Fun fact: Captain(Markus Kaarlonen) is the keyboardist for the band Poets of the Fall, who also are the band "Old guards of Asgard", starred in the Alan Wake/Control games.
As soon as Radix started using Fasttracker II, his music just soared right through the stratosphere. imho he also released the best and most original music after his "scene" years.
Do you like Phil Collins? I've been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. Before that, I really didn't understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual. It was on Duke where, uh, Phil Collins' presence became more apparent. I think Invisible Touch was the group's undisputed masterpiece. It's an epic meditation on intangibility. At the same time, it deepens and enriches the meaning of the preceding three albums.
Holy shit, there's a throwback... I remember Point of Departure being my introduction to tracker music from an early Zdoom deathmatch map- it was so complex and layered, I was instantly hooked on this stuff. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. :)
Oh man it is just impossible to tell how much I love Yuki Satellites. Yeah I'm a fan of Necros (I'd easily put like 10 of his tracks to the top of any list) and PM, but this is something else.
Wow, DejaVu, circa 2001-2002 I believe? I loved comparison between Intel and AMD. Intel - just throttling down, AMD - going into flamey torch in split second ^_^/ (Testing my Duron 700MHz upgrade looked similar, after buying from auction and powering up without heatsink, just to see if it's even working. It wasn't me, but friend testing it, but I learned the lesson :( LOL)
Damn! That puts a loooooot of memories back into my mind. Around 90% of the chosen tracks are my favs as well! Earlier this year I also started to put my own classic tracker songs here on UA-cam, played back in the FT2 clone which is free and works with Win, Linux, Mac.
Damn you seem to just be growing daily, keep up the uploads! I loved your analyses of demoscene music and I hope you keep making them. The playlists are just a nice added bonus to that :)
Takes me to a warm sunny day in the late 90s, going out with family for ice cream and returning home to play some Dreamcast or hop on the PC and draw in MS Paint.. xD
Hybrid song? That's FUNKY STARS! Funny how some of these must have alternate names. This is one of my favorite tracks of all time. I'm sure the rest of this is going to be great to listen to as well.
Holy crap! Hybrid made it onto a top 10?? There was this stupid little PSP homebrew game back in the day that had this as its background music! Never could get enough of it. EDIT: Laserix, I think.
this is called Schism Tracker, it is a music tracker! there are other easier to use trackers too like OpenMPT, but I like the way Schism Tracker looks for my videos. you can find tutorials for trackers online, but I have been thinking about making a basic tutorial at some point....
@@trackermusicforever i think, the original one is called Scream Tracker, made by Psi/FutureCrew. The theme in the video looks familiar to me even in the last track, which is the original colour scheme of ST3 (ScreamTracker3). These trackers made S3M files, which we like to listen. There are also XM files, but they are coming from another tracker.
real computer music, no launchpads, no layering kickdrum bullshit, no justin bieber autotune vocals, no cheesy anti climax drops, just as it should be today.....rip good music.
I don't know what this is or why it showed up in my recommendations, but I'm really enjoying it! Since everyone in the comments seems to know exactly what's going on here, what is "tracker music?"
It was originally 4-channel music invented on the Amiga in the late 80s. It was a way to make this kind of music on a computer long before anything like mp3 was possible. Even long songs could be under a megabyte or two, so they could be downloaded over phone modems from BBSes. They were extremely popular, especially in the early 90s when they made their way to PCs.
The format is similar to MIDI except that the songs are packaged with their own instrument samples. So instead of a streamed recording like mp3, wav, etc, and instead of a MIDI which is basically sheet music for computers, tracker songs are a package of instrument samples and sheet music, which tracker software plays as a song.
I have long known I loved chiptune music, but I mostly listened to the ones made on modern software. I finally found a playlist where (so far) I didn't have to skip any songs.
Hymn to Aurora, aryx... no rullstol? Those three were the BIG ones I kept bumping into online in the late 90s and early 2000s. (Anyone else first encounter Hymn to Aurora in VERGE?)
whoa THANK YOU! i remembered i heard Aurora in some RPG maker software but i couldn't remember what it was called! it was definitely this demo game "the sully chronicles" for Verge!!
@@trackermusicforever And thank *you* for reminding me what the demo game was called. I'd have had to root through my DVD+Rs full of backups of old CD-Rs full of backups of old floppies and then run it in DOSBox to check otherwise.
Tracker music was made in tracker programs, starting in the late 1980s on computers like the Amiga and then spreading to PC in the 90s. It's like MIDI except the files contain samples so they sound the same on every computer. It was a popular way to make music in the early days of the internet, and a lot of tracker songs became really famous and widespread. This playlist was created from the highest rated tracker songs and it contains a lot of classics that people remember.
Fun fact: Captain(Markus Kaarlonen) is the keyboardist for the band Poets of the Fall, who also are the band "Old guards of Asgard", starred in the Alan Wake/Control games.
This just blew my mind. Thank you for sharing this fact!
Wow wow... I had heard this song many times, and now I find similarities between this and some bits of Old Gods of Asgard and Poets of the Fall 😄
26:19 WE'RE TAKING THIS PENTIUM 4 TO 5GHZ
Yass another one who thinks this too hahah!
p4 was overkill for these trackers, but trakers was most "soulfull" daws in p4 era. so yeah i was overklocking it for use of modern Skale Traker
Probably P4 has not been constructed in 29.03.1995 (top right line)
its a reference to a popular youtube video overclocking a pentium 4 cpu@@Eimrine
@@danieldevine yes tomshardware. ♥
As soon as Radix started using Fasttracker II, his music just soared right through the stratosphere. imho he also released the best and most original music after his "scene" years.
"Awesome" is another underated composer with some excellent samples quality and a quite original tunes.
@@KarLKoX if you're talking about Dr. Awesome (Bjorn Lynne) he went on to work with Team17 on the entire Worms series of games many many years ago
@@alystair great work there too
Do you like Phil Collins? I've been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. Before that, I really didn't understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual. It was on Duke where, uh, Phil Collins' presence became more apparent. I think Invisible Touch was the group's undisputed masterpiece. It's an epic meditation on intangibility. At the same time, it deepens and enriches the meaning of the preceding three albums.
++++ love radix tracks ........
space debris still amazes.
Imagine, the Captain was only 13 years old when he made it. Blows my mind...
Man i love deadlock by Elwood. My dad showed it to me when i was little. I still listen to it to this day.
Ironic that one of the most iconic intros of all time is what closes the playlist
Not an intro, an amazing (for its time) PC demo. Second Reality. Watch the amazing version with real instruments of this tune made by SIDRip Alliance.
Ahhhh. Nostalgia. Even had one track that has been imprinted onto my brain for my entire life which I thought I'd never hear again!
How can you say that and not let us know what song it is!! :P
@@nixnexus It has to be Hybrid, we all got burnt 'cos we were all downloading those warez!
@@nixnexus Sorry, I had accidently missed replying to this.
It was Horace Wimp - Hymn to Aurora :P
42:54 OMG Purple Motion!! This dude ROCKED.
Reeeeeeeee miiiiiiiiiiiiiiix
ua-cam.com/video/NWa24Kpjx4o/v-deo.html
Holy shit, there's a throwback... I remember Point of Departure being my introduction to tracker music from an early Zdoom deathmatch map- it was so complex and layered, I was instantly hooked on this stuff.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. :)
retro never dies it seems, people still play online Doom through Doomseeker!
Was a DOS game called In Pursuit of Greed that used Point of Departure for the shareware demo. Man, I was addicted to that song for two years!!
Brilliant.
Oh man it is just impossible to tell how much I love Yuki Satellites. Yeah I'm a fan of Necros (I'd easily put like 10 of his tracks to the top of any list) and PM, but this is something else.
You should watch the demo that it accompanies :)
me too. It's just amazing!
That was the song that made me look up from my work to check the name!
outstandingly catches my attention right away
Простите,а можно название этой демо-сцены?до этого я не знаком был с трекерной музыкой,,сегодня 24 год но мне сильно понравилось@@eigentensor
Radix’s music is great. Also love his sorting algorithm
Deadlock is so well written, it's crazy.
I will forever remember Aryx as the Pentium 4 overclocking song
Wow, DejaVu, circa 2001-2002 I believe? I loved comparison between Intel and AMD. Intel - just throttling down, AMD - going into flamey torch in split second ^_^/ (Testing my Duron 700MHz upgrade looked similar, after buying from auction and powering up without heatsink, just to see if it's even working. It wasn't me, but friend testing it, but I learned the lesson :( LOL)
Love that so many people relate to that video too hahahha
Elwood is a name I have not seen in a very, very long time. Thanks for fixing that!
omg celestial fantasia master piece!
many great composers together.
45:00 is where my old computer would lag on whatever Future Crew Demo this was back in the day :)
Second Reality
Those demos were outrageous. Loved them.
I love Yuki Satellite so much. Definitely my favorite so far
This mix freaking slaps!
This is exactly the content I want to see. Best Tracks from the good days of DOS PC and Amiga. Very good selection 🤩
Amazing compilation, now I can refer to this when people ask what kind music I am into :D thank you!
Damn! That puts a loooooot of memories back into my mind. Around 90% of the chosen tracks are my favs as well!
Earlier this year I also started to put my own classic tracker songs here on UA-cam, played back in the FT2 clone which is free and works with Win, Linux, Mac.
Damn you seem to just be growing daily, keep up the uploads! I loved your analyses of demoscene music and I hope you keep making them. The playlists are just a nice added bonus to that :)
Point of Departure 👾
My all time favorite
I remember Guitar Slinger doing the rounds - I've still got that and many other tracker files around somewhere!
Oh yeah, that's a great one!
Instant nostalgia for me and it has this incredible “not a problem in the world” vibe for me. Definitely feel-good music for me.
The moment "Guitar Slinger" started, my brain went "you still have this, recorded to a cassette tape" :)
Takes me to a warm sunny day in the late 90s, going out with family for ice cream and returning home to play some Dreamcast or hop on the PC and draw in MS Paint.. xD
Instantly brings me back to those times.
Just found out about this and it's absolute glory. Thx to the uploader for having this video up.
Quite the shame that it took me a while to discover the existence of trackers.
@@vinava9145 It's allright, you've found it after all :)
Unreal is still unreal nowadays 💙
Elysium and Space Debris the best amiga modules ever !!!
En el minuto 24:29 suena muy estilo "DEEP FOREST" , es genial esa parte.
perfect compilation!
Hymn to Aurora is just so good : )
I remember that one from the Verge C RPG maker game back in the 90’s!
I thought i had "Hybrid Song" in my own collection since it feels like i have heard it before. but this collection is pretty good.
One of the only times where it's fun to see how the sausage is made.
GENIAL este recopilatorio de sonidos de los antiguos WINDOWS !!!!
the days when good music would fit onto a floppy disk - man, do I miss them.
Classic! I love tracker music :)))
We should have an IRC channel and chat while listening to this
Man, is everything Andrew Sega makes, purified gold?
26:20 Pentium 4 liquid nitrogen 5 GHz overclock music
i was just going to comment that
Tom's Hardware had some good taste in music back in 2003
Its cool seeing Purple Motion on lists. That dude made my favorite GBC OST (Project S-11)
project s-11 gang fr
@@incognitiosaystransrightsTrans Rights + Project S-11 gangg fr fr
@@anixhoffman9631 never knew someone could be so based
@@anixhoffman9631 trans wrongs
Hybrid song? That's FUNKY STARS! Funny how some of these must have alternate names. This is one of my favorite tracks of all time. I'm sure the rest of this is going to be great to listen to as well.
I can listen to this for literally hours
Holy crap! Hybrid made it onto a top 10?? There was this stupid little PSP homebrew game back in the day that had this as its background music! Never could get enough of it. EDIT: Laserix, I think.
Jesus, didn't know guitar could sound that good in this kind of music
Just as good as the samples they used!
Ah yes, the timeless Space Debris and Second Reality at the top of the list, as it should be. Ever since I was a teen. I'm now in my mid 40s.
Loving that!
Unts! Tiss! Unts! Tiss! Boots and Cats and Boots and Pants! Boots and Pants and Boots and Cats!
subbed. nice uploads
I grew up with that stuff. Nice to remember.
Celestial Fantasia has to be my favorite chiptune of all time. The others in this list are absolutely amazing as well.
Space_debris absolute banger
Gooood music, especially arych and Guitar Slinger!
Brlliant set.
K. Koch - aryx is a masterpiece.
Open up video. Immediately greeted by Elysium, Know it's gonna be a banger.
keygens playlist, my goat
All well deserved
Thanks mate.
All these are so good.
I've seen videos of this software before. What is it? How do you use it?
this is called Schism Tracker, it is a music tracker! there are other easier to use trackers too like OpenMPT, but I like the way Schism Tracker looks for my videos. you can find tutorials for trackers online, but I have been thinking about making a basic tutorial at some point....
@@trackermusicforever i think, the original one is called Scream Tracker, made by Psi/FutureCrew. The theme in the video looks familiar to me even in the last track, which is the original colour scheme of ST3 (ScreamTracker3). These trackers made S3M files, which we like to listen. There are also XM files, but they are coming from another tracker.
"Guitar Slinger" sounds uncannily like a precursor to Boards of Canada's Campfire Headphase.
point of departure is so great
awesome!
3:51 - I can feel the slams, I can feel the jams. All the b-ballers out there know what I mean.
my left ear appreciated this
Fix your headphones, then
I remember listening to some of this stuff using an MS-DOS tracker music player and SoundBlaster card. I'm so old. :`(
Old memories. ♥
❤
real computer music, no launchpads, no layering kickdrum bullshit, no justin bieber autotune vocals, no cheesy anti climax drops, just as it should be today.....rip good music.
you misspelled your nickname, should be brainded tmuf
Good music isn't dead, but it will seem dead if all you do is look at what is currently mainstream.
Jogeir
celestia fantasia! what a fkin tune
I don't know what this is or why it showed up in my recommendations, but I'm really enjoying it! Since everyone in the comments seems to know exactly what's going on here, what is "tracker music?"
It was originally 4-channel music invented on the Amiga in the late 80s. It was a way to make this kind of music on a computer long before anything like mp3 was possible. Even long songs could be under a megabyte or two, so they could be downloaded over phone modems from BBSes. They were extremely popular, especially in the early 90s when they made their way to PCs.
@@gregmark1688 thank you, that's an awesom explanation!
This is a great documentary on trackers by Ahoy ua-cam.com/video/roBkg-iPrbw/v-deo.html
The format is similar to MIDI except that the songs are packaged with their own instrument samples. So instead of a streamed recording like mp3, wav, etc, and instead of a MIDI which is basically sheet music for computers, tracker songs are a package of instrument samples and sheet music, which tracker software plays as a song.
@@KingPBJames I love this explanation. Thanks for taking the time. Cheers
nice
when we had full quality music that could fit on a floppy disk. Thems was the days
So good
the last one gives me KMFDM vibes
some of the melody of Celestial Fantasia sounds like Purple Motion's Starshine. I wonder which came first
*26:46** When you're overclocking Pentium 4 to 5GHz*
Oh him i remember
Ah, this takes me back. Many years ago, I tried to compose some music with ModPlug. The results were ... not as good as the music here.
damn its so good
lond live amiga!!
Wow I now remember how much better xms were compared to mods. Still props to Elysium sounding that good with only 4 channels and binary separation.
I have long known I loved chiptune music, but I mostly listened to the ones made on modern software. I finally found a playlist where (so far) I didn't have to skip any songs.
Hymn to Aurora, aryx... no rullstol? Those three were the BIG ones I kept bumping into online in the late 90s and early 2000s. (Anyone else first encounter Hymn to Aurora in VERGE?)
whoa THANK YOU! i remembered i heard Aurora in some RPG maker software but i couldn't remember what it was called! it was definitely this demo game "the sully chronicles" for Verge!!
@@trackermusicforever And thank *you* for reminding me what the demo game was called. I'd have had to root through my DVD+Rs full of backups of old CD-Rs full of backups of old floppies and then run it in DOSBox to check otherwise.
Quazar Hybrid and elysium are 11/10 👌
гениально
4:10 the only famous song i know. Rest, never heard
cool
That’s first song is a classic.
Oh, i remember a Gameboy game made for a coding competition that used the second song.
Now to remember it´s name...
DX BALL FOREVER!!! (hybrid song)
Just stumbled across you, is that screamtracker? I used it back in 96 along with Cubic
It's Schism Tracker, which is a modern tracker based on Impulse Tracker (which itself was based on Scream Tracker).
@@trackermusicforever The speed of your reply ,,,, wow! Thanks for the answer
UnReal is the classic.
Dunes of Orange (aka Brothomstates) please
Wow
i stumbled upon these videos a few days ago and keep seeing people mention nostalgia, can someone tell me the lore? when did this music get made?
Tracker music was made in tracker programs, starting in the late 1980s on computers like the Amiga and then spreading to PC in the 90s. It's like MIDI except the files contain samples so they sound the same on every computer. It was a popular way to make music in the early days of the internet, and a lot of tracker songs became really famous and widespread. This playlist was created from the highest rated tracker songs and it contains a lot of classics that people remember.
some tracks remind me of those old small games you got from real arcade or bigfish. (like hamsterball)
i grew up on this track ;) (elysium)