To me this sound is all about friendship, having fun, respecting art and the struggle against machine limitations that lead to so much creativity. Truly a golden age.
I'm an American who didn't know of the Amiga as a child. So I had no idea who Jogeir was but one day a few years back I search videogame music and found this. I exercise to this music all the time and have even lost 25 pounds (11.3kg), so Jogeir has influenced me to be healthier and has changed my life. For that I am gracious.
This is kinda weird that lot's of Americans didn't heard about Amiga in 80's and 90's because Commodore Amiga is basically a company from the USA. In fact, Amiga was very popular in Europe in the early-mid 90's
@@PrzeszczepiX Maybe it's a class thing? We didn't have a lot so for me we were always a console a generation behind. I never heard of Amiga until maybe the PS1 or PS2 days.
As an American (who's older) i not only remember the Amiga but i also had one. (Plus a C-64 and a 128D that i ran my BBS off of) The problem was the price. They were quite expensive.
Loved my Amiga. I'm not 50 years old and still think it was the best computer ever. I tricked out my 1200 beyond anything commodore ever imagined and was sad the day I gave in and moved to PC. Such a epic machine. Learned to code on it too.
Back before mp3's were a thing, I hoarded MODs and S3Ms like nobody's business. Never had an Amiga, but that system deserved more than the inadequate recognition it got. One can only wonder what would've happened if Commodore Systems had a Steve Jobs
I'm too young to have grown up with trackers and mods but somehow wound up discovering it around 2007 at about 12 years of age. downloaded and ripped a whole bunch from the archive and stuffed them on my iPod. i'm so grateful that i did. defies genre. even a decade later some of the hugest earworms i've ever had have been jogeir tracks. some days out of the blue i will just start humming or whistling one of those amazing tunes.
We dug our dads old amiga 500 we used to play on as kids out of the storage with my sister over the Christmas break and now I felt like I HAD to revisit one of my fave amiga music compilations. Such artistry ❤️
It's something to cry about. All the world lost it's magic after 1999, cultural, musical, all future dreams faded, all creativity faded and individuality grew into intolerable rate. Our present day world is cold and bitter. The only positive thing is RUclips exists so we can enjoy the better days we once had. Rip 80s and 90s, we always will miss you.
Yeah I feel it's because of peak neoliberalism. It used to be the case that things changed so fast that old people couldn't understand contemporary music and pop culture. Now you just think: meh heard this before. Mark Fisher wrote extensively about these "lost futures".
I had the Amiga 500 in 1987 with Kickstart v1.2. Love all those memories! He is a brilliant musician! One of the best on the Amiga! These tunes have a real positive and uplifting vibe! Pure emotions - that's how music should be.
NEY Industries I was born in 1980 and I'm from the UK. The ZX Spectrum/Commodore was what most households used here until the early 90's until PC's started becoming affordable but even then, the majority of people only had a TV. The problem with the Amiga was that it was pretty expensive for the time and in the context of what it could actually do. It was little more than an expensive gaming computer really. I had to go to my mates to play his. He was the only guy I knew who owned one. He was lucky enough to have fairly wealthy parents.
Miss those days so much...Trading,swapping,illegal hacked calling cards from Sprint and At&t,copy-parties...Iceman from Zylon/Alpha-Flight on the scroller here :) You can still find my old intro/demo compilations "New Dimensions' on youtube ;)
I remember discovering this video in early 2020. That's when I got to know more about .MODs and tracker music and even this Jogeir guy. I kept seeing this in my recommended. At one point I think I had RUclips on autoplay, so it started playing these songs. Little did I know that it was Jogeir Liljedahl. Excellent as always his tunes. I always keep coming back to these two compilations made by off1k.
Epic compilation! Jogeir is a good friend of mine and he's actually part of Maniacs of Noise these days. A humble Jogeir bear he is, with his heart exactly at the right place!
Wow... Such good memories from back then. There were no internet, and no mp3's, so this was my only source for this music genre (talking about early 80's). And you could save a song only to diskette which today would be able to hold less than 1 minute of an mp3 file. And you could had dozens of them on one diskette (depending on sample quality)! I even did some of my own MOD's/S3M's/XM's. Chip tunes forever!
@@vageliskomninos2723 Actually, Amiga formatted floppy disk was exactly 880KB (11*512-byte sectors/track, multiplied with 80 tracks, and able to write on two sides). I was always unhappy about that, since standard PC formatted floppy disk was able to hold 1.44MB (though, properly formatted, it can hold even 2.8MB). That's roughly two thirds more space on one identical floppy disk, which at that time was a huge advantage. Seeing today's 1TB micro SD cards weighting and in size of 100's times less.. We indeed do live in the future!
@@-Burs oh yes you are right i forgot how much exactly less than a MB that floppy was. I do remember some games needed 4 or 6 floppys space. and i had a A500+ bought back in 1991 lol what times!! i was entirely consumed with this Amiga for about 8 years when i bought my first windows 95 pc back in 1997. i can only say that Amiga still worked last time i checked in 2012
@@-Burs Well, yes but actually no. It depends on what kind of diskette you have. Single Density (SD), Double Density (DD), Quad Density (QD), High Density (HD) or Extra High Density (EHD). I think DD and HD were by far the most common formats. DD can hold 720KB on a PC, 400KB on a Mac and 880KB on an Amiga, due to different sector sizes and whatnot. So, if you will, there were two standard diskettes: DD with 720/880KB and HD with 1.4MB. AFAIK the A500 never had a disk drive that could read HD disks (I don't know about other Amigas), but it's totally possible to "downgrade" HD disks to DD disks by simply putting some tape over the second hole.
@@LordHorst Yeah, I was talking about Amiga 500, and both A500/A1200 could only make use of 880KB. When you used HD floppy disks (even without tape-hack), these Amiga models would format the diskette as DD, because floppy drives didn't even have the mechanism to detect that second hole. Anyways, if you format it either as 400KB or 1.4MB, it's far below "standard" mp3 size (let's say 3min @128Kbit = ~2.9MB), and that's what I was trying to say before :) Nowadays no one cares about storage space, because it's dirt-cheap haha..
I had a 500, 1200, and 3000. I used the 3000 regularly as a serious machine upwards of 97-98, as it could still do many things better than an equivalent PC, and all without abuse from monopolistic jerkass companies. I regularly used AmIRC, ncftp, YAM and such. At the time, the 3000 only had 2 megs chip and 4 of fast, and the 1200 2/16. I actually still have those machines and sometimes use 'em (although I rely on emulation more these days). I've picked up a second A500, a trio of 1200s for parts, and a 4000 modified into a 4000T with third party parts. The 1200 and 3000 have 64 and 16 megs of fast RAM nowadays.
Even though I'm only 19 years old, I love these tracks! I'm very grateful to several retro pc YT channels, if I hadn't found those old machines, I would've never found these either! :) Thus I'm an old pc collector now too. xD
well an amiga isn't a PC it's more of a CC (consumer computer) since at the time PC's were expensive but an CC like an Atari ST or an Amiga 500 is much more cheaper then even the simplest of PC's and can do more!
@@TheSudsy < Commodore was trying to market the Amiga line as a multi-media computer, course as most of us know it turned out to be an amazing gaming machine.
Excellent to hear you discovered this. The C64 before the Amiga had a significant relevance and indeed is where many of the greatest digit and bit coders started out. I was always glued to my C64 and Amiga, purely inspiring machines; 20 years later I coded games and demos that I could only dream of making back then. Good luck in making your dreams come true Mr. Next Generation :) As for all this current world wrapping situation, forget it, chill with some quality commodore music :):):)
Remember all that work to get it all into just 4chnl, with the next sound clipping the first one. It had it's limitations but we made it work. Some dudes had synthesizers and sampled stuff just for specific tunes. Chords and stuff, like in these ones. We hade to save from other tunes to build a sample library. Early 90s protracker years was awesome...
YT gave me this. So much memories 😥I still have my 3,5" Amiga floppy disks of my own assembly code intros and demos here. But not the machine. Possibly they are not readable any more. But I kept them for 35 years. Could not throw them away 🙃These teenage years laid all the foundations of becoming a SW developer.
This guy was such an influence to me. I spent many hours listening to Face Another Day. That one track is 20 mins (?) of pure awesomeness. I love the progression in his music - just don't get bored of it.. and of course he always had little retrospectives toward C64 music classics too :-)
Too young & too American to have had an Amiga, but I've fallen in love with its musical abilities. Music like this or the compositions of Neurodancer or Jester are just so energizing.
We in Europe (mainly in Germany, England, Poland) have had that luck to experience Amiga in late 80's and early 90's (mostly). In my country (Poland) it was very popular, if you had Amiga back then you were really lucky and cool kid/teenager. And automatically you got lots of friends on your neighbourhood ;) Amiga 500, 600 and later 1200 were most popular. It was far superior than SNES, ofcourse it had better capabilities, but most of all it wasn't just a game console, it was a fully-fledged computer. Also amiga had great amount of software in its library including mostly games, but also utility programs. In summary: in my country (and not only) amiga raised most of youth born in 70's and 80's at the 90's era :)
05:30 till 12:00 are seconds of master piece.Rember that Jochen Hippel has writeen the song Jogeir Liljedahl has rearranged that.Jochen Hippel wrote this track "Nearly there" or "A prehistoric tale" when he was just 19 years old(born in 1971,the track has been published with game "Prehistoric tale" in 1990).Amazing talents.Good old retro good mood music.Nice for car drive on highroad.
I've been wide eyed since clicking the 5:30 mark. This is absolutely beautiful. Synthwave is so underrated. I've loved this type of music for decades. So happy it is getting the attention it always deserved. Even if it is 20-30 years too late. No human should live their lives without hearing this serenity. God Bless You, composers of this ear food.
Man, the amount of awesome stuff people could squeeze out of just 4 monophonic channels makes me feel really bad about how little I’m able to do with basically unlimited ones... limitation really does breed creativity, I suppose.
Just Wow.......and then wow again !!!!! I'm using Reason to make electronic music since 2001 and franckly, this clip just blew my mind away. The quality of the samples is on another level for a 1993 apps !
In a weird way, it was easier to be creative back then, since you basically had a sequencer and that's it. The sounds you hear, were the sounds you got. Now, you have an infinity possibility of tones and sounds and samples, which leaves no time left for sequencing / composing.
There's something oddly comforting about the Guitar Slinger track. I don't even remember the track at the time but listening to it brings back memories of the early 90's. It's hard to describe but it's as if I've heard it before even though I haven't.
Guitar Slinger is so unique among other mods it immediately grabbed my attention first time I heard it. Funny thing it was Jogeir who composed that known for his synth driven stuff.
Had not heard Nearly There before. Now I listen to it all the time. Found it on Xmp Mod Player and have it on loop for hours. Love the drums. Love mod music.
i listened to Jogeir in FT2 on pc around 1996 and i am listening again after 18 years.. sure brings back many happy memories..
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Definitely Guitar Slinger is my fave on here! Its sounds so unlike any other mod! The instruments are so clean, it sounds like a real song, if you know what I mean! There is another song i am looking for. Something about cars. It has some Spanish guys in it. I do not know if it is by the same guy that wrote these, but in the same vein. I.E. Using completely different instruments to most other moduels on the Amiga.
+yogibear2k10 Ok, after thinking about this for a bit the tune I think you're looking for is 'Fable about cars 2' by Dreamer. amp.dascene.net/detail.php?detail=modules&view=2260 scroll down to bottom of page and you will see it, hope that's the one :))
Reminds me of the great public domain software scene at the time & all the fun to be had making up your own music tracks with the awesome free software people just gave away. For the life of me I can't remember the names of any of them though, getting old now lol
Some legit Jarre Sound: No need to pose around with a rich kids quadrillion Dollar Fairlight CMI, just be resourceful and take an Amiga. Dope. This teaches me that I have an absolute powerhouse at my fingertips and I don't even scratch it's surface. Shame.
not many Amiga folk played around with more than 4 tracks, if you had an Amiga, evidently with the emulators these days, there is more option, up to infinity.. I still love Amiga music, there is something about it!!!!
I am Still Amazed today with the MOD Music that was made back in the day with the MOD Editor on the Amiga . I Congratulate all the Guys that made it Possible.
Oro Incenso sounds a lot like a version of Crosswords by Thomas E. Petersen on the C64. Also Signia has that melody from Walking in the Air which is pretty cool.
Amiga is a legendary computer. The sample feature was amazing. I miss those days very much. Thank you for sharing. I still listen to it. It's a great music adventure.I will convert it to mp3!!! for my car
Those were the days! Watching demos and running music disks downloaded from a demo scene BBS on a friend's Amiga (lucky guy!). Jogeir and all those guys really knew their stuff.
This brings back memories! Used to have Physical Presence on a demo disk and let it loop in the background in my room as a kid. Have to say - 15:40 to 16:40 is just sublime!
@@aaronmicalowe We haven't. Take a look at the c64 demo "A Mind is Born" by Linus Åkesson. It was written recently, and it's probably as compact as you can get. A 2+ minute demo with music and graphics... in 256 bytes of code. To put it in other terms, in the same space that Guitar Slinger.mod takes up... you could fit one thousand five hundred executables of his demo.
@@VastyVastyVoid nice organic demo. I saw something similar done a ZX81 once. They output the audio as the video output to create audio somehow. This ZX81 only had 1k of memory for the code, the video output and memory for variables and they even incorporated a reflective drawing of a city and a scroller apologising for the out of memory error that was to end it, lol. The guy who wrote it didn't know how to program in ZX81 just a few days before, came into a community, asked for some peek and poke codes, was told it was impossible, and then showed us the demo like magic.
im glad the amiga scene is big and alive this brings me right back to the 801`s when i bought my first amiga 500 iligal floppy copie`s and a whole lot of demo`s wish i good go back :)
@@harrisonhall1139 Yes great as well. And the Commodore 64 ... what the game devs did to create the music is amazing ... to get the wibbly-wobbly effects.
When we drove each month to the Venlo meetings and Radwar Parties (nice time to remember) we ever heard C64 and Amiga soundtracks from tape. I still love the music.
I don't think your statement is correct. The first "tracker" is probably Soundtracker and comes from the Amiga. Before and long after, on the C64, Spectrum and Atari ST, there was no tracker. Musicians had to do pure code (sounds and partition).
l love this music. It's awesome. It took me back to brightest days of my life. Days of true friendship, fun and hope. Whenever I have to struggle with problems I listen to it and try to recover memories and feelings of that precious time... Kors (aka MAS, Alex) of Obsession sends greetings to all demoscene members :)
That's because the organ sounds are sampled straight out of that track. Jogeir even made a very sample-heavy cover of What Is Love around the same time.
@@Offensive_Username I disagree. Chris Huelsbek, Allister Brimble, and David Whittaker managed to get some phenomenally crisp and clear samples for their Amiga music.
Sreenikethan I no it's not. midi is a set of protocol standard for any soundcard either in hardware or in software. mod is a tracker format like .xm, .s3m, .it etc.. originally for the low-end amiga 500 with the paula sound chip so it has a few octaves, 4 channels weirdly interpolated, 8-bit (signed/unsigned) samples and 64 different volumes
great! Who remembers octalyzer? Same as soundtracker, pro-tracker but with 8 channels. Octalyzer mixed the channels and surpasses the hardware. very impressive.
oh... remember this tool, lots of hours spent on this one. Amiga 500 was so much fun, really started my whole computer career :-) Thx for video and nice music.
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Reading in 24/04/21: "Can't believe it has been 20 years since 1993." by Bisqwit
Amen.
I still can't believe it's not butter!
Closer to 30 years now...
Yeah flime ties
2023 now
To me this sound is all about friendship, having fun, respecting art and the struggle against machine limitations that lead to so much creativity. Truly a golden age.
Amen.
Respecting art : not totally sure about it. Jogeir almost never mentioned when he ripped off artists.
Creativity is born from scarcity and limited resources
I approve :)
@@julienbraudel7109 everyone rips off everyone go home julien
I'm 53 now and I still remember and Love the Amiga and it's music
.... its music.
I hear you brother.... it was an exciting time of seemingly endless possibilities
Oh yeah!
me, 59, and had an amiga 2000. I love the unique vibe given by these mods !!!
I'm an American who didn't know of the Amiga as a child. So I had no idea who Jogeir was but one day a few years back I search videogame music and found this. I exercise to this music all the time and have even lost 25 pounds (11.3kg), so Jogeir has influenced me to be healthier and has changed my life. For that I am gracious.
This is kinda weird that lot's of Americans didn't heard about Amiga in 80's and 90's because Commodore Amiga is basically a company from the USA. In fact, Amiga was very popular in Europe in the early-mid 90's
@@PrzeszczepiX Maybe it's a class thing? We didn't have a lot so for me we were always a console a generation behind. I never heard of Amiga until maybe the PS1 or PS2 days.
As an American (who's older) i not only remember the Amiga but i also had one. (Plus a C-64 and a 128D that i ran my BBS off of) The problem was the price. They were quite expensive.
If you like these, check Purple Motion and other PC demoscene musicians from the early 90's, tracker gods.
@@RealPheidian much thanks
This collection cures demotivation. Every time I put this on, I stop lazing around and I immediately start doing something productive.
Incredibly, the same thing happens to me
Because gaming music is specifically designed to keep you in an energetic loop.
@@Marauder1981Maybe that's a benefit of me being a weirdo who mostly listens to VGM.
Loved my Amiga. I'm not 50 years old and still think it was the best computer ever. I tricked out my 1200 beyond anything commodore ever imagined and was sad the day I gave in and moved to PC. Such a epic machine. Learned to code on it too.
Back before mp3's were a thing, I hoarded MODs and S3Ms like nobody's business.
Never had an Amiga, but that system deserved more than the inadequate recognition it got. One can only wonder what would've happened if Commodore Systems had a Steve Jobs
I'm glad to call Jogeir my friend! We made numerous tracks together! Cheers, Fabian
Nothing but respect, kind gentleman.
Thanks man!
In my first car, i was listening these songs recorded with an audio cassette into the cheap speakers of the car... so much memories !!
MOD music on a cassette! I was doing that as well back in the day.
and now, the phone or computer you have is more powerful than anything on the planet at the time this song was made :)
Zhorus Actually it gives more Happiness.
yes, i know ... :)
Exactly ! It's awesome !!
I'm too young to have grown up with trackers and mods but somehow wound up discovering it around 2007 at about 12 years of age. downloaded and ripped a whole bunch from the archive and stuffed them on my iPod. i'm so grateful that i did. defies genre. even a decade later some of the hugest earworms i've ever had have been jogeir tracks. some days out of the blue i will just start humming or whistling one of those amazing tunes.
Man that guitar sample at 25:20 is super crispy. Sounds better than a lot of them do even now.
hell yes it does!
Samples that still give me goosebumps, melodies that will never die, pure art. I mean, to me this is music and art in its purest form.
Have you listenined to Wizardry SID or MOD file? that one blows my speakers every time.
We dug our dads old amiga 500 we used to play on as kids out of the storage with my sister over the Christmas break and now I felt like I HAD to revisit one of my fave amiga music compilations. Such artistry ❤️
I once emailed Jogeir, he replied and was so cool and humble. A real talent and asset to the Amiga community.
Amazing!!😊☺
What was his address?
@@setsers1 hello
lucky id kill to meet him
It's something to cry about. All the world lost it's magic after 1999, cultural, musical, all future dreams faded, all creativity faded and individuality grew into intolerable rate. Our present day world is cold and bitter. The only positive thing is RUclips exists so we can enjoy the better days we once had. Rip 80s and 90s, we always will miss you.
Very good said.
ok boomer
Before social media.
Yeah I feel it's because of peak neoliberalism. It used to be the case that things changed so fast that old people couldn't understand contemporary music and pop culture. Now you just think: meh heard this before. Mark Fisher wrote extensively about these "lost futures".
@@poopass1596
Dudlaj ga slinavi klinac. Promeni pol pod hitno, jer ti fali testosterona. Učini svima uslugu i spasi svet.
I had the Amiga 500 in 1987 with Kickstart v1.2. Love all those memories! He is a brilliant musician! One of the best on the Amiga! These tunes have a real positive and uplifting vibe! Pure emotions - that's how music should be.
Can't believe it has been 20 years since 1993.
25 now... Unbearable.
Eternity
I got my Amiga in 1984.
i feel fucking old bro
NEY Industries I was born in 1980 and I'm from the UK. The ZX Spectrum/Commodore was what most households used here until the early 90's until PC's started becoming affordable but even then, the majority of people only had a TV. The problem with the Amiga was that it was pretty expensive for the time and in the context of what it could actually do. It was little more than an expensive gaming computer really. I had to go to my mates to play his. He was the only guy I knew who owned one. He was lucky enough to have fairly wealthy parents.
Miss those days so much...Trading,swapping,illegal hacked calling cards from Sprint and At&t,copy-parties...Iceman from Zylon/Alpha-Flight on the scroller here :) You can still find my old intro/demo compilations "New Dimensions' on youtube ;)
The party, the gathering....breakpoint.....those had been the days....amiga 1337 :)
I remember discovering this video in early 2020. That's when I got to know more about .MODs and tracker music and even this Jogeir guy. I kept seeing this in my recommended. At one point I think I had RUclips on autoplay, so it started playing these songs. Little did I know that it was Jogeir Liljedahl. Excellent as always his tunes. I always keep coming back to these two compilations made by off1k.
Perfect example of how less is more. People that makes music these days fills it up with too much crap. This is clean and perfect.
I like his music because it feels complicated and simple at the same time
I write piano music and my main inspiration is the Amiga and C64 music with the focus on catchy tunes
@@andreasoberg2021 That's what got me hooked on music too :) GL on your writing!
Epic compilation! Jogeir is a good friend of mine and he's actually part of Maniacs of Noise these days. A humble Jogeir bear he is, with his heart exactly at the right place!
I wonder if he will ever make another album?
Eindelijk ontmoet ik je. Ken je Unreal van maniac noise? Ik wil dit graag op een moderne sequencer zetten.
Cool to see you in the comments, Jeroen. Cybernoid is my favourite tune on my favourite machine! Sorry for the pointless comment but I got starstruck.
@@mrkitty777 Ga je gang! =)
@@JeroenTel dankje, de samples doe ik met WinUAE eruit halen eventueel met de Action Replay virtuele. 😄
Wow... Such good memories from back then. There were no internet, and no mp3's, so this was my only source for this music genre (talking about early 80's). And you could save a song only to diskette which today would be able to hold less than 1 minute of an mp3 file. And you could had dozens of them on one diskette (depending on sample quality)! I even did some of my own MOD's/S3M's/XM's. Chip tunes forever!
if i remember correctly 1 floppy had 751 kb space or close.... Im sure it was less than a megabyte
@@vageliskomninos2723 Actually, Amiga formatted floppy disk was exactly 880KB (11*512-byte sectors/track, multiplied with 80 tracks, and able to write on two sides). I was always unhappy about that, since standard PC formatted floppy disk was able to hold 1.44MB (though, properly formatted, it can hold even 2.8MB). That's roughly two thirds more space on one identical floppy disk, which at that time was a huge advantage. Seeing today's 1TB micro SD cards weighting and in size of 100's times less.. We indeed do live in the future!
@@-Burs oh yes you are right i forgot how much exactly less than a MB that floppy was. I do remember some games needed 4 or 6 floppys space. and i had a A500+ bought back in 1991 lol what times!! i was entirely consumed with this Amiga for about 8 years when i bought my first windows 95 pc back in 1997. i can only say that Amiga still worked last time i checked in 2012
@@-Burs Well, yes but actually no. It depends on what kind of diskette you have. Single Density (SD), Double Density (DD), Quad Density (QD), High Density (HD) or Extra High Density (EHD). I think DD and HD were by far the most common formats. DD can hold 720KB on a PC, 400KB on a Mac and 880KB on an Amiga, due to different sector sizes and whatnot. So, if you will, there were two standard diskettes: DD with 720/880KB and HD with 1.4MB. AFAIK the A500 never had a disk drive that could read HD disks (I don't know about other Amigas), but it's totally possible to "downgrade" HD disks to DD disks by simply putting some tape over the second hole.
@@LordHorst Yeah, I was talking about Amiga 500, and both A500/A1200 could only make use of 880KB. When you used HD floppy disks (even without tape-hack), these Amiga models would format the diskette as DD, because floppy drives didn't even have the mechanism to detect that second hole. Anyways, if you format it either as 400KB or 1.4MB, it's far below "standard" mp3 size (let's say 3min @128Kbit = ~2.9MB), and that's what I was trying to say before :) Nowadays no one cares about storage space, because it's dirt-cheap haha..
I had the 1000 and a 500, still have them. Man at the time they were so far ahead of their time. They blew away the PC. No contest.
I had a 500, 1200, and 3000. I used the 3000 regularly as a serious machine upwards of 97-98, as it could still do many things better than an equivalent PC, and all without abuse from monopolistic jerkass companies. I regularly used AmIRC, ncftp, YAM and such. At the time, the 3000 only had 2 megs chip and 4 of fast, and the 1200 2/16.
I actually still have those machines and sometimes use 'em (although I rely on emulation more these days). I've picked up a second A500, a trio of 1200s for parts, and a 4000 modified into a 4000T with third party parts. The 1200 and 3000 have 64 and 16 megs of fast RAM nowadays.
The price for an extra 1GB of RAM though....£200 it cost me here in the UK for my A500+.😓
Even though I'm only 19 years old, I love these tracks! I'm very grateful to several retro pc YT channels, if I hadn't found those old machines, I would've never found these either! :) Thus I'm an old pc collector now too. xD
hahaha be careful calling an Amiga a PC ....... people will be hurt and may start 80@s and 90's beef. lol ;)
well an amiga isn't a PC it's more of a CC (consumer computer) since at the time PC's were expensive but an CC like an Atari ST or an Amiga 500 is much more cheaper then even the simplest of PC's and can do more!
@@TheSudsy < Commodore was trying to market the Amiga line as a multi-media computer, course as most of us know it turned out to be an amazing gaming machine.
Good to know it's being passed down generations... Retro never dies!!!
Excellent to hear you discovered this. The C64 before the Amiga had a significant relevance and indeed is where many of the greatest digit and bit coders started out. I was always glued to my C64 and Amiga, purely inspiring machines; 20 years later I coded games and demos that I could only dream of making back then. Good luck in making your dreams come true Mr. Next Generation :) As for all this current world wrapping situation, forget it, chill with some quality commodore music :):):)
Remember all that work to get it all into just 4chnl, with the next sound clipping the first one. It had it's limitations but we made it work. Some dudes had synthesizers and sampled stuff just for specific tunes. Chords and stuff, like in these ones. We hade to save from other tunes to build a sample library.
Early 90s protracker years was awesome...
I always thought the limitations is what made it so great. Pretty much like everything great...
YT gave me this. So much memories 😥I still have my 3,5" Amiga floppy disks of my own assembly code intros and demos here. But not the machine. Possibly they are not readable any more. But I kept them for 35 years. Could not throw them away 🙃These teenage years laid all the foundations of becoming a SW developer.
This guy was such an influence to me. I spent many hours listening to Face Another Day. That one track is 20 mins (?) of pure awesomeness. I love the progression in his music - just don't get bored of it.. and of course he always had little retrospectives toward C64 music classics too :-)
So much fun that Time.. Sometimes i wish to have a Time Machine to go back and play all the Games.. as a Teenager..
Too young & too American to have had an Amiga, but I've fallen in love with its musical abilities. Music like this or the compositions of Neurodancer or Jester are just so energizing.
We in Europe (mainly in Germany, England, Poland) have had that luck to experience Amiga in late 80's and early 90's (mostly). In my country (Poland) it was very popular, if you had Amiga back then you were really lucky and cool kid/teenager. And automatically you got lots of friends on your neighbourhood ;)
Amiga 500, 600 and later 1200 were most popular. It was far superior than SNES, ofcourse it had better capabilities, but most of all it wasn't just a game console, it was a fully-fledged computer. Also amiga had great amount of software in its library including mostly games, but also utility programs. In summary: in my country (and not only) amiga raised most of youth born in 70's and 80's at the 90's era :)
05:30 till 12:00 are seconds of master piece.Rember that Jochen Hippel has writeen the song Jogeir Liljedahl has rearranged that.Jochen Hippel wrote this track "Nearly there" or "A prehistoric tale" when he was just 19 years old(born in 1971,the track has been published with game "Prehistoric tale" in 1990).Amazing talents.Good old retro good mood music.Nice for car drive on highroad.
I can all say truly: i LOVE you in all in this manifestations...💖💖💖💖
I've been wide eyed since clicking the 5:30 mark. This is absolutely beautiful. Synthwave is so underrated. I've loved this type of music for decades. So happy it is getting the attention it always deserved. Even if it is 20-30 years too late. No human should live their lives without hearing this serenity. God Bless You, composers of this ear food.
Jogeir is one of my favorite Amiga composers. Before I bought myself an Amiga, I even used to listen to his music recorded on tape.
+bormisha yep this stuff is absolutely amazing ,,,
Guitar Slinger is one of my favorite tracks.. it brings me straight back to the 90's...
How did you listen him on tape?
Uhm.. cassette recorder.. cable.. do the math
Same here, when the A1000 first came out, but with Jim Cuomo/Defender of the Crown.
Didn't grow up with an Amiga, but torrents led me to keygens, dubmood was awesome, the scene has been full of amazing people!
The BEST computer all time!! AMIGA foreva! Thank you Commodore, i love u!
+TubeAtilla It was and still is...
indeed
Thanks Jay Miner, but Commodore kill Amiga....ehhh.
Correct. Nothing to thank Commodore for. All they did was kill it off.
c64 too !!! :-)
Guitar Slinger is an absolute masterpiece. Beautiful piece of music.
Yeah not only is it an amazing track musically, technically its mind blowing! This and Fountain of Sighs are two of the best Amiga Mods ever composed.
Indeed, very nice tune. And I know guitar sound is kind of hard to get right, at least from what I remembered.
Man, the amount of awesome stuff people could squeeze out of just 4 monophonic channels makes me feel really bad about how little I’m able to do with basically unlimited ones... limitation really does breed creativity, I suppose.
+1
Looking at the date within protracker, and then the date which this was uploaded to youtube, this music is truly ahead of it's time.
i say alot of chiptune music was ahead of its time
Masterpieces!
Jogeir Liljedahl is just the best. What a great composer!
Amiga has so nice music composers!
God how I miss those times!!! Still was.... hope for the future.
Just Wow.......and then wow again !!!!!
I'm using Reason to make electronic music since 2001 and franckly, this clip just blew my mind away.
The quality of the samples is on another level for a 1993 apps !
In a weird way, it was easier to be creative back then, since you basically had a sequencer and that's it.
The sounds you hear, were the sounds you got.
Now, you have an infinity possibility of tones and sounds and samples, which leaves no time left for sequencing / composing.
very great music, so like this compilation.Thank's and hello from Russia!
There's something oddly comforting about the Guitar Slinger track. I don't even remember the track at the time but listening to it brings back memories of the early 90's. It's hard to describe but it's as if I've heard it before even though I haven't.
Guitar Slinger was an amazing mod back then. I couldn't believe my ears the first time I heard it. It was so realistic.
I'm glad this video is getting more popular as time progresses. This music legend needs to be known!
Takes me back to my youth messing about on an amiga which led to my career. Love these tunes. Amiga forever.
Guitar Slinger is so unique among other mods it immediately grabbed my attention first time I heard it. Funny thing it was Jogeir who composed that known for his synth driven stuff.
Still as good in 2022
Matko święta... Na kolana i słuchać....
Takiej muzy mi brakowało....
24:59 woaaaah daaaamn those samples that guitar is so clean
Can't stop listening to "Nearly There". Just incredible. So soothing, yet powerful.
Had not heard Nearly There before. Now I listen to it all the time. Found it on Xmp Mod Player and have it on loop for hours. Love the drums. Love mod music.
Jan Roger Jønland Covered by Jochen on the Atari ST. legendary. :)
Actually it was originally made by Jochen and was covered by Jogier iirc.
I'm amazed this video is gonna hit 1 mil soon.
i listened to Jogeir in FT2 on pc around 1996 and i am listening again after 18 years..
sure brings back many happy memories..
Definitely Guitar Slinger is my fave on here! Its sounds so unlike any other mod! The instruments are so clean, it sounds like a real song, if you know what I mean! There is another song i am looking for. Something about cars. It has some Spanish guys in it. I do not know if it is by the same guy that wrote these, but in the same vein. I.E. Using completely different instruments to most other moduels on the Amiga.
+yogibear2k10
Ok, after thinking about this for a bit the tune I think you're looking for is 'Fable about cars 2' by Dreamer.
amp.dascene.net/detail.php?detail=modules&view=2260
scroll down to bottom of page and you will see it, hope that's the one :))
Nightbeat made a number of songs similar to this.
Reminds me of the great public domain software scene at the time & all the fun to be had making up your own music tracks with the awesome free software people just gave away. For the life of me I can't remember the names of any of them though, getting old now lol
incredible computer music. most games now have immediately forgettable, ambient soubdtracks
True dat!
Ambient works in some games like Super Metroid or Donkey Kong Country. Those games also have memorable melofies with ambiance.
@@metalliholisti3728 Also true ;) But I personally prefer the melodious music tracks!
@@RaptureMusicOfficial I like melodic music too.
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11 years later... such a cool song listening to it again and again...80s / 90s magic?...:-) sliding bass.. so cool:-)
Some legit Jarre Sound: No need to pose around with a rich kids quadrillion Dollar Fairlight CMI, just be resourceful and take an Amiga. Dope.
This teaches me that I have an absolute powerhouse at my fingertips and I don't even scratch it's surface. Shame.
Jogeir! musical genius! I rank him with Galway and many more of the C64 era! He is the Amiga musical genius! He took sampling to another level....
God! What an excellent piece of music. I miss these days so much...
@Bojan Land Therefore I'm going to do a remake of Physical Presence, to bring this diamond to the attention of future generations ;)
@@spawnterror Im looking forward to it!
Excellent music. Guitar Slinger sounds like a live recording of a band!
not many Amiga folk played around with more than 4 tracks, if you had an Amiga, evidently with the emulators these days, there is more option, up to infinity.. I still love Amiga music, there is something about it!!!!
almost 2021and still coming back to this :D
This music relaxes me . I think the music really well .
I am Still Amazed today with the MOD Music that was made back in the day with the MOD Editor on the Amiga . I Congratulate all the Guys that made it Possible.
Its was amazingly powerful at the time, sadly i had no musical talent lol
The name of the guy is Karsten Obarski.
Oro Incenso sounds a lot like a version of Crosswords by Thomas E. Petersen on the C64. Also Signia has that melody from Walking in the Air which is pretty cool.
i still feel wierd about i born in 2006 but know a loot about 1970-2014 years...
Amiga is a legendary computer. The sample feature was amazing. I miss those days very much. Thank you for sharing. I still listen to it. It's a great music adventure.I will convert it to mp3!!! for my car
Yeah thats the real deal. Amiga 500 was my first computer in 1992 😍
Those were the days! Watching demos and running music disks downloaded from a demo scene BBS on a friend's Amiga (lucky guy!). Jogeir and all those guys really knew their stuff.
This goes straight through your heart and brain! The old passion comes back instantly. Thanks :)
Right in the feels! :D
absolut true !!!
I still coming back to this songs , even is 2024 - 21 years after. Time is flying like rocket 😮 amiga RULEZ
Simply the best. Will soon play this at high volume through vintage HiFi!
Got my A500 in 1987 and my A1200 in 1993. Had and have so much fun with them.
this one comes up in my feed a lot and i've heard it so many times now its embedded in my brain.
This brings back memories! Used to have Physical Presence on a demo disk and let it loop in the background in my room as a kid. Have to say - 15:40 to 16:40 is just sublime!
great feelings and emotions..a machine...can make that..with a great man beyond..thank you for sharing
Oro Incenso = My Favourite Song. Greetings from Slovakia :)
37 min under 2 mb, windows error message is larger then that :)
This comment probably takes up more memory. Such a shame that we lost the ability to see efficiency as an art form.
@@aaronmicalowe Just stay away from the M$ sh!t....i use to code for the arduino, and sometimes i do still use ASM for speed and efficiency....:)
@@aaronmicalowe We haven't. Take a look at the c64 demo "A Mind is Born" by Linus Åkesson. It was written recently, and it's probably as compact as you can get. A 2+ minute demo with music and graphics... in 256 bytes of code. To put it in other terms, in the same space that Guitar Slinger.mod takes up... you could fit one thousand five hundred executables of his demo.
@@VastyVastyVoid nice organic demo. I saw something similar done a ZX81 once. They output the audio as the video output to create audio somehow. This ZX81 only had 1k of memory for the code, the video output and memory for variables and they even incorporated a reflective drawing of a city and a scroller apologising for the out of memory error that was to end it, lol. The guy who wrote it didn't know how to program in ZX81 just a few days before, came into a community, asked for some peek and poke codes, was told it was impossible, and then showed us the demo like magic.
@@aaronmicalowe Holy crap, that sound amazing. Do you have any resources or links? Even a handle would help.
Living in the past is what keeps us all alive. Never forget that.
Having an Amiga with its coprocessors is why I now program large supercomputing clusters. Brilliant music!
im glad the amiga scene is big and alive this brings me right back to the 801`s when i bought my first amiga 500 iligal floppy copie`s and a whole lot of demo`s wish i good go back :)
It was good times indeed
Love the unique Amiga flavor ... sounds so beautiful ... even in the 2020's the Amiga still produces amazing sound.
@@harrisonhall1139 Yes great as well. And the Commodore 64 ... what the game devs did to create the music is amazing ... to get the wibbly-wobbly effects.
When we drove each month to the Venlo meetings and Radwar Parties (nice time to remember) we ever heard C64 and Amiga soundtracks from tape. I still love the music.
"Nearly There" has a very Jazz Jackrabbit feel to it. Alexander Brandon is one of my favourite old-school composers
This was posted as a link to me. I'd find the sheer amount of buttons in one space pretty overwhelming.
I used to love making tracker music. Funny how after all these years I can still understand the parameters :)
Paula was so ahead of its time cmp to PC general midi sound in terms of possibilities and tone. Its still awesome today to listen to it again. 《《♡♡》》
Shock/Collapse with 40years old and still vibrating with 4 channels power and jogeir music
Amiga no1 computer great compilation of music
ZX Spectrum + AY, and few years after Amiga. Making music with *trackers was very cool.
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I don't think your statement is correct. The first "tracker" is probably Soundtracker and comes from the Amiga. Before and long after, on the C64, Spectrum and Atari ST, there was no tracker. Musicians had to do pure code (sounds and partition).
l love this music. It's awesome. It took me back to brightest days of my life. Days of true friendship, fun and hope. Whenever I have to struggle with problems I listen to it and try to recover memories and feelings of that precious time...
Kors (aka MAS, Alex) of Obsession sends greetings to all demoscene members :)
Wasnt expecting 'Walking in the Air' from the Snowman at 31:47.
Lo que se puede hacer con menos de MEDIO MEGA! !
¡INCREÍBLE!
So ahead if its time
The most interesting thing for me from this video: 5-6 minutes tracking music take half or even full size of discette (360k or 720k). Amazing!
First track reminds me of what is love.
Does anyone know Pedro VGM?
I KNEW it sounded familiar!
That's because the organ sounds are sampled straight out of that track. Jogeir even made a very sample-heavy cover of What Is Love around the same time.
Thank you!
Game Music ayy
Nearly there... what a track!!
Back when everything was just kilobytes...
And the samples sounded like ass.
IKR some songs today can be in the 100 megabyte area if they are long enough.
Well MIDI files can be in the kilobytes range too (and the song in this video is a MOD file i believe, which is a similar format to MIDI?)
@@Offensive_Username I disagree. Chris Huelsbek, Allister Brimble, and David Whittaker managed to get some phenomenally crisp and clear samples for their Amiga music.
Sreenikethan I no it's not. midi is a set of protocol standard for any soundcard either in hardware or in software. mod is a tracker format like .xm, .s3m, .it etc.. originally for the low-end amiga 500 with the paula sound chip so it has a few octaves, 4 channels weirdly interpolated, 8-bit (signed/unsigned) samples and 64 different volumes
great!
Who remembers octalyzer?
Same as soundtracker, pro-tracker but with 8 channels.
Octalyzer mixed the channels and surpasses the hardware. very impressive.
use openmpt.org/
What these guys did with just 4 tracks is nothing short of miracles. Garage Band users take notes. xD
oh... remember this tool, lots of hours spent on this one. Amiga 500 was so much fun, really started my whole computer career :-)
Thx for video and nice music.
A really nice interpretation of "The Snowman" by Howard Blake (from the film of the same title) from 31:47 to 32:48. :)
Goosebumps!