Odyssey (Original Amiga Demoscene Soundtrack)
The nostalgia! WRWTFWW do millennial diskette dupers a solid with this unreasonably dewy-eyed collection of Commodore Amiga demoscene jammers.
Anyone who remembers the Amiga era will have probably come across the demoscene. The idea was that a bunch of amateur coders and music producers would get together and use free software to concoct audiovisual braindumps that challenged the hardware's limitations and pushed the era's artistic envelopes. It wasn't surprising at all to see many of these young minds transition into popular musicians or software engineers as time ticked on, but the work of the demoscene still stands as a reminder of how important grassroots movements are.
"Odyssey" appeared in 1991 from the Alcatraz group and was a story-driven demo with early 3D-rendered graphics and a full-length soundtrack from Swiss composer Greg. And surprisingly, this is the first proper release of a demoscene soundtrack; there's been plenty of noise made over the last few years about the Amiga's role in early jungle production, and demoscene music fills in another gap in the timeline. Musically it would probably get mistaken for chiptune if the listener wasn't well versed in early home-entertainment/computer systems, but for those of us who lived through it, there's a waft of floppy disk scented perfume so strong you'll be pining for the bad old days within moments.
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The nostalgia! WRWTFWW do millennial diskette dupers a solid with this unreasonably dewy-eyed collection of Commodore Amiga demoscene jammers.
Anyone who remembers the Amiga era will have probably come across the demoscene. The idea was that a bunch of amateur coders and music producers would get together and use free software to concoct audiovisual braindumps that challenged the hardware's limitations and pushed the era's artistic envelopes. It wasn't surprising at all to see many of these young minds transition into popular musicians or software engineers as time ticked on, but the work of the demoscene still stands as a reminder of how important grassroots movements are.
"Odyssey" appeared in 1991 from the Alcatraz group and was a story-driven demo with early 3D-rendered graphics and a full-length soundtrack from Swiss composer Greg. And surprisingly, this is the first proper release of a demoscene soundtrack; there's been plenty of noise made over the last few years about the Amiga's role in early jungle production, and demoscene music fills in another gap in the timeline. Musically it would probably get mistaken for chiptune if the listener wasn't well versed in early home-entertainment/computer systems, but for those of us who lived through it, there's a waft of floppy disk scented perfume so strong you'll be pining for the bad old days within moments.
The nostalgia! WRWTFWW do millennial diskette dupers a solid with this unreasonably dewy-eyed collection of Commodore Amiga demoscene jammers.
Anyone who remembers the Amiga era will have probably come across the demoscene. The idea was that a bunch of amateur coders and music producers would get together and use free software to concoct audiovisual braindumps that challenged the hardware's limitations and pushed the era's artistic envelopes. It wasn't surprising at all to see many of these young minds transition into popular musicians or software engineers as time ticked on, but the work of the demoscene still stands as a reminder of how important grassroots movements are.
"Odyssey" appeared in 1991 from the Alcatraz group and was a story-driven demo with early 3D-rendered graphics and a full-length soundtrack from Swiss composer Greg. And surprisingly, this is the first proper release of a demoscene soundtrack; there's been plenty of noise made over the last few years about the Amiga's role in early jungle production, and demoscene music fills in another gap in the timeline. Musically it would probably get mistaken for chiptune if the listener wasn't well versed in early home-entertainment/computer systems, but for those of us who lived through it, there's a waft of floppy disk scented perfume so strong you'll be pining for the bad old days within moments.
The nostalgia! WRWTFWW do millennial diskette dupers a solid with this unreasonably dewy-eyed collection of Commodore Amiga demoscene jammers.
Anyone who remembers the Amiga era will have probably come across the demoscene. The idea was that a bunch of amateur coders and music producers would get together and use free software to concoct audiovisual braindumps that challenged the hardware's limitations and pushed the era's artistic envelopes. It wasn't surprising at all to see many of these young minds transition into popular musicians or software engineers as time ticked on, but the work of the demoscene still stands as a reminder of how important grassroots movements are.
"Odyssey" appeared in 1991 from the Alcatraz group and was a story-driven demo with early 3D-rendered graphics and a full-length soundtrack from Swiss composer Greg. And surprisingly, this is the first proper release of a demoscene soundtrack; there's been plenty of noise made over the last few years about the Amiga's role in early jungle production, and demoscene music fills in another gap in the timeline. Musically it would probably get mistaken for chiptune if the listener wasn't well versed in early home-entertainment/computer systems, but for those of us who lived through it, there's a waft of floppy disk scented perfume so strong you'll be pining for the bad old days within moments.