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Oh, very cool! If you're into this stuff I recommend the artist "Master Boot Record". In particular, they have "Keygen Church" side-project thats epically awes

Oh, very cool! If you're into this stuff I recommend the artist "Master Boot Record". In particular, they have "Keygen Church" side-project thats epically awesome. Go open your text editor (vim, right?) to do some coding/etc and listen to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJtVDEx2HSk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJtVDEx2HSk. No matter what you do, ~20 minutes later it'll have been epic.

croon 6y ago
I'm not particularly fond of Swedish House Mafia, but given their popularity another fun fact is that Axwell (one third of it) used to go under the name Quazar / Sanxion, and I think most people in the very thin slice of people who have listened to chiptune music have probably heard this gem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LiTxEUxSHU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LiTxEUxSHU On recommendations I like Dubmood.
- breakfastduck 6y ago
  What a great little fact. I have definitely heard that tune somewhere before. Likely a keygen of some sort!
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- dleslie 6y ago
  This is probably the album most people would recognize tracks from: https://dubmood.bandcamp.com/album/crackscene-music-best-of-2004-2007-data002 https://dubmood.bandcamp.com/album/crackscene-music-best-of-... IE, how many keygens had this track? https://dubmood.bandcamp.com/track/keygen-13-razor-1911-version https://dubmood.bandcamp.com/track/keygen-13-razor-1911-vers... I particularly enjoy this cover: https://dubmood.bandcamp.com/track/command-conqueror-3-keygen-a-message-to-you-mowgli https://dubmood.bandcamp.com/track/command-conqueror-3-keyge... This is epically danceable, and simultaneously feels like a Mega Man or Sh'Mup track: https://dubmood.bandcamp.com/track/supersquatting https://dubmood.bandcamp.com/track/supersquatting
- DiabloD3 6y ago
  An absolute classic. Other songs that should be familiar to those either into mod music, or into the 90s warez/keygen scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hkw7l8IgM4g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hkw7l8IgM4g Captain / Image - Space debris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJXtR0SwZ54 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJXtR0SwZ54 Skaven / Future Crew - Razorback https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCl9xYSOVtM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCl9xYSOVtM Purple Motion / Future Crew - Satellite One
  - dleslie 6y ago
    UT99's remix of Razorback is probably more recognizable to most folks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3POeTKHA7w4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3POeTKHA7w4
  - themodelplumber 6y ago
    Space Debris absolutely blew me away when I first heard it on my brand new Mediavision Pro Audio Spectrum 16. :-) Did you ever hear the updated version by the original artist, Markus Kaarlonen? It's on the Rochard OST and is awesome too. https://youtu.be/bsapsOqc7UI https://youtu.be/bsapsOqc7UI
- thereddaikon 6y ago
  I consider the demoscene style, tracker produced music a distinct genre from "chiptune". To me chiptune is mostly about recreating the sound and feel of vintage console games from the 80's and early 90's. Producers put a lot of work into either emulating the sound chips of those systems or outright using them through various hardware mods. There also seems to be an emphasis on the style of music found in Japanese games of the era. The keygen/demoscene style songs are produced using MIDI tracker software and leverage the sound capabilities of PC sound cards of the era which have a distinct sound to consoles like the NES. They are tend to have a very different structure, often closer to whatever particular sub genre of electronic dance music happened to be popular that year. Ersatz final fantasy themes played with an emulated SNES sound different than a House track powered by Soundblaster.
  - ranma42 6y ago
    SNES is actually interesting in this context: The limited sample ram gives it some closeness to chiptunes, but otherwise the Sony chip can actually be considered closer to wavetable synthesizer cards. This is very different to NES/Gameboy chiptunes that are more synths with maybe one sampled channel.
  - alisonatwork 6y ago
    I don't think this is true at all. Tracker software in the 90s largely did not have MIDI support, it was an entirely different category of software. Although it is true that trackers in the PC era grew out of the Amiga (MOD) scene where sample playback was standard, there were also trackers for the 8-bit home computers which were used to create actual chiptunes on SID or the AY-3-8910 and its derivatives. In the context of demoscene, chiptune-influenced compositions were still extremely popular, because including full-length instrument samples cost far too much space to distribute inside an intro or cracktro. Songs were made up of tiny bursts of white noise and tightly looped single-cycle waveforms, and the bulk of tracker "effects" (pitch bends, arpeggios etc) came directly from the techniques used to coax more tonal variety from sound chips of the 8-bit era. Tracker music used for intros might not literally be "chiptunes", but they definitely took a lot more influence from chip music than from popular music. For example, this is the track that was bundled with Scream Tracker 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3hpnmANSMw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3hpnmANSMw (64-Mania by Edge)
gnagatomo 6y ago
MBR's website[0], album covers[1] and whole branding are such a throwback and amazing works of art. I personally recommend his retro music covers[2], genially bundled under the name WAREZ. [0]: http://mbrserver.com http://mbrserver.com [1]: https://masterbootrecord.bandcamp.com/ https://masterbootrecord.bandcamp.com/ [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HSpWQH4iRs&list=PL7doxo2n1VJ_m2r-2TtEFjPGJ9ZiXip-U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HSpWQH4iRs&list=PL7doxo2n1V...
egypturnash 6y ago
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J5892 6y ago
You're right. I was working on an oAuth flow, and now my customers are connecting directly to the Machine God.

croon 6y ago

I'm not particularly fond of Swedish House Mafia, but given their popularity another fun fact is that Axwell (one third of it) used to go under the name Quazar / Sanxion, and I think most people in the very thin slice of people who have listened to chiptune music have probably heard this gem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LiTxEUxSHU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LiTxEUxSHU On recommendations I like Dubmood.

breakfastduck 6y ago
What a great little fact. I have definitely heard that tune somewhere before. Likely a keygen of some sort!
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dleslie 6y ago
This is probably the album most people would recognize tracks from: https://dubmood.bandcamp.com/album/crackscene-music-best-of-2004-2007-data002 https://dubmood.bandcamp.com/album/crackscene-music-best-of-... IE, how many keygens had this track? https://dubmood.bandcamp.com/track/keygen-13-razor-1911-version https://dubmood.bandcamp.com/track/keygen-13-razor-1911-vers... I particularly enjoy this cover: https://dubmood.bandcamp.com/track/command-conqueror-3-keygen-a-message-to-you-mowgli https://dubmood.bandcamp.com/track/command-conqueror-3-keyge... This is epically danceable, and simultaneously feels like a Mega Man or Sh'Mup track: https://dubmood.bandcamp.com/track/supersquatting https://dubmood.bandcamp.com/track/supersquatting
DiabloD3 6y ago
An absolute classic. Other songs that should be familiar to those either into mod music, or into the 90s warez/keygen scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hkw7l8IgM4g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hkw7l8IgM4g Captain / Image - Space debris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJXtR0SwZ54 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJXtR0SwZ54 Skaven / Future Crew - Razorback https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCl9xYSOVtM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCl9xYSOVtM Purple Motion / Future Crew - Satellite One
- dleslie 6y ago
  UT99's remix of Razorback is probably more recognizable to most folks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3POeTKHA7w4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3POeTKHA7w4
- themodelplumber 6y ago
  Space Debris absolutely blew me away when I first heard it on my brand new Mediavision Pro Audio Spectrum 16. :-) Did you ever hear the updated version by the original artist, Markus Kaarlonen? It's on the Rochard OST and is awesome too. https://youtu.be/bsapsOqc7UI https://youtu.be/bsapsOqc7UI
thereddaikon 6y ago
I consider the demoscene style, tracker produced music a distinct genre from "chiptune". To me chiptune is mostly about recreating the sound and feel of vintage console games from the 80's and early 90's. Producers put a lot of work into either emulating the sound chips of those systems or outright using them through various hardware mods. There also seems to be an emphasis on the style of music found in Japanese games of the era. The keygen/demoscene style songs are produced using MIDI tracker software and leverage the sound capabilities of PC sound cards of the era which have a distinct sound to consoles like the NES. They are tend to have a very different structure, often closer to whatever particular sub genre of electronic dance music happened to be popular that year. Ersatz final fantasy themes played with an emulated SNES sound different than a House track powered by Soundblaster.
- ranma42 6y ago
  SNES is actually interesting in this context: The limited sample ram gives it some closeness to chiptunes, but otherwise the Sony chip can actually be considered closer to wavetable synthesizer cards. This is very different to NES/Gameboy chiptunes that are more synths with maybe one sampled channel.
- alisonatwork 6y ago
  I don't think this is true at all. Tracker software in the 90s largely did not have MIDI support, it was an entirely different category of software. Although it is true that trackers in the PC era grew out of the Amiga (MOD) scene where sample playback was standard, there were also trackers for the 8-bit home computers which were used to create actual chiptunes on SID or the AY-3-8910 and its derivatives. In the context of demoscene, chiptune-influenced compositions were still extremely popular, because including full-length instrument samples cost far too much space to distribute inside an intro or cracktro. Songs were made up of tiny bursts of white noise and tightly looped single-cycle waveforms, and the bulk of tracker "effects" (pitch bends, arpeggios etc) came directly from the techniques used to coax more tonal variety from sound chips of the 8-bit era. Tracker music used for intros might not literally be "chiptunes", but they definitely took a lot more influence from chip music than from popular music. For example, this is the track that was bundled with Scream Tracker 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3hpnmANSMw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3hpnmANSMw (64-Mania by Edge)

gnagatomo 6y ago

MBR's website[0], album covers[1] and whole branding are such a throwback and amazing works of art. I personally recommend his retro music covers[2], genially bundled under the name WAREZ. [0]: http://mbrserver.com http://mbrserver.com [1]: https://masterbootrecord.bandcamp.com/ https://masterbootrecord.bandcamp.com/ [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HSpWQH4iRs&list=PL7doxo2n1VJ_m2r-2TtEFjPGJ9ZiXip-U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HSpWQH4iRs&list=PL7doxo2n1V...

egypturnash 6y ago

holy shit that is an Invocation right there IA! IA! BULLUG GEGBUG IBGABIUG GIXCURE DAGABCIEA FUIC!

J5892 6y ago

You're right. I was working on an oAuth flow, and now my customers are connecting directly to the Machine God.