The greatest tracker (demoscene) composers /
Purple Motion, Necros, Skaven
For all of us who yet remember the Demoscene , Purple
Motion, Necros and Skaven are absolutely legendary names.
Their music work contribution for tracked Electronic music, video
games music and general development of the IT culture is truly
invaluable.
Many younger computer users (I'm 26 now), and probably IT starters
would probably never heard about neither Demoscene nor
Purple
Motion or the other three patriarchs of tracked Electronic
music.
This musicians have a special value for people who has ever
composed music with Impulse Tracker
and the many other programs to compose music from samples.
Purple Motion has his own home page for quite some time now,
however I just noticed that he has recently turned his home page to
a PHPBB Forum where there is plenty of information about the
composer as well as open discission and many questions and answers
of people who are interested into the great electronic
composer.
The third by significance electronic musician who is probably known
by the many old school computer users and musicians is Skaven .
Skaven is part of the Future
Crew , for the unknowning Future Crew (link to
wikipedia)
- "Future Crew is a now-defunct group of Finnish computer coders
and artists who created PC demos and software, active mostly
between 1992 and 1994."
You might also consider checking
Necros profile in modarchive
There you can find plenty if not all of his works for download and
listening. If you really want to completely turn back some memories
about the good old times when we used to use DOS environment and to
listen the great old MOD, S3M, XM etc. songs with the good old
Cubic player which is
already available under the free port called Open Cubic Player
Under Debian Lenny, Squeeze/Sid installing opencubicplayer is
pretty easy and comes to simple installation via apt-get as
follows:
debian-desktop:~# apt-get install
opencubicplayer
First time I've noticed Cubic player I should admit it was a real
joy to know there is already a Unix port since Linux and BSD are my
OS choice for almost 10 years already.
I've created a mirror copy of the music prepared in the original
format of creation of the 3 composers (Purple Motion, Necros,
Skaven) on my personal webserver. Below you find links to the music
prepared by the 3 composers.
Many of the demos created and works by Jonne Valtonen known
under the artistic pseudonim Purple Motion are currently
uploaded and available for watching via
Youtube - (search) Purple Motion
I'll close this post with a the Award Winning Demos (Second
Reality and Panic) which are the most notable produced Computer
Simulation Demos of all times created by the collossal Future Crew
group.