A MOD I started in either early or late 1996 and never finished.  It was a strange music time for me because I was well-and-truly on the SB AWE32 + Cakewalk by this point; but struggling with the fact it wasn't that good for sample based tunes.  I was trying to do tunes using SoundBanks - all which have since been lost.  I didn't have a Windows tracker and FastTracker (which I'd obtained) was damaged and crashed on playback.  But occasionally I'd fire up my old MODEDIT and crack something out because it still sounded solid, and I was able to give them to my friend with an Amiga who loved them.  My main focus was my metal band, and as I didn't care about these tunes I put them on 1.2mb 5.25" floppies which were "free" in the junk bins at our local swap meet, compared to 3.5" disks which still cost a dollar.  Turns out our home 5.25 drive was out-of-calibration and the data was very poorly written!  28 years later, I finally found a way to get most of the data off the disk - I filmed it as I went so I can hopefully make a YouTube video about it one day.  Maybe.  This half-baked gem was from the time I was first getting into the prodigy.  If you can't tell.  I finished / extended it / polished it up a bit (plus replaced a corrupted sample) but kept it quite intact.  The guitar samples are 8khz and from an old Warhammner 40k game called Spacehulk (intro music!).  I don't know why I didn't find something better to sample - I guess I was a lazy teen?!

This is dedicated to m0d who passed away from cancer this week.  I miss that human and they made me feel so welcome when I first hit up the Euro demo / tracking scene in 2000s ... introduced me to a bunch of peeps both on IRC and then in person when I was at demoparties for the first time.  They also founded modarchive.org which is basically the home of the worlds tracker scene files (including many of mine).

So it was only fitting that I recovered this long-lost tune and finished it in the few hours I had free this week.  Big love to Ziphoid / Fnord and crew and many others who've helped m0d in their final months.  I trust modarchive.org will be around for many years to come as it's such an important site for all of us.

The MOD file (is of course) on the archive.  Video about recovering the files may be edited one day, fuck, maybe next year?  lol.  I'm so tired constantly at the moment - sorry I'm not making better music or new stuff.  Hopefully I'll find some energy again soon.  Life's just a bit over-complicated at the moment.  Big love.

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