Amiga Music: Random / Mixed Compilation #3

[@jorgepinogarciadelasbayonas]

Remember: The Amiga 1000 came in 1984 to the market with this sound capabilites. No other computer was capable to do this. The Amiga 500 in 1987 brought it to the masses. Sad that the Commodore marketing department was so underperforming and not able to understand what a great machine they had from the beginning. Even the multitasking was more advanced on the Amiga at that time than MacOS 9 from Apple.

[@IssanCaliRefugee]

In '87 I was still booping and beeping on my Apple //e and had no idea what else was out there. Man.

[@Corsa15DT]

what? amiga sales were overwhelming and everybody knew that amiga was the best home computer of the 80s.

[@jorgepinogarciadelasbayonas]

@@Corsa15DT Amiga was more successful in Europa than USA. Don't know why but propably wrong marketing of Commodore.

[@Blackadder75]

In 1984 or even 1987 nobody KNEW THE AMIGA COULD DO THIS. There was no software. It had to be developed first by amateur coders, often young teens or 20 year olds. On;y from 1989 this tracker scene snowballed to what we hear here and most is from the early 90s

[@Corsa15DT]

@@Blackadder75 1989 was the year Shadow of the Beast appeared, on of the finest arts…

[@robwebnoid5763]

Here in mid 2023. What is surreal is it is now 2023, which is 10 years later after the video above came out, yet I was listening to the first track "Beyond Music" by Captain, back in 1993. That's now 30 years ago. Time flies. Back then in the early 1990's, I was using an 80286-AT computer to play Mods, but I had no soundcard yet because they were still pretty much non-existent for the most part & any of the first soundcards were quite new & expensive. So I had constructed an electronic circuit that would output the sound through the computer's parallel printer port, then through twin audio amplifier chips for stereo & then to stereo speakers. I actually still have most of that circuit, still stuck on a breadboard, but some of the wires & parts had since come off, so I may one day just restore it & construct it all permanently, soldered onto a PCB. The other song by Captain that was huge for me was "Space Debris". I still remember a lot of those other songs & the composers themselves, such as LizardKing & Purple Motion, etc.

[@Blackadder75]

covox dac or clone? I also made that from a schematic in a magazine

[@SpayzerOne]

I’m 15 years old, and I LOVE THIS !

[@solophentii3468]

Now you're 16 years old!

[@SpayzerOne]

@@solophentii3468 Exactly and I still listen to that!

[@solophentii3468]

@@SpayzerOne That's awesome, brother.

[@ihaveagoddamnplanarthur]

im 14 and i love tracker music too!

[@Domarius64]

It's so cool you can enjoy what's good about this, and I'm glad you made this comment, it confirms my belief that there is some really cool stuff we can take from this time period and build on it, for more than just nostalgia, there's some really cool vibes and atmospheres. A key part of this is in the 80's and 90's, most people's perception of the future of civilisation was extremely positive and exciting (watch Back To The Future, they believed in 2015 we would have hoverboards and giant holograms for advertisements, and automation everywhere), these songs like what you're hearing here were written with that energy in mind :)

[@ImreVeres0]

Good memories for the first song. I remember how 'huge' these music files looked like in 1993. "Oh man, 324kbytes... must be superior quality". And it was. :-) I'm a fan of Beyond Music since I've heard it first.

[@Poodleinacan]

It's a shame it doesn't mean much nowadays.

[@anonanon5208]

I've never used an Amiga, but I just like the sound of this retro machine!

[@MrLaurizio]

And those days people focus on music with only 4 tracks with ST-00-100 sound banks converted from different synths, made to Amiga, take up little space but good sounding samples. Nowadays many focus on getting better and better sounds and drowns to ambience and forgot the importance of composing.

[@andrewbriggs6083]

For you young ones this was the future back in 1982, nevertheless i am glad you appreciate it.

[@BirdTho]

I listened to this one when I was a kid. Yeah, I remember "Beyond Music"

[@Domarius64]

Man these songs are just the penultimate Amiga MOD tracker vibe! Everything awesome about them is right here in this video - synth strings, digital piano, whooshing build up sounds, and 90's EDM style beats :)

[@XaneMyers]

0:02 Oh, whoa, it's a module I know! I didn't look at the title in the video, but I already know this one's "Beyond Music"! It played in a MegaZeux game that someone badly modified to form "Delphi X2". Other songs that I remember from that game are "Raket-arne!", "low-altitude", and "EPSonic". Back when I heard it years ago, I thought its title was an internal name, like it meant this was the music for "beyond", so I liked to call it "Beyond this Planet". Now I've come to realize that "Beyond Music" actually _was_ its name... 2:40 When I made an iffy MegaZeux game myself, I "made" a song for its ending, which was basically just this pattern on a loop, with my own notes that didn't mesh with the nice chords well, then the song's drum loops played over it all.

[@premkumarmurugan6665]

Thanks to the tube, we are finally able to relive those nostalgic days like champions. Great great memories brother. Thank you for this.

[@pressure-spirals]

Alf - No Mercy is so 90s rave, AWESOME WORK!!! I love it!

[@GregDaniel78]

Heabeat - Sainahi Circles Used to drive my parents nuts with that one. Featured in the Fairlight demo Full Moon, if I'm not mistaken!

[@DeterminedHaphazard]

Ah, yes. Frequency harvesters. I am so glad that, despite being a kid born in 2000s, I prefer this over current music for masses.

[@eisesmit]

Loving these mixes dude, keep up the good work!

[@digitalbeat666]

thumbs up from a song of a finnish composer as first one and recorded screen

[@hacktrixapii]

Paula's like a souped up SNES sound chip - if souped up meant rocket science ahead.

[@jmp01a24]

Reverie of truth... Fond memories from my old .mod folder. Good times and the gravis ultrasound 2mb blasted the sound directly into the amplifier before they hit my Dantax 80s speakers.

[@jmac79ers]

No Mercy started up and my first thought was ... "MORTAL KOMBAT!" Great tune

[@NoiseCommander3DS]

I love this mix. 4 channels!

[@SpayzerOne]

The first is a fucking masterclass.

[@GuillermoNicolasPetcho]

05 - [16:10] Cash - Fucking TV Network

[@Thegamingground]

You upload awesome mixtapes like always =) Keep em coming!

[@homernewman8478]

Very Talented!

[@21dazzer]

All that using just four channels is remarkable.

[@Suzukisenpai]

What a groove! WHAT A GROOVE, MAN!! Especially that lo-fi sound.... S U P E R !!

[@Drsuds]

No Mercy, I think heard before. It's pretty good. Very 2 Unlimited style

[@kristoffere9996]

Captain did so many great songs. I love his instruments.

[@Poodleinacan]

19:32 Ok, that not-sampling of Thriller is pretty good. .... as are the following samplings. Though I wonder. Are they actual samples or are they recreations?

[@ZoCks]

great compilation

[@LacklusterOfficial]

please correct the "07.HeaBeat - Sainahi Circles" to be "07. Heatbeat - Sainahi Circles". thanks. (this is in the tracklisting / chapter splits)

[@off1k]

Thanks for that, can't believe I missed that :D

[@danielepreda3838]

Great Sound! Amiga lives forever! :-) :-)

[@RoninCatholic]

The Amiga had strangely powerful sound hardware compared to its contemporaries.

[@metalstrider2221]

OOohhh again.... Misty & Daeron - Reverie of Truth... OMG my best since 30 years... with jimpower, turrican soundtrack and wing with death !!!! FOREVER

[@Sam-oq7rb]

I've uploaded the full demo-version of Reverie of Truth, do check it in my channel if you like that track :)

[@wardrich]

4:30 this song sounds super familiar, but I'm not sure I've ever actually heard it before... Anybody know if it was used in a demo?

[@mothcompute]

if you havent found it yet, legend by impact studios might be the one you want

[@ChristofferLilja]

Most are said already, so I just want to say: Thank you! :-)

[@udomatthiasdrums5322]

still love it!

[@sonikku1011]

Sounds like Cash is a Metallica fan. :D So far it's my favorite song in this mix.

[@pralkatv3485]

Hope that one day someone will find in internet my Amiga mods and they will be worth to realize compilation too........

[@georgegrieve7355]

Upload em send me a link! :)

[@ДимасКурточкин]

лайк однозначно

[@TatharNuar]

@22:39 Sans Undertale on lyrics?

[@katakana1]

The fact that this was posted 5 days ago

[@psympson]

^.^ EPIC TUNES! =D

[@Thefreakyfreek]

I used to play around whit hammerhead but this is on a difrent level all togeter

[@Yeowtch]

👍

[@lwnf360]

10 - [40:04] Melomaniac - Resolution I've definitely heard this somewhere else before. An Alizee pop song I think. Another Amiga ripoff!

[@Mik-hm9tb]

Nowadays there would be retrowave 0_-

[@wexenhex]

that Cash song made me laugh, with cheesy Metallica samples

[@galihcd]

What are all those number?

[@georgegrieve7355]

Code

[@yorgle]

Interesting... I know "Wild King Arthur" which is VERY similar to Wild Mcarthur modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=62944 But it sounds like a slightly different mix... (I prefer WKA over WM, personally)

[@off1k]

Yeah, that's Lizardkings own remix, it should sound a little better as it's a 16 channel fasttracker 2 .xm :) I think this version holds up really well considering 12 less channels.

[@yorgle]

off1k Well. damn.... It didn't click that WKA is an XM and that this was only 4 channels. I still prefer WKA for listening, but this one impresses the heck out of me now. ;) It's really amazing what you can cram into four voices...

[@yorgle]

Scott Lawrence Oh, and BTW, thanks for these compilation videos/mixes... they're a lot of fun and have introduced me to some tracks i'd not heard before! :D

[@gir489returns2]

Beyond Music sounds like Space Debris way too much.

[@vresi]

I clicked; Amiga music - I got teenage disco-techno-untz-untz. Thumbs down!

[@MrBoriskr]

And what did you expect?

[@MrBoriskr]

This is the best untz-untz in the world, btw.

[@Sam-oq7rb]

@Vresiberba Lol WHAT..? This is Amiga module music at it's finest, there's no one genre BTW in module music so your untz untz argument is odd.

[@FoxMulder78]

Looks like you misunderstood the 90s demoscene altogether.

[@KajuTheRudeMonke]

Well, you had expectations out of your ass, so...