Tron. We explore the process of disintegrating oranges and Space Paranoids, the arcade games, the cartoons, the subsequent films, theme parks, and the reason something can only exist for 29 minutes. So get set as we don our neon suits, jump on our light cycles and take it straight to the MCP! End of Line. 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d35_xITQIPc

https://downloads.khinsider.com/search?search=tron

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMT8tRrEMC4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P78pl1FUXfA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YShVEXb7-ic

Once again we venture to the retro fueled C64 adventureland of ZZAP! Live ... We bump into some of our amazing Patreons, have some chats and some drinks with them, check out all the brilliant warez on offer including t-shirts, mugs, books, magazines, joysticks... everything!.. AND of course the Winner of the Christmas Clacker competition finally gets their prize... Lots of fun. It is recorded live so the audio quality varies from loud to annoying - but enjoy anyway! And remember to support the Kickstarter for the Zapped to the Past Book at https://www.zappedtothepastbook.com

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https://www.lemonamiga.com/games/docs.php?id=1585

https://www.lemon64.com/doc/stratego/1260