More Underrated 90s Tracker Music
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Published 2022-12-31
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Chapters:
0:00 Narfy - Jellyfish
4:12 Opinash - Broken Heart
7:11 Cosmic Eclipse - Southern Aurora
10:01 hunz - clone it.
13:29 mellow-d - ibo:ng
19:06 T-Jay - Adventurous
23:32 Scorpik - field-day
27:32 darkhalo - cosmic compressor
32:01 Cyclone - Panacea
35:42 virt - the f*ck you song
36:45 Counterpoint - Counterpoint v2.0
All Comments (21)
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As someone of the era and the scene, I particularly love two things about this video: 1) It has already been watched by 100x more people than ever would have heard any of our songs at the time and 2) Despite spending 3-8 hours a day hanging out with other Demoscene trackers throughout most of the 1990s I only know like 1/3 of these musicians, haha. The scene was bigger than any of us knew even then, truly.
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Back in the early 1990s, my father somehow hooked-up a radio receiver to our 286 PC via serial port to play tracker music without the need for a sound card (which were extremely rare back then). Until today, I do not know, how he did it exactly, but I remember listening to this fascinating music for hours, hypnotized by the tracker data running on screen.
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it's crazy that the tunes these dudes made are still inspiring new music, they were pioneers
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Before mp3s were a thing, there was tracker music. And it was glorious - no copyrights, no "stealing" no accusations - just amazing music that could fit on a floppy with a bunch more amazing music. For those who knew, s3ms were mp3s before mp3s were mp3s.
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This software was how the entirety of the Unreal Tournament and Deus Ex soundtracks (Same engine) were made. Anything in Unreal Engine back in the day, it was more efficient to run the music through this stuff. I remember downloading a Winamp plugin that enabled me to drag and drop the unreal tournament music into Winamp, I use to zone to that shit while doing design work when I was about 13-14 years old. There was nothing in the world like that soundtrack back in the day. Amazing stuff.
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Please release more of these. These artists need more recognition.
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Brings back good memories of implementing a MOD player on my 80286. I made a TSR in assembly language that played MOD files in the background,, spaming the CPU to death with timer IRQs to send PWM samples to the PC speaker. It sounded a bit awful by today's standards, but was amazing coming from a VIC 20, to PC XT, then AT. IRQ latency was incredibly good back then. Sluggishly printing "dir" output while mixing digital music was heartwarming. Multitasking!!!
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as someone who grew up playing early 90's games this type of music grew to my music taste. music can also be of how much you can say with how little. 3 tracks into this and i'm loving it.
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I vividly remember hearing ‚clone it‘ back in the day and it blew me away ☺️ still does today 👍🏼
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Narfy did quite a sweet job with Jellyfish, I wasn't expecting the tempo change of that song towards the end.
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Cyclone Panacea gave me serious flashbacks. I totally remember playing that one back in the late 90's.
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Just watching the note visualizations was so hypnotic and awesome. You could learn music by actually seeing all the notes. Can you imagine if nowadays, when someone was releasing a new track, they exported their whole Protools project for everyone to download? That's how it was back then, when the whole project took less space than the compressed mp3.
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ооооооох ностальгияяяя!!!! 97-98 года, мои первые шаги в цифровой музыке))))) Импульс Трекер)))
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I remember downloading midi tracks just to expand my music taste back in the 80s and 90s and help me get more creative with my Korg. This is the stuff that got me into industrial music, which I still listen to.
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Cosmic Eclipse - Southern Aurora is clearly influenced by Twin Peaks intro and I love it for that!!
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Very nice stuff. The Schism Tracker in the bg really sets the retro mood. Also, pozdrowienia dla Wrocławia :]
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I had forgotten about .mod files. Thank you for this memory.
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Oh man! That Opinash track brings back memories! I had the "Tears Run Down" version on repeat back around 1998 or 1999, which is the one that has voice samples through it.
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I wore out Cubic Player and later on Modplug Player. I remember stuff from legends like Necros, all that demo music...man, what a time. Pretty sure I'd give the rest of my days for one year back then. And I would so a lot differently.
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The Tracker Music will always be a legendary music for me truly
