Chiptune tracker music I made in the 90s (1 Hour of Fasttracker 2, 1996-99)

As a teenager I went to several demo-scene parties and was a member of music groups. I call these chip-tunes because the files are usually less than 64kb in size but they don’t sound very bubbly or lo-fi like synthesized chip-tunes you may know from the SID, Gameboy, NES or OPL3. All samples are in 8Bit. I also did not use lots of arpeggios. The samples are often short and randomly hand-drawn segments which can sound quit harsh in retrospect. I applied some EQ and stereo width to combat the harshness but I could not avoid it completely. I hope the harshness does not put you off because I find the compositions are worth listening to nevertheless. I actually almost cried when I listened to these for the first time in 25 years. I stuck to more breakbeat- and sound designy music making after this phase but I remembered how sweet melodic stuff can be. I never learned music theory and made everything by trial and error, finding interesting chords and stuff. This made me miss my youth times and the demo-scene. Everything was so exciting back then, the demo-scene, CD-Rom, the internet, 3D graphics, MP3, DVD, Voodo Graphics, games, trackers, flat-screens were things which came into existence. I hope this is decent background music to listen to. Also see my tracker playlist: Gearmo 0:00 One eye jack (29 kb) 1:38 Ghalimah-shub di dey (66 kb) 6:12 You are a winner (19 kb) 7:40 Trip to tp8 (the party 98) (49 kb) 11:34 (58 kb) 13:45 Chipadelic #3 intro (56 kb) 16:25 Magic wings (89 kb) 20:23 Keine Ahnung (22 kb) 22:26 Chps r ever the same (german teenage grammar :D, 29 kb) 24:33 Keeping in the range (140 kb) 26:50 Chipadelic (55 kb) 30:06 (151 kb) 31:58 Gangtaz in Akbar (29 kb) 33:56 Rawdata (38 kb) 35:42 Sarsaparille (12 kb) 37:47 wAhnsInn (36 kb) 39:33 Ren & Stimpy (80 kb) 42:28 (84 kb) 45:16 easyflow bay (11 kb) 47:27 tunnelmucke (5 kb) 47:43 spacejam (28 kb) 49:29 a joint in your nose (40 kb) 51:30 (Done at the Mekka / Symposium party in Fallingbostel, 202 kb)
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