Back to the BBS - Part 7: The Music Tracker Scene
Channel: Al's Geek Lab
Date: 25/02/2022

Starting with the Commodore Amiga, Module tracker music was the first widely used consumer grade sampled audio. It made huge inroads in computer games and the Demoscene from the late '80s onwards. This episode of Back to the BBS starts off from where the last episode on the Demoscene left off. Interviews in this episode include members of the legendary Demo group, The Future Crew: musicians Purple Motion (Jonne Valtonen) and Skaven (Peter Hajba) join cTrix (Chris Mylrae), TDK (Mark Knight) and Trixter (Jim Leonard). We talk about the equipment, how the music was made, how the demoscene adopted the format as well as fame and fortune with the games industry. This is a bumper episode that you don't want to miss!

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Credits and attributions were too long to fit in this description so are at the end of the video.

You can purchase cTrix's album, "A is for Amiga here":
https://bleepstreet.bandcamp.com/album/a-for-amiga

You can purchase Purple Motion's album "Tracked" here:
https://purplemotion.bandcamp.com/album/tracked-1991-2000

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TOC:
0:00 Opening Title & Credits
0:35 Introduction
2:43 Jonne Valtonen AKA Purple Motion
3:12 Chris Mylrae AKA cTrix
3:28 Peter Habja AKA Skaven
3:48 Mark Knight AKA TDK
4:00 The Commodore Amiga: Digitised Music
6:23 Tracking and other computer instruments
8:22 TDK explains his roots
11:42 Jim Leonard AKA Trixter talks tracker music
13:38 Starting out in the demo scene: The Future Crew
15:40 Instruments and MIDI
16:38 How tracker music works
21:11 BBSes and Getting Instrument Samples
27:50 How did you get into electronic music?: Future Crew
30:27 Getting into games music with Mindscape: TDK
31:50 Wing Commander
34:58 How I got into music: cTrix
42:49 How to Make Tracker Music
46:00 Making music for demos
49:32 Limitations lead to creativity
56:07 Second Reality: Future Crew's big demo
57:50 Hitting the big time
1:13:20 Having fun on BBSes
1:17:20 Wrapping up
1:20:45 End credits and signoff from Skaven and Purple Motion