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Commodore Amiga platform The DOC Music Disk (a.k.a 1st Real Musicpack) was the first time I heard the product of the Ultimate SoundTracker created by Karsten Obarski. The samples provided with SoundTracker were awesome – sounded like nothing I’ve ever … Continue reading
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Commodore Amiga platform Take a trip back in time, and listen to some of the work of Karsten Obarski. Game music from ‘Amegas‘. Game was made by reLINE Software and was released in 1987 by Pandora Software. Source of inspiration … Continue reading
I think most people got acquainted with Karsten Obarski through his music editor – the SoundTracker – and the music scores that came with it. And afterwards, a very large number of simple music- and demos discs, flooded the Amiga scene, where the music was composed with the SoundTracker or one of its successors. Doesn’t everyone remember the ‘D.O.C Musicpack‘?
I have to say, that I was completely blown away, the first time I heard Amegas, Crystal Hammer and Rallye Master.
I have selected some of my favorite tunes from Karsten Obarski, in the following posts.
Source of inspiration and material: Exotica & LemonAmiga
Disclaimer: This article series doesn’t define the history of the intro/demo/megademo, for neither the Amiga nor any other platform. This is the point of view, I have chosen to write the article series, and in a way I lived it. Your experience may vary.
I remember the first time I heard real samples played on the Amiga. It was at a friend’s house, and he had got his hands on a floppy disk from ‘Red Sector’ or was it from ‘Doctor Mabuse Orgasm Cracking’. I can’t remember, but I do remember that the sampled piece of music was ‘Flesh for Fantasy‘ by ‘Billy Idol‘. It sounded incredible. To think that this was possible, and you could do this at home – I was stunned!
In retrospect, the sampled Billy Idol song, was a bit like cheating.
The song was divided into smaller pieces that could be put together, by typing the name of the sample in CLi. The sampled pieces were named 1a, 2b, 3a, 3a, 3b and so forth.
Later we got the ‘Doctor Mabuse Orgasm Cracking’ music disk (musicpack) with Amegas, Crystal Hammer and Rallye Master all made by Karsten Obarski and we knew that this was the way to go, and this was, what we wanted to create.
And this was the start on a journey of demo-creating and music-making.
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Ever since my first – very own – Commodore Amiga 500 home computer (despite I’d wished for the Amiga 1000), music has been a major part of my life. For me, it all started with Deluxe Music Construction set for … Continue reading