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I'm not sure how well known this music scene is to everyone on here, but I thought I'd bring it to your attention as I think a lot of older demosceners will really appreciate it...and maybe some composers would consider getting involved. It was known mainly as French Electro, but has expanded to include artists from all over the world.

Basically, it's a new wave of music with influences from old 80s and early 90s synthesizer tracks and as you'll all notice, a very similar sound to that classic demo scene sound. The genre has been getting more popular now since Kavinsky and College composed soundtracks for the movie Drive, but here are some of my personal favourites...

http://youtu.be/jjGw-0KLiP0
http://youtu.be/YrfL9DCEdbw
http://youtu.be/Yvvizr8wCvM
http://youtu.be/agbGPgciR1w
http://youtu.be/Zez2Cg3m4fs
http://youtu.be/BpWM6rpl2UE
http://youtu.be/6l4JFCy2Wk4

I can imagine a lot of classic demoscene tunes fitting right into this genre.

Anyway, hope you enjoy this stuff as much as I do.

This trend is p old actually, like 2008/2009ish.. some fun stuff came out tho!

Bag Raiders - Fun Punch
Bag Raiders - Nil By Mouth
Bag Raiders - Punch Reprise
[ur=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FwbsSdWh-U]Sebastien Tellier - Divine (Danger Remix)[/url]
SymbolOne - Love Juice (Danger Remix)
(Danger is p much 'demoscene music' personified :D)
Danger - 00h01 (feat. Vyle) (With a super scenish lead at 4:12)
and the record EVERYONE was playing in 2007
Tepr - Minuit Jacuzzi (DatA Remix) (I even heard Pharrell Williams spin it in a set)

Oh the bleeps and bloops make me nostalgic..

Sebastien Tellier - Divine (Danger Remix)

Dammit!

At least in the actual 90s people knew how to do beats without sidechaining the whole mix to death. Sorry, this might very well work at club volume but with my good headphones I can't fucking stand it for more than a minute.

kb has a point.

Tepr - Minuit Jacuzzi (DatA Remix) <3

DatA - Rapture

No idea what sidechaining is, I just know I really love this genre and some of these tracks conjure such fond nostalgic memories. But I would be just as happy hearing some older scene music remixed and played in clubs.

okkie: Same thing, sadly. Every kick makes even the vocals disappear for a fraction of a second. Sidechaining just the bass and pads would be completely ok, but essentially turning off the whole song every beat? Nope, sorry.

well, I LOVE it :D

Overcompressing/pumping the entire mix to fuck sucks hairy donkey balls.

yeah, that was my point :) i know dudes that get physically ill from that song.

(I love it!)

That Rapture song is extremely badly sidechained - as KB mentions the vocals sounds broken... geez!

Nobody dared to say that the demoscener could have ripped ideas from the "pop/real/common" scenes? Come on naives :)))

Also, a lot of sceners tend to think simple waveforms use in music making comes from the scene... while it comes from early synthesizing.

Oh well, scene legends ;)

More like 2006ish no?



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except for Danger who claims to be from the amiga scene and using protracker together with modern DAWs. Just compare his song 19h11 with the soundtrack from Razor 1911s voyage demo...

I liked The Outrunners track. Space synth!

hey kaneel. you know what that track reminded me of ? that old dos game. still coool.

that != this

Of course, you only have to listen to KOTO or Laserdance to see that, but what appeals to me about this kind of music is that it's based around a distinct melody. You can perform the same tracks with a variety of instruments and it would still be the same track. That's not something you can say about a lot of music today.

But I love that nostalgic synthesizer sound because it reminds me personally of happy days when I was first discovering the demoscene.

On a side note, does anyone else hear the Turrican 2 influences in this track...

http://youtu.be/J5U-aB-xu2M

=)