Way back in 1999 I downloaded a whole website's worth of tracker music and found the best ones.
I uploaded the original files to internet archive: archive.org/details/tracker-m... .
0:00 Jz-oft3.xm / OFT 3 version 2.6
6:00 Pr-nore.xm / Proton - No Good
11:48 The_World_Sleeps.it / RS3 - The World Sleeps
16:14 Tfs.xm / The Final Struggle
21:30 M5v-alon.it
25:18 Oniva.it
29:07 Retard.xm / Merlin - Retard
32:18 Spacey.xm
37:10 simplicity.it
45:27 moa_2032.mp3 / Master Of Audio - MOA 2032
52:21 Strobe.it
56:45 Phg-ntid.xm / Phogy - Now Turning In Dream
1:01:56 dhv_res.it / Goose - Resilience
1:09:43 Tsec-sta.xm / Sash! - Stay [TSEC]
1:14:54 Twilight.it
1:20:12 Surreal.it
1:23:35 Song16.xm / Don't Be Afraid
1:28:30 Following_the_stream.it / Following the stream (NB)
1:31:52 Esk-aphx.it / ESKIMO = Aphrodite -ext
1:37:37 F_atsph.it / Atmosphere F'98
1:41:14 Afflict.s3m / affliction
1:47:06 acension.xm / Acension 4.37
1:51:45 Vox_und.mod / Underwater-rmx
as morpheus said, 1999 was the peak of human civilization
Yeah, 2020 is degradation :(
@@user-on7ed4bc5z Don't worry, I'm sure we can do worse. We just have to try harder. That came out wrong. I mean we can turn it around for the better.
@@lunchbox1553😂😂
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Nope...it was the Seventies..., what folloed picked up some left-over momentum. But, you may be to young to have lived the Seventies 😉😊
Wow I found this searching for some old tracking musicians. The second from last is my song. "Ascension". I made it in the late 1999. 😊
niice
damn sick
hey thank openmpt because vlc kind of pitch shifts it
Nice work. That's one of my favorites from this mix, that's why it's at the end.
@@deleteyourcomputer Thank you 😄 I made around 150 songs in FastTracker2 during the late 90s. I am planning on releasing everything here on youtube when I find the time. I will let you know. 😀
Just watched Ahoy's new video and now i'm here. this music makes me feel like a kid again
Lol same
I am also here because of Ahoy
Also was recommended from Ahoy's video. Kinda nice to see a track from my old buddy RS3 in here.
Same lol
yep me too
Me and some friends used to send around a 3.5 floppy disk with a tracker song, and just add to it, making it longer and more weird each time. Man that was good old times.
That seems like good fun =)
LOL, had two floppies with MOD and S3M modules at 1993. And initially listened them through PC speaker. Cool times.
I would love to hear it
@@manuelitoviteh Oh that was like in the late 90s, I don't have those files or floppy anymore, unfortunately.
@@MageThief sad to hear. I lose music maked with impulse tracker 2.14 and Modplug tracker morre than once. My floppies gone bad, and My hard disk die (some I have in a cassetter tape or a audio cd) but I lose a hold "record/album" and music maked for a threater play, hahaha. also another hardisk and 2 memory cards from playstation with music maked with MTV Music Generator, some days ago I recover with a memory card usb reader 2 other memory card with music maded in Playstation, so I am happy, some I have on cassette tapes.
as someone who was born post-2000, I find enjoyment in looking at technology and programs from before the new millennium. I can't be the only one, but I was the only person like that that I could recall from a local perspective. It's fascinating. I can see the world I know in there, but everything's ever so slightly different. I have a greater appreciation of technology because of that I feel.
Same for everything. Especially the sentence before the last one, every videos I see from the past feels like another dimension, really fascinating, world was deeply the same but so much different at the same time.
Born in 2000 and absolutely feeling the same. Sometimes wish I could be a kid in the 90s for some time :)
@@CastaneaMa Yeah, would be nice to see what life was like first hand. I've been debating whether or not I should try messing with some hardware from that time. I have a 3DFX Voodoo3 as a shelf piece, but after watching Ahoy's documentary on the Amiga, I've been considering purchasing one for myself. The later Amigas were very popular in the UK, so they're in abundance.
I was born in '96 so I kinda got to know DOS and early Windows apps, but the way developers managed to squeeze the most out of the hardware even with the limited technical capabilities back then is nothing short of impressive
Same here, born May 1st 2002. I enjoy using linux because of the aesthetic of using a terminal for pretty much everything. Like @Felix Kruger, I wish I was in the 90s, where I could experience this first hand.
1999 was a magic year
all years someone is born.
Pretty much the peak of the western world
Everything's been in decline since
@@Komodo1312 absolutely true
@@MasDouc true
Previously up until now, I only knew Tracker music from Unreal + Unreal Tournament, Jazz Jackrabbit 2, One Must Fall 2097 and Terminal Velocity. But now I discovered non-game Tracker tunes and shit, these are FANTASTIC.
Didn't even know. This was just the underground 90s to me.
@@deleteyourcomputer Gotta say I really quickly in these few days have become a big-time fan of 90s tracker music.
Same for me, I didn't even knew that this was called Tracker Music back then.
I used to call this style of music techno when I was a kid, I think because the back cover blurbs from the game Tempest 2000 for Mac called it that.
Truth is, if a game had a release for Amiga computers back then, or devs related to the Amiga demoscene then that game would have tracker music.
We need more modern games using Tracker music
Especially 8 bit ones! Far too often people rely on inaccurate piano roll programs, famitracker or bust is what I say!
Check out the OST for Ion Fury, its fucking incredible
@@graysonsolis it sucks
I made music for a modern mobile game using Renoise tracker some years ago.
I mean Roblox used trackers until 2019, but it was only 2 songs and both of them were stolen without permission, and one of them had some weird tempo properties.
well, the secret is now out i thought this was all done by hand with synthesizers, but now I see. amazing
hw synthetizers was (and still are) expensive. High-quality recording equipment was expensive too. Many 'producers' those days sampled various synthetizers and used them in their songs. And many (maybe much more) producers (including me) used that samples made by someone else in their own songs :D. It was something like "warez community for samples".
@@dusanmsk is there a community or forum where i search for samples for these trackers??
@@JJ-vp3bd dunno, it's 25 years I am out. Most samples I used these days were stealed from someone else's module.
@@dusanmsk I did some tracking (very shitty since I was a kid and sucked at music), and yeah, I would just rip off samples out of people's songs, along with some WAV files I found on the web. But I could tell that better producers than me were taking samples from synthesizers/keyboards/drum machines. With clever use of loop points in the tracker, you could make short samples loop seamlessly, and careful effect programming (vibrato, etc) could produce a lot of timbral variation from just a tiny snippet of recorded audio. It's an art form that rewards creativity and obsessive programming.
@@dusanmsk Daaaaamn, I didn't hear about warez many years ago. Thank you to bring me back those memories :)
Впервые слушаю трекерную музыку,уже наверно раз 50 прослушал за этот год(2024),очень понравилось!!!
В 2002ом нашол Импулс Трекер на старом диске демо сцены. Когда понял что и как там, начял перебирать старыйе треки што были на диске и просто погружатся в трекер ночами(мыш там ненужна, только клавой и весьма быстро строется треки и патерны). Ето было реально медитативный процес. Полное погруженийе в себя. Лист за листом писать то што строется в голове. Есть апарат по названию Polyend Tracker, работает без компа, интересно получилось б такой флоу словить... но тема прикольная.
The olden days... I still remember using Fasttracker2 between 1995 and 1999 to help me compose songs for the trash metal band I was in.
How did that work?
Thrash?
I remember having screamtracker 3!!
52:21 This is an Insane track!
@@analogavcz maybe try looking on modland instead, it has way more stuff from what I can tell
If you want to find more like this, look for german hard trance years 1994 - 1999
What feels strange about this video is that it is very likely that almost everyone who made these tracks aren't active in the demoscene/Fasttracker II scene anymore. I downloaded Spacey on my computer a few weeks ago and Gronda Gronda, the artist, isn't active anymore. Same with so many other trackerheads that aren't active. They have no idea how long their music will live on ❤ Also Spacey is probably my favourite tracker tune ever thinking about it now lol :D
The demo scene might die with us listeners.
I'm just happy to hear that someone else knows about Gronda Gronda.
@@d3j4v00 I personally feel that a lot of his catalogue isn't that good, but Rockin', Cream98 and Spacey are awesome :D
I personally didn't like anything else on this video almost, but Spacey is fantastic to me
I have since been listening to a lot more of his catalogue and I can say that he's definitely in my top 3 trackers now :D
Gotta thank my old man for raising me on unreal and giving me the best taste in music.
Nostalgia twitching rhythms from a past age of computing and a underground scene brimming with creativity
I'm in my late 30s now (where did time go!) and was around 14 years old in 1999. That said, I think creativity is still out there, just far far far more accessible now.
the one genre who can merge lots of electronic subgenres into one - trance, psytrance, goa, techno, retrowave, big beat, breaks, house, chiptune, 8-bit, disco, italo-disco, spacesynth, nu-disco, electro, eurodance, eurobeat, hardcore ... you name it and it all goes smooth and fine. I still have some xm and it files on old hdd...
Ahoy, there.
wow, this is a great new feature for youtube, you can see the name and time spans of the song by just hovering over that zone on the time line. really greate to see that working on a video that is 5 years old.
Awesome! I just released an album everywhere to stream. Music that I made between 1994-1998 when I was a kid. It's called 'Weinermart'... I made it on my Mac IIsi using a mod tracker called 'Meditor', but it was eventually converted to WAV using FT2.
Thank you Ahoy
I love these, it just a specific feeling and it just sounds so great.
this has been on repeat for me the past 3 days. thanks for the upload!
I've started Tracker Music in late 1989 and later in 1991 with Oktalyzer, great Times back then on my Amiga :)
i had Startrekker on the Amiga, was too young to make anything but used to load game music and just watch the notes fly past.
This belongs in the museum! Amazing stuff, thank you so much!
OMG I haven't heard Merlin's Retard in over 20 years! thanks for the trip back to the 90s 🥰
Best music ever!!! i love the randomnes... the mixes.... you never get tired listening to this. I collect modules for listening while chilling out in a barbecue.
I just got out of high school when I first discovered mods. I would listen to them all night long. Those were good times.
This makes me smile cause I remember doing similar. I had a stack of CDRs filled with the stuff that I used to play endlessly. Good times
A weekend in 1997... Just me and my computer, Impulse Tracker, a message board and mIRC :D.... Life was grand!!!
I had my PC hooked up to an old Philips valve amp from 1959, and listened to a lot of these tracks and more on Inertia Player.
i wish i could find the old music from those days usually those were not named properly and when you lost them there was no way you could find it again
Great music for playing some HypnoSpace Outlaw
I was thinking exactly that!
a distinct sound
i was a dj in 90's .. in addition to vinyls, sometimes i also played music with ft2 xD
Awesome mix, thank you.
It's 1998, I just discovered techno music like this. Downloading at night on my 56k over free internet given out on CDs at the shopping mall. It speeds up your brain, we're the new generation, New Millenium, coding all night long. Millenials. Going to get rich in the Dot-Com Boom and travel the world meditating in temples in Thailand, India, China etc.
I love the 3 OFT songs. I got a lot of inspiration when I started this music thing. But obviously the best is oft3 :)
Once upon a time good old FastTracker II was a new and exciting successor to the Amiga trackers like SoundTracker and ProTracker. How time flies!
OpenMPT is the best today. It can read everything, and it is free.
52:21 very nice. Can't believe it was done on such dinasour hardware!
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Yeah, it's my favorite song)
It's the other way. You don't want to believe that all that commercialized dance music from the music TVs and radio stations between 1995 and 1999 were made just like this. :)
i was one of the few lucky (i guess? looking back it kinda made me an outcast) kids my age to have actually grown up listening to this type of stuff. i had a portable music player but there was a certain novelty to this type of tracker music that couldn't be beat by the trashy pop music you would've found on itunes for example. so i would mostly load a lot of these up in modplug tracker (later openmpt), render them in a playable format, and put them on my music player. i found out about tracker music via youtube, from people showcasing their own creations in openmpt through screen capture, which led me down the rabbit hole of earlier music (mostly acquired off of the mod archive). this all inspired me to download openmpt and take it for a whirl. if it wasn't for that i probably would've never seen electronic music as something i'd take up as a hobby and as a result i'd be a hell of a lot more useless than i already am.
My favorite label was Platipus records. That music was the sheer essence of my existence, my way of perception. I was capable to dissolve in it entirely and now it is just a vague memory about something barely existed.
I like this sort of retro music.
Great mix! There's a UT99 vibe to some of these tracks, I wonder if some of the same artists worked on the tracks for that game.
thumbs up for minute 42, it's all awesome, master of audio alledgedly also wrote these, and i can't find references to him: Bass & Drums Chrono Trigger - Far and Away MOA 2032 Sarah's Song Seeds of Innocense Specks of Memories Story of a Broken Heart
I have Chrono Trigger - Far and Away and Bass & Drums by MOA, think I got them in 1999 from mp3.com. They list the tracks there but I can't seem to download the songs. I could perhaps upload them.
oh cool. I am searching for didgeridoo synthesizer thigns on yt. trance nowdays seems to be produced with only strings and they forgot didge sounds!
Did you download the tracker modules themselves or their renders?
Audio: I downloaded the original tracker files in 1999 and recently rendered with Winamp. Video: just a few images from the web.
I remember getting FT2 on a disc on a PC magazine in the 90s and listening to all the tracks that came with it. One was about 25mins long, and a myriad of styles - it was amazing. Wish I could find it, but with a vague description like that to go on, no chance lol I did sit and learn how to use it from scratch, as a young teenager - even knocked up a couple of passable dance/trance tracks.
MOD4WIN... so much time staring at the sample light show
holy crap you got all these songs together. omg love man thanks dude. this takes me back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I give it thumbs up when you give recorded tracker screens from all songs
Used to regulary compile tracks on Octamed Pro on the Amiga back in the early 90s,I still have the disks and the original Amiga....
daamn, now i know how much i love tracker music!
That underwater rmx tho
Oldschool 99 Rave, I love it
You're doing The Lord's work. Go forth and be blessed.
I'm having UT 99 Assault custom map flashbacks... wow great stuff
GuitarSlinger2112 Anti-plastia, wormhole dreams, tremor bass, atunecination, double galaxy, infinite eye, planet entropy
@@popocatepetl4169 You know it!
Awesome thank U 4 This!!!
amazing list
That first track could almost be an UT99 one. I love it. Can well imagine 32-player Team Game set to that.
"Resilience" is definitely my favorite here. Great stuff.
Same! Timestamp for anyone scrolling by: 1:01:56
Thank you very much for uploading this!! I get really inspired when i listen to this music
1999 was the peak year in the UK. Everybody had disposable incomes. Even the lowest paid workers in the country still had plenty of money as everything was cheap. Now we live in a impoverished mation where everybody works to pay their energy bills. If you dont pay, bailiffs show up to your house and take everything you own.
I used those sequencer back in the early 90's for the electronic part of my music. Record the demo on 2-track tape recorder ! Those were the time.
Oh man, this brings back memories.
MickRip and Necros were standouts for me. Man this brought back so many memories… my favorite early tracker was FT2 before I moved onto other things Fruity loops.
Those opening strings are so triumphant
very easy to understand and the best it works
thank you so much
This is really good!
best discovery of the year for me
Proton - No Good is probably the most hype song
YEAH !!! FastTracker 2 was my first audio editing software !!! I was run it on 286 processor pc
37:10 My favorite, this song makes me feel like I'm stealthing past armed guards in a stormy military base.
Best track in this mix
Whoa, didn't expect to hear a MOD cover of a Prodigy song! :O
I also heard 8-bit No Good played on computer market Mitino In Moscow, Russia in the 90's
This is like the Will Smith slap, but a good one, that send me to the 90s, thanks alot for this compilation!
Cream - Acension, godlike oldschool trance tune - just holy shit I love the piano work in it.
This music makes me think how cool would have been to see Matrix for the first time at the Premiere.
that's what I thought as well lmao... see ya in the movie itself in 20 years
Actually it was like OMG, I never seen anything like this. Second scereening next day. Probably same as seeing OG Star Wars in '70. I thought then it was the best film ever, esp. for SF nerd. :) And then came disappointment with each next. Now I see it wasn't that great and the sequels weren't that bad :)
i found a bunch of nearly a quarter of a century old mod files collecting cobwebs on my pc with the artists names included so i am going to fill in the gaps in uploader's tracklist: Oniva by cosmic, strobe by analogue (from the plastik crew.) twilight by CPU of ZDC surreal by CPU of ZDC
Do you know where these artists uploaded their tunes (way back then)? I'm not familiar with any early tracker music forums.
@@scourgi5274 lolololololololololol litterally just lol just stop it you millenial poser hipster. back in 1995 these tracker songs could be found in the demo scene with invitations to the meetings excanged on cd-roms and sometimes on playgrounds on cd-roms with a ton of warez and ''free'' games on the cd included but you had a far bigger chance of finding an illigal rave party by accident than stumbling into a demo scene meeting if you didnt had a functioning brain you couldnt even find the hidden stuff (like the invitations)on the cd-rom. ill give you a lead: try opening an mod file in paint some mods/xms are merged files who have an ''open'' visible frontend file and a ''closed'' backend file which become visible when open when their respective program is used. you can even hide an jpg file in an mp3 file that way. embedding a JPEG file with a mp3 file produces an embedded archive which can be read either as a JPEG or a mp3, depending on how it's opened. and this is just kids stuff fat chance if you downloaded from kazaa it might contain some unwanted ''extras''
@@hatemaster9131 So at the core of it, tracker music was shared as an extra through some type of nerdy underground weekly digital newspaper with the use of CD-ROMs? That actually sounds pretty cool. Not sure I understand the second part of what your comment though. From what I read, people would hide extra files in jpeg or mp3 files as a way to launder certain stuff which perhaps shouldn't be seen by others not so techsavvy. Sounds like a pretty crappy plan unless you use ultra high res photos or really long tracks since the file size would probably be pretty massive... unless you can alter how the computer reads the file sizes that is. Well, thanks for telling me about this stuff, never really thought nerds would be physically exchanging CD-roms rather than interact digitally, but I guess internet back then was simply too slow to carry files over 1 computer to another in a timely manner. P.S. I turned 17 last week.
thank you maaaaan
Proton for how much it just sampled No good (Start the dance) from the Prodigy, i'd say it's pretty good!
a friend of mine once made a track in 89 on commodore 64 which was a remix of Dr. Bakers-Kaos. actually the best remix i ever heard. i did get it from him on , yeah, cassette tape however those tapes got damaged from a misty basement for some years. so if you guys stumble across a remix made in denmark, i really would like to get my hands on it if its the original. sadly he has since passed away and i am therefore not able to get more info on it. fun times of pure innovating music from free minds back then. today people just push some buttons and out comes a hit. it just wasnt like that back in the old days.tons of music not on release from labels came out from everywhere. twas fun times :)
oh i would have added it to a playlist but i see you took that option off :/
genius material :3
0:40 Stereo chorus effect on the KICK DRUM of all things.
now that you've pointed that out, ive just realized how spotty the mixing on some old mod music was
Хайповые композиторы в 2019: *ретровейв/синтвейв/outrun, cloud rap, клубные миксы* Ты в 2019: *FastTracker 2.08, запущенный через DOSBox с разрешением от калькулятора*
Scream Tracker 3 for dos only!
Так есть жи sunvox
зачем через dosbox, он там работает через жопу. если уж и юзать, то либо на железе с GUS/SB, либо клон от 8битбасби
Tracks are great
love!
I was born in 2000... i'm no child of the 90's... maybe nor the 2000's, as I had no internet, only an old, crappy Compaq Evo D5D (which I now know was a high-end machine for the day... today I've got 3 of them...), on it only an old builder program was available (Home Design, 1996)... But oh nevermind, I love this.
Its always nice to see someone younger appreciate the hardware we had growing up and the things we did to push them to the limits :)
I was born in 2000 too.
@@getgle Yeah, there are many of us. Children born in '99 always thought of themselves as 'much older' and I was always considered sooo young, because I was born in a new millenium...xd Even though they were only several months older than me. :D
Now imagine that computer music started long ago before this tracker modules. I started on Didaktik Kompakt (czechoslovak clone of ZX spectrum) with AY-38912 module, which was 3(!) channel analog synth. Computer has 48 kB (!) of memory and ~ 4 MHz CPU. And still was able to track sampled(!) music on it (ok, 4bit samples, but ...). Now look on your fridge/microwave/washing mashine - their cpu's are much much faster than that. Later I moved on PC platform ('95 Fast tracker, '97 Impulse tracker). No internet, plenty of free time, but still limited on resources (75 Mhz, 16 MB ram), limited access to music (only regular radio shows playing mainstream, or copying audio tapes between friends). That was the great times and many great songs was born that times - but was forgotten in "underground". Those times will never come back, now near everybody has internet access, music is everywhere, guess song name and boooom you shold hear it in millisecond. Yes - those times were a childhood for most of us and that should be the main reason of so many emotions, but still - many modules of that times was great and gives us good filings until today.
Love to hear the samples from Zero-G's "Datafile" records.
I spent years of my life looking at that screen.
People and their fancy PC trackers. Protracker for the world
oh no way, this reminds me of all my days on newgrounds back in the day. im getting intense whiplash
as an 04 kid, i was exposed to late 90s retro stuff through playing counter strike as a little kid. stuff like this im nostalgic of even though I was not alive for it.
Awesome video! Were these modules all played on impulse tracker or modplug since their mod, s3m, xm, and it files?
I used Fasttracker II to produce music by myself. I got easily distracted with the game 'Snake' and spend a lot of time playing it (it's a playable game built in the software program). Played it a bit too much. Good times!
could you introduce me to a tutorial on how to make tracker music by hand? Im so in love with this genre of music, that if you know anything about it please teach! You impressed me with these picks, I didnt know there was more than amiga music, the lack of limitations in sound quality is amazing.
from what I can tell it's mostly samples of other synths that are loaded in and sequenced using the tracker, most atari's and amiga's from the 80s and early 90s didn't have high enough fidelity to produce synth sounds this clear afaik... iow anything that sounds less chiptune and more professional probably came from a sample from a hardware synth. what I would like to know is how those complex evolving acid sounds or leads are done? if that is using a sample then it's using some clever sequencing and filter programming!
@@kcat80 do you mean how it was possible to simulate cutoff or acid/resonance in tracker? Mostly it was long sample that was sampled from "fully open" to "fully closed" cutoff sound and then "sample offset" effect was used, so sample started to play from beginning (open cutoff) or from later position (closed cutoff).
@@dusanmsk the IT format eventually introduced the Lowpass Filter, but I think it was available on the XM format too, however, the first track has acid samples that seem more like short notes, this could have been a bunch of different samples, from the same synth patch, recorded at different filter settings (this was actually done in a few tracks from Unreal Tournament, and a lot of other non UT related track), but all this is a wild guess, I'd need the module to give a definitive answer
@@Shakeno XM never did, but you're correct about IT having filter support. But yeah, prior to that, filter effects were typically done by either cycling between different samples or changing the starting offset on a single long filter-sweep sample. Tracker musicians could get pretty creative when it came to doing awesome stuff within tight limitations. Check out this S3M tune by Purple Motion that uses only 2 channels: kzhead.info/sun/nrqenrqQqWtva2g/bejne.html
@@Shakeno Yeah, I remember how WOW was I when I started to learn impulse tracker and found that 'the must have effect' (cutoff) is implemented there. Golden times, plenty of time, unbelievable how creative times that was those days. Now we have near-unlimited daws with near-unlimited synths and near-unlimited effects and I can't get that productivity back anymore ...
Superb .. :)
real music
For anyone curious why track 2 invokes an Advert, it's because it's a remix (...barely) of *The Prodigy's* _"No Good (Start The Dance)",_ off the album "Music For The Jilted Generation".
Awesome
awesome
Tsec-sta.xm / Sash! - Stay [TSEC] - ONE LOVE
Nothing quite like the sound of tracker music.
hahahah this is wild for youtube's algo to send me, one of these tracks was written by a friend/roommate i lost touch with in like 2004