Jeroen Tel

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Jeroen Tel
Jeroen Tel performing at "Back in Time Live" in 2008
Background information
Birth name	Jeroen Godfried Tel
Born	(1972-05-19) 19 May 1972 (age 49) Eindhoven, Netherlands
Genres	Videogame music Commodore 64 music 8-bit Electronic music Chiptunes
Occupation(s)	Composer Sound designer Audio director
Associated acts	Rob Hubbard Martin Galway Ben Daglish Chris Huelsbeck

Jeroen Godfried Tel (born 19 May 1972), also known as WAVE,^[1] is a Dutch composer.^[2][3][4] He is best known for numerous computer game tunes he wrote in the 1980s and early 1990s for the Commodore 64.^[5] His most popular^[6] compositions appear in the following Commodore 64 games: , Cybernoid, Cybernoid II, Dan Dare 3, Eliminator, Hawkeye, Myth: History in the Making, Nighthunter, Robocop 3, Rubicon (title music), and Supremacy.^[7]

Maniacs of Noise[]

Alongside Charles Deenen, who Tel met at computer meetings in Venlo, Netherlands, Tel is a founding member of the computer music group ,^[8][9][10] a company devoted to composing music and designing sound effects for videogames since 1987.^[11] He worked for several years at Funcom in Norway.^[12] In addition to being a game musician, he has composed lots of modules in the context of demo scene.

Tess & Tel[]

In late 2014 Jeroen Tel joined forces with Swedish singer and songwriter Tess Fries and formed the Pixel Pop music group . ^{[13] [14]} They first met at a Space Invaders concert in Odense, Denmark on October 4, 2013.

Tess & Tel discography[]

Discography[]

Soundtracks by Jeroen Tel[]

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Tel Me More[]

In the summer of 2015, Tel launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo^[24] in order to produce a remix album (called 'Tel Me More') of his best C64 music.^[25][26][27] 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. As of November 2021, the album and the promised perks still need to be delivered. In posts on the campaign page, he claims to still be working on completing the project as of February 2020.^[28]

References[]

External links[]

• Tess & Tel on Youtube
• Jeroen Tel on SoundCloud
• Maniacs of Noise Website.
• Jeroen Tel on Amiga Music Preservation
• GamesArt.de Interview.
• Artist profile at OverClocked ReMix
• Indiegogo 'Tel Me More' campaign by Jeroen Tel
• Jeroen Tel - Artist profile at Discogs
• Jeroen Tel - Artist profile at VGMdb
• Jeroen Tel - Biography at IMDb
• Jeroen Tel