#techno

For many of us, video games were a potent point of introduction to the world of music production. We take a look back at the games and consoles that have inspired music-makers over the years

My second ever MOD. Lots of Meat Beat Manifesto and Aphex Twin samples. Awkward, but less sucky than the first. Still pretty sucky, though

My first MOD ever, using OctaMed. Sounds awful and out of tune. I could have sworn I fixed that using some parameter in OctaMed, but no player I've found agrees with me. Could be I just sucked and didn't hear it back then

Had some friends who wanted to start an artscene / demoscene group called "L8X" (ie. latex), so I knocked out this intro theme in an afternoon. Source material was a pile of NES game samples and a few random synths and movie vocals.

The last Amiga .MOD that I wrote before the end of college. Still kind of cheesy, but the best thing I turned out with an A1200 and a CasioTone MIDI keyboard. Lots of weird technical things, like squashing a 4-track drum pattern down to one track by hand-merging samples and working out the composite pattern

I wrote this, as an Amiga .MOD back in the mid-90s. It's cheesy dance music

I wrote this, as an Amiga .MOD back in the mid-90s. It's cheesy dance music

"This guy is like the Pied Piper of drugged up ecstasy e-tards. Remember, Technoviking does not dance to the music, the music dances to Technoviking!"