The best music on the planet is not made by big production companies or massive celebrities with cult followings, it's made by passionate tracker pros for fun :)
Some of the best composers are tracker users. You listen to this and those sexy chord progressions really grab your attention! Modern day pop music is nothing like this at all, is it? Then again, neither was it back in '97.
I've been searching for a long time how musicians come up with stuff like this, and I finally found the name for it today. Non-diatonic chord progressions.
1990's were so good for tracking. St/amiga had some of the best composers and artists; other platforms took their fruits, i'd play them now on my archimedes if i knew where it was
I wish video games where this good. Can you imagine a game with that theme but a great concept, outstanding graphics and game play? Outstanding music. It keeps strong in 2020.
@@melissawickersham9912 I'll try some music theory: It's not used all the time, but right from the 1st big chord ("D major", at 9 seconds), the melody goes from A-D-A-----G#-E-F#----...-, and G#, being the 4th note on a scale starting from D, is a half-step higher than it would be in an ordinary major scale, making a lydian sound. That raised 4th note shows up quite a few times through this song, and helps it sound otherworldly and ethereal wherever it's used. (It's only a small aspect of the whole song, but still pretty neat.)
I want to get more into chiptune and mod tracker xm files and such again. They are so awesome and epic tracks and more complex than mainstream music with way less data space they are way smaller files than FLAC and even MP3s and I bet you can make even better visualizations with them than milkdrop or other VST type plugins. I wish I could make a some of those art music visualizers. I like the futuretech style I was watching a guy on youtube make cinema4d loops for futuretech.
Technical complexity aside, how do you even naturally come up with something like this? Like, the overall composition of the song is outstanding. I'm glad if I can come up with an acceptable intro to put before four shitty looping patterns...
my guess is that track like this is pretty much made on the go - compose and keep developing. Perhaps have some bits of main melody at specific parts. But I am sure this one is like improv- keep composing and building-on.
Probably stolen from somewhere and repurposed. Which is 10000000000% fine and okay and normal and not weird, no sarcasm. Even hyperrealistic painters steal from reality, after all, that's what they copy to the T. Music is language, and to speak the language, you must make sense with the words. You can invent new words, but if you go overboard then it's just gobbletygook. Plagiarism is bad, pretending you did something when you took the creation of someone else is bad. But it's impossible to not be affected by what you see and hear. The japanese word for cat is 'neko'. If I told you this for a week or so, and then asked you to naturally, without drugs or greek rivers 'unknow' the fact that neko means cat in Japanese, then you'd break your brain. In fact, drum patterns can't even be copyrighted, that's how fundamental they are. You can repurpose those all day. Noone owns rhythm. They can own a rendition of something played in the rhythm, but not the rhythm itself. In other words. Steal more, adjust the swag more until you get the feel, then when you got the language of your favorite pieces down, speak your own version.
I have to agree this song for me at least Defines the Demoscene genre and its one of the best electro songs of all time. It deserves to be up there with the classics.
This is one of the best demostyle pieces of music I've ever known. I got this music on my PC since I remember. Would love to get in touch the author to congratulate him for this true work of art.
I love the amount of variety in the composition, which keeps developing, instead of keeping the same tabs/chords repeat over and over. Has some similarities with Purple Motion's "Starshine" at certain points.
@@TheBeatfoxSomebody else commented that this song, or part of this song, is in Lydian mode. Is that true? Did you use Lydian mode in the composition of this song?
@@MadsonOnTheWeb I always thought that the definition of a chiptune was any tracked music with very tiny file size (which this track is not), probably less than 20 kB. On the Amiga 500, which was my first computer, those tracks would be created using very small, looped waveforms like squarewave and sawtooth. Or do sounds really have to be generated by an onboard oscillator for it to count as a chiptune?
@@gnoink Nope, they don't have to be generated by an onboard oscillator for it to count as a chiptune. I've spoken with demoscene musician and chiptune pioneer TDK in a chiptune space and he mentioned that 'chiptune' was actually coined as meaning exactly what you stated, tracked music using short looped waveforms to imitate the sound of sound chips. In addition, chiptune has since expanded from early trackers to more sophisticated means of production, including emulating sound chips and imitating chip sounds in a DAW and mixed with modern production techniques for example, it still counts as chiptune no matter how exactly you go about it.
no need external vst effect plugins like today... all effects you can imagine are in the own tracker by hexadecimal codes. You can do everything "handmade" , like an artisan.
Did you seriously make this? This is pretty much THEE best one I've ever heard. It's like an entire story told with sound. Since your YT channel yields no results, where could a hapless chap such as myself find more of your music?
Yes, me in 2020. This is the music that Sony used to deliver the PS5. This was foreshadowing of all the games we are going to see. Sony is unstoppable.
@@kummer45 and now 2022! tracker music will never die in my opinion! the sounding even if its much more compressed and small samples i love the sounding effects this have compared to modern music
