Amiga/C64 Demoscene Music

So any good nerd who grew up in the late 80's/early 90s would've recognized this music. Got any favourites?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLdQJmnwZb4&feature=related

 

Here's a demo made by my 2 bro's amiga-group in 1990. They were really hardcore at this stuff, even made games. My bro's did the graphics & coding, but the song is really fucking awesome. Very modern aphex-y!

Cool demo!

 

Demoscene music is what got me into synthesizers and electronic music in general. I listened to a lot of Lizardking and Necros when I was younger.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Towp41PbYwM

fleshbrain!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MivrkCxEeY

 

one of the biggest influences on my pselodux stuff.

I had the Binary Zone tape of Amiga mods, which I still love.

Edited June 7, 2017 by ZoeB

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I still listen to demoscene music from time to time. One of the coolest things a kid in the early 90's could find on the 'net (& BBS - anyone remember dialing those?)

One for the BoC kids

 

a classic

  On 6/7/2017 at 6:11 AM, qualitycontrol said:

I still listen to demoscene music from time to time. One of the coolest things a kid in the early 90's could find on the 'net (& BBS - anyone remember dialing those?)

I just caught the tail end of BBSes, the same time I started dialling into the 'net in the mid nineties. Last I heard, FidoNet was still going in Russia, but that was a while ago now.

 

On another fun note, listening to Amiga mods on headphones is why I have no problem listening to The Beatles in stereo on headphones either. Hard panning's fine to me. It was good enough for the REDD desk and the Amiga.

  On 6/7/2017 at 8:29 AM, ZoeB said:

On another fun note, listening to Amiga mods on headphones is why I have no problem listening to The Beatles in stereo on headphones either. Hard panning's fine to me. It was good enough for the REDD desk and the Amiga.

Oooh I can't do it for me - On my 'miggy emulator I've got to have it mixed down to mono or I think I've got hearing problems when the SFX are either hard left or hard right !

  On 6/7/2017 at 8:29 AM, ZoeB said:

 

  On 6/7/2017 at 6:11 AM, qualitycontrol said:

I still listen to demoscene music from time to time. One of the coolest things a kid in the early 90's could find on the 'net (& BBS - anyone remember dialing those?)

I just caught the tail end of BBSes, the same time I started dialling into the 'net in the mid nineties. Last I heard, FidoNet was still going in Russia, but that was a while ago now.

 

 

I kind of got into BBSs just as they were entering into their golden era in the early 90's. Every other kid seemed to have their own BBS back in 1993 or there about. That lasted until the rise of home internet connections (still through modem though). I remember the dozens or hundreds of networks linking the BBSs, specialized BBSs, etc. Also I got my first email through a BBS that would sync during the night and also had a limited number of USENET newsgroup subscriptions.

 

I also did some demo fx programming, and still occasionally do some things just out of fun. Like this bit of sine plasma running in a linux shell I quickly whipped up when I needed something as a background video for my track.

 

 

 

Anyway, when I got in to demoscene, the shift had already happened towards PCs and Amiga and C64 were kind of getting trampled. But if I'm not completely wrong the C64 scene didn't use that much BBSs at least in the early times but mail swapping instead? That's also how warez worked way back in the 1980s..

That's neat! Have always been jealous of the assembly skills of demo programmers - Despite trying many many times I never even remotely wrapped my head around the language (6502,68k, or otherwise)

 

My current obsession in the demo scene are the 4kb demos e.g.

 

 

 

 

and (though these two are an 'extravagant' 64kilobytes)

 

 

Yeah, the low kilobyte intros/demos are where it's at for me also. Even going to the 256 byte intros. :) 

 

Also the super crunchy VIC-20 etc demos. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SdGkkp1aq8

Your boingball avatar works perfectly for this thread ;)

If anyone's interested in modern, well recorded Amiga music, that still sounds like oldskool demo productions, check this album out by my good friend cTrix:

 

 

https://bleepstreet.bandcamp.com/album/a-for-amiga

 

He's also made/been involved with some interesting demos for various consoles:

 

 

I know I bring his music up at any opportunity, but he really is pretty damn good :D

+1 for cTrix

 

  On 6/7/2017 at 12:09 PM, mcbpete said:

Your boingball avatar works perfectly for this thread ;)

Yeah modey that stuff's badass!

 

  On 6/7/2017 at 9:11 AM, mcbpete said:

This is one of my favorite demos ever. Just completely blows my mind and it looks (and sounds!) so damn good.