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Bitbear
by Bitbear
Bitbear is Asbjørn Ulsberg's tone-hammering, beat-juggling and demoscene participating alter ego.Banner and logo design by http://anne.li.Bitbear started fiddling with music in Pro Tracker on the Amiga 500 in the early 90's. But first when he got his hands on Scream Tracker and Fast Tracker on a PC, he started producing "real" music under the alias "Power of Creation".He created two albums and submitted songs to various demoscene competitions throughout the 90's until he put his musical career on the shelf until it was rebooted in 2012 by entering the Kindergarden 2012 Dance Music Competition under the new-found alias Bitbear.#demoscene #amiga #commodore #oldskool #tracker #module #protracker #screamtracker #fasttracker #soundtracker
Episodes
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Sunset Through The Rain (Modulo One's Night Drive)
With the foot firmly placed on the gas pedal, @ModuloOne has forced this fantastic night drive remix of "Sunset Through The Rain" into existence.
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i-feel-you.it
Bitbear's contribution to TRSAC 2025's Oldschool Music Competition. This song was originally made in Renoise with lyrics and vocals in mind, but as I've been struggling with insomnia the last months, I've focused on exercise to exhaust my body such that I'm able to sleep. This has given much less...
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Planeswalker
Inspiring horn and vocal samples forced the Planeswalker into existence. He now roams the realms of spacetime, crossing between the dimensions of reality. Completed some time in 2021, the song was mixed down and used in the demo "Chemistry" by @ninjadev-music released at Black Valley 2024…
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MONO MAGNUS x Bitbear – Black Lace Blitz (TRSAC edit)
@monomagnus and Bitbear's entry for the TRSAC 2022 streaming music competition. Placed 2nd.
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Sunset Through The Rain
My contribution to the newschool music competition of the last Solskogen ever – Solskogen 2020 Sunset Online. I dedicated this to the Solskogen crew: Although it's rainy days ahead with Solskogen now being over, we have one final party to light up our lives like a Sunset Through The Rain. Made in...
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That Flateby Feeling
Bitbear's entry to the Newschool Music Competition at Solskogen 2019. Placed 2nd. Cover art by litn. <3 After having spent a over a year renovating most of the apartment, changing position at work and delivering a talk at NDC Oslo, I feel like I'm coming out of a very stressful hibernation and...
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Raise The Dead (Knofle Remix)
@Knofle's incredibly angry remix of Bitbear's "Raise The Dead"
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Raise The Dead (Modulo One's Flying Dead Remix)
@ModuloOne's fabulous flying dead remix of Bitbear's original "Raise The Dead"
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Move (Atroxity's Disco Donkey Remix)
@Atroxity's remix of Bitbear's original "Move"
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Move
Move! Bitbear's music entry for the demoscene party Solskogen 2015's Newschool Music Competition. The first sketch of the song was started many years ago and then placed in hibernation until the night of Thursday 8th of July, where I finally had some time to attempt doing a track for Solskogen's...
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Raise The Dead
Bitbear's entry to Kindergarden 2014's Dance Music Competition. Placed 5th. Vocals from the 1955 Robert Aldrich movie "Kiss me deadly". Flattr this song: https://flattr.com/thing/3773463/Raise-The-Dead Lyrics: *Scream* If you revive her, do you know what that would be? Resurrection, that's what…
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Rise
My Newschool Music Competition entry for Solskogen 2014. I ended up in 6th place, which I'm quite happy with considering how close I was to not submitting the song at all. I'm really not satisfied with how the bridge turned out, but I hope the rest of the song compensates for it sounding so...
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Karin Park - Shine (Bitbear Remix)
Bitbear's entry to Karin Park's "Shine" Remix Contest on Beatport: http://play.beatport.com/contests/karin-park-shine/ The song ended on 24th place out of 503 entries. It was composed in Renoise 3.0 with Sylenth1, Razor, KICK, Pro-Q, Pro-MB, Pro-L and various other plugins and samples. Flattr…
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Bitwerk
"Kommen Sie und genießen meine Arbeit von Bits. Meine Bitwerk." Bitbear's entry for Kindergarden 2013's Dance Music Competition. Made entirely with Renoise 2.8.1. Flattr this song: https://flattr.com/t/3773466
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Fjern - Dududududu (Bitbear's Jazzolini Remix)
Bitbear's contribution to the incredible Dududududu remix orgy: https://soundcloud.com/groups/dududududu-remixes Flattr this song: https://flattr.com/thing/3773467/Fjern-Dududududu-Bitbears-Jazzolini-Remix
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Lindstrøm - Vōs-sākō-rv (Bitbear Remix)
Bitbear's remix of Lindstrøm's excellent "Vōs-sākō-rv", in the remix contest on Beatport: http://play.beatport.com/contests/lindstrom-vos-sako-rv/50b3f4a51624de388cd906fd Made in its entirety with Renoise 2.8.1. (Delicious photo of pinnekjøtt and vossakorv by mathrong on Flickr:...
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Sliding Away
Bitbear's entry in the Kindergarden 2012 "Dance Music" competition. Made entirely with Renoise 2.8.1. (Photo by Francesca M. Fontana on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/26557098@N03/5451261690) Flattr this song: https://flattr.com/t/3773468
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Power of Creation - Soluble Temper
Soluble Temper is a rather randomly named song (naming is the hardest thing in both composing and programming) created over a blippy background lead, accompanied by a sliding guitar àla ATB's signature. As with all songs on the album, this tune is created in Impulse Tracker 2.14 on MS DOS.
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Power of Creation - Beveled Edges
Beveled Edges is a simple trance tune created on a piano-lead in the break in the middle of the song and with a start and end that fills it up with a compress-delay-xylophonic-ish sound.
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Power of Creation - Helium
Helium is a light-hearted, short dance tune. I hope it lifts you up the way it did with me when I made it!
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Power of Creation - Spiteful Experiments
Spiteful Experiments' inspiration was the vocal "aaahh" sound being played throughout the song. I found a couple of more voice samples from an old movie that I thought sounded cool and whipped together this tune.
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Power of Creation - Manhattan
Manhattan was created not long after a school trip to New York. Finding great instrument samples in a sample pack inspired me to create something more orchestral and less electronic.
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Power of Creation - Soaked in Orange
Soaked in Orange is a lighthearted jazzy tune I conjured based on some samples that inspired me to create something a bit different from the usual EDM stuff I do.
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Power of Creation - The Prey
You could call the fast-paced lead my signature, because it's in almost all my songs, including this one. I can't really explain the title – it's just a title.
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Power of Creation - Out of Range
Out of Range is an orchestral trance tune I made after falling in love with a violin pluck sample and creating what I thought was a pretty rad baseline. Piling violin and guitar leads and beats on top of that and this is what you get.
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Power of Creation - Tears
Tears is the final of a three-part tune series starting with Blood, followed by Sweat and ending with Tears, all using the same samples. Tears is a mellow trance tune with a stereotypical blip lead instrument that some people might find catchy. As all the other tunes on Beyond Fantasy, Sweat was...
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Power of Creation - Blood
Blood is the first of a three-part tune series, being followed by Sweat and Tears, all using the same samples. Blood is a a trancy house tune fit for its time, but it sounds rather dated now. As all the other tunes on Beyond Fantasy, Blood was created in Impulse Tracker on MS DOS.
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Power of Creation - Veronica
Veronica was created to impress my girlfriend at the time, aptly named "Veronica". The song was completed without any name or thought of using the word "Veronica" in it, but I was young and foolish and thought this would impress her. So I sat in my boy's room and whispered her name into a...
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Power of Creation - Horizon
Horizon's melody and arrangement is created by my father, Sverre Ulsberg, under the original Norwegian name "Frihet". We sat together a couple of evenings and arranged this together. I think it came out okay.
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Power of Creation - Below the Surface
Below the Surface has a liquid feel to it due to the xylophone lead used throughout the tune, which explains the name.
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Power of Creation - Adrenaline
After working late punching export invoices at UPS, my friend and colleague drove me home in what can only be described as "criminally high speed". On top of being overtired, this car ride got my adrenaline pumping and before I knew it, the outline for Adrenaline was done. A couple of weeks later...
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Power of Creation - United in Power
United in Power came to be from a nice sinus wave and heavy kick. From there I just threw together some chords and finally came up with a lead that can barely carry the song to its end. As with all songs on the album, this tune is created in Impulse Tracker 2.14 on MS-DOS where samples above 8…
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Power of Creation - Medieval Orphanage
Medieval Orphanage was my first attempt at creating something orchestral and cinematic. Since most of the instruments are 8-bit and the mastering techniques available in Impulse Tracker were "limited", it doesn't sound very good, but I'm pretty happy with the overall theme and keys.
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Power of Creation - Intro
This is the intro to my age-old demoscene alter ego, Power of Creation's first album, "Beyond Fantasy".
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Power of Creation - Walking (Part 3)
Power of Creation - Walking (Part 3) by Bitbear
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Power of Creation - Walking (Part 2)
Walking is one song split into 3 parts since that's a cool effect when playing a CD. As separate files in reverse order on SoundCloud, it doesn't make much sense, though. Anyhoo, this is part 2 of the song created by my dad playing the guitar and me throwing beats, bass, leads, and chords on top…
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Power of Creation - Walking (Part 1)
Walking is one song split in 3 parts since that's a cool effect when playing a CD. As separate files in reverse order on SoundCloud, it doesn't make much sense, though. Anyhoo, this is part 1 of the song created by my dad playing the guitar and me throwing beats, bass, leads, and chords on top of...
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Power of Creation - Behind the Curtains
Behind the Curtains is a trance tune based on a blippy lead, transitioning into a circus-inspired break and back into regular blippy trance-land towards the end. Due to the circus-themed middle part, I thought the name "Behind the Curtains" would be alluring, mystical, and fitting.
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Power of Creation - Halloween
This is my second orchestral tune and because of its harmonies, I decided "Halloween" to be a fitting name.
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Power of Creation - Project Millennium
A rather boring tune that barely made it on to the album "Beyond Fantasy". I think the break is ok in its build-up and take-off, but overall I'm not very happy with this tune.
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Power of Creation - Life Without Love
This is a hysterically cheesy house tune that I created over a lead melody I'm sure I've ripped from someone, somewhere, but as I've never discovered what the inspiration might be, I'll leave this up here as an "original" tune nevertheless.
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Power of Creation - Back in the Shire
Back in the Shire is a remix of @moduloone's song by the same name. The original had a slower, more pop-inspired arrangement, but I wanted to juice it up and made this trance version that became quite popular during my school's 1999 "spring break" (russetid).
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Power of Creation - Uncherrished Bitch
Uncherrished Bitch is an acidic tune I threw together in a couple of evenings. Not much to say about it other than that I'm not too proud of the name, however, I felt it matched the feeling of the song, so there you have it.
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Power of Creation - Sweat
Sweat is the second of a three-part tune series starting with Blood and ending with Tears, all using the same samples. Sweat was created after several iterations on the same theme and I ended up creating this "Edit" that is a bit shorter the others. As all the other tunes on Beyond Fantasy, Sweat...
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Power of Creation - Rage
Rage was built upon the disharmony and sound effects created by Puma. I'm placing this in the Psytrance genre although it's not nearly as psychedelic as modern psytrance. I hope you enjoy the harmonies as much as I did when I created it.
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Power of Creation - One Ring
I have no recollection on how I got to the samples from the 1978 animated film, "The Lord of The Rings", but they somehow ended up on my harddrive and long before the Peter Jackson movies were even thought of, this song came to life.
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Puma - Open Your Heart
Open Your Heart is not a Power of Creation production. I only finished off a song a friend of mine (calling himself "Puma" at the time) started, but didn't finish. I thought it sounded so good that I included it on my "Beyond Fantasy" album. This song also served as an inspiration to some of the...
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Power of Creation - The Army
The Army is a fast-paced trance tune I completed in a few days. The main theme is inspired by DJ Tiësto and other trance artists I listened to at the time. I felt that the sound quality got better with this tune than the earlier, mostly due to finding better 16-bit samples and by gaining more...
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Tiny Chip's Revenge
In 1995, I was mostly tracking in Scream Tracker 3 and “Tiny Chip’s Revenge” was my first chip tune produced as an S3M. Originally, “chip tunes” had to be produced on hardware with actual synthesizers on a chip – hence the name – such as Commodore 64’s SID or ZX Spectrum’s AY-3-8910. On the Amiga...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Bitbear is Asbjørn Ulsberg's tone-hammering, beat-juggling and demoscene participating alter ego.Banner and logo design by http://anne.li.Bitbear started fiddling with music in Pro Tracker on the Amiga 500 in the early 90's. But first when he got his hands on Scream Tracker and Fast Tracker on a PC, he started producing "real" music under the alias "Power of Creation".He created two albums and submitted songs to various demoscene competitions throughout the 90's until he put his musical career on the shelf until it was rebooted in 2012 by entering the Kindergarden 2012 Dance Music Competition under the new-found alias Bitbear.#demoscene #amiga #commodore #oldskool #tracker #module #protracker #screamtracker #fasttracker #soundtracker
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