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Huge, overwhelming selection of free mp3s here. I know none of them, so can any electronic supergeeks recommend any of the artists or groups?

― milney gauzem (dr. t), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

I think this has to do with the "Tracker" and "Demo" scenes. We really should discuss this on ILX.

― THE JAMES DEAN OF THE OLD TESTAMENT (ex machina), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demo_Scene

― THE JAMES DEAN OF THE OLD TESTAMENT (ex machina), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracker

― THE JAMES DEAN OF THE OLD TESTAMENT (ex machina), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

what? it's about music, right? Is it not "chatty" enough?

― milney gauzem (dr. t), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

Err I meant. We should discuss this MORE on ILM.

― THE JAMES DEAN OF THE OLD TESTAMENT (ex machina), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

this is music for people who are european and fat and think the amiga is the epitome of the computer experience

― Mickey (modestmickey), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

oh, and thanks for the links...

― milney gauzem (dr. t), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

Here's one of the best resources to learn about the demo scene - http://www.ojuice.net/

They run a radio station that plays this stuff 24/7 -
http://www.scenemusic.net/

― Mickey (modestmickey), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

i suspect drax = dragan espenschied of bodenstaendig 2000. how do i play xm files?

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

(i was wrong, its thomas 'drax' mogensen)

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

http://www.tld-crew.de/demos.htm

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

Winamp can play mod/xm files, last I checked. There are a handful of people who started out in the scene, although the only one I can think of offhand is Bogdan Raczynski.

― mike h. (mike h.), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

don't know about people doing the music specifically, but tons of these people go into professional video game development. I assume some of them bring their music scene doods with them.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

Grabbed the Ice Raven, Dalezy, and Lichen as a sampling. Ice Raven has more jazzy guitar noodling than I would have expected, with vibraphones. Dalezy has the driving beat and synth buzz I was expecting. Lichen is on the ambient/mellow side of things (from the 3 tracks I heard).

anyone else listen to this yet?

― patita (patita), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

...and think the amiga is the epitome of the computer experience

It isn't??

(see also http://ada.planet-d.net/ , which I just recently ran across)

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

there's a lot of great tracker music out there in .xm, .mod and .it format....

SEARCH:
ishtar, theralite, rebound, mono, language lab, milk, tokyo dawn, lok...

some of them have tunes available as mp3s (or oggs, cos they're, y'know, computer geeks).

when i was into it, it was lotsa cool soviet junglist shit, and a ton of psytrance/israeli goa, eurodance, and groovy downtempo/trip-hop, and a smattering of industrial/gabber....

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

This stuff isnt as cool without awesome graphical demos.

― THE JAMES DEAN OF THE OLD TESTAMENT (ex machina), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

Autofire

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 30 June 2005 09:04 (twenty years ago)

> There are a handful of people who started out in the scene, although the only one I can think of offhand is Bogdan Raczynski.

Muffler has also had recent success in DnB circles (cover disk on Knowledge, bunch of 12s...) there's about an hour's worth of his mods (and lots of others) here: http://www.back2roots.org/News/

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 30 June 2005 09:07 (twenty years ago)

which prompts a bigger question (hinted at on slashdot the other day). is there an equivalent to open source for musicians? a lot of people write code and publish it for anyone to download and expect absolutely nothing in return but i know of nowhere where the same thing is done with music. anyone?

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/27/056254&threshold=3

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 30 June 2005 09:25 (twenty years ago)

A great tracker act from Sydney is The Pilfernators. I don't know if they're still around? They had some stuff on Bloody Fist and lots of CD-Rs. There were about four of them, and they used to brag that they could write three tracks simultaneously on three laptops in one night, swapping around among themselves. It was sorta hardcore with some breaky stuff in there, always very dark, hard and cheap.

― moley, Thursday, 30 June 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

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