Ben Daglish
C64 game composer of the 1980s and a fixture of this wiki's favourites lists — jeroen-tel puts him in his top five, chris-huelsbeck among his best authors, and JCH dissents — best remembered in the sources for The Last Ninja (with Anthony Lees), Hades Nebula and the Auf Wiedersehen Monty title written with rob-hubbard.
Facts#
- Auf Wiedersehen Monty: the title music of the monty-on-the-run sequel is a Hubbard/Daglish co-production — Gremlin asked Hubbard "to spend 2 days working with Ben at their office" because the original Monty on the Run was popular (source: s-sidmusic-hubbard-interviews). Its bass drum, traced from a siddump, is the wiki's best-documented Hubbard drum — see wavetable-programming.
- The Last Ninja (with Anthony Lees) is in nata's "probably BEST SIDs" list (source: s-sidin09-nata-interview); matt-gray felt no pressure following Daglish and Lees when scoring last-ninja-2 (source: s-rvg-matt-gray-interview); in Ninja Remix, reyn-ouwehand's Central Park is "a bouncier cover" of Daglish's Wastelands (Last Ninja 1), and The Office is another Wastelands remix (source: s-remix64-ninja-remix).
- Working method: Matt Gray's 2014 framing — "Myself, Martin Galway, Rob Hubbard, Fred Gray, Ben Daglish and Martin Galway all typed their tunes directly into their assembler" (source: s-matt-gray-dominator-source; sid-player-routine). His player was WEMUSIC, for which Finnish Gold made an editor (source: s-recollection-brief-history-of-sid; future-composer).
- On sid chip variation: "you never had ANY idea how it was gonna sound on another machine" — Beach-Head let the user adjust filter settings to compensate (source: s-newman-driving-the-sid-chip; filter-programming).
- In the favourites lists: fifth in Tel's 1996 composer top 5 (tied with fred-gray), with Hades Nebula among the best tracks (source: s-imr-jeroen-tel-interview); Tel also names Hades Nebula among his favourite tunes (source: s-sidmusic-jeroen-tel-interviews) and counts him with Hubbard and Galway among his C64 influences (source: s-gamesart-jeroen-tel-interview). Hülsbeck lists him among the best authors (sources: s-sidin05-huelsbeck-interview, s-remix64-huelsbeck-interview); tsm and jan-harries put him in their favourite-composer lists (sources: s-sidin13-tsm-freedom-interview, s-sidin06-harries-interview); he is among the testimonial-givers in Hugi's Jeroen Tel article (source: s-hugi38-interview-jeroen-tel).
- chris-abbott's listening list includes his Trap, Kettle and William Wobbler (source: s-sidin04-abbott-interview).
- The dissent: JCH files him under "overrated" — fine tunes, but "satisfied with the default instruments"; Jammer agrees in the comments (source: s-chordian-sid-musicians; instrument-design).
- C=Lehti 4/89 measures maniacs-of-noise as perhaps among the best C64 music makers of all time, "in the same series as Hubbard, Galway and Daglish" (source: s-c-lehti-maniacs-of-noise).
Related#
rob-hubbard · monty-on-the-run · matt-gray · last-ninja-2 · reyn-ouwehand · jeroen-tel · fred-gray · future-composer · sid-player-routine · filter-programming · instrument-design · chordian
Sources#
s-sidmusic-hubbard-interviews · s-sidin09-nata-interview · s-rvg-matt-gray-interview · s-remix64-ninja-remix · s-matt-gray-dominator-source · s-recollection-brief-history-of-sid · s-newman-driving-the-sid-chip · s-imr-jeroen-tel-interview · s-sidmusic-jeroen-tel-interviews · s-gamesart-jeroen-tel-interview · s-sidin05-huelsbeck-interview · s-remix64-huelsbeck-interview · s-sidin13-tsm-freedom-interview · s-sidin06-harries-interview · s-hugi38-interview-jeroen-tel · s-sidin04-abbott-interview · s-chordian-sid-musicians · s-c-lehti-maniacs-of-noise