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Canyon is good, but Passport.mid is the superior Windows midi file... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV9BtuPpW9w
Another one I remember well that apparently was more obscure than I realized is ISLAND.MID. It's the last one in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ome3vfadYvs&t=586s
Ah, the many eras of corporate music. Canyon.mid exemplifies the late 80s / early 90s aesthetic - gets me fired up to optimize my multimedia strategy. The current era is mostly inspiring 4 chord repetitions with muted guitar and piano, with B-roll of cinematic nature footage and racially diverse businesspeople shaking hands. Also jaunty ukulele riffs with dance claps and some kind of "oh oh ayy-oh" vocal hook. What c…
In answer to your closing rhetorical, I'd like the throw a curveball: Corporate Businesswave, the genre of truly creative artists riffing on soulless corporate jingle culture. Plenty of 80s/90s aesthetic to go around here. I personally love "Money Can Buy Happiness" and "Mark to Market" by New Century, "Pump and Dump" by Shadow and Mirrors, and "Insider Trading" by Michael Weber. A good jumping-off point: https://ope…
The song would be perfectly at home in the GTA Vice City soundtrack including lyrics like: "More is more and less is less, money can buy happiness" "Life can be so effortless, money can buy happiness"
Ah, the many eras of corporate music. Canyon.mid exemplifies the late 80s / early 90s aesthetic - gets me fired up to optimize my multimedia strategy. The current era is mostly inspiring 4 chord repetitions with muted guitar and piano, with B-roll of cinematic nature footage and racially diverse businesspeople shaking hands. Also jaunty ukulele riffs with dance claps and some kind of "oh oh ayy-oh" vocal hook. What c…
Isn’t the ukulele thing straight from Israel Kamakawiwo`ole’s take on “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”, or a bleak imitation thereof? I want my 60s-70s orchestral muzak back. Complete with grainy 24fps footage of sunny cities with enormous futuristic-looking business centers and viaducts, successful-looking smiling people riding those ginormous cars to work. Keith Mansfield, David Lindup, Alan Hawkshaw. Big names of libr…
There is also a documentary on the subject:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Library-Music-Film-Shawn-Lee/dp/B08...
Ah, the many eras of corporate music. Canyon.mid exemplifies the late 80s / early 90s aesthetic - gets me fired up to optimize my multimedia strategy. The current era is mostly inspiring 4 chord repetitions with muted guitar and piano, with B-roll of cinematic nature footage and racially diverse businesspeople shaking hands. Also jaunty ukulele riffs with dance claps and some kind of "oh oh ayy-oh" vocal hook. What c…
In the old days you had to sing the corporate song yourself, e.g. Ever Onward I.B.M.[0] [0]: https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/multimedia/everonward_trans....
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I miss those good times when developers were given freedom to do things like these.
Life-insurance mainframes never had easter-eggs, did they? This is just a measure of how seriously people rely on software.
Perhaps get an extra 50 joules of defib by putting in the Konami code on the directional keys.
Ah, the many eras of corporate music. Canyon.mid exemplifies the late 80s / early 90s aesthetic - gets me fired up to optimize my multimedia strategy. The current era is mostly inspiring 4 chord repetitions with muted guitar and piano, with B-roll of cinematic nature footage and racially diverse businesspeople shaking hands. Also jaunty ukulele riffs with dance claps and some kind of "oh oh ayy-oh" vocal hook. What c…
Obligatory post http://datassette.net/businessfunk/
It just didn't get more Windows than Canyon.mid. 90s corporate Memphis in musical form, the kind of thing you'd hear over a 3D computer animation -- or opening a corporate training video. Its full title was "A Trip Through the Grand Canyon" or similar; no surprise, that was also the subject of many a 3D computer animation back in the day.
PASSPORT.MID is pretty cool, too.
Windows 3.11 on a Tandy 1000... that's a hack right there ( http://www.oldskool.org/guides/tvdog/1kfaq.html#III.C.1 ) ;)
I think "computery" music (synthesized on the user's device from individual notes) reached its peak with tracker/keygen music: https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/ That was maybe the last moment before video games switched to recorded music, and chiptunes became a nostalgia genre.
Clint "LGR" Basinger collects 90s-era MIDI gear, and made a video of his stack playing this track. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMSdaPTuV8E
I encourage you to read the first sentence of QuadrupleA‘s comment to this post in LGR’s voice.