Can I find THIS lost Amiga music sample? - Exploring the retro demo scene

[@megan_alnico]

WOW @8:07 That silhouette is Bloodshot from the Valiant comic book RAI #0 published in November 1992. Bloodshot had `nanites` in his blood and could control machines.

[@KurtWoloch]

Actually, this sample was instantly familiar to me. "Help the man" charted here in Austria in early 1986, peaking at #16, and was also played a lot on Ö3, back then Austria's only radio station playing modern pop music. Dum Dum Records was a small record company located here in Vienna specializing in dance music (I actually gave them a demo of one of my songs myself, but it wasn't produced). Sadly, the song didn't chart very highly and was soon dropped from radio playlists again, but I still can remember it and actually know the melody by heart (but not all of the lyrics). He had another minor hit with "If I say stop then stop". Phil Edwards went on to produce "Don't look any further" in 1989 which is still being played on Austrian radio stations today although it didn't chart anywhere. Another similar song (to my ears) would be Do My Ditty by Patrick Gammon which seems to have been produced by Robert Ponger who also produced Falco's first hits.

[@matthewjlock]

Yes! Here’s a link kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWWWimaNa75kmrc

[@thomasliebreich3510]

Yes. „Help the man“ by Georgie Red. I have the CD in front of me, it‘s called Georgie Red in the land of thousend mixes. There is a second well known track on the CD which is called „If I say stop then stop“…

[@byterot]

Ah, the black lotus demo. I was there when it showed at Revision 2019. Everyone lost it when the demo suddenly went 3D and the camera started turning around. Showing an Amiga 500 was doing full screen polygonal 3D. Good times.

[@electronash]

I was watching the live stream, and the chat also went bonkers at that point. lol

[@fonesrphunny7242]

I totally forgot about Revision '19 and just looked it up now. Some of my favorite demos are from TBL on the Falcon, but EON takes it to a whole new level.

[@RobertHalvarsson]

I really appreciate this short documentary style. Also nice to see newer demos such as Eon being recognized for the technological marvel that it is.

[@saganandroid4175]

Eon? What is?

[@stefansender2634]

@@saganandroid4175 the demo you can see around 14:50

[@noor-rx1ij]

By TBL, or The Black Lotus.

[@mayor_dj]

Eon is 2019. Won the revision 2019 amiga demo competition against for example AGA machines. And the demo runs on a quite stock A500 with 512k extra mem from a floppy.

[@trydowave]

As a massive fan of the Amiga, the demo scene, synth, chip tunes and mods i really enjoyed this video. I go on these hunts myself from time to time, trying to find where old tunes and FX originate.

[@MrRaivokasMagma]

My eyes are wet 😢 Finding something you heard years ago can be powerful experience.

[@ianwalkley6085]

Love this! I too loved the Amiga demo scene, it was truly special and it was something that got me into programming in my teens. Love the fact that it took you 30 years hunt that tune, but you hung onto that dream all this time - kudos 👍

[@andyoakley6861]

I went on a similar journey to find where The Zowee Demo sample came from and eventually gave up. Then Erasure's Stop single came on the radio and there it was! The Zowee demo is a bit more grungy but it is definitely the sample with the familiar clicking sound in the background.

[@josko50]

YES! I love this. If you're up for it, I would absolutely love to see more demoscene content from you.

[@noor-rx1ij]

Same here!

[@Reed-Publications]

I had a similar experience with a Keyboard that I owned when I was 5-6 years old. It had a sample song that I would listen to over and over and over, but my parents eventually threw out the keyboard and I lost all contact with that song. All I could do was continue humming that sample as the years went by. Throughout the next several decades I would listen to various musical genres before eventually settling on Classical and Jazz. It wasn't long before I discovered that the music sample that I heard as a child was actually Mozart's 40th Symphony. When I look back on that experience, I realize that it was probably that very music sample that brought me to my love for classical music. To this day I still consider it to be one of my favourite songs. =)

[@ncl47]

That phenomena enigma demo blew my mind and the music is so good that I still listen to it regularly even now! Excellent video.

[@another3997]

Seeing Perifractic bopping away in the corner, reminded me of Max Headroom. You're now officially Maxfractic! That clip Phenomena Enigma brings back memories. It has always been the most memorable Amiga demo for me, the music and amazing graphics blew me away. It was one of the first Amiga demos I saw. On my brother's A500, 7mhz 68000 with, iirc, just 512K ram. I saved up for an A1200 not long after that... to replace it's spiritual grandad, an old Atari 800XL. Thanks to Jay Miner up there in Silicon Heaven. 😁

[@SoulPoetryandOtherWorks]

Silicon Heaven? He’s gone where all the calculators go? Does that mean he will spend eternity writing 5318008 on all of their displays?

[@saganandroid4175]

Time for you to upgrade to an Amiga Vampire. Board or standalone, your choice.

[@skilgannon1971]

Really good Chris. Loved you bopping in the corner with your pixel shades on lol! The Black Lotus demos are amazing - really pushing the machine. Amazing what they recently got out of a stock A500. The stuff they have done for accelerated A1200's is even more special (but a lot need at least a 50Mhz 030 and a fair amount of RAM).

[@RetroRecipes]

I'm glad you liked the video and the "dancing" 😅 Cheers for your contribution mate and for tinkling those ivories! 🎹

[@heathwellsNZ]

Very Max Headroom like!

[@Al-ui7ci]

Very good indeed! For some reason this really reminded me of part of the Red Sector demo - kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYXQoaR4o5mXnKM if else remembers it? :D

[@roumiaou]

@@Al-ui7ci Funny. Those metaballs persuaded my dad to buy me the A500 over the ST :-)

[@TheTimLara]

Only an Atari ST owner would thumbs-down this video.

[@scottbreon9448]

or a DOS owner who still had a beeper speaker. LMAO

[@GuybrushThriftweed]

@@scottbreon9448 I had a SB 2.0 :p

[@benh.635]

@@scottbreon9448 Or a sound card that doesn't support digital sample playback :P

[@RediscoveringRetro]

Ouch 😂 We're all friends here 😉

[@benh.635]

Rediscovering Retro it’s all in good fun 😋

[@Queeg9000]

Was an Atari St owner myself but really enjoyed the story. Bit emotional towards the end there. Thanks for sharing mate.

[@emilygrae]

This video is so fantastic! There are SO many times that I've suddenly realized that I've got some little riff in my head and days and weeks later I'm going crazy and trying to find it on the internet or scouring through my albums. Sometimes I realize it's from a video game or something on my Amiga that I haven't heard in yeah about 30 years! So this video hits so close to home for me! Thank you for sharing this with us, it's wonderful to see that sometimes some people get some closure! Beautiful!

[@juzujuzu4555]

I think there are many people who suggested demoscene videos, but I'm going to believe it's my comments that have made this awesome channel dig deep into the demoscene =) While I agree that TikTok's etc. are in a sense connected with demos, you show your talent to the world, but I think there is still quite a big difference. When you are making demos, you are making really complex art, music, graphics and amazing effects with code. In a sense you become a creator, "god like", and what ever you make, you know that lasts forever. And one of the most important thing with demoscene, at least in the high end, was the fact that demoscene had the most talented programmers that created things with their computers that none in the corporate world could replicate as good. All the people knew that computers, 3D graphics and computer connectivity/networks, are going to explode and change the future. And that part of the history, demoscene ruled and had the most advanced things possible. On the other hand huge amount of groups showed their talent and just wanted to great something that spread all over the world. That wasn't about being the best or creating the most advanced things, it was about subculture that appreciated demos, creativity and everything around it. It was about humor, self expression, feeling of unity. Something that we in a sense have lost since continuously connected Internet came to every household through ADSL etc. between about 2000 to 2005. I'm really thankful for growing up in that period. And demopartys were something I think everybody who participated will remember forever. Those were the "woodstocks" of the "nerd culture", though we really didn't like the word "nerd" at the time and were much cooler than nerds, or at least the coolest nerds that existed =) One thing I especially remember, using Linux 1.0 in Assembly 94. Just couple months after it was released in Helsinki Finland, where Assemblys were organized. Because it was full OS started by Finnish dude, Linus Torvalds, and full graphical OS, before even Windows 95, we tested it from the computers that Linux people had on their stand as they promoted the system. Though at the time we were Amiga fans and were in "war against PCs" so we didn't appreciate it. Now I have been using only Linux for years and it has allowed me to tinker in the same way that we used to tinker with Amiga in the demoscene era. Having every single bit on your hard drive compiled from sources by yourself, by installing and using Gentoo Linux, has brought back the same excitement that I felt during early 90s. And now you can play most Windows games and use most Windows software on Linux, so lets hope it gets much more users, as it's amazing.

[@sbanner428]

As someone who sample hunts all the time for old demoscene modules, that intonation in your "wait a minute!" brought me pure joy :)

[@StariusPrime]

As someone who still listens to old amiga music mods, I can't like this video enough!

[@tzuyd]

I Liked it 40 times, but the number didn't go up at all!

[@Music-tg5is]

Everyone, including myself, remembers at least one tracker module from a cracktro game or demo, that (ironically) they can't 'track' down. This inspired me. One day, I'll find that mod. I wish I knew someone who was basically like an encyclopedia of Amiga music, that I could play a few bars to (with my limited keyboard skills) and find its name.

[@Retro_Royal]

I can feel you! I once saw in a Computer Store a Demo, running on OCS Amiga Hardware, probably playing from a HDD. Paul Abdul´s "Straight Up" was playing in a loop and a Sci-Fi Space Demo was running. Was amazed but I never found it again.

[@McTroyd]

We generally didn't listen to contemporary music in our house while I was growing up. There wasn't really any particular reason, we just didn't. So every so often, being out and about, I'd hear something cool, then not hear it again for a while. For me it worked out well, because later on I'd hear that song again and have the moment of recognition. It took years before I started to know one artist for another. Even lately I'm still finding out names of artists for songs I used to listen to. Good stuff!

[@oceanwerk]

most amazing, awesomeness. You got me unpacking my 31 years old amiga and switching it on in the middle of the night

[@mrt7152]

I remember it like yesterday, on the school yard with some friends who all owned Amiga’s. We all lend disc to each other so we could copy it at home. And those crack intro’s where amazing. They just took a few seconds to load and bam some awesome graphics with an awesome stereo tune. I never could understand how quick those cracks could load. And one disc could only hold 1 mb but the amount you could do with that 1 mb baffles me still this day.

[@olireg5696]

Well a friend of mine told me to watch your video because something I've done is in. In fact I was the demo programmer of the NEF demo with this tune. About the sound, I had the disc bought in a music shop and found it really good even repeated 100 times. I forgot this demo, it was just to test a few lines of code, a long time ago. Later, I founded the much well known Alcatraz group in Switzerland. My nickname : Metalwar or Olivier :)

[@RetroRecipes]

That is INCREDIBLE! Thank you for reaching out, and for your contribution to the community. 🙏

[@deathventure]

Amazing throwback. It oozes that 80's feel. I am glad I am not the only one who goes to such lengths to find things like this from their past. The journey to find the object of memory is so frustrating some times, and sometimes you think it only exists in your mind, unless you have something tangible to prove it.

[@gllphoto8399]

This is gold. I was in love with that tune and many others from Amiga games.

[@lanfear63]

Back in the eighties I used to work in an independent computer store (Ma & Pop shop) in St Austell, Cornwall. We loved the Amiga and my boss, retired RAF flight simulator developer, wrote a software and hardware (custom tracker ball) program so a paraplegic woman could write letters and print them out, she only had use of her thumb and forefinger. He did it though and was in Amiga Basic. He also did a program to display a random 3 digit number on a video wall to be used in nightclubs which would be generated from the Amiga. It also had to have a beer logo above the number, we used a hand scanner to capture it. I know all those demo's you displayed as we had them running on the machine to show it off. I eventually got one myself and using a midi interface and a Yamaha PSR keyboard for the sounds and a Music tracker program called Octamed (Now called Med Soundstudio) I created an hours worth of music (dreamy New Age Stuff) and recorded it off onto cassettes, sold about 100. I did the cassette insert on the Amiga too. Those were the days.

[@hblomqvist]

Fun fact: Mårten Björkman (Celebrandil/Phenomena, Sweden et al) is a professor in computer science, focused on computer vision and robotics.

[@sethrd999]

And you still have Celebrandil's 'my room' with cool music / effects ;)

[@tubeMonger]

Quite many demo/crackscene coders have PhD.

[@nematolvajkergetok5104]

Yup, he is. I interviewed him a few years ago for my book. Still a cool dude. Did you know he developed his famous translucent "glenz vector" effect (also known as "Celebrandil vectors") during his service in the Swedish navy, on board of the destroyer Kaparen?

[@timvangenechten5258]

I used to spend hours infront of my Amiga monitor. Watching demo after demo as if it was MTV. I was so proud of my Amiga. Such great times and now great memories.

[@roygalaasen]

I had this place I used to go to, a local computer shop where people came to watch and share these demos. I used to go there hoping they would be kind enough to bother to copy a few to our floppies, which was not guaranteed as I was a mere teenager and adults were not always kind, but I did get some nice demos on occasion. Internet? That was just something I heard about but didn’t understand the purpose of, other than for businesses, despite having a guy in my class starting a isp business while attending school.

[@EtienneSnyman]

The look on ladyfractic's face during the scarecrow joke is just years and years of patience and longsuffering...

[@MoosesValley]

Yep, it was truly hilarious ! 🤣🤣

[@nematolvajkergetok5104]

Have you noticed how we never see Ladyfractic outside of the house? And he never walks around? I bet her ankles are shackled.

[@hajosalz1621]

I bet she is only virtual. Can't leave the holo deck, I mean holo house...

[@michaelcherry8952]

A man after my own heart! I'm always trying to track down a fragment of song to the original source. Loved this video!

[@therealbrushguy]

Wow, the moment the vocals started I recognised the song! I had forgotten about it for 30 years! Awesome! And it is still a great song! Thank you so much!

[@MichaelEhling]

Wow. Hearing the vocals, I think I recall hearing this played on my local college station. Thank you!

[@sniperviperman6400]

man, this really brings back alot of memories from that time: amiga vector demo, cronologia by cascade and that demo / game at 16:36 what was that again? something alone. scientist transfers in an experiment to another planet where a new advanture starts.got it. another world

[@MrKersey]

Thanks for this video, Christian, this was a real journey into the past. And it feels incredible when you find a song or a mysic piece that you searched for a very long time. Stay safe and enjoy "Help the man" on vinyl.

[@drumme19r84]

4:25 Those disks brings back a lot of old childhood memories! This was also the first machine I was allowed to play on when I got 5 years old on my dad's Amiga 500. I now own 5 Amigas, so it clearly had a big impact on me😅

[@paulg16]

Wow that shareware floppy disk came from a company just down the road from me. Sometimes the world is so much smaller than we realise and its nice to be reminded. Grear job PF and of course all the RR team.

[@defekt-amiga]

Amiga demo scene is still going and still my favourite demo scene, although have a soft spot for any retro computer demo scene and 4kb PC demo scene is also impressive.

[@jamespilcher5287]

Ha! I have one of those discs at 4:25! The address on the back was for Chips - a computer game shop local to me that is still around, although the original owner retired last year.

[@fireb0y0]

Nice CSI workout of the sample. As a scene musician(as you can see on my channel), it's really awesome to find out where those samples come. I had something similar on a track, i don't remembered where i got some samples about 20 years ago, but i was able to find out from where they were sampled. Thank you for the video! Love Puppyfractic and respects to Ladyfractic! Stay safe!

[@DiveKalle]

Great video and amazing storytelling! Being a former scener myself (C64, Amiga and Atari ST) I'd love to see more content about the demo scene. Keep up the great work!

[@RetroRecipes]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@00Skyfox]

Good work on completing this quest! It’s so satisfying to finally track down things like this. I had a similar quest to track down an obscure made for TV movie that I saw when I was 5 years old, or when I finally tracked down the composer of the original music heard in Fireworks Construction Kit. (He never replied to my email.) I love how programmers are still making demos for the C64, Amiga, and other old systems even to this day, always pushing the limits of graphics and sound far beyond what the original chip designers ever thought they could do. Chip tune music has always fascinated me in how composers/programmers could make such amazing music with the limitations a chip had, like the 3 voices and 4 wave forms of the SID.

[@abstracttim7428]

The demoscene was and still is amazing. I also loved PD. Public Domain disks I used to send for almost every week and I used the same PD house (among others) I recognise that disk label hahah with Northstar :) thanks for the trip down memory lane!

[@stefansender2634]

Nice story and congratulations on finding where the sample was from. Also, thank you for showing EON, it's pretty cool. Btw it's even younger - it was only released in 2019 at Revision demoparty. There are write-ups on how this demo was made, including the music.

[@reticulatingsplines]

Another bloody good piece of detective work there Peri. Whaaaaaaaa? Did I just see Newport, Isle of Wight on that demo disk? Wahoo, I'm originally from East Cowes... Used to love these demos and the music that came with them. I was using STracker and other software on the Acorn Archimedes in the day to listen, rip (ahem) and mess around with .mod .st files etc most of which I think started off on Amigas, agreed it was amazing how far they could push the graphics and sound chips on those machines. Kudos to George for being so amenable. Great stroll down memory lane.

[@JimmyAK]

Fantastic video! Loved the Amiga demo scene back in the day. Many a happy hour spent browsing through listings in the mags deciding which to order. More vids like this please!!

[@RetroRecipes]

Plenty more on the list! Glad you liked it.

[@zeprfrew]

Lovely video. Amiga demoscene and opening with a screenshot of my all time #1 favourite game ever. Just what I needed on a lonely lockdown night.

[@RetroRecipes]

You're welcome! Stay well friend 👍🕹️

[@sconor100]

This video has simply made my day - thank you for reminding of the Amiga demo scene, which I must admit I kinda enjoyed just as much as the games they cracked (if not more sometimes)

[@dgstephens]

Your most beautiful and poignant film yet, Peri. Thank you, so much, for this wonderful audio and visual feast.

[@RetroRecipes]

Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹️

[@8bitbubsy]

Just because I was bored, I sampled the original part at 28kHz and put together a bootable ADF that plays the loop forever: 16-bits.org/etc/loopy.zip It sounds much better than the intro, especially on an Amiga 1200!

[@RetroRecipes]

Perfectly done! Simply amazing. Thank you. I'll add this to the description now also. 👍🕹

[@Jacx42]

Just tried it: great! Thanks!

[@ikweetvannixx]

I remember being just a kid, having a 286 AT PC, and a neighbour with an Amiga 500 and the magical ability to port Amiga games to x86... i don't know how he did it, but because of the demos and cracktros in those games i ended up in the Protracker/Screamtracker scene, even dipping my toes in composing songs myself... God i miss those days :)

[@danbad1380]

Wow! Excellent amiga demo during your prefered song! Thanks!!

[@stuartleckie]

What a wild ride this was. I can’t pretend that I understood the Amiga demo scene, it always felt so slightly dangerous and unauthorized. And you were the cool kid at school if you knew about any of them. But I still have my 1200 today 😃 Great video !

[@elblanco5]

man, what a great episode! It combined some of my favorite things, especially the demoscene's musical heritage.

[@payt01]

What a cool song! Such a nice groove :) Thanks for pointing this out and doing all the research and whatnot :)

[@sebmcclane]

This video is seriously underappreciated ! Well done ! I still remember couple of my Demo tunes and one till this day I have it stored ! It was from Turrican 3 Demo and boy it was amazing !

[@RetroRecipes]

Thank you!!

[@abstracttim7428]

Great you found the track. There must be so many creative sample uses...

[@moonove]

Man. I just discovered this video that reminds me so much. I was (and maybe still) an Atari Fan. But as a musician i love your story. No matter the machine. Like you i've been hooked also by some samples or modules (paroimia intro, enigma, shadow of the beast ending music...). I understand how you must be satisfied after all those years. Now you have the sample in high quality ;). Thanks for sharing this.

[@johnhigginbotham8291]

Sat here in Stockport UK. Not heard this since 1995...... Brilliant!!!!!!!!

[@thomassmith4999]

Respect for bringing the Amiga scene to the common man on youtube. It was a beautiful time. The Master/Zeus. And a further edit... What a fantastic video you've created here.

[@RetroRecipes]

Much appreciated!

[@darinross6135]

Always enjoy your videos! I never owned an Amiga back in the day, though I really really wanted one. Was able to grab a nice recapped 1200 a few years ago and now I'm finally able to enjoy the machine I always wanted after my C64. Amazed what it can do.

[@RetroRecipes]

Thanks! A1200s are fantastic 👍🕹️

[@darkinner777]

Amazing research video man. I'm too got myself looking for several different demo songs for a long time till I finally found them. Nice Work!

[@knightcrusader]

I completely understand your love of old euro synthpop music. I found a lot of my favorite music from old demos and MOD files. Reminds me when I came across an 80's German new wave band named "Moti Special" that I love but no one in the states has even heard of, and was able to track down a few albums. I am glad you were able to find your song after all this time, let alone talk to the guy behind the music itself!

[@michaelctanner]

knightcrusader cold days, hot nights 😎

[@ristovuori]

was searching for amiga demos and stumbled unto this. Watched the whole vid. AWESOME. You had some weird luck help, just wished afterwards i didnt see the mullet with the keytar.

[@patkorre3177]

wow. Nice! how you found the song after so long, only from this short sample. Amazing and so beautifull the love for the scene in all its glory. you make me smile and happy. Brings back memories. I am happy for you. And above all, i love it aswell. I will add the song to my favorite playlist in spotify. ;-) Thanks. Cant remember if i ever saw a demo from savage, probably i did, i've seen so many and it is a long time ago. My commodore adventure started when i was 13 years old ('83). Yes! i am an old vic20, c64 \ amiga 500\2000 user\fan\coder back in the day. Also joined \ lived some demo groups at that time and i've seen several demo parties, helped organize them sort of ;-) My expertise and joy, back then, was coding in assembler and collecting software and sometimes playing games. But mostly i was into the music, demo's and coding. I Always have been a huge fan of all kinds of music, games, intro's, demo's etc...enjoyed the magic from the minds of Martin Galway, Rob Hubbard, Jeroen Tel, Ben Daglish en Chris Hülsbeck etc. Awesome music back then on those machines, the c64 and amiga. I even have a video recording of a live performance of some of these hero's, somewhere in England, playing old c64 songs with "real instruments". ;-P Actually, it all was and still is (in memories) 1 BIG adventure, those years with commodore. It was and still feels like magic. Discovering all the new electronics and bits and bytes "goodies" and sharing it with your friends and the scene. I just loved and in a way lived the dream! Met so many people with the same passion and love for it all and i even got some great friendships out of it. There is so much more to tell and share, but for now…..bye. Keep up the good work and thanks again for the joy! Greetings from Sly of ORION (C) 1983-1992

[@TrashfordKent]

Hey there, big fan of your content but this one, this one knocks it out of the park:) I remember being memorised by demo scene tunes and samples and this is no exception. I used to listen to them for hours, i'll certainly be adding this track and artist to my play list, fantastic find cheers.

[@RetroRecipes]

Hey, thanks!

[@elyuw]

Great video, I love a bit of sleuthing to find something out from long ago. I once spent much time trying to track down a number of songs captured on video from a car radio whilst on holiday in LA. It took 11 years but we got them all in the end.

[@RetroRecipes]

Wow! Nice work!

[@CJWarlock]

The way the Perifractic videodocumented the kind of a musical sample search all of us have experienced at some time... :) Brilliant! :) Cheers.

[@s3vR3x]

PERRI, this your best video yet. You made me want to bust out my Amiga and have a demo fest! I really dug the song too, took me back to a special time

[@RetroRecipes]

Thanks!

[@culttelevision]

Love this. Was well into the Amiga music demo scene. I helped Teijo Kinnunen test out features for OctaMed and my theme for Ray at Amiganuts (Amiganuts Power) became a cheesy cult classic in 1990 . Miss those simple days.

[@RetroRecipes]

Wow! My first ever song was recorded on OctaMed. It's called Glass Out Of Stone and you can stream it free on Spotify on my album Insta: Mental retrorecip.es/music so thanks!

[@StevenIngram]

What a great episode, and wow that video for the song. :D So very 80s! It's left me feeling nostalgic.

[@btizef2008]

Great video. I can relate on so many levels. Black lotus demo too, man of good taste!

[@mrburns366]

hearing the full song with lyrics all these years later must've really been mind blowing! it's actually a great tune!

[@undergroundbass946fm]

North Star and Fairlight! I had to rewind that three times! Off to find the demo to rip for the car. Thanks for another amazing episode.

[@paweserafin9407]

Aaaaaaaahhhh WHAT A TUNE THAT!!!! Edit: just finished watching the whole thing and I cannot even tell how much I love this video... thanks Peri :)

[@RetroRecipes]

Glad you liked it!!

[@elcasho]

wow nice tune I can see why you loved it!

[@sergeinester6261]

Rad man Adrian Bye who was a member of our group Omega V who wrote demos for ACU kept i. Touch with a lot of these guys over the years and even interviews a couple of them a few years ago

[@KrawmKruach]

that song is pretty, wait for it, savage. seriously though gave me so much synth love. More Please.

[@UpLateGeek]

That's a pretty incredible story! The chances of the right person finding an ancient request to identify a sample of a track from the 80s is so unlikely, it's pretty unbelievable. And I never would've thought to look at who wrote the music for it and try to get in touch with them. But I'm glad you finally found the song and got to hear from one of the guys who made it!

[@RetroRecipes]

Yes still pretty mind-blowing even to me. I'm glad you enjoyed the journey 👍🕹️

[@chris24hdez]

It's cool how exploring an "earwig" from the past has opened up your world of experiences so much more. And that Amiga graphics sequence, just AMAZING compared to what was typical of its time!

[@mycms99]

I really enjoyed this video. Great story, thanks for all the hard work putting it together. I used to go on the train about 2 hours to Wakefield to buy demo disks from 17 Bit Software back in the day. Great memories.

[@namakudamono]

Cris Matthews Didn’t they later become Team 17?

[@starnamedstork]

​@@namakudamono I believe that is correct. Team (1)7 was the game company formed by members of 17-Bit software.

[@saganandroid4175]

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this. Each of us have all kinds of personal touchstones from our youth- sometimes we forget about them for decades, and then out of nowhere, for reasons unknown, they come roaring back. We play archaeologist, and the search itself makes the original influence even more enjoyable. Thanks for sharing this. I have a few tunes I wonder about. Maybe once a year you could help us track down old demo songs? Also thanks for letting me know I'm not the only one who is like this. And Yes, you are the Max Headroom we need for the 2020's. A new Amiga-themed sidegig?

[@RetroRecipes]

Glad you liked it! I'm happy to consider future detective videos based on community wants 👍🕹️

[@gregoryresistenz1372]

Sir! Your film is so inspiring! About one year ago, during my sleep, i've got blast from the past. It was like lightning crossing my mind. My brain played me some known for me music, it was one of thousand tracks in one compilation CD on my AMIGA1200. MOD music of course. In my case was more complicated because i did not have my Amiga anymore... And i didn't know the tracks name. I was convinced that was a cover of some 80's music and i've started searching on youtube big compilations of "100 or 300 80's song" or something like that. And guess what. After 30 minutes i found it! It was "Trans-X - Living on video"! YAY! The problem is i can't compare both tracks because i don't know the author's name of this MOD cover. Anyway, have a nice day sir and to all Amiga maniacs! amiga rulez (sending from pc)

[@Cornz38]

Full Metal Bass and V42 are just two of my favorite amiga tracker tunes

[@MarkusErtel]

That was a time travel for me. Brilliant - that 's the power of dedication. Thanks a lot.

[@GORF_EMPIRE]

Funky Amiga! Oh and can't help but agree with the mrs..... the scare crow joke..... brutal.

[@Capt.Marco-Hawk-L.L.A.P]

awesome brings back happy memories on my Amiga 500+

[@gnamp]

The track at 5:00 sort of reminds me of the music for Captain Planet (for the Amiga).

[@Greedygoblingames]

Thoroughly enjoyed this vid. Thanks for making it!

[@lenkel]

That turned out to be something special!

[@ScrotusXL]

Tremendous work getting to solve the mystery after all this time and what a tune, a proper piece of 80's magic! ✨

[@stephanepiquemal8297]

I love this kind of story on the origins of demo scene sounds. Well done for your research efforts 👍

[@TheMalMeninga]

This was a cracking little video, great work! Makes me all nostalgic for my Amiga now. Ahh, if only I'd brought it home with me when I was in the UK a few months back...

[@RetroRecipes]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@brhodes0]

Yep listening to the loop it’s more of a funk/soul groove. I remember back then you could rip samples out of memory so it’s not surprising a few cracking groups ‘repurposed’ other people’s stuff. All part of the fun and thanks for introducing me to this tune. Always great when you find that long lost thing cheers.

[@sethrd999]

M68k was super cool, I used 3 books "Steve Williams - Programming the 68000', 'Abacus - Amiga Systems ProgrammersGuide' and 'Commodores own - Hardware Reference Manuals'. Devpac and Seka were the assemblers along with DPaint and Pro/Sound trackers. Samples were used before the time of the original sound trackers which was rampent actually some looped well and some not so much.

[@samyfay7786]

My older brother add two Amiga pcs (Amiga 500 & 2000) at the time of the Atari VS Amiga war. I still cherish these years of blind computer enthusiasm and I think my brother still do as well. I was slightly too young at the time (and also without budget) but my brother kindly shared this fascinating world to me. Over the years, I've gathered a few copies of Amiga made music including some that eventualy made it to the Radio and this part of your video where you search for the original composer; George Kochbeck reminded me a comment from my brother made back then. He was saying (regarding these LAN party and competition) that the Germans were particularly good and a force to recon with. At first, I thought my brother's comment only concerned the animation aspect but after a few years I've found out myself that he probably meant the music aspect. Maybe both, who knows? I'll have to ask him.

[@basvanharen2904]

Cant get enough about c64 and Amiga, not then and now. Those demo's are so awesome. I spend also a lot of time on (TRSI) Databecker demo maker, amazing stuff and so much fun. Can watch this stuff for hours.

[@vectrexer]

I think heard this song play on the SoCal station 94.7 The Wave (KTWV) back in the late 80's. Listened to that station all the time in ET Shop of Point Mugu's Surface Craft Division when I was on base at Port Hueneme.

[@necronom]

It's great when you find out what a tune is. It took me a couple of decades to discover what all the tunes were in the Tech Tech Demo (the first demo I remember seeing). There were a few I just didn't know and I finally found them all several years ago.

[@davidvanhove8392]

...and what was discovered? Tech Tech must have been 1988, 'early' days of the 500 & how amazing that was, indeed, with large pages scrolling. That was very wowww... also spoofing "Defender of the Crown"?

[@necronom]

​@@davidvanhove8392 Jean Michel Jarre - Rendez vous (First Rendez vous) Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls Depeche Mode - Strangelove Art of Noise - Peter Gunn 12" (about 1:30 into it) Boing Boom Tschak by Kraftwerk (Electric Cafe album) It was released on 17/11/87, which was 51 days after I got my A500 :-)

[@davidvanhove8392]

@@necronom Really. .. also the day I became 17.