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Great to see that the preservation effort is still alive. Though having missed the glory years of tracker music, since a young age I have had a strong affection for its sound. Another treasure trove for tracker music is The Mod Archive: https://modarchive.org/ Some of my favorite tracker music: - Purple Motion - Starshine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3xHPIuX3s4 - Robert Allen - Epic Pinball Theme https://www.yout…
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For anyone that just wants to listen to the music in the collection I recommend installing the iOS app 4champ https://4champ.net/ https://apps.apple.com/app/4champ/id578311010 And going to radio mode and toggling it to Radio ON. This immediately starts streaming music from Amiga Music Preservation and playing it. The iOS app also runs on macOS, although its UI is not ideal for use on a computer as it is more geared t…
No android program?
Fun fact: the tracker songs recorded from real amigas (or faithful emulations) have a certain nuance to the samples which you learn to recognize, due to that everybody disabled the D/A low-pass filter back in the day, which is normally really required after a D/A to reproduce the actual analog samples. So you got a higher pass-through of some of the higher frequencies contained in the played samples (as the original…
Turning the filter off is quite noticeable. I did a sample test, with and without the filter. Not by turning off the power LED in assembler, but using a setting in WinUAE. The samples are on my site: https://www.markwrobel.dk/post/amiga-machine-code-letter8-wa...
Massive tracker music fan (and quiet author, hardly anything released) here, my main exposure was as the PC-scene arose (from ScreamTracker onwards). I'd like to recommend some mostly-pc tracker-music authors that are perhaps not necessarily the 'Pop-Stars' of the tracker scene, but I still think they made really absolutely awesome, different and interesting music in this format: Dune aka Brothomstates ( https://modt…
May I add Jesper Kyd (https://modtu.be/?m=313332)
Here are some recommendations for those on HN new to the tracker scene: Jester - Elysium Jester - Stardust Memories Tip and Firefox - Enigma Greg - Odyssey Pt. 2 Firefox - Galaxy 2 Mantronix - Act Of Impulse Dr. Awesome - 12th Warrior NHP + BKH - Enigma Year Captain - Space Debris Captain - Beyond Music Uncle Tom - Occ-San-Geen Romeo Knight - Beat To The Pulp What a crazy and beautiful era for creativity! A German, S…
As someone who was in the midst of it here in Denmark, I can tell you that, as a teenager who was used to anything cool always coming from the US, I assumed that there were much cooler demos being made in the states that we simply didn't have access to.
Jon Hare & Richard Joseph with Cannon Fodder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc2fulUF64w
And probably my favorite of all time, Chris Glaister's Lost Patrol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b47CRLL0kjE
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.. also Deadlock by Elwood. Or in fact, anything by Elwood…
I would have to agree and I love Elwood too (so much!). I think we should note though, that Elwood's main contributions were during the PC-tracker-scene 'era' (FastTracker2) and not so much an Amiga thing.
Here are some recommendations for those on HN new to the tracker scene: Jester - Elysium Jester - Stardust Memories Tip and Firefox - Enigma Greg - Odyssey Pt. 2 Firefox - Galaxy 2 Mantronix - Act Of Impulse Dr. Awesome - 12th Warrior NHP + BKH - Enigma Year Captain - Space Debris Captain - Beyond Music Uncle Tom - Occ-San-Geen Romeo Knight - Beat To The Pulp What a crazy and beautiful era for creativity! A German, S…
>Wrong continent and era for me unfortunately. :) As someone who was in the midst of it here in Denmark, I can tell you that, as a teenager who was used to anything cool always coming from the US, I assumed that there were much cooler demos being made in the states that we simply didn't have access to.
Apart from maaaaybe Renaissance on the PC I'm hard-pressed to really name a significant American demogroup whereas I get a huge smile thinking about a party where you had Silents sitting next to Phenomena sitting next to Sanity sitting next to Scoopex.
In a way I give a lot of credit to the scene for my eventual career as a tech entrepreneur. What I loved so much to do with my computer was create: draw ANSI, make music, build websites from scratch. Eventually that became starting companies, but so much of that spirit was generated from my marvel at what some European teenagers were able to do with computer 1% as powerful as mine.
It's amazing to find some music there that I composed about 30 years ago. I'd shared it via diskette with a friend who slapped it into a demo, then he mailed the demo on another diskette to someone else who would duplicate and send out more copies, one of which made it maybe to a demo party that ended up feeding the archive. All of this by snail mail, there was no consumer internet back then. Pretty unexpected surviv…
I had a few nice conversations with some of my favorite musicians (Firefox, Uncle Tom, Jester, etc.) and many of them are shocked and overjoyed that things they worked on for fun a lifetime ago are being enjoyed by new waves of people every day.
Great to see that the preservation effort is still alive. Though having missed the glory years of tracker music, since a young age I have had a strong affection for its sound. Another treasure trove for tracker music is The Mod Archive: https://modarchive.org/ Some of my favorite tracker music: - Purple Motion - Starshine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3xHPIuX3s4 - Robert Allen - Epic Pinball Theme https://www.yout…
It’s a slow burn… favorite parts at 4:52 and 8:51.