Jeroen Godfried Tel (born 19 May 1972), also known as WAVE, is a Dutch composer. He is best known for numerous computer game tunes he wrote in the 1980s and early 1990s for the

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. His most popular compositions appear in the following Commodore 64 games: '' Combat Crazy'', '' Cybernoid'', '' Cybernoid II'', ''Dan Dare 3'', ''Eliminator'', ''Hawkeye'', '' Myth: History in the Making'', ''Nighthunter'', '' Robocop 3'', ''Rubicon'' (title music), and '' Supremacy''.

Maniacs of Noise

Alongside Charles Deenen, who Tel met at computer meetings in

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, Tel is a founding member of the computer music group Maniacs of Noise, a company devoted to composing music and designing sound effects for videogames since 1987. He worked for several years at

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. In addition to being a game musician, he has composed lots of modules in the context of demo scene.

Tel Me More

In the summer of 2015, Tel launched a

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campaign on

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in order to produce a remix album (called 'Tel Me More') of his best C64 music. Of the $38,911 (a nod to the amount of free memory bytes when starting up a Commodore 64) goal, $27,420 was reached by a total of 699 backers. On August 8, 2015, Tel gave an update on his Indiegogo page stating that this was sufficient to create the album and deliver all the promised perks. In posts on the campaign page, he claimed to still be working on completing the project as of February 2020. However, in the beginning of February 2022, the project was marked as closed without any comment from Tel. In a June 2023 comment on

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, Tel stated his intention of getting the project "out of the way".

Discography

Soundtracks by Jeroen Tel

The following are soundtracks composed by Tel.

References

External links

Maniacs of Noise
Website.
Jeroen Tel on Amiga Music Preservation

GamesArt.de
Interview.
Artist profile
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Indiegogo 'Tel Me More' campaign by Jeroen Tel

Jeroen Tel - Artist profile
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tel, Jeroen 1972 births Living people Dutch video game composers Video game musicians Commodore 64 music Demosceners People from Helmond Dutch electronic musicians Chiptune and tracker musicians 8bitpeoples artists