SID-licious is a series of blogs where I post Commodore 64 SID tunes every week. They'll be available for download until the next entry goes up, when I'll be pulling the previous week's files down. I'll probably have the mp3 floating around, though, so if there's some tune(s) you're reading about in a past blog and want to grab a copy, shoot me a PM.

The SID I'm presenting this week is a little different.

Street Gang is not a game from my childhood. In fact I've never actually played it, nor had I even heard of it before downloading the mighty High Voltage SID Collection. This is one of those (many) cases where I've discovered a title through browsing the expansive HVSC catalogue. So with that in mind, I couldn't honestly tell you what I think of the game nor if the music suits it (although if it's about 80s street punks, I'm guessing it fits just nicely). What I do know is that I loved this SID the first time I heard it circa 2001 and it's always on my iPod, ready to roll should the need arise.

The Street Gang intro music is by Christoph Bergman, and it isn't just one tune. Nope, the great thing about it is that it's actually seven electro tunes in one, all wonderfully spliced together into a 10 minute DJ mix and ready to breakdance to.

The two tunes that start at 6:25 and 8:02 are my favourites of the bunch. They're both so intricate, layered and nuanced that they make me forget how few channels C64 musicians had to work with. And for SID music made way back in 1987 it's still got some very danceable hooks in it.

Time to bust out the cardboard and press play, yo.

[ Here's where the music was. I've probably still got the mp3 if you wanna PM me! ]