This is a category of music both covering "obsolete" formats and styles demanded by technological limitations and the more recent hipster minimalist music.
My primary interests are DOS modules, and Commodore 64 SIDs.
See also:
TODO - Hipster "oldschool" music ∞
This is a style of music either inspired by actual oldschool music or exploring arbitrary restrictions.
This style can flow into Trance Music.
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C418
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- A c64 revival band
Oldschool Music > Radio ∞
- Kohina
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- Commodore 64
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- Demoscene radio
Oldschool Music > General ∞
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- The NES Music Archive
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- There are some productions listed.
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- A demo music collection
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- Infinite Game Music
- Videogame music archive
- OverClocked ReMix
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https://web.archive.org/web/20050831001838/http://hawknest.stacken.kth.se:80/c64/index.htm -- c64 audio cd highlights
- Sweet links
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- The definitive guide for c64 remixes -- downtime as 2004-03-29
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- 390,478 modules online in 298 different formats. Incomprehensible.
Oldschool Music > Downloads > Tracked ∞
(MODs, etc)
- https://modarchive.org/ - Absolutely massive archive of tracked music.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20110124032103/http://hafnium.prg.dtu.dk:80/%7Etheis/stil/MODs/ - These MOD tunes were covered by Commodore 64 Commodore SID artists.
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- st-00 - .MODs in memoriam
- https://web.archive.org/web/20160201030158/http://metamacro.com/modulez/
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https://www.modplug.com/ - an archive, and a search engine, a forum etc etc. Definitely check it out.
Oldschool Music > Downloads > Amiga ∞
(Amiga)
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200207092611/http://www.amigaremix.com/
- AMP - Amiga Music Preservation
- https://web.archive.org/web/20090531031339/http://amigames.soundbomb.net:80/ - amiga games music
- UnExoticA - Music collection
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www.amigascne.org - There are music files around there somewhere.
- 2006-06-10 -- I emailed the author about a broken link, but I don't know if anything here is useful enough for me to request mirroring it once. 2019-09-13 - To my knowledge I never received a response.
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http://asle.free.fr/groups/groups.html
- Lists groups, with a huge breakdown.. and then has hand-converted tunes. Whoa.
Oldschool Music > Downloads > Atari ∞
- ASMA - Atari SAP Music Archive
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https://web.archive.org/web/20080424091803/http://www.igf.edu.pl:80/~gregus/scene.php Greg's stuff on his homepage is more complete than what's in ASMA.
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- Atari ST and Amiga soundchip music. Only contains music that needs unusual or custom music players.
- sc68 (on SourceForge) can play them.
- Downloaded 2009-05-03, and since it was last updated 2003-11-18 it's looking abandoned. =/ The website has some browse/search features.
- http://www.ym2149.com/download.html ( shozan.sytes.net/~meth/atarist/music/ ) -- Recorded from an actual Atari and then converted into an OGG file.
- Atari ST YM2149 Archive
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Fading Twilight - Atari music-collections mirror
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- .. has all kinds of downloads, including a [http://atarimods.dhs.nu/cgi-bin/ mod archive]
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ST-Sound tunes (archive)
Oldschool Music > Downloads > c64 ∞
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- High Voltage Sid Collection
- HVSC's BOV
- Best Of VARIOUS - ASD's HVSC Listing
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- Compute's Gazette Sid Collection
- I do believe the HVSC includes this. I emailed the maintainer some time ago. TODO - fetch that.
- CGSC SID archive
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CGSC (Mirror?)
- Compute's Gazette Sid Collection
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SIDs recorded on actual hardware and converted into mp3s.
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Shopping ∞
(Shopping)
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https://c64audio.com/ -- c64 audio and remixed songs on audio cd!
Oldschool Music Resources ∞
- defacto2 music links
- Kohina music links
- https://web.archive.org/web/20180408044022/http://www12.homepage.villanova.edu/adric.riedel/tunes.htm
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- News on video game music and chiptunes. Looks like it's largely dead.
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ExoticA - Wiki
ported, though it appears to need more cleanup.