Jeroen Godfried Tel (born 19 May 1972), also known as WAVE, is a Dutch composer. He is best known for numerous computer game tunes he wrote in the 1980s and early 1990s for the

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. His most popular compositions appear in the following Commodore 64 games: ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''Dan Dare 3'', ''Eliminator'', ''Hawkeye'', '' Myth: History in the Making'', ''Nighthunter'', ''

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'', ''Rubicon'' (title music), and '' Supremacy''.

Maniacs of Noise

Alongside

Charles Deenen Charles Deenen (born 15 January 1970 in Holthees), is a Dutch computer/video game audio director, music composer, sound designer, and mixer. He is also known for his music and sound efforts for games of the C64 and Amiga era. He was one of the f ...

, who Tel met at computer meetings in

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, Tel is a founding member of the computer music group

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, a company devoted to composing music and designing sound effects for videogames since 1987. He worked for several years at

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. In addition to being a game musician, he has composed lots of

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in the context of

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Tess & Tel

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

Tess & Tel discography

Tel Me More

In the summer of 2015, Tel launched a

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campaign on Indiegogo in order to produce a remix album (called 'Tel Me More') of his best C64 music. 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. In posts on the campaign page, he claimed to still be working on completing the project as of February 2020. However, in the beginning of February, 2022, the project was marked as closed without any comment from Jeroen.

Discography

Soundtracks by Jeroen Tel

References

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Indiegogo 'Tel Me More' campaign by Jeroen Tel

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Jeroen Tel - Artist profile at VGMdb

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Jeroen Tel
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