Oh man, this is amazing. I'm teary-eyed with nostalgia, too.
For anyone who is unfamiliar with the demoscene and tracker music, here are some recommended old-school tunes to spin up to get a feel for the art at the time. (Someone more in touch than me will have to lead you to the new school!) Just keep in mind the technological limitations on some of these songs: 4 channels, maybe 100k all-in for such wonderful music. Truly amazing.
My recommendations, running from 1986-1993ish:
Karsten Obarski - Crystal Hammer
Firefox - Galaxy 2
Uncle Tom - Poseidon
Jester - Elysium
Captain - Space Debris
Tip + Firefox - Enigma
Mantronix - Act Of Impulse
4-mat - Red Sector Theme
Romeo Knight - Cream Of The Earth
Greg - Odyssey Part 2
Jugi - Onward Ride
Laxity - Desert Dream
Damn - this player is awesome; I was never someone who could make tracker music, but I loved to listen to it back in the day on my Amigas (both of which I still own). Getting new MODs from Fred Fish and other ways was always a treat.
Ah...and Octamed...this has brought a touch of nostalgia, etc - for me. Those times are long past, but a bit of them can still be enjoyed with this software.
Catch that Goblin was amazing, when it started playing at the partyplace, everyone sort of stopped not paying attention to the compo, and turned their heads with a "wtf" face. IIRC some of the samples got Skaven in trouble with Disney.
Audiomonster's music on Ice by TSL was phenomenal. https://youtube.com/watch?v=JaG1vIkmhk4 the first track was worth removing the disk to be able to listen the whole thing. I believe he now scores movie soundtracks.
I wanted to also link Economy 5 by XTD, the hidden track for Technological Death by Mad Elks IIRC, but the player seems to choke on the hashes, or I did something wrong: http://modland.com/pub/modules/Protracker/XTD/
For anyone who is unfamiliar with the demoscene and tracker music, here are some recommended old-school tunes to spin up to get a feel for the art at the time. (Someone more in touch than me will have to lead you to the new school!) Just keep in mind the technological limitations on some of these songs: 4 channels, maybe 100k all-in for such wonderful music. Truly amazing.
My recommendations, running from 1986-1993ish: Karsten Obarski - Crystal Hammer Firefox - Galaxy 2 Uncle Tom - Poseidon Jester - Elysium Captain - Space Debris Tip + Firefox - Enigma Mantronix - Act Of Impulse 4-mat - Red Sector Theme Romeo Knight - Cream Of The Earth Greg - Odyssey Part 2 Jugi - Onward Ride Laxity - Desert Dream
I'm sure others can add more. What amazing times!