"Do you remember the good old days, where you used to visit the newsagents and at a cheap cost, you bought a C64 tape or a magazine cover tape and loaded your program and the tape loader has music playing during the process of loading the data? Do you think you can compose something quite similar? If the answer is YES, then welcome to the TAPE LOADER TUNE COMPO 2014, where we go one step further into tape loading in the 21st Century..... DIGITALLY :)

The aim of the music competition is simply to compose a tune which would be suitable to listen to when loading a game from tape or disk. The music can be composed in any editor (Goat Tracker, DMC, VoiceTracker, Future Composer, Music Assembler, Music Mixer, SYNC, etc...) Here come the simple rules:

- Music must be your own work and may be composed with any C64 music editor (Or Goat Tracker) of your choice (or programmed if you are really up for the challenge). You may use your existing presets / instruments if you want to.

- NO COVERS/REMIXES of existing loader tunes or other tunes. We had to disqualify one of the entries from the compo, as the tune wasn't necessarily a loading tune, but turned out to be a cover of an existing artist.

- The playing time of the tune should be at the most 2 minutes, we will accept any tunes that are slightly over 2 minutes, but must not be over 3 minutes. The ocean loader 5 is approx 3 minutes :)

- The maximum of entries for this compo allowed are up to three per entrant.

- Since the tune is a loading tune, after finishing, it should loop.

- You are WELCOME to use your tunes on your own programs during the competition AFTER it appears as an entriy

- Tune size must be 4K. ... Rule, ruled out. Some existing tape loader tunes do actually exceed 4K.

- Multiple speed players for tunes are welcome

- Tunes will be recorded from VICE in MP3 format exclusively for this Compo page.

- As well as PRG, please also submit SID and declare which SID version was used.

- Closing for entries date is 26th September 2014 Thursday 2nd October 2014 and voting will be done via vote sheet, like with the SEUCK Compo 2014.

- There's no prizes, and who knows, maybe there might be a music collection built up :)"