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Here are some recommendations for those on HN new to the tracker scene:

Jester - Elysium

Jester - Stardust Memories

Tip and Firefox - Enigma

Greg - Odyssey Pt. 2

Firefox - Galaxy 2

Mantronix - Act Of Impulse

Dr. Awesome - 12th Warrior

NHP + BKH - Enigma Year

Captain - Space Debris

Captain - Beyond Music

Uncle Tom - Occ-San-Geen

Romeo Knight - Beat To The Pulp

What a crazy and beautiful era for creativity! A German, Swedes, a Swiss, a Norwegian, two Frenchmen, two Finns..all with four channels and about 200k of space. Not to mention they were probably all teenagers at the time too!

The demoscene is such a great deep dive -- I'm only referencing about three years of productions here, there's so much more that came after on the PC side and even lots before too if you dig into the C64 and Atari scenes. So much goodness!

Wrong continent and era for me unfortunately. :)

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Here's a playlist with all of these songs! Thanks for the great recommendations

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnRRE4-idfADx_BgudiHYizK7...

My pleasure! Let me know which one is your favorite :)

Enigma has been my ringtone for the best part of 15 years now so I already know :)

.. also Deadlock by Elwood. Or in fact, anything by Elwood…

I would have to agree and I love Elwood too (so much!).

I think we should note though, that Elwood's main contributions were during the PC-tracker-scene 'era' (FastTracker2) and not so much an Amiga thing.

Yes, this -- I didn't want to be too pedantic :) If we were getting into the PC scene, Elwood would have made an appearance with Purple Motion and loads of others.

Thank you. If you like tracker music you might like this one too

Binaerpilot: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mPZ2AmFjEVSeZjnW7O...

There's a modern remix of Space Debris on the soundtrack of the 2011 game Rochard by Recoil Games. It was made by the original artist Markus "Captain" Kaarlonen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsapsOqc7UI

>Wrong continent and era for me unfortunately. :)

As someone who was in the midst of it here in Denmark, I can tell you that, as a teenager who was used to anything cool always coming from the US, I assumed that there were much cooler demos being made in the states that we simply didn't have access to.

That's so wild. I was lucky to grow up in a relatively large city in the era of BBSes and then IRC, so I was able to find a decent community of fellow nerds. If there was one thing that consistently blew us away, it was the demoscene -- everything about it seemed so amazing and creative and we were all just so bummed that we were on the wrong continent to ever attend Assembly or TheParty.

Apart from maaaaybe Renaissance on the PC I'm hard-pressed to really name a significant American demogroup whereas I get a huge smile thinking about a party where you had Silents sitting next to Phenomena sitting next to Sanity sitting next to Scoopex.

In a way I give a lot of credit to the scene for my eventual career as a tech entrepreneur. What I loved so much to do with my computer was create: draw ANSI, make music, build websites from scratch. Eventually that became starting companies, but so much of that spirit was generated from my marvel at what some European teenagers were able to do with computer 1% as powerful as mine.

LizardKing - Desert Dawn

Moby - Elekfunk

Also shouts to Sklathill, whose stuff I can't find in Mod Archive otherwise I'd recommend him too.

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