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Here are some recommendations for those on HN new to the tracker scene: Jester - Elysium Jester - Stardust Memories Tip and Firefox - Enigma Greg - Odyssey

Here are some recommendations for those on HN new to the tracker scene: Jester - Elysium Jester - Stardust Memories Tip and Firefox - Enigma Greg - Odyssey Pt. 2 Firefox - Galaxy 2 Mantronix - Act Of Impulse Dr. Awesome - 12th Warrior NHP + BKH - Enigma Year Captain - Space Debris Captain - Beyond Music Uncle Tom - Occ-San-Geen Romeo Knight - Beat To The Pulp What a crazy and beautiful era for creativity! A German, Swedes, a Swiss, a Norwegian, two Frenchmen, two Finns..all with four channels and about 200k of space. Not to mention they were probably all teenagers at the time too! The demoscene is such a great deep dive -- I'm only referencing about three years of productions here, there's so much more that came after on the PC side and even lots before too if you dig into the C64 and Atari scenes. So much goodness! Wrong continent and era for me unfortunately. :)

gregsadetsky 5y ago
Here's a playlist with all of these songs! Thanks for the great recommendations https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnRRE4-idfADx_BgudiHYizK7KC5axQH_ https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnRRE4-idfADx_BgudiHYizK7...
- exogeny 5y ago
  My pleasure! Let me know which one is your favorite :)
  - Underphil 5y ago
    Enigma has been my ringtone for the best part of 15 years now so I already know :)
- the-golden-one 5y ago
  .. also Deadlock by Elwood. Or in fact, anything by Elwood…
  - danwills 5y ago
    I would have to agree and I love Elwood too (so much!). I think we should note though, that Elwood's main contributions were during the PC-tracker-scene 'era' (FastTracker2) and not so much an Amiga thing.
    - exogeny 5y ago
      Yes, this -- I didn't want to be too pedantic :) If we were getting into the PC scene, Elwood would have made an appearance with Purple Motion and loads of others.
- de6u99er 5y ago
  Thank you. If you like tracker music you might like this one too Binaerpilot: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mPZ2AmFjEVSeZjnW7OsxdjquOEAy0jOMI https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mPZ2AmFjEVSeZjnW7O...
EarlKing 5y ago
LizardKing - Desert Dawn Moby - Elekfunk Also shouts to Sklathill, whose stuff I can't find in Mod Archive otherwise I'd recommend him too.
Nr7 5y ago
There's a modern remix of Space Debris on the soundtrack of the 2011 game Rochard by Recoil Games. It was made by the original artist Markus "Captain" Kaarlonen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsapsOqc7UI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsapsOqc7UI
kristiandupont 5y ago
>Wrong continent and era for me unfortunately. :) As someone who was in the midst of it here in Denmark, I can tell you that, as a teenager who was used to anything cool always coming from the US, I assumed that there were much cooler demos being made in the states that we simply didn't have access to.
- exogeny 5y ago
  That's so wild. I was lucky to grow up in a relatively large city in the era of BBSes and then IRC, so I was able to find a decent community of fellow nerds. If there was one thing that consistently blew us away, it was the demoscene -- everything about it seemed so amazing and creative and we were all just so bummed that we were on the wrong continent to ever attend Assembly or TheParty. Apart from maaaaybe Renaissance on the PC I'm hard-pressed to really name a significant American demogroup whereas I get a huge smile thinking about a party where you had Silents sitting next to Phenomena sitting next to Sanity sitting next to Scoopex. In a way I give a lot of credit to the scene for my eventual career as a tech entrepreneur. What I loved so much to do with my computer was create: draw ANSI, make music, build websites from scratch. Eventually that became starting companies, but so much of that spirit was generated from my marvel at what some European teenagers were able to do with computer 1% as powerful as mine.

gregsadetsky 5y ago

Here's a playlist with all of these songs! Thanks for the great recommendations https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnRRE4-idfADx_BgudiHYizK7KC5axQH_ https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnRRE4-idfADx_BgudiHYizK7...

exogeny 5y ago
My pleasure! Let me know which one is your favorite :)
- Underphil 5y ago
  Enigma has been my ringtone for the best part of 15 years now so I already know :)
the-golden-one 5y ago
.. also Deadlock by Elwood. Or in fact, anything by Elwood…
- danwills 5y ago
  I would have to agree and I love Elwood too (so much!). I think we should note though, that Elwood's main contributions were during the PC-tracker-scene 'era' (FastTracker2) and not so much an Amiga thing.
  - exogeny 5y ago
    Yes, this -- I didn't want to be too pedantic :) If we were getting into the PC scene, Elwood would have made an appearance with Purple Motion and loads of others.
de6u99er 5y ago
Thank you. If you like tracker music you might like this one too Binaerpilot: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mPZ2AmFjEVSeZjnW7OsxdjquOEAy0jOMI https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mPZ2AmFjEVSeZjnW7O...

EarlKing 5y ago

LizardKing - Desert Dawn Moby - Elekfunk Also shouts to Sklathill, whose stuff I can't find in Mod Archive otherwise I'd recommend him too.

Nr7 5y ago

There's a modern remix of Space Debris on the soundtrack of the 2011 game Rochard by Recoil Games. It was made by the original artist Markus "Captain" Kaarlonen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsapsOqc7UI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsapsOqc7UI

kristiandupont 5y ago

>Wrong continent and era for me unfortunately. :) As someone who was in the midst of it here in Denmark, I can tell you that, as a teenager who was used to anything cool always coming from the US, I assumed that there were much cooler demos being made in the states that we simply didn't have access to.

exogeny 5y ago
That's so wild. I was lucky to grow up in a relatively large city in the era of BBSes and then IRC, so I was able to find a decent community of fellow nerds. If there was one thing that consistently blew us away, it was the demoscene -- everything about it seemed so amazing and creative and we were all just so bummed that we were on the wrong continent to ever attend Assembly or TheParty. Apart from maaaaybe Renaissance on the PC I'm hard-pressed to really name a significant American demogroup whereas I get a huge smile thinking about a party where you had Silents sitting next to Phenomena sitting next to Sanity sitting next to Scoopex. In a way I give a lot of credit to the scene for my eventual career as a tech entrepreneur. What I loved so much to do with my computer was create: draw ANSI, make music, build websites from scratch. Eventually that became starting companies, but so much of that spirit was generated from my marvel at what some European teenagers were able to do with computer 1% as powerful as mine.