More Underrated 90s Tracker Music 

I'm from '91, I know nothing about any of this kind of music other than it hits a nostalgia nerve, like I've heard it from somewhere I don't remember.

Because many of those attic room kids like me where producing their very first music with this but never uploaded any tracks. I remember seeing a Lenny Dee commercial and thought wooooah I need to make this music like this as I was always analizing house music in my head. So I ran to the store wanting to buy 100,- music maker software and the guy working there said nooo kid just take this and he gave me a floppy with scream tracker. I was so confused but I was glad he didnt exploit me. I was very confused with this tracker stuff at first but I remember hitting my keyboard and it made noise so I eventually learned to reverse engineer from existing mod files. Later came Impulse and fast tracker, then cubase, reason, FL studio and eventually ableton and I learned to play the guitar and the piano and it all started with a fucking floppy lol

@@hoidoei941 That was the way, man! So cool the dude gave you scream tracker on a floppy.

​@@zonefrost games? It's literally remind me of video game music. Especially Funky stars remind me Elite 1984, (Nice year of release tbh).

​@@hoidoei941 so do you have your music on RU-vid? Or anywhere else? I listen.

Man that sounds like some serious Doc Brown stuff there...

he probably made a lpt dac

@@JohnTitor_0 but what software would output sound out of the LPT?

@@JohnTitor_0 The John Titor from the future?

@@Domarius64 fast tracker 2 and several other dos trackers, there were tons of older pc's without sound cards afterall. some dos games supported lpt dacs for sound as well, nowadays there's even things like adlib over lpt, with opl2lpt. windows 3 even had a driver to playback wave audio over pc speaker, horribly though.

😃 - well I'd say, thats half the truth - .MODs (later s3ms) were technically totally different from MP3s - MP3 format was later invented - in order to compress the too large digital data from audio CDs. MODs in contrast, were files which contained a whole musical composition, including the instruments and were played back in realtime by the computers back in the day...those computers back then didn't even have the capability/power to even decode an MP3 in realtime,not to mention doing anything additional at the same time...good old days of pioneering 😋 - just my 2 cents HAVE A HEALTHY 2024 y'all from back then ;-)

@@b.e.e.k.e.r9812 hence how they fit in a smaller amount of space, of course. instead of all-digital audio, they contained notes, samples and other metadata. the players would vary pitch and other characteristics, overlay the different tracks, and play the final product. to oversimplify, mods were MIDI files with sample data.

Yeah provided you had all the sample disks.....

​@@SnarkyComments - well the mods included the samples needed 😇

not really. S3Ms were MIDIs but actually good.

sadly, there can only be so many "best of the best" pieces. The rest of them . . . may be "somewhat OK"

You speaking in black magic..

That's utter madness. I wonder if someone ever managed to bridge a Commodore PAULA to the ISA bus, and save having to do all that kerfuffle.

It has you, too. Don't forget that...

I just imagine some of these tracks to be the ost to another Unreal adventure. Would be awesome

Oh my god I'm hearing it for the first time right now and it's SO GOOD

Wow. Yeah there’s something special about that one.

Sounds like something that would have fit quite nicely in Unreal Tournament 99 if the lead instrument quality were a little better... it sounds like it was inspired by Michiel van den Bos or Alex Brandon's work.

@@AshleyKampta2 Couldn't agree more.

This part makes the song come together so well, I love it!

Prodigy song.

Reminds me of the old Sega game, Road Rash. Just keep officer Omalley out of my way or I'll take that stick and beat him again.

@@captainottoI think a relaistic vr road rash remaster would be cool man

to bury the bodies

a high, faraway place, certainly.

@@BrentlyTV separations of ID and ego can get you like that, just bury the correct one.

It's so Amiga music would fit in to video games perfectly.

i had the same thought and thought damn this sounds like an unreal soundtrack.

@@unfunf22 i know right? it slaps. wanted to see if i could find more. :(

I thought Jellyfish sounded like something of Skaven's. Either way it's fun.

@@user-ue1ji4du2q Yo google search "textfiles narfy" takes you straight to a page that lets you download songs (seemed safe to me) there's some really cool stuff from other artists here as well hope this finds you well brother EDIT: fear is such a tune

He has another great song Lascivious Latency, can be found here among others: artscene.textfiles.com/music/mods/IT/MODLAND/Narfy/

Where could I find your music?

you are from Scorpik's hometown? thats awesome!

@@MickGardner-vc4us Not really but i live close to Wrocław

@@djr3verse That's awesome! Wish you good health and success in your endeavours!

Good idea, I'll get that posted in the description ASAP. Thanks

@@beej_tunes I completely missed out on this scene from my youth in the 90's. I can't wait to catch up now! I'm researching how I might be able to emulate some of these trackers on my modern system.

Unironically, the only difference between this music and the music you may hear today is the style! Trackers work adding sound samples fragments to synthesize a wave that is fed to the sound card which plays it, that hasn't changed, the difference is the source of the samples be it prerrecorded sounds, or perhaps function waves, being these what normally produce chip tune sounds. Waves occupy less space than samples, thus this style is also caused by those limitations.

@@santitabnavascues8673 So not that different from how the VSTs in Logic work!

Thank you for explaining

I highly recommend Ahoy’s short documentary on the subject: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-roBkg-iPrbw.html

The word "Demoscene" is the single cipher needed to unlock a thorough Google search that would help you discover who used them and how they were used :) Though yes SantiTab Navascues' explanation is pretty solid. A song was made with anywhere from 1 to dozens of sampled sounds, arranged via the module tracker to dictate the pitch, speed, and other effects for each note of the song.

I agree, I would like to show the sample/instrument text, but then I would have to navigate away from the visuals. Maybe I'll make individual videos for them

There really is! Glad you enjoyed it!

I have not really explored RU-vid Demoscene playlists but yeah I imagine there are 100 great tracks for every 1 properly represented here

Oh hai!!! Thanks for checking it out!

do you remember holy ghost?

Yes, I'm open to suggestions! Post 'em here if you like, or, I created a Discord server with a suggestions channel discord.gg/dhc3xApywF

Glad you like it!

Let's remember, and by remembering maybe bring back at least a tiny bit of that which was lost.

I do not think I cleaned my basement to anything else between the mid-1990s and mid-2000s. And even today I literally think "I wish I could just open up my Mod4Win playlist" when I need to spend time cleaning something.