Chris Hülsbeck

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Chris Hülsbeck

Background information
Born March 2, 1968 (1968-03-02) (age 40)
Origin Kassel, Germany
Genre(s) Electronic music,Video Game Music
Occupation(s) Musician and Video Game Composer
Years active 1991 to present

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 2, Turrican 3 and Giana Sisters was performed live at the Symphonic Game Music Concert series in Leipzig, Germany between 2003-2007, conducted by Andy Brick. On August 23, 2008 his music will be performed at Symphonic Shades, a concert dedicated to his work exclusively. The WDR Radio Orchestra and the WDR Radio Choir will perform classics such as Giana Sisters, Turrican, R-Type and others in Cologne, Germany conducted by Arnie Roth.

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[edit] 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 Number Nine

[edit] 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)

[edit] External links

[edit] General Huelsbeck Links

[edit] TFMX & Soundmonitor

[edit] Huelsbeck Profile Pages