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Boléro reinterpreted on C64, Amiga, and NES (24. Feb. 2026)
German IT magazine heise online reports on an unusual interpretation of Ravel's Boléro, which was recorded exclusively with retro hardware. Swedish sound tinkerer Linus Åkesson used a Commodore 64, an Amiga 600, and a Nintendo NES, among other things, as ...

Video: Linus Åkesson plays Boléro with an Amiga, C64 and NES (04. Feb. 2026)
Half a year Linus Åkesson spent working on his latest piece: Maurice Ravel's "Boléro", recorded using an Amiga 600, among other devices, and based on nearly ten hours of video material composed to the fourteen-and-a-half-minute piece. A detailed Germ...

Interview with Linus 'lftkryo' Åkesson (27. Oct. 2024)
At the title link Jon Håvard Gundersen has conducted another interview for the Norwegian site Spillhistorie, this time with Linus 'lftkryo' Åkesson. The Swede is known for numerous demos and music disks for the Amiga and the C64 and probably above all for...

Music: Cover version of Chuck Rock (24. Sep. 2023)
Linus 'lft' Åkesson has been an active part of the demoscene for a good 25 years, composing music for numerous demos and music discs for Amiga and C64 as 'Lairfight' bzw. 'lft'. Creatively, he also builds various instruments from Commodore hardware like t...

The Amiga as a musical instrument: Paulimba (29. Jan. 2023)
Linus 'lft' Åkesson has been an active part of the demoscene for a good 25 years, composing music for numerous demos and music discs for Amiga and C64 as 'Lairfight' or 'lft'. Last year he built "The Commodordion": an 8-bit accordion consisting mainly of ...