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More Data – Less Knobs! About Tracker Music Remakes
Two old Amiga music legends have recently decided to re-make some of their olden goldies. Lizardking and Mantronix made melodic synth music, somewhere inbetween … Koto and Jean-Michel Jarre? German...
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Generation 64: A Harmless Story About the C64 Generation?
I just got a copy of the book Generation 64, and wanted to make a quick blurb.. Generation 64 is a new book about the generation of Swedes who grew up with the Commodore 64. It’s only available in...
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Famous People Who Came From the Demoscene
The demoscene can be an utterly useless experience to have. Who cares about what you can do in 1024 bytes? On the other hand, the scene is like a secret society. Sceners give other sceners work...
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Black Dog, Swedish House Mafia, Anthony Rother – New Old Sceners!
After I published the rough blog post draft Famous People who Came From the Scene I received hundreds of suggestions of sceners who moved on to the music charts, the cinema, the gaming industry, and so...
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Cartridge Music – the Best of Two Worlds?
Releasing music on a cartridge that needs an old 8-bit platform to work, might seem like the worst way of releasing music today. But if you think about it a bit more…. A cartridge takes the best parts...
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What Can We Learn From the Demoscene?
I was in Montréal for the I/O Symposium and gave the talk What Can We Learn From the Demoscene? In 45 minutes I explained everything about the scene and explained what other fields could learn from it....
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1989 Appearance of the Chip Music Term
Who first started to use the chipmusic term, when and where? I once wrote that 4mat’s first chip music disk from 1989 could be one of the oldest mentions of the term. But nobody knew where that music...
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About the demotalks at DATASTORM
So a few weeks ago we did another DATASTORM, a party for oldschool computing. The venue we’re at has had some recent troubles with the Swedish authorities because of bla-bla, but in the end everything...
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The terms chipmusic and chiptune was sparsely used during the 1980’s and started to become popular on the Amiga around 1990. It seems like it referred to both synthetic Amiga music (hypertracker “soft...
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The First Megademos?
I’ve always liked the term ‘megademo’. It hasn’t really been that popular since its demise in the early 1990s, but my group Hack n’ Trade has kept the tradition going. Why? Well, the megademo form...
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