Captain - Space Debris [Amiga MOD - Remaster]
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- This is a remaster of my 1991 Amiga mod Space Debris. All sounds come directly from the original, but I used some light processing to open the mix a bit. Others have also made amazing and more "remastered" remasters of Space Debris, but I wanted to keep this one fairly close to the original, at least in spirit. Enjoy!
Read the story of Space Debris & download the original mod: markuskaarlone...
Also check out the Spacesynth Remix: • Captain - Space Debris...
Hey guys, thanks for your amazing comments! To answer a few questions that I saw here and elsewhere, off the top of my head:
- You can download the original mod file here: markuskaarlonen.com/space-debris
- Space Debris is a strictly four channel mod. This remaster probably makes it sound slightly bigger due to some subtle reverb and other processing I added, but it's still the original four channels playing, nothing more.
- For the remaster, I rendered the original channels using OpenMPT with sinc interpolation. This is technically "better" than what the Amiga did, but of course a bit of the original charm might be lost, due to Amiga's resampling and D/A converters etc. adding their own flavour to the sound. It would be super interesting to actually record the mod directly from Amiga's audio outputs... I even have my old Amiga 500 in the closet, just no idea if it still works. :D
I have a question, do I have permission to remix your song? Not only that, may I take the photo of your face and put in my video to show the original artist?
@@TheMuzykant Sure, go ahead! :)
@@MarkusKaarlonenMusic Ah, I actually decided against putting your face cuz i didnt know when you'd reply :/ but anyway, my remix is up on my channel! I want you to see it :D
Good luck remixing it. I've tried a few times. Captain's work was really hard to top. The mod scene was open to continual improvement. If you were going to remix something you had better do a good job. Most of us were amateurs playing with our computer keyboards at the time, and Markus was a real musician and it showed.
Thank you so much! (..please remaster "Beyond Music"..)
Eternal masterpiece. One of those few tunes I always choose first when collecting party playlists. Hats off.
2024 .... There hasn’t been a new comment here for a long time. There are things that are eternal. And this gem undoubtedly belongs to them.
30 years later this track still hits hard.
I've always remembered this MOD and recently I played this for my two boys. It's my all-time favorite MOD! EPIC! Still get chills every time I hear it!
Imagine browsing the _old_ internet to BANGER mod tracks like this in the 1990s...
No need to imagine that. That was youth for many of us. HippoPlayer playing Captain, Jester, Groo, Heatbeat and other guys’ mods on shuffle and browsing & chatting away endless nights on BBS boards. Good times in the 1990’s.
@@ToniKoobsolutely agree. Me and a friend of mine used to scour the CU Amiga magazine cover disks for tracks similar to this. Yes you'd go a couple of months with nothing, then all of a sudden you'd find a banger. That's how I found the original of this.
@tonikoo absolutely agree luckily I had a friend who introduced me to this wonderful universe of songs and this song was my favourite, and still is among the mods. I played it over and over and over again. Still, I happen to play it. I believe it was back in 1995 when I first was introduced to this song. The original mod file also had the channels divided in such a way that part of the song was in the left loudspeaker and the rest was in the right speaker - that was really cool. Somewhat like they produced songs back in the 50s.
Still a masterpiece after 30 years! ❤
One of the best music modules ever made! 30 years and still amazing!
A-M-A-Z-I-N-G !
Fantabulous. The 300+ KB mod size was also fairly impressive at the time.
Thanks. Best music mod.
Hey Captain ! Thank you for giving us so much energy :)
NO WAY, YOU WERE THE GUY WHO MADE THIS!? This is one of the best songs ever made, and perfectly encapsulates this era of music/MPT music in a nutshell!
I used to listen to this and others (crystal rain, klisje paa kllisje...) sooo much in the early 90s while up late studying in university (or getting up to no good on the computer). Thanks for the remaster and the nostalgia fix! Loved this piece so much - masterful example of what was possible with the medium.
This song is in my top 10 of module music! It influenced me so much during the 90s. ♥
The lyrics at 1:10 onwards: "pippeli, mul' on pippeli"
This made my day 😄
This and Beyond Music. Forever. Holy mother of God this hits hard. Do you even know how much you mean to people of this generation? So many kids that grew up with your music? I hope you understand how much you mean
This track is awesome! :D
Best version so far. The other remixes have been good but somehow not in the spirit of the original. This brings back all the memories.
I discovered this song back in 1994 or something like that, on some random FTP archive. I may have listened to it a 1000 times probably and I always wondered were it came from. While doing some cleanup on my PC recently, I ran into it... Well, nothing more to add. I googled it and... I still love it. MODs... ❤ Like some SID treasures out of an old C64, I believe it will still be in my head in decades
Thanks you Captain for this, brings back memories from 90's when I listened this by PC. I had this fabulous tune as ring stone few years ago, created mp3 from mod file(dont remember where I downloaded it). Still when I play this tune, time to time I check my phone, if it is ringing.
Living in Seattle in 1994, all my college friends were listening to grunge. I was listening to this. It's just as awesome today as it was then!
This remains the absolute best 4-channel mod I've ever heard. An all time classic. Every time I hear your keyboards in a Poets of the Fall song, I remember that this was the first product of your talent I ever heard. Superb.
best amiga mod ever
This was the song that inspired me to start making my own MOD music back in the mid 1990s. Such a powerful sound - yet so detailed and carefully arranged. Definitely a MOD I just kept coming back to over and over again back in the day. It was really moving to hear this again.
Markus, great thanks for this wonderful, perfect mod, best of the best. More than 30 years of enjoying it on A500, PCs, home HiFi and car audio. My two young daughters also like it very much, both "classic" and spacesynth version. You gave extraordinary gift to the world!
Been listening to this masterpiece since the 90s.
Onhan tää tosi Rock. Iätön piisi. Itsekin MOD-hemmona ollut kasari-aikoina. Amazing masterpiece Mr. Captain! ;)
Hi Markus, if you happen to read this it's just to say I think Space Debris is the ultimate spacesynth track of all time!!!!!!!🎹🎹🎹🎵🎶🎚🎚😊👍👍👍
Mark in uk
Bobby Prince could never. Lee Jackson wouldn't dare.
Mitsuda Sama comes close, let's be honest.
God Damn that's a good track. Also, I know it's not a competition between all these fine folks. This is the music of the art I grew up with, and it continues to fill me with so much joy. I wish you all healthy, peaceful lives filled with the time to keep doing the work that made us all feel so many things. Much love.
3:28 Love this part so much !
Thank you for this unforgettable music Markus Captain! I'm not sure if you know, but your song is pretty popular in Brazil, because it was used in a Mega Drive emulator for PlaysStation2 that a lot of people have played in their childhood or adolescence.
Wow, I didn't know that! Thanks for letting me know, and you are welcome 😊
good old PGEN
@@MarkusKaarlonenMusicMega drive means Sega Genesis
The one with the Sonic background, damn good times. I’m from Argentina and I even know it from there 😂
@@henriquejunior2879 markus grew up in a mega drive territory, just like us brazilians
One of my favorite tracks from 1991. Played on my AT-80286 PC back then using a digital-to-analog circuit (built on a breadboard) that output through the centronics parallel printer port & then through the D/A which then went through 2 stereo audio amp I.C.'s out to 2 speakers laid on top of 2 empty Quaker Oats cylindrical containers as the speaker cabinets. This was obviously because addon sound cards were still in their infancy, somewhat new & expensive back then. I think I still have that breadboard still populated, more or less, with the same circuit, after all these 3 decades. I even made a copy of Space Debris but with a couple of sample changes with the lead synths, but that was about it. Anyway, I also still have my Commodore 64 systems, but they are in storage at the moment. Thank you Captain for your music. :)
this is my first and forever favourite electronic tune since a kid. i still remember the impact it made at the time and still today. its EPIC thanks bro for bringuing it out. TOP 1
Awesome ! still a masterpiece
This track is my all time favorite (followed by Second Reality by Purple Motion) and a huge inspiration for me to start making music in the 90s. Just want to say thanks for making it, sharing the remastered version, and for the wonderful high quality spacesynth remix. Wishing you all the best!
i discovered this song on a genesis emulator for ps2 when i was a kid ! this song is simply amazing !
2025 - this still rules!
The original is one of my absolute favourite mods! Thanks for your creation!
Dark Helmet / Spaceballs
Beautiful
Yeah, my fave Amiga Sound Module. Oh man how i adore it. It is so full of energy and a thing that i call Space Synth, the true Space Synth for me.
There is nothing more magical than the pure beats of a .mod.
i love to listen to more music from you if possible. many thanks
Still love this song; always have, always will. First heard this song in custom _Unreal Tournament '99_ maps.
Tää on niin täydellistä
What a masterpiece , i still remember until now listening to this mod for the first time , what a great promotion for the AMIGA . For me one of the best mod with Jogeir Liljedahl's Nearly there
Hey Markus! Apparently you and I had the same idea only a few weeks apart. I also did a redo/reengineer/remaster of Space Debris. My redo is possibly a little more involved, but still uses all the original sounds from the original ProTracker(?) 4-channel SPACE.MOD file. I used OpenMPT to export separate tracks 'per instrument' at 48KHz 32bit FP and then laid all the tracks into REAPER and remixed it with a light dusting of reverb and/or delay on instruments that I felt would benefit from it. The 48KHz 32bit FP WAV file was then mastered in iZotope Ozone and dithered to 48KHz 16bit. I originally remixed this track back in March of 2016 and sent that to you. Not sure if you remember (and you'd be forgiven if you didn't). I'll shoot you a message on your website to see about getting this more recent remix update to you. Next up - Beyond Music (BEYOND.MOD)! Holiday Blessings to you, your family and the whole POTF gang!
Was so weird finding out you played for Poets years ago and heading to a gig a bit after :D Been a fan ever since I heard this one back when it was released.
This and Echoing are probably the two most famous Amiga MOD's ever.
Guitar Slinger as well.
Stardust Memories is awesome@@adamantiteB
I don't know the track but still get nostalgia vibes. Came here from Ahoy's video and I'm glad I did because this so cool to hear now that I know how much work went in to it. Thanks for the upload
I just wanted to say, thank you for inspiring me to make music of my own. I listened to this and Beyond Music, and a handful of other MODs when I was a kid back in the early 1990s. Your music sounds just as amazing today as it did 30 years ago! Again, thanks so much!
This is awesome! I also used to track mods, though I didn't start until the late 90's, using FastTracker 2 on PC (running under DOS at the time). There were still limitations even then, but nothing compared to the limitations you had to work with on the Amiga, and Space Debris blows all the mods I ever did out of the water, even though I had a lot more channels to work with, longer samples, and better bitrates. 😂😅 I didn't recognize this song from my mod days (I also went back in my old mod collection to see if I had downloaded it at some point, but it doesn't look like I ever came across it), but I'd love to hear the other mods you released from back then, and maybe even discover that I have one of them tucked away on an old floppy somewhere. 💜
If your tracks were ever distributed, or if you hung out in the IRC tracker channels back in the days, there is a good chance I have copies. I have a pretty large archive that spans 30+ years. As for Captain's other amazing tracks, one sticks in my mind - Mickus.s3m.
Oh man, haven't heard this in like 25 years. Still know every note. Wow, hit hard right in the gut
one of my favorite mods ever
YT just recommended this video for me. Still love to listen to those old school MODs; they just don't get old. Some commenters mentioned Beyond Music which is another memorable classic which along with Space Debris made it into the Best Of The Amiga Scene CD. I also like Broken Dreams.
Most epic track of all times! Truly masterpiece! 😍
Yeah! Finally!!! Amiga Times ruled... And i liked the MODs and their ispiration for other People. Nice That you came in with a refreshed version of your own title "Space Debris". One of my Faves....
I was 6 years old when this was first released, boy am I glad I ended up finding it eventually.
Best Amiga tune hands down.
More than 30 years old, this song is still a banger.
I'm amazed. I've heard this before but I have absolutely no idea where, specially considering I wasn't in the mod scene back then.
This and Beyond Music are two of the greatest Amiga mods of all time. Bravo!
Masterpiece
After all of the years and different tunes - this is the one I come back for. Perfection.
Now this is the best Remaster! I was hoping that eventually someone would do a remaster and keep it relatively close to the original, but just make it sound cleaner and more wide. I just didn't expect that Captain himself would actually do it. 😀
First heard this on the demo disk that came with the Gravis Ultrasound sound card..... before the internet!
One of the nicest mod pieces out there. In top-20 for me to be sure, although obviously there are so many.
If only I could find my detached harddrive somewhere. It'd contain pretty much the top-100.
My own work never rose to such a level; the classical mod format is *extremely* hard to work with. I only did anything interesting with FT2 and Buzz, and even those certainly don't rise to this level in melodic and harmonical control.
Thank you! This was a great part of my childhood. Would love to see the same treatment to Beyond Music as well!
Truly amazing track..Makes me wish I was back with the Amiga group's..Great times, great music demo's.
MODS revolutionized computer music of the time, and allowed the creativity of folks like Markus to explore their creativity. I went down the MIDI path myself with computerized music, but had collected hundreds of MOD files in the late 80s- early 90s. Space Debris was one of my favorites (along with Phantasmagoria), and I'm so happy to see that not only has it been remastered, but Markus is getting the praise he deserves for his work. Congrats, and I certainly hope you're still composing!
And Phenomena Enigma and Space Maiden.
Please, please, PLEASE do this with more Amiga mods. Some Fleshbrain, specifically Neodrink would be amazing. Either way this seems like the definitive way to experience this tune. Amazing! Thank you!
The Amiga was such an amazing system, I still own a few of them, technology has moved on but for what they could do at the time they were years ahead of the competition and I truely believe without the Amiga other platforms would not have made the efforts they did to match and ultimately surpass it.
You made my childhood. I love you.
Still a masterpiece after all that time!
Man this brings memories. ....
I've never owned an Amiga, the names don't ring a bell, but i've heard this track before!
It's an awesome tune and it's fascinating to read the (short) story behind it.
Such a classic.
what a fucking masterpiece
This sounds fantastic!
I hope for nothing more, that life gave you the success you deserved. MODs were the soundtrack of my childhood. The Demoscene provided the entertainment. While my peers scrambled to gather huge collections of CDs, I enjoyed the amazing talent on display, produced from the limited resources you had. Better yet, most MODs did not include words. The tunes alone were breathtaking. Thank you.
This is such a marvellous tune! I first heard _Space Debris_ in an Amstrad CPC demo called _Digital Orgasm_ and I was mesmerised by it - and the demo itself was beautiful as well! It was only about 25 years later that I discovered that it was in fact an Amiga tune and I learnt its name.
Thank you for your breathtaking original !
Legend! And thanks for the interesting write-up!
Thank you for this! I can only echo what others have said: this is a masterpiece and it's just as good as it was in 1991. Absolutely brilliant.
Great track and really nice visualization.
Nice remaster, this sounds much better!
this is the tune that made me believe.. (amiga) :)
Super mod Markus, kind regards Shorty / Network
Good job, Markus excellent masterpiece...and the anime video highway to stars...awesome!!!
Still amazing! :D
Hi Markus - this track opened a new world to me -- I played this tune hundreds of times, and picked your module apart and learned from how you used your samples -- every single time I use wavetable synths to this day I think of your module. I owe you a lot man. Much love.
The G.O.A.T 💾💎
This song is so epic, that it still rocks after all these years, awesome job. I read the story about the song on your homepage, thanks for all the memories.
This music makes me imagine a space cowboy with a rocket horse and laser beam revolver
PS2 REINAAAAA
Você parece ser o único que lembra do ps2 nesses comentários
@@pessoaanonima6345 É simplismente Lendário
OMG I've found it back finally 😭
Just found this…sounds really cool, the story behind it(although made little sense to me) truly appreciate!!
I have so many memories of this song. Is the first song reproduced on the PGEN (Mega Drive/Genesis emulator for Playstation 2).
One of my favourite mods - very well done Markus!
Did you create this spectrogram animation yourself? I really like it.
Also, were you aware of the Mac shareware game, also called Space Debris, that used this as its title theme?
So awesome to hear this, remastered from you! Beyond Music was the one I heard first and that got me into modding, I could listen to that just over and over and wanted to be able to make something similar. Never got anywhere close ofcourse, but listening to it kept me motivated to keep on trying. Still having fun making synth music now, partly thanks to you :-) Would be awesome to have a remaster of Beyond Music as well :-)
This is the one we needed bro, thanks for this!