When I started making music over a decade ago, I used so called trackers. For those unfamiliar with concept, trackers are a piece of software, which can be thought as a combined sampler and sequencer. Effects were limited to most basic ones like bending the pitch. I started with Scream Tracker 3, followed by FastTracker 2 and then Impulse Tracker. I stopped using trackers as my main tool somewhere in year 2001. A big pile of songs from that era is lost forever or buried in various places in Internet and BBS boxes.
Some of my tracker songs are available in scene.org. Some of them are a little embarassing, some of them are quite good even today. If you want to listen to them, I recommend to try a player like XMPlay to play those songs, because they are not MP3s but native tracker project files (also known as modules)!
I've been thinking of going through these songs, exporting the best songs and remastering/remixing them. I call this project "Resurrect, Recycle and Remaster". As a proof of concept I exported tonight a melodic IDM song with two names: Melonapplet Beautiful / Bottleneckmelon. It is from 2000 and participated in Assembly music competition. I used XMPlay to export each instrument separately to a wav file, imported each track to FL Studio, added some reverb and compression and exported a MP3 file.
It was easy and fun! I will continue tomorrow with some other tracks.
You can download the song from here and the original module from here.
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