This song has some serious groove. Nice work!

this is gold dude how do you even do this

Echoes of a misspent youth. Most of these songs are from the mid-90's, resurrected and sanitized for your listening pleasure.

Demoscene tracks

I'd call this a remake, but it's honestly a cover of my own track. The original, flawed in all its good intentions, never quite sat with me. The jazzz simply wasn't strong enough. It needed more of a jam feel, more of a climax, and definitely more horns.

Original XM:
https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=152067

I'll Call You Back

This remake took a couple of tries to get right. The original XM competed in the multichannel compo at The Party 1995. It ended up in 16:th place which I felt pretty good about, given that the mix was absolute mooseshit.

Plenty of things ended up on the shop floor for this one. The original drums were all room and no slap. The guitar sample I stole from Zodiak (Hej, Erik!) had to be axed, as did the obscure wah wah guitar sample I forgot the source of. Most significantly, though, that pretty psyched sax solo had to go, as it was nicked from some The Roots live bootleg, so I decided to hand the reins over to the keyboards for this one. When in doubt, always bet on a hardsync solo.

The part at 3:11 is actually a decent enough ending, but I really didn't feel like wrapping it up. Three-minute songs honestly feel too short these days, so I threw in a return of the main motif with this meandering kinda "just play what you want, this is the fadeout anyway" part that was just fantastic to make. Always loved a good jam.

Mooserun

XM remake from 1997.

I never really cared for this track. The sounds, sampled off a Roland JV-35, were clean and reasonably punchy but also quite flat and annoying. The lead sound was grating, the solo atrocious, and the melody had a childish, irritating quality that has this track firmly on my shitlist. All the more reason to give it a second chance!

First up was deciding what to do about the lead instrument. After some experimentation I found a tweak to my standard "two slightly detuned saws" that brought a bit more motion to it, something needed for all those sustained notes. I also dug into the organ arrangement, trying to pepper some inspiration into the very monotonous chord progressions.

As always with these remakes, it's humbling for me to hear my musical ideas come out with more clarity and purpose, and as per the rule, this is now one of my favorites. I hope it'll be yours too.

Original XM:
https://ftp.scene.org/pub/music/artists/tito/champagn.zip

Champagne

Happier!
At least a bit more than:
https://soundcloud.com/fark/glad

Guitar solo by Cygnus Hvalfart Krogh (a.k.a. "Magnus Lillemark")

Older version sans guitar solo: https://soundcloud.com/fark/dritglad-old

This track is a part of my album "Utelat" https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/fark/utelat

Dritglad (old version) (Feat. Cygnus H. K.)

From "Legacy Tracks (1990-2010)" available on Spotify/Youtube Music.

Blank Page (2009)

"Wonderlight" is the soundtrack to our demo "Comaland" which won the C64 demo competition at X-2014. The tune is composed on and recorded from a real Commodore 64 with two 8580R5 SID chips. The Cover is a screenshot of the demo, logo pixeled by Yazoo/Oxyron.

Check out the demo on the real thing here:
http://csdb.dk/release/?id=133940

Cause of Death

Wonderlight

Get the album now

Wonderlight (Theme from Comaland)

Junkie 2149 (Atari ST)

It's remake time, folks! Didn't manage to find the original release date for the song, but my best guess would be somewhere around 1996 or so, going by samples and technique. 

Usually, these remixes are a juicy stew of old and new -- I always start with bounced tracks from OpenMPT, and replace things like kicks and basses to clear up the mix. In this case, however, almost nothing survived since the mix was such a mess. The most rewarding part came when I finally nailed the drums (four layers of full kits!) and got to work on the brass. The song really came alive at that point, and the rest of the time was spent fiddling with the organ, which was the major copy-paste offender.

Oh, and the name differs slightly from the original, to avoid infringing on the trademark of a certain fast food chain.

Enjoy!

Original mod here: http://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=152077

Pizza Hat

https://multistylelabs.bandcamp.com/album/modern-love-classics
http://csdb.dk/release/?id=157489
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=71132

Jammer - Walking Squares

A remastered extended version of the song made for the 2006 Candela demo of the same name.

For once I actually have the old project files around, albeit not usable on my current workstation. I instead set up a WinXP VM with all my old plugins and DAW:s so I could export and reference the stuff I used. The MIDI notes and Kontakt instruments were easily exportable to FL Studio, and the only casualty was the Cubase-specific filter plugin Tonic which I had to replicate as well as I could. I also added back some parts that were cut out of the demo for time, and replaced some drums to improve the mix.

A shout-out must go to the z3ta+ VSTi and its great implementation of Hermode tuning. It's what makes the signature sound of this track possible, having such aggressive distorsion without all the mud that comes from equal-tempered tuning.

Jeff

Occasionally, I'll think of an old track from my scene days that had a good idea, but the execution was just too sloppy for the song to work. This song is the most glaring example; the drums were stuttery and un-groovy, the "zomg jazzy" chords just didn't work, and the song was WAY too repetitive.

As usual, the mindset for me is "if I made this song today, how would I do it?" Well, nailing the groove was top priority, so I cleaned up the kick rhythm to the point where the bass could carry the heavy load. I briefly considered re-doing the brass with proper samples, but that is A) time-consuming and B) kinda ignores the tracker roots of the song. So I whipped up a "brass-like" patch in Harmor that worked quite well. Gotta love them swells =)

Finally, it was just a case of listening to the song over and over until one part stuck out to me as annoying, and trying to read that "allergic reaction" and make something that fit. So the post-solo jam part was born, and I think it adds the perfect apogee moment that justifies a six-minute track.

One note on the jazzy chord progressions: I have ABSOLUTELY no idea what I'm doing. In fact, I don't even know what chords they are, I just stack shit up until it sounds like jazz. This, I feel, is at the core of how this song was written back in 1995.

Original XM: https://www.scenemusic.net/demovibes/song/7000/

Downtown Cab

This sucker was stuck in remake hell for quite some time. Sometimes there's just no magic, and I struggled for a long time with getting the groove to feel punchy but with some depth.

The secret, in this case, was adding the clav-like synth to make the groove a bit more in-your-face. I also added the solo section at the end and took some bigger swings with the harmonies.  Still a very short song (the original was around 2:20 I think), but I really think it's fine that way. It's more of a short story than a novel, if you will.

Oh, and the name. Another one of those silly puns. I just wish I had thought of "beer mitzvah" back then.

Original XM: https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=152078

Pray Bar

released at Nordlicht 2012 tracked music competition.
Done with Hivelytracker on Amiga.
Original by Chromag in 1994

Amiga: Chromag - Switchback (Virgill Hively Rmx)

Again in Apple walled garden. I missed all these music tools in the range of my hand <3

Fastlane

An upbeat track I made with vst's but with a chiptune layout.

Loca roca

I'm just a tiny, yellow ball making funky music.

"Wii sports on crack" -- MorN

"Makes me think of a news station bringing you the most intense news but at a point in time when it's all run by robots and cyborgs" -- RthR

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