Music

Chris Hülsbeck’s SID and Amiga OCS compositions for Rainbow Arts define the sonic identity of the studio. Matt Furniss provides the X-Out and Z-Out scores. All tracks are archived in HVSC; listen online via DeepSID.

Chris Hülsbeck — SID Compositions

Chris Hülsbeck’s C64 SID compositions for Rainbow Arts are archived in the High Voltage SID Collection (HVSC). Browse the full archive at hvsc.c64.org under C64Music/GAMES/L-R/Rainbow_Arts/, or listen immediately via DeepSID.

Chris Hülsbeck — Selected C64 Compositions

The Great Giana Sisters

Title / World 1 / World 2 / World 3 / Ending

Chris Hülsbeck, 1987

Katakis

Title / In-Game / High Score / Game Over

Chris Hülsbeck, 1988

Jinks

Title / In-Game 1 / In-Game 2

Chris Hülsbeck, 1989

Turrican

Intro / World 1 / World 2 / World 3 / Boss / Ending

Chris Hülsbeck, 1990

Turrican II: The Final Fight

Title / The Wall / Intro / Desert / Boss / Epilogue

Chris Hülsbeck, 1991

To Be on Top

Title / In-Game / Ending

Chris Hülsbeck, 1992
R-Type — C64 Port

R-Type — C64 Conversion Score

R-Type

Title / Stage 1 / Stage 2 / Boss / Game Over

Rainbow Arts, 1989
Matt Furniss — X-Out & Z-Out

UK composer Matt Furniss provided the scores for Rainbow Arts’s underwater shoot-’em-up series. His C64 SID compositions are archived in HVSC under C64Music/MUSICIANS/F/Furniss_Matt/.

Matt Furniss — Shoot-’em-Up Scores

X-Out

Title / Stage 1 / Stage 2 / Boss / Ending

Matt Furniss, 1990

Z-Out

Title / In-Game 1 / In-Game 2 / Ending

Matt Furniss, 1991
Amiga OCS — Hülsbeck Extended

Chris Hülsbeck’s Amiga OCS versions of the Rainbow Arts scores extend and expand his C64 compositions, exploiting the Amiga’s four-channel hardware for richer arrangements. The Amiga module files for Turrican and Turrican II are among the most celebrated pieces of Amiga music ever produced. Browse Amiga modules at Modland (search “Hülsbeck”) or The Mod Archive.

Hülsbeck’s complete discography and biography are available at huelsbeck.com. Orchestral recordings of Turrican music are available via the Symphonic Shades (2008) and Turrican Soundtrack Anthology releases on his Bandcamp.