It was composed for a demo scene compo back in 1991, won first place if I remember correctly A remake of this song written by Kaarlonen himself is included in the 2011 game "Rochard"
This song is what attracted me to become a tracker, back in the day.. Because of Captain, i have 6 releases, one BBS intro, 2 presences at NAID (95 and 96) and a 17th place at Wired 1996, to my name. I had the priviledge to spend time with Basehead, Nekros, DCB, The Zapper and so many more talented trackers and programmers and last but not least, my demoscene hero, Skaven from Future Crew, took time to chat with me on #trax (IRC). Those 4 years in the tracker scene was an experience that i will cherish for the rest of my life.
i would really really love to listen your music my man ! i know its too much but there is a way you could upload your music or tell how can i search for it?
Not only were tracker music samples used in the 90s tunes, lo-fi sounding, the samples' effects and lack of VST like we have now in DAWs, also surely contribute to this unique mood 90s tracker music has.
Limited environment always pushed the artists to work outside of the box. Limited options meant that when you mastered the program, you knew it like the back of your pocket and moving though it was done on instinct pretty much, thus such masterpieces were created. Plus the fact alone that this was a completely new undiscovered frontier, pushed those young artists forward. Notice, how nowadays we have the most sophisticated DAWs this world has seen, yet nothing really big coming out of this all. There are too many options, programs are often difficult to grasp and to move around, and there's no cultural push to create such music anymore. And if anything comes out, it is often bombarded by a ton of criticism, compared with hundreds of other tracks by other artists, basically killing all the inspiration and drive this artist might've had, instead of just... taking it in and saying "wow, that's actually fantastic! Keep it going!". Nowadays, nobody is really a pioneer. The great ones of the past century carved the paths for other artists to follow. And even, if you release a great track, there's a very slim chance, someone big will notice you and your work, and perhaps offer you something bigger (f.e. work as a music composer for a game), unless you actively throw yourself left and right, just to be noticed. Artists are drowning in a sea of artists and the bar is set too high.
@@_Killkor It's crazy. I began my own composing career in 2015 and even though I don't consider myself a professional, I've already built such talent not even using professional software as FL studio or ableton. Renoise or sunvox.
@@_Killkor I've always thought about "what if SID had 12 channels" or similar things. Would there be all those amazing songs from Jeroen Tel, Rob Hubbard and younger composers such as lft? Genesis showed that more possibilities can't force composers to make better music BUT what would we have if this constraints existed but weren't so tough?
Funny enough, the limitation of four tracks was cicrumvented by sampling chords as is the case in this tune as well, the pads are sampled major, minor and other chords.
@@chmtr ela foi feita pra um concurso de demos em 1991 e ganhou ele depois disso vem sendo usada em tudo que e tipo de keygen/loader essa interface e de um tocador de musica mod do Amiga o compositor e o Captain (Produtor/Tecladista) da banda de rock finlandesa Poets of the Fall to compartilhando esse monte de informacao porque to a dois dias cacando essa musica e deu um certo trabalho pra achar ela
Huge respect for Markus Kaarlonen. Personally I prefer the Spacesynth Remix, but you must always honor the original. It's the giant's shoulders for the remix to sit on! 👏
I remember this song requiring extra memory due to the high quality samples. Funny how a group such as Image had one of the best musicians in Finland at that point.
Yup.... And it is made in 1991, by an amateur. It is from when I was around 14 years old and Amiga was the best you were able to buy for the money. Now I am 43. Still using Amiga on a hobby level.
@@spearPYN Yup. It was a golden time back then. The 1990's as a whole, was not bad eighter. And we ended it with a big party on the 31'st of december 1999 that lasted well into the 1'st of jan 2000. I sure remember what I did that night.
@@brostenen yes, I collect computers from that era now. Have a few setups: Atari 8-bit, Amiga, classic PC DOS era (1990-1995), and late 90s (Half-Life, Unreal Tournament) era. I really think it was a special time, the technology back then was fresh and fascinating. Now it appears everything is boring and uninteresting...
@@spearPYN Same here.... I have C64's, 286's, 486's, Pentium-1's, and then A500, A600 and A1200. Got one of them TheC64's as well, because why not. And then I am building my own C64.
You may also want to checkout the Turrican soundtrack if you haven't heard it. Fantastic music. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8SrBGpPHiEQ.html
I listened to this song and a lump developed in the pit of my stomach. Sort of like a bittersweet nostalgia feeling. I don't know where I know this song from, but it makes me happy for some reason. Maybe I heard it on a Warez loader or something... *Edit:* Comments seem to indicate that it was the idle music for the PGEN Emulator. It checks out.
Here in January 2022. This was singularly the first mod song that I really liked, back around 1990-91. I even changed a couple of the samples to my liking back then. And then played this & other mods onto speakers using a build circuit on breadboard that interfaced out of the printer port, in the days when most people did not have sound cards yet as that was still in its infancy or were too expensive.
Uh, so much memories. Couple of months ago my friend made a phone call me and told that he found Amiga 500 from yard flea market, "Look what I found" he text me. I send him a text back: "STOP! Buy it for me". And he did it. In that very moment my hidden and imprisoned Commodore heart got freedom again. Today I have Amiga 500, -600 and -1200. A1200 is modified that I can use USB, HDD or Floppy drive. My plan is to start make protracker metal with A1200. I used the Amiga and Protracker making music a lot from late -80's to 1999. Mostly making drum tracks. I tried to fight against PC's but in 2000 I gave up and I bought my first PC and that very same time I captured my Commodore heart deep in the dungeons of myself. I am almost done with Amiga. I still need Protracker and samples to HDD. Ok, samples are not an issue.
Fuck commodore. They blew it on mis management. The people who actually designed the stuff, engineers that is, are the heroes. Hail haynie, fish and the others.
@@brostenen True. Still, want Commodore back with Tramiel, Chovaniec, Porter, Andrade, Haynie, Nesbitt, Mical,, the Father and all the Vic20 marketing genies. That was the team to promote Amiga.
@@mark12358 It needs to be run, like before Tramiel left. That gives all cost savings directly to the benefit of the user. One reason why they were more succesfull than Apple would ever be.
OMG. I can't believe I just stumbled on this! This was one of my favorites back in my youth. Reminds me of the old Future Crew demos... those were some great days! That's for sharing!
Todos os dias virou meio que um Ritual Matinal ouvir esses clássicos... Faz bem manter a Sanidade mental 😂😂.. eu não sei o que seria de mim sem essas Maravilhas.... Comecei a ouvir trilhas sonoras em 2008 e é simplesmente incrível isso! Você sai dessa bolha.
Por mais que o pgen seja obsoleto, sempre será o emulador mais lendário de todos. Eu na época achava wue os jogos tinham saído pra ps2 mesmo kkkk hoje sou muito grato ao que o retroarch fez, mas alguns outros emuladores passaram na minha vida e isso é simplesmente lindo. Essa música foi criada e foi campeã de um concurso de música, e com todos os méritos foi muito usada de lá dos anos 90 pra cá. Falo do PGen pq não sei se fora do Brasil esse cd super coleção existiu, mas aqui ele foi uma das coisas mais maravilhosas do mundo dos videogames. Pro ps2 aqui no br só não foi maior que Bomba Patch e talvez os mods de GTA San Andreas.
This mod / dos tracker software is the reason im into music as much as I am today. Something about visualizing what was going on in a composition changed the way I listened to all genres forever.
This song is using tracker module, that's the same technology that Epic MegaGames used later on in their Jazz Jackrabbit game. It even might be they used some of the same samples.
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug. The computers were factory made jury rigged nightmares that were priced like they were made of gold at times. And it was a gold mine for sure.. with dozens of producers grabbing a pickaxe and hacking away to make computer hardware. But were they great? Eh.. from my experience in early 90's and onward (with ample playing on Amigas and commodore well past their time since.. well.. we had them. Why not use them?) they were not exactly what I'd call 'great'. Better than consoles at the time though.
Oh wow, blast from the past. I remember I used to listen to this all the time years ago, had completely forgotten it existed until recently a chiptune station played it. Even though it had been nearly two decades since I had heard it, I still remembered the entire thing from just the first seconds of it being played on the chiptune station. Glad I got to remember this exists again.
I remember this mod. Fantastic. A of people are calling this chiptune music which I think is inaccurate. The mod files contained the base waveforms as well as the tune. It was wavetable synthesis. To me chiptune music is purely using the onboard synth of whatever chip your using. My opinion but there you go. Great stuff.
While I agree with your core definition, I do believe a lot of people use "chiptune" to describe the general sound and feel of this kind of music. The sort of 80's-90's tracker/Amiga/Atari-esque sound.
I frankly defined chiptune as music that primarily featured that "chipped tone" that's frequently associated with the Famicom, where anything with long sustained notes are "chipped" into multiple concurrent notes that barely makes it sound like a longer one. I'd classify this as Wavesynth.
This remains the finest 4-channel MOD I've ever encountered. It puts a lot of S3M tracks to shame. Not surprising considering that Markus Kaarlonen is now the keyboardist for Poets of the Fall.
Again people are getting wavetable confused with sample based synthesis. Wavetable is simple waveforms as used in the Famicom disk system, Pc-engine, gameboy etc. Sample based uses advanced waveforms, used by the Amiga, Neo geo, SNES etc.
I think you have gotten wavetable and synth chips mixed up there. Wavetable is not the same as SID and OPL. Wavetable uses sound banks compared to synth chips that are modulating the sounds.
One of the famous emulator songs that nobody in my country knows where it came from but everyone likes it, together with Can't Stop Coming (from Azazel)
I had not real Amiga but I love MOS8364 Paula sound. From this that I was able to read MOD files was originally designed for Amiga Ultimate SoundTracker later used in MS-DOS trackers like Impulse Tracker.
Oh, damn. At one point I was watching the bassline go by, and tried to click off the other three tracks just so I could see if it was really doing what I thought it was doing by looking at the numbers. I haven't loaded up Protracker (or any tracker) since about 1998. I should, I had no idea looking at those dancing waveforms was going to make me this happy.
I remember having this on my 20MB PC harddrive as a WAV file (or similar), taking up about 1/4 of the entire space 😆 But I loved it and played it through my Soundblaster music card all the time 😇
I just got Rochard two days ago, and it's a damn fine game. I played it through in two sittings, then played it again. But yeah, the casino music was eerily familiar. It was bugging the hell out of me. I was relieved to find that I'm not (totally) crazy.
Correction: ch0 is 75% to the left, ch1 is 50% to the left, ch2 is 50% to the right and ch3 is 75% to the right. None are completely panned to the left or right, which is helpful for smooth position changes.
Le due cose sono diverse. Qui parliamo di un multitraccia con eventi di sintesi e campionamento programmabili. L'MP3 è un formato di compressione di un segnale audio digitale.
Amiga 8 bit tunes are one of the best in the world. They had a lot of limitations to make good music but managed to creato masterpieces for centuries with such limited resources.
@@randomunavailable my bad but I always thought it was 8 bit on the left channel and 8 bit on the right channel. All of those chiptunes music seems to use the advantage to this
Way above the rest at its time, certainly elaborate work behind with Amiga tracker mod fiddling work (only 4 channels, 2 per speaker), distinguished by its high quality synthesizer samples way beyond the mainstream modules, so, of course, will be remembered as one of those who stood out from the crowd and used Amiga hardware technology to its full potential, just like games such as Shadow of the Beast. It was an incredible machine just like Atari ST at its time, comparable to arcade quality, but only flawed by its lack of sprite hardware power.
