Thomas Mogensen, known as Drax in the European C64 demo scene, created almost a thousand SID tunes on the Commodore 64 from 1987 and up. Most of these were composed in my music editor.

Question: SID tunes? What's that? Show SID tunes are chiptunes created on the Commodore 64, or an emulation of the C64 or its SID chip. The SID chip in the Commodore 64 was quite advanced in 1982. It had three channels across eight octaves, ADSR, four different waveforms, pulsating on the square waveform, three ring modulators, and multi mode filtering. The music players written for it were usually called 50 times a second, quickly changing waveforms and frequencies to simulate vibrato, drums and arpeggio chords. SID tunes? What's that?

I’ve been listening through all of Drax’s tunes in the latest High Voltage SID Collection which was at #65 at the time of publishing this blog post. I noted down more than 100 tunes I liked and created stereo MP3 files for easy listening here. You could call it sort of “Drax’s Greatest Hits” as compiled by JCH.

Most of the tunes also have mono MP3 alternatives from SOASC created using a real C64.

24th Amaranth Grand Prix – Selector #1



24th Amaranth Grand Prix was supposed to be a racing game similar to Out Run, only here you were riding a motorcycle instead. It was never finished.

//chordian.net/files/music/sid/drax/work/24th_Amaranth_GP_Selector_1.mp3

24th Amaranth Grand Prix – Selector #2



//chordian.net/files/music/sid/drax/work/24th_Amaranth_GP_Selector_2.mp3

24th Amaranth Grand Prix – Selector #3



//chordian.net/files/music/sid/drax/work/24th_Amaranth_GP_Selector_3.mp3

24th Amaranth Grand Prix – Two Channels Level Tune #1



Note that this tune only uses two channels. The third channel was reserved for sound effects.

//chordian.net/files/music/sid/drax/work/24th_Amaranth_GP_2CH_1.mp3

24th Amaranth Grand Prix – Two Channels Level Tune #2



Note that this tune only uses two channels. The third channel was reserved for sound effects.

//chordian.net/files/music/sid/drax/work/24th_Amaranth_GP_2CH_2.mp3

24th Amaranth Grand Prix – Two Channels Level Tune #3



Note that this tune only uses two channels. The third channel was reserved for sound effects.

//chordian.net/files/music/sid/drax/work/24th_Amaranth_GP_2CH_3.mp3

8-Bit Mayhem Podcast: Episode #4



//chordian.net/files/music/sid/drax/8-bit_Mayhem_Podcast_Ep_4.mp3

Ass-Song



Unfinished work tune.

//chordian.net/files/music/sid/drax/work/Ass-song.mp3

Avenge



I love the chords in this one.

//chordian.net/files/music/sid/drax/Avenge.mp3

Baboon



//chordian.net/files/music/sid/drax/Baboon.mp3

Remixes: Click Show

//chordian.net/files/music/remix/drax/Mordi%20-%20Baboon.mp3

//chordian.net/files/music/remix/drax/Chabee%20-%20Baboon%20(Skydive%20ReMix).mp3 Click

Balance



//chordian.net/files/music/sid/drax/Balance.mp3

Beast



//chordian.net/files/music/sid/drax/Beast.mp3

Bend Over



//chordian.net/files/music/sid/drax/Bend_Over.mp3

Bja5_0



Unfinished work tune.

//chordian.net/files/music/sid/drax/work/Bja5_0.mp3

Black Magic



//chordian.net/files/music/sid/drax/Black_Magic.mp3

Boneless



//chordian.net/files/music/sid/drax/Boneless.mp3

Remix: Click Show

//chordian.net/files/music/remix/drax/MrSID%20-%20Boneless%20(rainforest%20mix).mp3 Click

Bones II



From Drax’s earlier period.

//chordian.net/files/music/sid/drax/Bones_II.mp3

Bonzax



Also from Drax’s earlier period. Quite atmospheric.

//chordian.net/files/music/sid/drax/Bonzax.mp3

Remix: Click Show

//chordian.net/files/music/remix/drax/Mordi%20-%20Party%20of%20the%20Year%20(Bonzax).mp3 Click

Botanical



//chordian.net/files/music/sid/drax/Botanical.mp3

Break-Up



//chordian.net/files/music/sid/drax/Break-Up.mp3

Remix: Click Show

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Bridge Conversion



Cooperation between Drax and JCH. Conversion of the “Colonel Bogey March” by Kenneth J. Alford, as was heard in The Bridge on the River Kwai. Composed at my place.

//chordian.net/files/music/sid/drax/work/Bridge_Conversion.mp3

CALS1 (Tune #2)



Unfinished work tune.

//chordian.net/files/music/sid/drax/work/CALS1_T2.mp3

Cafe



//chordian.net/files/music/sid/drax/Cafe.mp3

Camerock



//chordian.net/files/music/sid/drax/Camerock.mp3

Capripholian Waltz



//chordian.net/files/music/sid/drax/Capripholian_Waltz.mp3

Remixes: Click Show

//chordian.net/files/music/remix/drax/moog%20(Sebastian%20Bachlinski)%20-%20Capripholian%20Waltz.mp3

//chordian.net/files/music/remix/drax/Makke%20-%20Capripholian%20Waltz.mp3 Click

Caught in the Middle



//chordian.net/files/music/sid/drax/Caught_in_the_Middle.mp3

Remix: Click Show

//chordian.net/files/music/remix/drax/Dees%20-%20Caught%20In%20The%20Middle%20(Summer%20Edition).mp3 Click

Church



//chordian.net/files/music/sid/drax/Church.mp3

Clarence



//chordian.net/files/music/sid/drax/Clarence.mp3

Remix: Click Show

//chordian.net/files/music/remix/drax/Dafunk%20-%20Clarence%20(short%20rmx).mp3 Click

Colorama



//chordian.net/files/music/sid/drax/Colorama.mp3

Cooly (Lollypop Frosty Land)



A sketch for the final AdLib version used in the PC platform game Lollypop (1994).

//chordian.net/files/music/sid/drax/work/Cooly_Lollypop_Frosty_Land.mp3

Crispy Crushing Crackers



//chordian.net/files/music/sid/drax/Crispy_Crushing_Crackers.mp3

Crooner



I converted this to both AdLib and Sound Blaster in 1992.

//chordian.net/files/music/sid/drax/Crooner.mp3

Crying



//chordian.net/files/music/sid/drax/Crying.mp3

Da Capo



//chordian.net/files/music/sid/drax/Da_Capo.mp3

Deathblow



//chordian.net/files/music/sid/drax/Deathblow.mp3

Delicate



//chordian.net/files/music/sid/drax/Delicate.mp3

More on page 2, page 3 and page 4.