Sorry I was having difficulty posting this in general music topic

  On 1/12/2025 at 2:06 PM, cern said:

The saxophone solo at 28.44 min in. Do you might know where it comes from? I think I heard that melody before. 

It's most probably Jimi Tenor playing, could be from a track of his.

  On 1/12/2025 at 2:08 PM, dcom said:

It's most probably Jimi Tenor playing, could be from a track of his.

Yeah, from the silhouette you can definitely tell it's Jimi playing, the glasses and the hairstyle. But I don't know he's tracks that well to recognize it.

  On 1/13/2025 at 2:02 PM, zkom said:

Yeah, from the silhouette you can definitely tell it's Jimi playing, the glasses and the hairstyle. But I don't know he's tracks that well to recognize it.

Close enough 
 

i like how we're talking about finland now

I forgot about pHinnWeb.org, it was there long before discogs and was always a top result if you were searching for any info about electronic music in the 90's. Then there was the demo scene and downloading tracker mods before you had the bandwidth for mp3's, and finding stuff like this!

  On 1/13/2025 at 7:42 PM, Enthusiast said:

I forgot about pHinnWeb.org

LOL, my "review" of Sähkö the Movie is still there.

  On 1/5/2025 at 2:11 AM, Mattthegoone said:

Do American people appreciate how much black (and white) american music from from Chicago, Detroit and NY in the 80s influenced European music? I'm not sure they do properly, obviously many do, not sure that the real love is there for the legends like it is over here among the countless EDM raving cabbages nowadays 

to answer your question - in short - no.

  On 1/13/2025 at 9:39 PM, dcom said:

LOL, my "review" of Sähkö the Movie is still there.

Very comprehensive review!

  On 1/13/2025 at 7:42 PM, Enthusiast said:

I forgot about pHinnWeb.org, it was there long before discogs and was always a top result if you were searching for any info about electronic music in the 90's. Then there was the demo scene and downloading tracker mods before you had the bandwidth for mp3's, and finding stuff like this!

There was some really great minimal and ambient tracker music going around the dial-up BBSs in the pre-web 90s. Fucking impossible to find now and I regret not having made backup copies. fuuu..

My memories probably have been colored by nostalgia though.

  On 1/14/2025 at 1:06 PM, zkom said:

There was some really great minimal and ambient tracker music going around the dial-up BBSs in the pre-web 90s. Fucking impossible to find now and I regret not having made backup copies. fuuu..

My memories probably have been colored by nostalgia though.

I've got a box around here with some zip disks labeled MODs and a parallel port zip drive.   Some day....   

  On 1/14/2025 at 1:06 PM, zkom said:

There was some really great minimal and ambient tracker music going around the dial-up BBSs in the pre-web 90s. Fucking impossible to find now and I regret not having made backup copies. fuuu..

My memories probably have been colored by nostalgia though.

my personal belief is that stuff we all colloquially call "hidden gems" dont really exist

One funny story in Finnish electronic music scene was Benjamin Antell's "There is a God in My Garage". Almost no one had heard of him. He made the track and the video, and I guess a self-released album. Then he just mailed the video to MTV Europe and they put it on rotation in programs like Chill Out Zone for the whole Europe to see. And IMO it's a pretty decent track, it fit well with the rest of the weird shit in Chill Out Zone. The time when an unknown DIY artist could get played on MTV Europe..

  On 1/14/2025 at 6:16 PM, dr lopez said:

my personal belief is that stuff we all colloquially call "hidden gems" dont really exist

Some time ago I actually went out and searched and found a tracker music "music disk" from the 90s that was supposed to be so out there. I remember people saying it was too weird to listen and I remembered myself that it was interesting. Turned out it was so boring standard tracker music I didn't even manage to finish listening to it, but on a technical level it is pretty good for what it is at least.

So yeah, I think my memories are not that reliable, but I swear there were these minimalist tracker music files that relied on the whole tracker aesthetic with glitchy and crunchy drum sounds, bursts of white noise, something that sounds like a signal generator from a lab and low bitrate samples from a TB-303 and other synths. Something a bit like Frank Bretschneider's Rhythm album but even more mimimalistic.

Hahmo is pure perfection.

in the old car radios you could switch to AM and turn the knob until you got a good mix of atmospheric interference and muffled unknown melodies. bonus when the radio wiring picked up engine interference as well