!Cube / Trauma - Ransumaasta Kajahtaa (1998) - Open Cubic Player

Extended version of Ransumaasta Kajahtaa, a FastTracker 2 module composed by !Cube of Trauma Child Genesis for the Text Mode Demo Compo 3 invitation intro.
Original length: 3mn 50s (loop triggered at 3:53).
Played on Open Cubic Player.
www.cubic.org/...
You can download the demo here: www.pouet.net/p...
Handle: !Cube
Real name: Toni Lönnberg
Title: Ransumaasta Kajahtaa
Year: 1998
Size: 731.10kb
Format: .XM
Channels: 24
Official website
cube.gfxile.net/t/

[@chitan1362]

Everyone please stand for the Linux National Anthem.

[@canaconn2388]

I like how nobody mentions the clarity of the samples used in this track, it's insane how clear they are!

[@asmqb7222]

It's a 748KB XM that isn't 10 minutes long. That sample/length ratio provides no excuse :P

[@BananaPhoPhilly]

16-bit samples are still very clear lol

[@canaconn2388]

@@BananaPhoPhilly Yeah but most of the time they're pretty crusty

[@Starsitaa]

Yeah, this song sounds very clean

[@zromitsman]

that's the same thing i was thinking!

[@SnowballSnep]

whenever i hear this i immediately think ...heated unreal tournament match-

[@Roxor128]

Damn, you're right. Use this as music for your custom UT map, and nobody would bat an eye. It'd fit in seamlessly with the official soundtrack.

[@andreasjohansson1952]

Original OST was made in ImpulseTracker if I'm not mistaken, could be he's using the samples from the songs, they are indeed very similar.

[@TatharNuar]

I was thinking this too.

[@Maschinestorm]

Good work. Definitely the sound to the end of a decade.

[@INVISEBOMB7000]

WHAT THE FUCK THAT GOES HARD

[@Permaviolet]

I love everything about this, I wish I was around at the time to experience the demoscene at its peak

[@nytrex2001]

There are still some amazing tunes coming out of the Demoscene, but yes, I think we all miss the good old days of the Demo Scene in the 80's and 90's.

[@Permaviolet]

@@nytrex2001 Do you have any recommendations in particular for some more recent songs?

[@nytrex2001]

@@Permaviolet Here are links to a few amazing songs on KZbin Teetow Fair play to the Queen - kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKSrnpSEoaaCfKs Jeenio My wooden lover - kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6Scaq2AYr6rjZo Virgill Galvanize - kzbin.info/www/bejne/sGbGd32orqqSnMU Grgaj Offscreen colonies - kzbin.info/www/bejne/hpKxioKwrNGJeZo Irvin Quantum - kzbin.info/www/bejne/iqbPmX6sncagndU Summer encounters - kzbin.info/www/bejne/pn-9aouGpNyKlck No kelvin - kzbin.info/www/bejne/bnqaaaiOgNWbpa8 Elwood Spark - kzbin.info/www/bejne/l5-8i2ltiZhngpY Homepage - www.elwoodproductions.com/ Little Bitchard The code inside - kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKbGfYellMmmidk Choose Zero Polys and Shaders - kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKGXhHuVp9Vpqck AG Drive (game) - kzbin.info/www/bejne/aWrOaKR6rpp7iZI Jonne Valtonen (Purple Motion) AG Drive - kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3XHeKSqfbiEjLc Saga Musix Tapdancer - kzbin.info/www/bejne/eX_WaZhsmLKqd9k Wayfinder The popular demo - kzbin.info/www/bejne/j3PToGh9fcigqac Rove - kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZDShYSabpiYiKs

[@NemeZisUK]

@@Permaviolet kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4uxc2eEmdeHqdE This is a good one

[@hirusthehellhound]

@@Permaviolet maybe check out lukhash [if I remember the name right] or pator

[@unrealgodpresents2001]

Sounds like something from Unreal but isnt

[@unrealgodpresents2001]

But its also Finnish! :D

[@tedwink6652]

If i remember so, one map for mod Monster hunt in UT99 used map Terraniux and used this track, but still its not official Unreal song, and yet it have atmosphere of Unreal

[@xanious3759]

@@tedwink6652 tracker music has a distinct sound to it even if its not straylight's work. It makes me happy tracker music is still being made to this day.

[@marcinchaciej]

Unreal Tournament 99 vibes here, so nostalgic, thank you!

[@analogmoz]

One of my favorite tracked songs. And my first and most beloved player. But how could you not use "wuerfel" mode?! (Cannot remember how that is spelled.) Thanks for the upload.

[@mystupidbrain5299]

I just died and went to heaven. Wow. Takes me back to the 90’s.

[@sparklesparklesparkle6318]

I miss going to GOA and psy shows. Even after I got sober I was afraid I couldn't club anymore, and most of the time that is true I can't go back in those places it gives me cold sweats, but trance shows....Do places like that still exist or did the pandemic stop all that? I dunno anymore, certainly stopped me....But yeah man nothing better than listening to some good trance on good speakers with some good people.

[@laurilehtiaho9618]

I was somewhere between middle school and high school in the 90s, and just fell in love with !Cube's particular sound, first through the Gateways demo, and then this. Absolute beast of a track!

[@barnumeffekt]

this was made in 1998?!

[@trippyulyanov2012]

ahead of their time!

[@sparklesparklesparkle6318]

@@trippyulyanov2012 goa trance is like early 90s. It's kind of the peak of trance if in a lot of ways. if anything we've been going downhill. Idk maybe trance is still cool I stopped listening to it after I quit worshipping the devil.

[@electron6825]

@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 the devil misses you 👿

[@elijosintetico2847]

cubic player was my first player and the best. it had the best sound engine. i'd like to read the sourcecode :)

[@cwubicpwaywr3367]

im your first player?? :>

[@D322MWUNITED]

When I get my windows 98 computer I’m going to try cubic played out lol

[@sparklesparklesparkle6318]

@@cwubicpwaywr3367 that's adorable also loud screaming

[@canaconn2388]

the source code is available

[@Roxor128]

There's an Open Cubic Player out there. I found it in the Linux Mint Software Manager. It supports S3M files with Adlib instruments, but it unfortunately doesn't support hybrid files with both samples and FM (few programs do). It does support a variety of other Adlib formats (with very hit-and-miss compatibility), though. Some files are just horribly borked. Duke Nukem II's music amusingly plays at about double speed, though otherwise sounds correct.

[@nissimtrifonov5314]

This sounds a lot better than a lot of music produced and released in 2023 with DAWs that are so advanced that you can literally make anything that you can imagine.

[@vidarhjal]

skill issue

[@rastas_4221]

Yeah, they only know how to make one thing. MONEY

[@resofactor]

Slamming track! Just looked up Open Cubic Player on the AUR Repositories and installed. Thanks!

[@frag0638]

I use arch btw example in the wild

[@genybr]

@@frag0638 nope, it's example of windows user skips with "I'm using arch" in every thread where it mentioned that linux repos still have cute and efficient soft from the past. Don't be jealous or envy. Just get a try, suffer, repeat. After 3rd try you'll learn what comfort is. I had windows since 3.11 up to 7 and 10. Now I'm writing AI construction framework to rewrite windows-tied software, this is about how bad modern windows is: I make cutting edge breakthrough just to have no necessity in using modern windows.

[@سهودومهود-ه9ل]

1:17

[@8.1DEV]

If it was TempleOS...

[@plutorocks1]

I use GNU/Linux BTW

[@ToNielson]

are you using arch btw?

[@plutorocks1]

@@ToNielson openSUSE Tumbleweed BTW

[@ToNielson]

@@plutorocks1 OpenBSD btw

[@Faiz_504]

​@@ToNielsonLubuntu btw

[@indetermite]

Sounds like "Last Step" by Dubmood.

[@AitoJaOikeaNippeliFaktaa]

JA ANTAA KAJAHTAA!

[@Cyberartist_Cybotron71]

Oh my good , ia raving until the universe will rip and transfloating to another dimension / Universe´2

[@nkronert]

Never heard this mod before, but it's a great one!

[@wesleycarlton7936]

Almost has a faster Robert Miles sound in some ways.

[@friedfruit]

yeah, kinda reminds me of Red Zone part 1

[@ralecty1481]

So cool... Is it composed 20 years ago ...?

[@sparklesparklesparkle6318]

it came from a parallel dimension where everything doesn't suck. be grateful.

[@MrPlorack]

Holly f|_|ck !

[@leeccdoo]

AMAZING track, even for 1998... However my only complaint is that it ends too abruptly. This music is also what they call Goa Trance too.

[@lowmicofficial]

This reminds me of UT99

[@forgetmc7859]

F-zero X vibes ❤

[@Sortsylic]

Red Gravity (author) sounds somewhat alike, check it out, especially Mldnrg album

[@evernam993m8]

Acid trance at best!

[@staspastukh2005]

Is this trance or techno?

[@sparklesparklesparkle6318]

GOA

[@serpentdarkness8844]

This brings back good memories...👍

[@BlackFlame9]

WHERE'S MY FUCKING FLAK CANNON?!!!

[@itsJWPH]

One could easily mistake this banger trackertune as something to be beaten in high-to-insane difficulty in modern rhythmic games such as notITG, etc....

[@steveintentionallyleftblan3398]

Heh! Brings back some sweet memories of the first time I ever started making music. It was with some old tracker that had vst support and a red background. I had no idea what I was doing back then. What a blast from the fucking past this is.

[@NafaniaXD]

Matrix 5 OST

[@SQron188]

This is great! Similar to Cube's "Gateways to Jambala" but with a slower start and faster later on.

[@LazyJesse]

The link to !Cube's website seems to be dead, what a shame.

[@VicJOfficial]

CTF-BT-Everysecondcounts anyone?

[@StarcolliderYT]

2:09 last step by dubmood much?

[@Krokussify]

this one is from 1998, three years before last step🧐

[@StarcolliderYT]

@@Krokussify I noticed they both share the same sample in that timestamp and also the same bpm which is interesting

[@nxone9903]

this is simply amazing

[@danbash2004official]

and what kind of soundtrack does it resemble?

[@YoutubeUser2013lol]

This is epic

[@entr0pyentropy]

So damn good

[@kroniqque]

Woow!!

[@treehann]

that's incredibly good but why does it cut off at the end? Does it have a loop marker or something?

[@TheEssem]

yeah, that's the loop point

[@happyhardcore4everr]

This sounds like last BFDI

[@thonkbot]

its last step, last bfdi is the ytpmv of that track

[@VigourousSurvivor]

Cringe :/

[@happyhardcore4everr]

@@VigourousSurvivor it is cringe, cuz i posted the comment a year ago in my logokid era😭

[@vidarhjal]

a very nice track

[@xtuhc]

out of this world!

[@Archyap]

This just makes me think about those hacker scenes in movies when the good guys are fighting the hacker

[@Faiz_504]

This is considered the linux national anthem at this point because of that

[@morenoh149]

Trancey

[@Erkka1982]

Great, one of the best ft2 songs 👊

[@P03enix]

H

[@kroniqque]

Excellent mod

[@jasonking1284]

It's good, but tempo is too fast. Play at KZbin 0.75 speed is much better.

[@electron6825]

Did 2X instead 😈

[@Dasssan]

this sound very similarly like need for speed 2 menu theme :D :D totaly! :D

[@thefosscellist]

the weird thing is that this is so similar to modern “fonk” music

[@evernam993m8]

Fonk is just a new born child from internet drama, back then techno rave music had variety of sound styles.

[@Faiz_504]

*phone, also not enough bass to be similar