Keygen Music: From Cracktros to Demoscene to 8-bit Black Metal

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Keygen music is as deliberately difficult as black metal or really esoteric mysterious guy hardcore, but so much more fun.
Listen to the Nest HQ Keygen comp:. nesthq.com/best-of-keygen
Check out Cam Boys: www.camboysmusic.com/
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VIDEOS USED:
Need for Speed keygen: • Keygen Music By FFF
Sony Vegas keygen: • Sony Vegas 9.x Keygen ...
Paradox cracktro: • Amiga demo - Crack int...
Future Crew demo: • Second Reality by Futu...
Orion keygen: • The Best Keygen Song E...
8-bit Emperor: • 8-Bit Metal Chiptune -...
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@Cyranek 6 лет назад

oh boy i loved listening to keygen music when i payed for a legally licensed copy of sony vegas

@Clop 6 лет назад

dank keygen music

@soportetecnicohigoversomas3451 6 лет назад

DescaSatou I’ve realized this exists is the father of all shitposting and meme music channels

@soportetecnicohigoversomas3451 6 лет назад

DescaSatou this exists and frankjavcee

@whiskeywayne91 6 лет назад

Dazer Gameplays 2.0 reloaded this video isn't a shitpost

@athens2513 5 лет назад

Cyranek y e s

@kienesel7 6 лет назад

If I had ever used a keygen program in my youth I would have been startled by the dedication some people put to the soundscape of the brief exercise of generating numbers to access the likes of Star Wars: Republic Commando, if I had ever used one.

@boyo7918 6 лет назад

"If I had used a keygen program in my youth" Mhmm

@R0ck4x3 6 лет назад

Lets be honest, for anyone who grew up in the early 2000's, it's not a question of if they used a keygen, but when XP.

@EpicAdrian3D 6 лет назад

"this is the sound of crime"

@Pandor18 6 лет назад

cries and LOLs at the same time

@xenoneuronics6765 6 лет назад

Ever feel like an unreal superhero?

@TheMeowthTeamV2 3 года назад

i used three keygens in my life

@margyoan97 3 года назад

Fuck that, that's the soundtrack to my childhood... So many amazing tunes.

@justinjackson632 3 месяца назад

And it sounds so good!

@KidFlashGirl8 6 лет назад

Oh man, the Sony Vegas keygen Music takes me back. What a jam, totally made pirating Vegas just to make shitty AMVs feel cooler than it was.

@oskarsigns 6 лет назад

Wanted to listen to the Cam Boys song, Instinctively type "Cam Boys" into youtube search. *REGRET* Fucking walked right into that one.

@jacemachine 6 лет назад

FUTURE CREW spotted @ 2:34. That full work is amazing. Nerdy hacker buddy gave me a copy of the file for that demo in 1995. mad props to Purple Motion and Skaven.

@20035079 6 лет назад

THIS. Please, if any of you are reading this, PLEASE check them out. They are just hands down amazing.

@sfsdfd 6 лет назад

I don't even remember which demo that was attached to, but I recognized the scene instantly. Cutting-edge for 1992.

@mineboom7377 5 лет назад

Fun fact: Skaven went on to have his music used in PopCap’s original Bejeweled, and he did the soundtracks for Bejeweled 2 AND 3!

@Symmetriad 3 года назад

Purple Motion and Skaven are just batshit good musicians.

@coolowlman 6 лет назад

Okay but you should've made yourself a crack-tro for this episode

@Varstahl 6 лет назад

BRING THOSE 64K FORTH, BOY! :D

@deboladonna 6 лет назад

Oh, the Paradox team... Their messages really scared my 14 years old mind

@mopkrayz 6 лет назад

Angels vs Paradox crack intros, especially the one with the little devil doing the nasty!

@MagnusDangerMagnus 6 лет назад

Please be actually back for real this time. My heart can't take this anguish.

@digitaldeathsquid3448 6 лет назад

He's doing this only when it interests him now. He has a life and a job away from This Exists

@evanhutchinson4521 6 лет назад

Please be back

@chrismills8251 6 лет назад

We can force him through peer pressure! You just have to believe

@Mowmauf 6 лет назад

like the blink 155 podcast

@YourGirlMaze 4 года назад

Three years on, this is still a video that I go back to to get a quick nostalgia rush for when I totally discovered the genre from it, and not at all from pirating.

@gomarsgirl 6 лет назад

Always worth the wait. The happiness of encountering an update is similar to the joy I felt finding super late night radio stations when I was a kid. It immediately creates a great and wonderful space that is so intimate and exciting. :) Thanks so much!

@BrandonLee-cp2pp 5 лет назад

Bronwyn Hayes totally understand the radio station part! I didn't have a set bed time as a kid and weekends were paranormal when the regular FM stations would play crazy fuckin stuff at 3 am. No commercials at all. This was like mid 90s

@Blazehunter110 6 лет назад

The moment I saw keygen I was like "Swear to fuck he better play Unreal Super Hero 3" and I freaked out when it came on.

@ElectroSomaV 6 лет назад

I feel this sort of esoteric electronic creativity can be understood as a part of a larger culture I've come to call "Techno-bohemianism"

@kagitsune 6 лет назад

ElectroSomaV, ooooh I need a book on this concept, like, 5 years ago. 😍

@jetjazz05 6 лет назад

Some of those cracks and keygens had the most epic music, but there were some with awesome graphics as well... fucking sweet.

@hawyercruz3618 6 лет назад

MOD music needs a documentary on their own

@asscrabtube 6 лет назад

Hawyer Cruz There is. Search for Moleman 2

@AMPProf 6 лет назад

put the term in youtube search and got "Booker T & the MG's - Red Beans and Rice - Stax - 1965" >>>> whahhhhtttt?

@BlackburnBigdragon 6 лет назад

Back in the late 80's and early 90's, I was a big member of the tracker and mod music scene. I use a tracker program called Modedit back then that I downloaded off of a dial up BBS along with a sound editing/recording program called Blaster Master back then. I made all kinds of industrial music with it. I also started an industrial metal band using mod music as the drum machine and the synthesizers back then. It was a LOT of fun. I really miss those days. The mod scene has really evolved a LOT since then, but I miss those simple days when you could just call up the dial up BBS's for everything with the mod scene. It was more... personal.

@kagitsune 6 лет назад

BlackburnBigdragon, dude that sounds awesome. Do you still have any of that music available anywhere for us to listen to?

@BlackburnBigdragon 6 лет назад

It's all on tape cassette and it's crap quality recording. Someday, I'm probably going to have to sit down and hook up a tape player to a computer a preserve that stuff. The problem I have right now is that my old tape deck has finally crapped out and the only one that I have left is an old handheld one that still runs, but the sound quality is crap. I have yet to find a modern cassette player that isn't a piece of trash either. They don't make them at ALL like they made them back in the day. I still have most of the MOD files that I used for the band and they're still playable now on the tracker program I now use. I still dabble with a tracker called OpenMPT that can play and edit them. They wouldn't be very interesting to listen to since they're pretty much only 4 track audio industrial sounding drum tracks with some movie samples thrown in and some synth samples interspersed in. We were trying to be the bridge between Godflesh and Skinny Puppy. We were... teenagers at the time with no recording skill, no equipment, no... anything. We used a 4 channel mixer from Radio Shack to do the mixing. We did do some gigs at people's houses. But that was about the extent of it. It was more of a hobby band. I have much more equipment and stuff now that I'm a grown up and have experience. Sometimes I get nostalgic and get the urge to go back and re-do those songs I wrote as a teenager with all my modern equipment, but other times, I think back and say that they're juvenile and that they should stay in the past.

@asusmctablet9180 6 лет назад

BlackburnBigdragon dude, the modern technology would destroy the spirit of it. People like us would run trackers and steal samples out of other people's mods... the kids of today run Ableton and think they're creating art. That short period of fun we were part of is long gone.

@BlackburnBigdragon 6 лет назад

Screw loops. Haha! From the firs moment I started seeing "Loops" start getting popular, I was like, "What the hell is this crap? This is so... limiting compared to tracker music which what pretty much like having a wall of sampling keyboards. Trackers, to this day, STILL feel a MILLION times more versatile to me, but people still obsess over "Loops" and use "Loops" and crap. Screw "Loops". I guess why actually program samples to play at all kinds of different pitches to play at all kinds of different volumes and with different effects across different tracks to do interesting things with them when you can put a couple of "Loops" on a couple of tracks and have them playing over and over again and just turn various tracks on and off again?

@RVGODZILLA 6 лет назад

I was obsessed with the one keygen trackloop that came with photoshop cs5

@ineedmoneysp 6 лет назад

Wow a ThisExist video. Awesome. So happy when I was scrolling down and saw new video up. I use to listen to those when I was younger. My friend use to get a lot of them and we watch and listen to them.

@honey3762 6 лет назад

God man. never stop making videos, every single one is a gift

@mikestickley2992 6 лет назад

So glad to hear from you dude. Hope you find a way to keep making videos, because I love these.

@darthhooker 6 лет назад

Great to have you back!

@Renlyn06 6 лет назад

I'm really glad you're still doing this

@kiruppert 6 лет назад

I remember a friend of my brother coming up with a Future Crew demo sometime in the mid 90s, and we were all blown away by it. Never did find any others tho.

@adamwfilms 6 лет назад

Yo so happy you still upload, haven't been in my sub box for some reason

@danytarga8144 Год назад

This is the closest thing to a keygen/chip tune documentary we will probably ever get! I loved listening to this stuff as a teenager, it was such a mystery, from the tiny file size, the skill, the link to hackers. The rich people paying for software missed out.

@cjdejesus7761 6 лет назад

Heck yeah, I've been waiting for this since I found this channel

@mattresbert 5 лет назад

Love you T, and everything you do! X

@redkittyproject 6 лет назад

As someone from the scene back in the 80's, I'd say there is a lot of current groups that embrace the chiptune style (through synth) that is far more reminiscent of the crack/demo scene than Nintendo/Sega tunes which always seemed very simplistic in comparison.

@mopkrayz 6 лет назад

I think they still do chiptune musicdisks on Amiga every now and then

@tsurshaia8797 6 лет назад

i forgot i was subscribed for this channel

@SherpaQueen420 6 лет назад

Excellent video Sam!

@Pleasedontmakeascene 6 лет назад

Another top notch episode by one of the best channels on RU-vid. Hopefully we won't have to wait five years for another episode

@Dr_KittyKat 6 лет назад

Alright, I can't believe I've missed out on so much "This Exists". The last video I saw was the simpsonwave video and I didn't even know you were making more videos and then I found them and am super psyched to catch up!

@belizeguy 6 лет назад

So True! Loved this. I especially like how excited YOU are about this. Thanks!

@ZOOTSUITBEATNICK1 6 лет назад

Man...been waiting for something new FOREVER!...YAY!

@UncleDamfee 6 лет назад

Holy shit! You're alive !!

@cavv0667 6 лет назад

#400!!! Love your coverage of these niche cultures... Keep up the Great Work!!!

@SarothCyngus 6 лет назад

Oh man, this video hits me right in my youth. Keygen music is easily one of my biggest influences on the chiptune I write today, so cool to see it in the limelight one more time! Damn I love this show :D

@nomad_composer Год назад

Brilliant content, I loved it!

@FABCASTLE 3 года назад

I'm getting to it just now and can't not think of PC Music. Soooo 100gecs would be "nothing" without it?!?! Gosh, that's pure gold, man!!

@grahamkristensen9301 6 лет назад

This Exists videos come once a year Now it's here, now it's here Bringing lots of joy and cheer La la la la la!

@anvilheaded 6 лет назад

I have been fascinated and perplexed by keygen music for so long

@xFallenDemon99x 3 года назад

This is still one of my favorite videos on the internet

@chrisboshoff7069 6 лет назад

Hay Sam. Great Episode man

@projectz975 6 лет назад

Keygen music makes me want to actually pay for a legit copy of FL Studio

@dersitzpinkler2027 6 лет назад

Holy shit please tell me you're making a comeback! Keep em coming!

@Cameroo 6 лет назад

Wow I remember some of these from when I was a kid playing on my brother's best friend's C-64 and some of the weird pirated Amiga games I played.

@michaelsimms7396 6 лет назад

Oh shit. Hy you still are alive!

@teddysadcat 6 лет назад

Oh man, keygen music! I used to love this when I was a not-so-rich kid pirating every new game I can find. Keygens are pretty much obsolete rn and pre-cracked games are everywhere.

@Durandal 6 лет назад

CONTENT. SWEET SWEET CONTENT.

@Bobson_Dugnutt_Esq 6 лет назад

My day is made. Thanks :D

@stylesuxx 6 лет назад

Haha, a blast from the past - nice!

@davidamigoni2215 6 лет назад

I always thought keygen music was crap, didn't know it was a thing, now I'm gonna reconsider it.Thanks for your work!

@j1shin 6 лет назад

Awesome upload. I think everyone feels nostalgic immediatelly when digital insanity starts to play.

@jasonblalock4429 6 лет назад

2:33 Now I'm wondering whatever happened to Purple Motion. He was absolutely god-tier among the demoscene\MODscene composers.

@sheppo 6 лет назад

I think you’ve misunderstood the music aspect of ‘the scene’ by a vast amount. Take any scene chiptune used in a scene production. You cannot identity what type of production it came from, whether keygen, cracktro, intro, demo party invite, 64k demo, wild demo, etc. Therefore you cannot pigeonhole music used in keygens or cracks in to a made up genre for the sake of a RU-vid vid. Furthermore, keygens cracktro were NEVER a platform for distributing music, let alone the primary platform in the scene. The scene has existed on, and has communities around every online protocol. Whether BBS, IRC, FTP, etc. At best you could argue the illegal aspect of the scene is separate from the creative side, but this a personal preference on the individual rather than a hard or fast rule. Source: involved in the ST demo/intro/music/pixel art/cracktro scene, involved in the SNES demo/cractro scene, involved in the module music scene. Still, I admire you bring the scene to a greater audience, and you got many points correct. :-)

@nuarius 6 лет назад

KEYGEN MUSIC IS GOD TIER

@Hekok345 6 лет назад

I think Camboys knew that this music was meant for a specific audience, those being very curious as to what lies in the internet, while keeping it remote as possible unlike anything on the web nowadays. It really reminds me of the more earlier times of the internet, that is to find something uncovered; something remote. I appreciate them a lot for keeping that in mind, giving out a feel you would only encounter before the internet became so widely used.

@nin7744 6 лет назад

he has returned

@devospanko 6 лет назад

Your videos are like a q-tip in the ear of my obscure musical curiosity, and I praise and thank you so much for your pursuit of this amazing endeavor! Might I suggest possibly covering folk-punk some day? I know obscurity is hard to find sometimes, and though I love the genre, I have very little knowledge of the rough edges and beginnings of this crazy genre!

@grizzlystation 6 лет назад

That was a solid nod to anamanaguchi at the end! I'm pretty sure they did the same thing with their own video game for their newest album but people found links and hidden files to just download them. It was definitely an amazing experience playing their game to find these cool little tracks and demos

@youtuberobbedmeofmyname 6 лет назад

I LOVE KEYGEN MUSIC I suggested this a while ago but by the sound of the intro, sounds like someone got seen before me.

@NicoTown 6 лет назад

Do you only focus on music to make videos about? If not, then you should check out Markus Rothkranz, who was known for his insane ability to make miniature models of ships,houses and even entire citys in like a weekend, he got hired for multiple movies to create these enormous miniatures in a very short amount of time and he did an insane job each time. Anyways, he stopped all of that to become a crazy health/fitness guru out of nowhere! And he has actually a pretty big following, his story is super weird but super interesting. Just an idea for a future video.

@mikuspalmis 6 лет назад

thenewgoddamngambit I had no idea he did that before the health thing. Even seems random seeing a comment about him on a video like this.

@PhilipJasionowski 6 лет назад

He's back.

@AntiAntagonist 4 года назад

So... somehow I didn't catch this episode of This Exists years ago. Somehow I came across Keygen Church first; I had no idea what it was really a reference to. If you want to hear gothic keygen-style music check it out.

@enistoja 6 лет назад

I expected "It's a mystery" to show up. But now I understand why keygens had radical music on them.

@Bj5m17h 3 года назад

As a guy who started writing techno with Screamtracker back in the 90s, it bring great joy to my heart to hear someone refer to "esoteric music-tracking software". Purple Motion, and Future Crew in general, were my jam.

@EmmisonMike 6 лет назад

I’m glad you’re doing what you’re doing, and that with the idea channel being finished, you’re not just pigeon-holed as “edgy Canadian idea channel” anymore, and it shows.

@alialwahedi4672 2 года назад

Amaaaazing bro

@reaper4131 6 лет назад

"This exists" my thought whenever this channel actually uploads and i remember it exists

@MrRBgunner21 6 лет назад

I was totally not pirating ezdrummer and there was a sick track on the keygen and then I looked up keygen music on RU-vid and discovered that and was about to write to you to suggest it for this only to find out you beat me by like 3 months thats sick dude

@Dupl3xxx 6 лет назад

You might want to check out the 'demo scene' to see where many of the same talents and people went; the intro and music used in among other things keygens got so fancy that it created its own community separate from the cracking origins!

@Jenrikforlife 6 лет назад

Let me just recommend the channel Super Keygen Master, it has keygen music for weeks

@thirdeyelandslide_ 6 лет назад

I love you man.

@ZILOGz80VIDEOS 6 лет назад

yaaaas finally a demoscene episode.

@Zenthex 6 лет назад

i wish you talked about about the demoscene. like, if you go look up today's demos, it's incredible what people can do with the amount of memory it takes to store a desktop icon.

@ThePuppyPrince 6 лет назад

Ayyyyyye this is a fringe topic I’m invested in.

@sazarod 6 лет назад

Awesome!

@Boozer13 6 лет назад

HES BACK!!!

@woodrow_7324 5 лет назад

I came to this channel because I saw black midi Undertale videos, and I say your video on black midi, I had a live for chip tune, and now I feel like I've come somewhat round circle.

@miskolinaccc 6 лет назад

Wow, I totally forgot about this, I always felt like I was a hacker in some early 90's Sci-fi movie, when the programs had such music, thank you for reminding me about this.

@YokiDokiPanic 6 лет назад

Well this is one thing I did not expect to get nostalgic over...

@PhantomSavage 2 года назад

I'll never forget being young, innocent, and nervous using a sketchy ass FTP style downloading program I was told not to download in order to obtain my 100% completely legal copy of Sony Vegas, and then at the very height of my anxiety, literally falling out of my chair when very loud, jammin' retro video game music started blasting me upon opening the exe.

@Darxide23 6 лет назад

What do you mean there will come a time when this is nostalgic? It's already nostalgic to me. I remember getting ahold of Future Crew's Second Reality at a disk swap over 20 years ago. Blew me away at the time the way I'm sure it did everyone who saw it.

@noisetv1863 6 лет назад

nice, I figured a demoscene This Exists episode already existed, but I guess not. thanks!

@margyoan97 6 лет назад

Pirate till I die. I will buy things but not a lot... Hell 95% of all the software I have used over the span of 13 years was pirated. I love that music so much

@glenthemann 6 лет назад

oh man.. this shit brings me back

@MagickFlavour 6 лет назад

I really love the newer episodes. They're less produced, but they feel more personal and intimate.

@alessandrobaggi6129 6 лет назад

Saaaaaam :) Finally This Exists ;]

@beepot2764 6 лет назад

You're excellent. For some reason the overall theme of this video reminded me of the attempts to make videos look like first person survival horror games. So many of those videos leave little bits and clues for the particularly observant or obsessed to find and decode, which adds another layer to the story if done well.

@jimjambananaslam3596 6 лет назад

There's a copy of Cujo by his right shoulder, the small red book lol

@EleanorDrapeaux 6 лет назад

Finally a video I care about

@DANN3101 6 лет назад

BEST. EPISODE. EVER.

@almanuu6838 4 года назад

As a 32 years old I remember it all... cheers from puerto rico...

@knotlock 6 лет назад

I can’t stop watching these videos. I love this video and this channel so much.

@ganjiblobflankis6581 6 лет назад

1:51 Music from "One Man and His Droid" on Commodore 64 by Rob Hubbard, also used on "Invade-a-load" which was a space invaders clone that you could play while the cassette tape slowly loaded whatever game it was featured on.

@solomonsamuel5526 6 лет назад

Oh how I miss keygens. This made me tear up

@SlaughterDog 6 лет назад

I’m not a musician or composer myself but I definitely get the part about music going with a certain thing you’re doing - albeit in reverse. When I was younger I often made specific Flash animations and games to specific tracks (that I of course didn’t have the rights to).

@JingleJoe 6 лет назад

oh shit you even had an intro from paradox! i had a totally legal and legitimate PS1 game with an intro from them and i went on like a crusade to find the song because, damn, it was good, title was: intro 33. nice :)

@georgelubomirov8931 6 лет назад

Aaah that Soundforge keygen brings out memories.

@DoomsdayOdd 6 лет назад

my first experience with keygen music was this commodore 64 sounding track for wasteland 2 directors cut. shit was so loud I literally couldn't do anything else on my PC that I needed my ears for until it was over.

@enjacku 6 лет назад

I remember being like 16 and I heard my first keygen song, I thought my computer was gonna explode. But nope, just amazing people doing amazing stuff. And helping one another get good software.