The amount of albums put out on respectable record labels written in .xm/.it format is insane, especially in the early 2000s. I think a lot of this has to do with the fact that the tracker scene saw a meteoric rise in output quality (and audio fidelity) between 97-01, to the point where it was on-par with commercial releases (in certain genres, especially dnb/jungle and idm). This alone is a significant factor in why non-hardware-based tracker formats are not really represented in the scene/chip-scene today. It was the mere fact that .xm/.it could reach these heights that spawned the development of projects like madtracker and renoise over a decade ago.
209 Jul 13, 2011 3:25 am
Re: Why so few new MOD/XM artists? (155 replies, posted in General Discussion)
210 Mar 19, 2011 4:29 am
Re: The Electro Hip Hop thread (10 replies, posted in General Discussion)
211 Jul 16, 2010 1:59 pm
Re: ilkae - light industry+ available now (20 replies, posted in Releases)
thanks man!
213 Jun 28, 2010 3:11 pm
Re: Chiptunes make-out mix (47 replies, posted in General Discussion)
damn trigger finger/double post.
an honest suggestion perhaps?
Bogdan Raczynski & Björk - Who Is It (Shooting Stars & Asteroids Mix) 12'' [Rephlex]
214 Jun 28, 2010 3:10 pm
Re: Chiptunes make-out mix (47 replies, posted in General Discussion)
for what it's worth, it's absolutely impossible to get busy to the bubble bobble theme. i dares you.
215 Jun 28, 2010 3:07 pm
Re: ilkae - stained glass piñata+ (15 replies, posted in Releases)
aw, thanks. i'm not exactly trying to drum up sales so much as just get the damn thing out there. it took months to reconstruct the album and to date it has only managed 200 downloads or so. it's a weird situation these days where releasing music for free gets you less exposure than throwing an arbitrary price tag on a collection of songs and letting the private bit torrent trackers go apeshit. (where, dun dun, it gets downloaded for free.)
216 Jun 28, 2010 2:51 pm
Re: ilkae - stained glass piñata+ (15 replies, posted in Releases)
OpenMPT (modplug tracker); pre-VST functionality.
(a.k.a. .wav files and hex. same as always)
217 Jun 28, 2010 2:20 pm
Re: ilkae - stained glass piñata+ (15 replies, posted in Releases)
haha; no love.