Janne Hanhisuanto - Android John (album, electronica, idm)

Album features tracks that I did some 25 years ago with program called Impulse tracker. I wanted to bring these tracker modules back to life and to date with my current skills. This is Android John.
Album available at Bandcamp:
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[@DmitryGorbushin]

Would be good if you elaborate the creative process and history behind this. I see the description but it is too short. The music is really good though.

[@jannehanhisuanto]

Hi and thank you for writing. I started back in the days with program called Scream Tracker. I moved quickly to Impulse tracker. If I remember correctly it had more options for ADSR for filter and volume. And I believe it had more channels than Scream Tracker. I do not remember precise. Impulse tracker was my first DAW. Great program. I grew up listening to demo scene music and synthesizer music. I remember trying to emulate what I heard from synthesizer greatest hits albums with tracker program. At some point techno/trance music started to grow inside me and I started experimenting with four-to-the-floor beat and did a lot of tracker modules back then. I moved out from trackers because I needed more midi and I wanted to get out from DOS realm. Also the ability to record with midi keyboard was important for me. I do not remember if trackers had option to record on the fly with midi keyboard. I moved from different software to another. I got into Fruity Loops and moved to Sonar DAW. I am currently using Reaper DAW. I was going through my backup files some day. I still have almost all the tracker modules I did back then in my back up drive. I read that program called OpenMPT allowed to output midi from tracker modules. I was delighted. I started to go through my four-to-the-floor tracker modules and exported the tracks as midi and loaded them into Reaper. There I was able to use soft synthesizers for the midi and I did record some electronic saxophone as well the voice for Android John. I had to do a lot of limiting as some tracks had up to 48 tracks or so within them. Mainly because I did delay effect in Impulse tracker by using multiple channels and doubled instruments too. I then exported the re-done tracks as wav and used my analog mastering rack to finalise. Thanks for asking.

[@chris9380]

WooooooooooooooooW!!! This is electronically beautiful!!! Thank you so much!!!

[@jannehanhisuanto]

Thank you

[@mickdarcy3063]

Thanks for the music!

[@jannehanhisuanto]

Thanks