A playlist of ten underrated, unknown and under-appreciated demoscene & mod tracker songs that I think are absolute classics.
Some of these are not yet on KZhead. Some are but only have a few views. How many do you know?
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Edge & Purple Motion - Open Skies
hunz - traffik
LittleElk - Let the Dragon Fly
Stalker / Ari - Atlantis [I've seen it listed under both names]
dune - Last Train
DeltaX - Master of Orion (trainer)
Phorte - Airborne v2
BTC of Sargon - Firework
WolfSong - Jaunt
Big Jim - (Dreaming of) Foreign Skies
My 1990s buddy Stalker/Ariel is still in audio production to this day, having worked with lots of big names and I think in-house with Volition for a while before starting his own company. "SFTALK!Q" (if he ever reads this)
That’s amazing! His track here is a total classic, in my opinion!
What up fellow goon
my crops are watered and my skin is moisturized by this mix
my face lit up as soon as I heard Atlantis. when I was a kid first discovering the modArchive, the way I downloaded new tunes was just going through the whole database of modules alphabetically, downloading and listening to each module one by one to find stuff I liked. Atlantis was one of the gems, and it makes me so happy to hear it. some other random tracks (whose filenames all started with A, I believe) I remember quite fondly: - Music for the Undead by Necros - A Bit of Eternity by Minomus (all of his stuff was in the A section, and it was all golden) - Gravity by Arcturus - Solitude by Arcturus - Alacazabra by Sidewinder - Advent by Sidewinder - Journey to Neptune by Anders Akerheden - Draconic dreams by Archyx and keskitalo - Atlantis by Area 51 DNA (aka Dan Nyman) - Area 51 by Area 51 DNA (aka Dan Nyman) and many others I can't recall off the top of my head. really wish I could go back and see my old playlists from those days...
I remember this, too
AXELF.MOD
I enjoy reading about these experiences. When I was a kid we exchanged mod files on floppy disks between friends at school, no such thing as modarchive back then.
I recognize some of these from the 90s! I was making Impulse Tracker music back then under the name polvo
First one reminds me of Lava Reef Zone from S3K. It's nice to hear tunes that are not all 'unn-tiss unn-tiss unn-tiss' all the time.
LOL I love the description you gave there But yeah it's cool hearing unique and obscure songs of the tracker scene
@@itsamejonarbuckle There was a video released by Espen Kraft recently talking about why he thought 80s music sounded so good. Someone in the comments summed it up by pointing out that between the 80s and 90s, music began to shift from focusing on melodies to focusing on beats.
Saw hunz play live in Melbourne a few years back. It was a good gig
Was he playing as himself, Beanbag or 7Bit Hero?
Great mix! BigJim was always an inspiration for me back in the day, especially Foreign Skies and OS2/Warp. Also great to see my old group team mate 'lilElk get in on one of your playlists :)
anemoia - nostalgia for days, times, or places you never saw nor lived. tracker and .mod music always gives me this feeling. i wish I could've grown up during the BBS and telnet era of the internet
that’s cool there’s a word for this! wikipedia says this about the word: “Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig in 2012, whose project, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, aims to come up with new words for emotions that currently lack words.”
The second track is so good!
10:30 "Hey wait, I know this one!"
the last guitar track is brilliant
Thank you for putting together this list :) just noticed that the playback of hunz's "traffik" is slightly broken because some retrigger commands are missing ... or OpenMPT is doing something wrong
Name checks out lol
18:37 This one needs a female vocal lead singing about love, or heat, or night, or something, then a dude with a German accent rapping to the bridge.
Your channel is a real gift. Keep the videos coming!
nice upload
great trackers
Big Jim (Dreaming of) Foreign Skys is not obscure, for starters I know that song as a random Robloxian, and if you search for Big Jim in internal text in the mod archive you find loads of songs using these really high quality samples. It is also one of the 3 Big Jim songs that has had a remix or a cover in SoundCloud (it sounds great by the way) and THE ORIGINAL BIG JIM COMMENTED ON IT WHAT? Great song and glad that it's getting recognition past the 2000s, but wait if you made a video on the first song does that mean we'll have a video discussing the Big Jim song and finally have someone talking about Big Jim not on IRC or by me?
You’re right it’s not super obscure. (My video was originally titled Underrated songs so maybe that fits better.) But the biggest video for it on here has only 500 hits, so it’s not too big. I’m often surprised what has thousands of plays and what doesn’t. I’ll have to check out the remix.
It’s definitely the most well-known song on the list though, the rest are a little more obscure.
y'all are still on irc!?!?!?
@@Rocksaplenty While I can't speak for Beej, I'm not on IRC sadly, should probably check it out some time.
In my parts this song was very much known among computer enthusiasts years before we've even got internet. It had been copied around on diskettes, along with a number of other songs from then-active composers such as Purple Motion and Jogeir Liljedahl. At one point I've even tried to compose myself, but quickly realized it was waaaaay harder than I thought.
I need a version of LittleElk - Let the Dragon Fly that I can play on repeat, couldn't find it anywhere but here
Hey, the original song can be downloaded here: modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=36886
Love "Master of Orion"
10:06 Am I insane or is this the Mega Man X1 slap bass?
It wouldnt surprise if Capcom had happened to use the same sample database. The Snes soundchip was after all a sample based system, similar to Amiga, with SNES just having somewhat more compressed samples due to memory limitations. The slap bass here is something I've heard quite often in modules and XMs though.
The slap bass sample in question originates from a Korg keyboard (Korg M1 iirc) but it's found it's way into tons of stuff on the SNES and elsewhere.
I've been trying to find the Spaceballs mod for a while now. No luck. It had a Max Headroom intro. Any ideas where to look for really old ones?
Где можно найти непосредственно сами мод файлы этих мелодий? :)
What editing software did you use? I've seen videos with that font from the same video editor all the time back then
iMovie.... haha it's the only thing I have available, but it works
@@beej_tunes Ohh, alright. Thank you very much. I always seen people use that font back in the day lol
Nice enough music, but can't get my vote however as I don't consider IT a real tracker. There's something pure about MOD files that IT just doesn't have. A billion channels, variable length patterns, giant samples. Even FT2 is a bit guilty.
Me working on my laptop. Girlfriend entering the room, hearing music : "Are you watching p0rn ?!" 🤣 Must be the bass.
You should have played her this one by Radix. kzhead.info/sun/m8qSgbGBjKiAg3k/bejne.html