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1. mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 20:10:56 UTC mcc

   What I'm listening to today: "Funky Stars", Quazar

   This is a poppy eurodance DOS tracker tune from 1997. Feels good, slick production, moody 80s/early 90s feel.

   After 2000 the artist behind this .xm went on to have a conventional career as a producer, making club techno remixes for a bunch of hip hop artists plus Madonna under the name "Axwell", then cofounding Swedish House Mafia ("Don't You Worry Child").

   This track is listed on some mod archives as "Hybrid Song".

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C95D6imxGc

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 20:10:55 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     @mcc It's a real tracker classic. Probably my favorite XM tune of all time.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 20:12:03 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     @mcc Arrangements in my collection:
     AY-3-8912: https://twitter.com/dosnostalgic/status/1297345463465783302?t=HvZd6TkjbbRHEPFukECA1Q&s=19
     OPL3: https://twitter.com/dosnostalgic/status/1665138488662958081?t=0L6sswXcllWsBDkjaZaofg&s=19
     MIDI (played on OPL3): https://twitter.com/dosnostalgic/status/1316150905440546818?t=UIPMIUt2RYFobIEwH2jWqA&s=19

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 20:13:29 UTC mcc

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     • Anatoly Shashkin💾

     @dosnostalgic Oh snap!

     Are these modern scene arrangements or were people rearranging this stuff for PC sound cards at the time? (Though I guess 97 is new enough for people to have 44.1k PCM systems.)

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 20:15:55 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     @mcc The AY one is probably the oldest, but I don't think it's more than a decade & a half old. The rest are fairly recent.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 20:24:08 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     @mcc Here it is ported into Super Mario World, at 15:23 mark
     https://youtu.be/r2sHrh8oJJU?si=tsH0vkprMHQCNYLX