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Among The Phates - Simon Woodington
14 years ago
Among The Phates (Full Tune)
(repeater link: http://www.youtuberepeater.com/watch?v=rHfLNd0avWM )
Among The Phates (First Part)
(repeater link: http://www.youtuberepeater.com/watch?v=hWjG2hCLfko )
Among The Phates (Second Part)
(repeater link: http://www.youtuberepeater.com/watch?v=daIEc5aiqA8 )
This is a VERY old module music tune. It was created by someone named "Simon Woodington," of a group called "Trideja." Since this tune was made so very long ago, I don't really know if that group still exists, so I decided to upload the tune to my YouTube account.
I was using the "Modplug" music player and was just sorting through a multitude of old module music tunes that were used in different user created "worlds" that were created in the age old PC "create a world" game called "MegaZeux." By using a file extension search in Windows Explorer, I rooted out all the music files with the extensions ".MOD", ".S3M", ".XM" and ".IT", and added them all to a massive playlist consisting of over 1,000 music tunes (many being duplicates since some MegaZeux games used the same music files).
I particularly remembered this tune upon hearing it. Not from something more memorable like a game or some other source, but simply because I remember sitting down and listening to it at some point in the distant past. And since music gives me all sorts of inspiration, it's more so the likely KINDS of thoughts that I remembered having that helped me to easily recognize this tune. And just "what" kinds of thoughts were those? I can't really describe them too easily, because the imagery is wild and "untame," like a beautiful visual work. Even before the age of ridiculously "over-the-top" displays of graphical supremacy came upon us (and before I had thought to write out ANY personal works at all), I would have these beautifully vivid visual thoughts floating through my mind when I listened to certain musics, whether it be something as simple as the sight of a middle aged man playing "jazzy" music on an instrument, or even something as illustrious as a winged warrior walking forth with weapon in hand, surrounded by a multitude of cheering spectators in a massive colliseum where he was to battle an opponent to the death (something I thought of when listening to an old module tune called "Angel Dreams.").
Even though we didn't have high definition displays and massively sophisticated gadgets back then, people still had beautiful visions in mind. Just talk to any fantasy-appreciating lover of the 16-bit Sega Genesis era, if not a lover of the old Don Bluth films.
Knowing that most of those little tunes were made in some interesting and often uniquely original music genres might be a little "incentive" for you to check out those "MZX" games. Those tunes range from a wide variety of quirky music styles, like "chiptunes" and other such tunes that seem to ring of the word "Amiga." Just keep in mind that those games are rife with "ancient" computer graphics and such, so if you click around and see a whole bunch of "tiny colored rectangles" or round oval smileys, don't be suprised. That WAS the early-to-late 90's after all... XD
Even though I'm very "at home" with those kinds of old tunes I'm music illiterate AND rather ignorant to the proper terminology to use when referring to those old tunes, so I don't really know what to call all of the technological paraphernalia that surrounds those tunes and their inception. Let's just say that if you like or love "8-bit" music or "chiptunes" or Commodore 64 "SID" music or "Amiga" music - and music that uses "samples" to create whooly independent musical tunes - then you'll feel right at home with that style of music.
If you ever found yourself dabbling in ancient computer game stuff and wanted to find all of the crazy little music tunes associated with those MegaZeux games, you could always go to "DigitalMZX" and download some of them. It's located here: http://vault.digitalmzx.net/index.php
Music of the formats ".MOD", ".S3M", ".XM" and ".IT" (and possible other formats as well) can be found at "The Mod Archive," which is here: http://modarchive.org/index.php
(repeater link: http://www.youtuberepeater.com/watch?v=rHfLNd0avWM )
Among The Phates (First Part)
(repeater link: http://www.youtuberepeater.com/watch?v=hWjG2hCLfko )
Among The Phates (Second Part)
(repeater link: http://www.youtuberepeater.com/watch?v=daIEc5aiqA8 )
This is a VERY old module music tune. It was created by someone named "Simon Woodington," of a group called "Trideja." Since this tune was made so very long ago, I don't really know if that group still exists, so I decided to upload the tune to my YouTube account.
I was using the "Modplug" music player and was just sorting through a multitude of old module music tunes that were used in different user created "worlds" that were created in the age old PC "create a world" game called "MegaZeux." By using a file extension search in Windows Explorer, I rooted out all the music files with the extensions ".MOD", ".S3M", ".XM" and ".IT", and added them all to a massive playlist consisting of over 1,000 music tunes (many being duplicates since some MegaZeux games used the same music files).
I particularly remembered this tune upon hearing it. Not from something more memorable like a game or some other source, but simply because I remember sitting down and listening to it at some point in the distant past. And since music gives me all sorts of inspiration, it's more so the likely KINDS of thoughts that I remembered having that helped me to easily recognize this tune. And just "what" kinds of thoughts were those? I can't really describe them too easily, because the imagery is wild and "untame," like a beautiful visual work. Even before the age of ridiculously "over-the-top" displays of graphical supremacy came upon us (and before I had thought to write out ANY personal works at all), I would have these beautifully vivid visual thoughts floating through my mind when I listened to certain musics, whether it be something as simple as the sight of a middle aged man playing "jazzy" music on an instrument, or even something as illustrious as a winged warrior walking forth with weapon in hand, surrounded by a multitude of cheering spectators in a massive colliseum where he was to battle an opponent to the death (something I thought of when listening to an old module tune called "Angel Dreams.").
Even though we didn't have high definition displays and massively sophisticated gadgets back then, people still had beautiful visions in mind. Just talk to any fantasy-appreciating lover of the 16-bit Sega Genesis era, if not a lover of the old Don Bluth films.
Knowing that most of those little tunes were made in some interesting and often uniquely original music genres might be a little "incentive" for you to check out those "MZX" games. Those tunes range from a wide variety of quirky music styles, like "chiptunes" and other such tunes that seem to ring of the word "Amiga." Just keep in mind that those games are rife with "ancient" computer graphics and such, so if you click around and see a whole bunch of "tiny colored rectangles" or round oval smileys, don't be suprised. That WAS the early-to-late 90's after all... XD
Even though I'm very "at home" with those kinds of old tunes I'm music illiterate AND rather ignorant to the proper terminology to use when referring to those old tunes, so I don't really know what to call all of the technological paraphernalia that surrounds those tunes and their inception. Let's just say that if you like or love "8-bit" music or "chiptunes" or Commodore 64 "SID" music or "Amiga" music - and music that uses "samples" to create whooly independent musical tunes - then you'll feel right at home with that style of music.
If you ever found yourself dabbling in ancient computer game stuff and wanted to find all of the crazy little music tunes associated with those MegaZeux games, you could always go to "DigitalMZX" and download some of them. It's located here: http://vault.digitalmzx.net/index.php
Music of the formats ".MOD", ".S3M", ".XM" and ".IT" (and possible other formats as well) can be found at "The Mod Archive," which is here: http://modarchive.org/index.php
