Oldschool + Music >

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:

• Oldschool music players

• Oldschool games

Platforms:

• Amiga
• Atari

• Commodore 64 > Commodore SID

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.

• C418

  • Minecraft – Volume Alpha

• pressplayontape

  • A c64 revival band

Oldschool Music > Radio ∞

• Kohina

• SLAY Radio

  • Commodore 64

• Nextarine Radio Station

  • Demoscene radio

Oldschool Music > General ∞

• 2a03

  • The NES Music Archive

• Grayscale

  • There are some productions listed.

• Demodulate

  • A demo music collection

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• Infinite Game Music
• Videogame music archive
• OverClocked ReMix

• https://web.archive.org/web/20050831001838/http://hawknest.stacken.kth.se:80/c64/index.htm — c64 audio cd highlights

  • Sweet links

• https://remix.kwed.org/

  • The definitive guide for c64 remixes — downtime as 2004-03-29

• ftp://ftp.modland.com/

  • 390,478 modules online in 298 different formats. Incomprehensible.

Oldschool Music > Downloads > Tracked ∞

(MODs, etc)

• https://modarchive.org/ – Absolutely massive archive of tracked music.

• 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.

  • See https://web.archive.org/web/20041109104804/http://gallium.prg.dtu.dk:80/MODs/

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• st-00 – .MODs in memoriam
• https://web.archive.org/web/20160201030158/http://metamacro.com/modulez/

• https://www.modplug.com/ – an archive, and a search engine, a forum etc etc. Definitely check it out.

Shopping ∞

(Shopping)

• https://c64audio.com/

  • Commodore 64 audio and remixed songs on audio CDs!
  • See Commodore SID

Oldschool Music Resources ∞

• defacto2 music links
• Kohina music links
• https://web.archive.org/web/20180408044022/http://www12.homepage.villanova.edu/adric.riedel/tunes.htm

• VORC

  • News on video game music and chiptunes. Looks like it’s largely dead.

• ExoticA – Wiki

  • forum

other ∞

• Dead Hackers Society

  • .. has all kinds of downloads, including a mod archive