The best music on the planet is not made by big production companies or massive celebrities with cult followings, it's made by passionate tracker pros for fun :)
1990's were so good for tracking. St/amiga had some of the best composers and artists; other platforms took their fruits, i'd play them now on my archimedes if i knew where it was
Some of the best composers are tracker users. You listen to this and those sexy chord progressions really grab your attention! Modern day pop music is nothing like this at all, is it? Then again, neither was it back in '97.
I've been searching for a long time how musicians come up with stuff like this, and I finally found the name for it today. Non-diatonic chord progressions.
I wish video games where this good. Can you imagine a game with that theme but a great concept, outstanding graphics and game play? Outstanding music. It keeps strong in 2020.
I want to get more into chiptune and mod tracker xm files and such again. They are so awesome and epic tracks and more complex than mainstream music with way less data space they are way smaller files than FLAC and even MP3s and I bet you can make even better visualizations with them than milkdrop or other VST type plugins. I wish I could make a some of those art music visualizers. I like the futuretech style I was watching a guy on youtube make cinema4d loops for futuretech.
Technical complexity aside, how do you even naturally come up with something like this? Like, the overall composition of the song is outstanding. I'm glad if I can come up with an acceptable intro to put before four shitty looping patterns...
my guess is that track like this is pretty much made on the go - compose and keep developing. Perhaps have some bits of main melody at specific parts. But I am sure this one is like improv- keep composing and building-on.
Probably stolen from somewhere and repurposed. Which is 10000000000% fine and okay and normal and not weird, no sarcasm. Even hyperrealistic painters steal from reality, after all, that's what they copy to the T. Music is language, and to speak the language, you must make sense with the words. You can invent new words, but if you go overboard then it's just gobbletygook. Plagiarism is bad, pretending you did something when you took the creation of someone else is bad. But it's impossible to not be affected by what you see and hear. The japanese word for cat is 'neko'. If I told you this for a week or so, and then asked you to naturally, without drugs or greek rivers 'unknow' the fact that neko means cat in Japanese, then you'd break your brain. In fact, drum patterns can't even be copyrighted, that's how fundamental they are. You can repurpose those all day. Noone owns rhythm. They can own a rendition of something played in the rhythm, but not the rhythm itself. In other words. Steal more, adjust the swag more until you get the feel, then when you got the language of your favorite pieces down, speak your own version.
@@melissawickersham9912 I'll try some music theory: It's not used all the time, but right from the 1st big chord ("D major", at 9 seconds), the melody goes from A-D-A-----G#-E-F#----...-, and G#, being the 4th note on a scale starting from D, is a half-step higher than it would be in an ordinary major scale, making a lydian sound. That raised 4th note shows up quite a few times through this song, and helps it sound otherworldly and ethereal wherever it's used. (It's only a small aspect of the whole song, but still pretty neat.)
Love Lydian -- the opening title screen of this definitely encapsulates it in both notes and vibe. Examples: Flying in a Blue Dream -- Joe Satriani Back to the Future Main Theme -- Alan Silvestri Yoda's Theme -- John Williams Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time : Lost Woods (verse melody) -- Koji Kondo [opening sequence] Count of Tuscany -- Dream Theater [edit] a common pitfall is to include the Simpson's Theme, but it's actually Lydian DOMINANT which is taken from one of the melodic minor modes. After a while you start to hear the modes just as well as you can hear the differences between happy (major) and sad (minor).
This is one of the best demostyle pieces of music I've ever known. I got this music on my PC since I remember. Would love to get in touch the author to congratulate him for this true work of art.
I have to agree this song for me at least Defines the Demoscene genre and its one of the best electro songs of all time. It deserves to be up there with the classics.
The sample production and the choice of instruments is not exactly stellar but the chord progressions, the melody and the arrangement just destroy me every time. I can't even listen to this song very often because I know how it will mess me up every single time I put on this song. I just don't understand how a a series of chords can feel like a steam roller just completely annihilating me every single time :/. It's like overwhelmingly positive and punching me in the face with all of those harmonies until I'm dead on the floor ;D. Kudos to BeaT, I suppose ;D.
Did you seriously make this? This is pretty much THEE best one I've ever heard. It's like an entire story told with sound. Since your YT channel yields no results, where could a hapless chap such as myself find more of your music?
no need external vst effect plugins like today... all effects you can imagine are in the own tracker by hexadecimal codes. You can do everything "handmade" , like an artisan.
I love the amount of variety in the composition, which keeps developing, instead of keeping the same tabs/chords repeat over and over. Has some similarities with Purple Motion's "Starshine" at certain points.
@@TheBeatfoxSomebody else commented that this song, or part of this song, is in Lydian mode. Is that true? Did you use Lydian mode in the composition of this song?
@@madson-web I always thought that the definition of a chiptune was any tracked music with very tiny file size (which this track is not), probably less than 20 kB. On the Amiga 500, which was my first computer, those tracks would be created using very small, looped waveforms like squarewave and sawtooth. Or do sounds really have to be generated by an onboard oscillator for it to count as a chiptune?
@@gnoink Nope, they don't have to be generated by an onboard oscillator for it to count as a chiptune. I've spoken with demoscene musician and chiptune pioneer TDK in a chiptune space and he mentioned that 'chiptune' was actually coined as meaning exactly what you stated, tracked music using short looped waveforms to imitate the sound of sound chips. In addition, chiptune has since expanded from early trackers to more sophisticated means of production, including emulating sound chips and imitating chip sounds in a DAW and mixed with modern production techniques for example, it still counts as chiptune no matter how exactly you go about it.
Yes, me in 2020. This is the music that Sony used to deliver the PS5. This was foreshadowing of all the games we are going to see. Sony is unstoppable.
@@kummer45 and now 2022! tracker music will never die in my opinion! the sounding even if its much more compressed and small samples i love the sounding effects this have compared to modern music
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The best music on the planet is not made by big production companies or massive celebrities with cult followings, it's made by passionate tracker pros for fun :)
Absolutely!
I could not agree with you less.
This is the truth.
this is my favorite tracker song it absolutely soars it brings me to places i feel like i am in a fighter jet or something
Yeah, a fighter jet belonging to the Logic Air Force, perhaps :D :D (th-cam.com/video/G36_j4hL2RA/w-d-xo.html)
神曲すぎて涙がで、出ますよ
I can just imagine flying around a city, with my arms spread out, while listening to this masterpiece.
same but with jetpack
@@Northaxe Oh, hell yeah!
супер, эта музыка вызывает вдохновение!
1990's were so good for tracking. St/amiga had some of the best composers and artists; other platforms took their fruits, i'd play them now on my archimedes if i knew where it was
Some of the best composers are tracker users.
You listen to this and those sexy chord progressions really grab your attention!
Modern day pop music is nothing like this at all, is it? Then again, neither was it back in '97.
This is actually what trackers inspire musicians to do and most of them were very talented.
I've been searching for a long time how musicians come up with stuff like this, and I finally found the name for it today. Non-diatonic chord progressions.
Absolutely
Because composition is the only thing you can do with a tracker, there is no means to flatter and excuse, you only get to work on the pure music.
Melody is dead in 2021.
I love this song so so so so much, it brings up images of fighting in space with robots and super war ships, etc. Such a great song.
I wish video games where this good. Can you imagine a game with that theme but a great concept, outstanding graphics and game play?
Outstanding music. It keeps strong in 2020.
There are plenty of video games with this kind of music, they're just not mainstream, and most of them are naturally pretty old.
@@CaptainFalcoydcould you name some?
@@cmf1402Unreal Engine 1 games used mod tracker music. This one sounds a lot like Unreal, Unreal Tournament, and Deus Ex.
I used to listen to this track on my CD player back in middle school.
I'm a college student now. Love this song - great memories.
10 Years later, where are you in life now?
Wow, 10 years later, where are you in life now?
Wowie Wow Holy Guacamole, 10 years later, where are you in life now?
11 years now. No response yet. Stay strong, brothers! (yes, that includes you too, ladies)
Absolutely stunning, up there with Purple Motions stuff.
I want to get more into chiptune and mod tracker xm files and such again. They are so awesome and epic tracks and more complex than mainstream music with way less data space they are way smaller files than FLAC and even MP3s and I bet you can make even better visualizations with them than milkdrop or other VST type plugins. I wish I could make a some of those art music visualizers. I like the futuretech style I was watching a guy on youtube make cinema4d loops for futuretech.
so thankful to people like you that help preserve such amazing music for the next generations to discover !
used to read a lot of fantasy books while listening to this
This piece never gets old!
freaking amazing.. this song is standing with the top best demoscene songs ever written
Masterpiece!
music for assembling robots
for assembling five battle mechs fleets at a time.
That's quite the tune. Brings to mind certain old games...
This is definitely my favourite tracker composition currently.
Technical complexity aside, how do you even naturally come up with something like this? Like, the overall composition of the song is outstanding. I'm glad if I can come up with an acceptable intro to put before four shitty looping patterns...
my guess is that track like this is pretty much made on the go - compose and keep developing. Perhaps have some bits of main melody at specific parts. But I am sure this one is like improv- keep composing and building-on.
Probably stolen from somewhere and repurposed.
Which is 10000000000% fine and okay and normal and not weird, no sarcasm.
Even hyperrealistic painters steal from reality, after all, that's what they copy to the T.
Music is language, and to speak the language, you must make sense with the words. You can invent new words, but if you go overboard then it's just gobbletygook.
Plagiarism is bad, pretending you did something when you took the creation of someone else is bad.
But it's impossible to not be affected by what you see and hear.
The japanese word for cat is 'neko'.
If I told you this for a week or so, and then asked you to naturally, without drugs or greek rivers 'unknow' the fact that neko means cat in Japanese, then you'd break your brain.
In fact, drum patterns can't even be copyrighted, that's how fundamental they are. You can repurpose those all day. Noone owns rhythm. They can own a rendition of something played in the rhythm, but not the rhythm itself.
In other words.
Steal more, adjust the swag more until you get the feel, then when you got the language of your favorite pieces down, speak your own version.
My man is high af
Your comment has a lot of 余計な意味不明な例え(冗長) like the 猫 part which makes it hard to understand what is your point
Try being more 簡潔
That is a masterpiece of course and gives me chiles everytime i hear
Legendary Track!!!
Beautiful
This is probably my favorite tracker song ever. I'm glad someone put it on TH-cam!
Lydian mode = heavenly sound. I've got this song all figured out now.
This song is in LYDIAN MODE? I never would have guessed it. How could you tell that this song uses Lydian mode?
@@melissawickersham9912 I'll try some music theory: It's not used all the time, but right from the 1st big chord ("D major", at 9 seconds), the melody goes from A-D-A-----G#-E-F#----...-, and G#, being the 4th note on a scale starting from D, is a half-step higher than it would be in an ordinary major scale, making a lydian sound. That raised 4th note shows up quite a few times through this song, and helps it sound otherworldly and ethereal wherever it's used. (It's only a small aspect of the whole song, but still pretty neat.)
Love Lydian -- the opening title screen of this definitely encapsulates it in both notes and vibe. Examples:
Flying in a Blue Dream -- Joe Satriani
Back to the Future Main Theme -- Alan Silvestri
Yoda's Theme -- John Williams
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time : Lost Woods (verse melody) -- Koji Kondo
[opening sequence] Count of Tuscany -- Dream Theater
[edit] a common pitfall is to include the Simpson's Theme, but it's actually Lydian DOMINANT which is taken from one of the melodic minor modes. After a while you start to hear the modes just as well as you can hear the differences between happy (major) and sad (minor).
This is one of the best demostyle pieces of music I've ever known. I got this music on my PC since I remember. Would love to get in touch the author to congratulate him for this true work of art.
My God. I believe this is the best song I ever heard.
This is a briliant creation!
Fantastic !
Like from 12.2018. Awesome!!!
Still the Best! 2023
I have to agree this song for me at least Defines the Demoscene genre and its one of the best electro songs of all time. It deserves to be up there with the classics.
just...so....bad ass
OMG ! WOW!!! Superb!!!
OLD IS GOLD, AS ALWAYS :D
The sample production and the choice of instruments is not exactly stellar but the chord progressions, the melody and the arrangement just destroy me every time. I can't even listen to this song very often because I know how it will mess me up every single time I put on this song. I just don't understand how a a series of chords can feel like a steam roller just completely annihilating me every single time :/. It's like overwhelmingly positive and punching me in the face with all of those harmonies until I'm dead on the floor ;D. Kudos to BeaT, I suppose ;D.
Did you seriously make this? This is pretty much THEE best one I've ever heard. It's like an entire story told with sound. Since your YT channel yields no results, where could a hapless chap such as myself find more of your music?
Just six years late, but he's got a small bunch of track up on beatfox.com
The "entire story in a song" statement is so real. I keep imagining scenarios listening to this song and it always fits perfectly
no need external vst effect plugins like today... all effects you can imagine are in the own tracker by hexadecimal codes. You can do everything "handmade" , like an artisan.
I love the amount of variety in the composition, which keeps developing, instead of keeping the same tabs/chords repeat over and over.
Has some similarities with Purple Motion's "Starshine" at certain points.
Good ear! Purple Motion was one of my favorite trackers, and "Starshine" was actually my primary inspiration for this track.
@@TheBeatfoxSomebody else commented that this song, or part of this song, is in Lydian mode. Is that true? Did you use Lydian mode in the composition of this song?
Tracker Music, here we go :)
Awesome work Beatfox! I've had this saved to my computer probably since it was released!
this is a good song
Very good music!
Oh damn, this hears so much like Phantasy Star and Gunstar Heroes
Absolutely outstanding! Best chiptune song ever
Thanks! Not technically a chiptune piece, but I can understand how it might sound similar to those not very familiar with oldschool tracker music.
Uses samples but use computer to mix, effect and sequence it. Maybe not "pure" chiptune because sound is not generated on it. But still
@@madson-web I always thought that the definition of a chiptune was any tracked music with very tiny file size (which this track is not), probably less than 20 kB. On the Amiga 500, which was my first computer, those tracks would be created using very small, looped waveforms like squarewave and sawtooth. Or do sounds really have to be generated by an onboard oscillator for it to count as a chiptune?
@@gnoink Nope, they don't have to be generated by an onboard oscillator for it to count as a chiptune. I've spoken with demoscene musician and chiptune pioneer TDK in a chiptune space and he mentioned that 'chiptune' was actually coined as meaning exactly what you stated, tracked music using short looped waveforms to imitate the sound of sound chips. In addition, chiptune has since expanded from early trackers to more sophisticated means of production, including emulating sound chips and imitating chip sounds in a DAW and mixed with modern production techniques for example, it still counts as chiptune no matter how exactly you go about it.
🔥it's not up to technology or money to make good music, but up to the talent
just awesome...
This is amazing!😁😍
This song is a freaking masterpiece. xD Mod music doesn't get any better than this.
My God what a banger
That's it!
*recalled my old Athlon 500*
Cyrix 80 MHz... good old times
Beautiful!
*mind blown* so epic
i know right
THE FUCCCKKKKKKK SO AWESPOME!
Not gonna lie. Was really impressed by this.
Careful what you wish for, haha!
(Thanks, I'm glad you enjoy it so much. It really means a ton to me.)
It has the word Fantasia in it, ofc it's gonna be awesome
What a stunning track! I really wanna try and start making tracker music :)
Truely epic from 3:52.
Waow
anyone 2019?
Yes, me in 2020.
This is the music that Sony used to deliver the PS5. This was foreshadowing of all the games we are going to see. Sony is unstoppable.
@@kummer45 and now 2022! tracker music will never die in my opinion! the sounding even if its much more compressed and small samples i love the sounding effects this have compared to modern music
2023!! Slowly slowly watching TrackerTok gain traction, TrackerNinja808 posts daily over on TT 😁✌️
2024!!! Chiptune Never Dies, still awesome to listen
1:36 sick portamento
minun musiikkia Löytyy Facebookista.
Hi I would like to know where I can download the instrumental samples ... I have the program but I do not have the sound samples. thank you.
I'm going to make an electric guitar cover of this. Just need to learn it
iKaGe01 Do eet!
TheQuinch Working on it!
Counting on you! Please post a linky
Trust me, when I've done it, you'll know. It may not be a continous edit, i.e it may consist of separate parts but I will record it
can I hear it?
2:59 - 3:25 EPIC
Was this song in VVVVV? Sure sounds familiar.
THE BEST!
🤩😍🥰
yes!
It's very proggy, as in 70s prog rock chord progressions.
Tirtanium, by Michael Tirtasana
reminds me of cave story’s music
Here's my C64 version:
th-cam.com/video/wTO-AQXK0iE/w-d-xo.html
Is this song from some game? Nice tracker.
I believe this mod was featured in a benchmark app but can't remember the app's name
makes me remember of some Orbital (artist) tracks
Is this royalty free? I'd like to use it :)
Hey dont I know you?
Ignore that XD Sorry
from RCT2?
OMG Its you! XD
yep.
beatfox is oldschool but sick oldschool
instrument 8