Alex Mauer – Lo-Gear
From the grave of a former chip label is resurrected Alex Mauer’s Lo Gear — the soundtrack to his arcade game concept from 1991. Similar to his Blast series, Lo Gear creates a vivid atmosphere for a child’s make-believe videogamescape through minimalistic music, textures, and sound effects. All due accuracy and nostalgia of the time period are captured in Alex’s composition tools — a PC-DOS AdLib tracker and a Sound Blaster 2.0 sound card with Yamaha’s OPL2 chip. This album features the voice talent of Shawn Phase, historically encrusted in the Texas Instruments LPC10 speech codec.
01 Lo-Gear Title
02 Lo-Gear Attract Sounds
03 Lo-Gear Level 1-1
04 Lo-Gear Level 1-2
05 Lo-Gear Level 2-1
06 Lo-Gear Level 2-2
07 Lo-Gear Boss
08 Lo-Gear Level 3-1
09 Lo-Gear Level 3-2
10 Lo-Gear Level 4-1
11 Lo-Gear Level 4-2
12 Lo-Gear End
Artwork by Alex Mauer.
January 3rd, 2009 at 5:20 am
hello, my name is tom and i’d like to introduce your album on my german radio-show “bitte8bit”. the show is about chipmusic and retroculture. maybe you could send me some information about the production process (game came out in 1991, soundtrack much later…) and yourself.
thanks and greetings from austria, thomasd
January 3rd, 2009 at 9:30 am
Legendary
January 3rd, 2009 at 12:24 pm
Wicked as always!
These awesome tunes take me right back to my childhood. I already know that I’ll listen only to this album for at least a week from now on!
January 3rd, 2009 at 1:05 pm
An excelent gift for the new yeat. I really love your concept albums please keep them coming!
January 4th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
check out this clip of temp sound solutions doing ‘logear 4-2′ live:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9dS5gP-_Oc
January 6th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
So good. SO GOOD.
January 8th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
January 8th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
Niiiice !!!
Another greeat release signed Alex Mauer !!!
I love it !!!
February 3rd, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Wow! I gotta say, I have followed II since its inception, and the quality always manages to surprise me somehow. This release, though, is just something else! Probably my favorite Alex Mauer release, and one of if not the best release on this label. Truly amazing sounds, I think you put the AdLib to better function than pretty much any game composer did in the early 90s. Congrats, and keep up the good work!
February 12th, 2009 at 3:37 am
damn, my favorite artist, alex mauer, made an amazing album for a good start of the year. thanks alex.
March 6th, 2010 at 5:33 am
I am relatively new to the chiptune genre, although I played my megamans and whatnot back in the day. I happen to love this album. Could you please recommend me other artists?
Thanks for sharing this bad-ass release. I can’t imagine another way to get it from where I live.
March 14th, 2010 at 2:03 pm
awesome!
July 2nd, 2010 at 10:39 pm
Alex Mauer, just beautiful stuff.