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RUTH_LINDE_-_ST01_SONG.MP3
Ruth Linde - ST-01 Song
01: Ruth Linde - ST-01 Song (3:22), Renoise - Unfortunately Ruth Linde couldn't send us any info in time. Ruth is an outstanding composer and his talent in tracking can easily be compared to people like Jeroen Tel or Virt. So when Ruth said "alright, i'm gonna give this a shot", we were all thinking "uh-oh". And indeed, when the tune arrived in the mailbox, we were all completely blown away. We were all asking "Are those REALLY the ST-01 samples still?", but the proof came in the form of a renoise-file with all samples in there. Incredible. Could there be any better track to start Tracked In Time?
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BUZZER_-_COFFEE_AND_COOKIES.XM
Buzzer - Coffee and Cookies
02: Buzzer - Coffee and Cookies (3:21), 20 channels, Skaletracker - You know... Sometimes you'll get the composing-idea while being far away from keyboard. Melody in this one came to my mind just during the coffee break. After I composed this one I used to listen to it with some hot and strong coffee.. and cookies of course! So maybe it's time to make some coffee?
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JAZZCAT_-_THINKING_OF_TIT.XM
Jazzcat - Thinking of TIT
03: Jazzcat - Thinking of TIT (2:37), 20 channels, Modplugtracker - Another game tune, which came to life as a General Midi. Designers asked for something like Bustafunk. So I was just trying to write a fast, catchy disco-funk track. Nothing more. The melody is so simple, that you can fart it. And that's what I'm doing while typing this text.
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XERXES_-_ONE_LAP_TO_GO.IT
Xerxes - One Lap To Go
04: Xerxes - One Lap To Go (5:41), approx 16-20 channels, Modplugtracker - I really don't have a lot to say about it other than that it was fun making it :)
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DJ_JOGE_-_2-SIDED_ST-01_DISK.MOD
DJ Joge - 2-Sided ST-01 Disk
05: DJ Joge - 2-Sided ST-01 Disk (4:45), 4 Channels, Amiga Protracker - This tune won the 1st place at Sundown 2007 party open mod competition. The limit for the song size there was 64k, so I had to cut and loop 7 samples to achieve that limit, but this is the original version with full uncut ST-01 samples. The song is a 2 part tune, and my personal favourite is the last part.
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MICE_-_NEW_SAINT-01.XM
Mice - New Saint-01
06: Mice - New Saint-01 (2:18), 14 channels, Skaletracker - Nothing special here. After making one st-01 tune with Amiga I just wanted to try composing one multichannel. And again I tried to avoid raping the samples and using effects so there's some bad loops and shit. I mean crap.
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VIRT_-_KEEP_SHREDDING_LITTLE_MAN.S3M
Virt - Keep Shredding, Little Man
07: Keep Shredding, Little Man (3:27), 4 channels, Schism Tracker - There's a dude on a game show in the future, and he has to rock solos on several instruments for 3 minutes (with short breaks to pick up another one) or he won't get the money for his daughter's critical medical treatment. Listen as he brings the rock and saves the day!
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BUZZER_-_BLUB.XM
Buzzer - Blub
08: Buzzer - Blub (2:05), 16 channels, Skaletracker - I imagined a REALLY old Amiga intro in my mind with copperbars, starfield, sinus-scroller etc... And composed tune that might fit into oldskool intro like it. So... as a result there's a little disco tune. Can you already see the effects before your eyes? :) For this tune I downloaded and installed Skaletracker for my work-computer and finalized this one... Sorry boss :) (I never get caught *evillaughter*)
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SERPENT_-_RODL.XM
Serpent - Rodl
09: Serpent - Rodl (2:59), 4 channels, Skaletracker - This was the first tune i made after the long break in tracking. It wasn't meant to be in any production, i think Tracked In Time wasn't planned at that time yet, heck, i think Brainstorm wasn't, at least fully, refounded at that time. Very simple one, as expected, i just wanted to make some arpeggios with the "pizza" sample (sorry RK ;)) and came up with this. It actually is looped to a certain point from the end but i dunno if the looping works on this musicdisk. Sidenote: RODL is the same as ROFL but one day Axel made a typo and RODL was born. It became a running gag ever since.
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PRM_-_ST-RANGE_LOVE.XM
prm - ST-range Love
10: prm - Strange Love (2:10), 12 channels, Milkytracker - This song is called "ST-range love" and is of course about making love to a goat. You might wonder what's so strange about making love to a goat? There is of course nothing strange about that. At all. This song is strange though. And one sample is off key.
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JAZZCAT_-_GHOSTWRITER_BLUES.XM
Jazzcat - Ghostwriter Blues
11: Jazzcat - Ghostwriter Blues (1:32), 14 channels, Modplugtracker - My friend phoned me one evening and asked whether I've ever done a simple, Elfman-stylish midi tune. I said that I had not. He explained then that he was making a soundtrack to a mobile game which he was not satisfied with, and he suggested that I should write this instead, giving credits to him. I agreed. So I just sat at the piano, made the tune very quickly, sent it to him, got paid and forgot about it. Nice job. Half a year or so after that,  my friend  told me that the tune became a "hit" in the developer office and he was kind of a superstar. People were pointing fingers at him whenever he was walking in the office and whispering: "That's the guy of the song!". Hahaha. Total madness! And of course no one knows who is the right composer. Hence the title. Needles to say, that I use this fact to blackmail my friend whenever I need money. He will probably regret that he hired me till the end of his life, haha!
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BUZZER_-_ST-01_JAM.XM
Buzzer - ST-01 Jam
12: Buzzer - ST-01 Jam (2:14), 14 channels, Skaletracker - This one is the tune that started it all. Composed in 2005, just after the whole ST-01 idea was born on the oneliner of the Nectarine Demoscene Internet Radio. Nothing special here, but hell yeah, using a multichannel tracker was more comfortable than working only in 4 channels back in the Amiga days.
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MYSTRA_-_NOSTALGIA_RIDES_HIGH.XM
Mystra - Nostalgia Rides High
13: Mystra - Nostalgia Rides High (2:30), 12 channels, Skaletracker - Graduating from the old to the new school is not easy, so a production like Tracked in Time is right down my alley. And I just could not resist an opportunity to play around that lovely pizza sample. I hope you enjoy our nostalgic journey back to the good old days.
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SERPENT_-_EPITAPH.XM
Serpent - Epitaph
14: Serpent - Epitaph (5:53), 8 channels, Milkytracker - As some people might notice, especially the beginning is quite heavily inspired from Jochen Hippels Amberstar title music. It's true that i was listening quite a lot to that magnificent tune and of course started to make something of it on tracker. Luckily it's not just a copy of that tune as there's 3 different parts in the song. I actually like this song myself, which is a miracle. The tune is quite old already but at least it was meant to be in this disk, unlike the others. Oh, i should say that for the last part i was inspired from Judas Priest - Breaking the Law, listen to the bass and you'll understand, i think it was played on radio when i was tracking this and so on...
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MICE_-_REAL_SAINT-01.MOD
Mice - Real Saint-01
15: Mice - Real Saint-01 (1:46), 4 channels, Amiga Protracker - The real st-01 song, Amiga 4ch, no special effects, no sampleraping, just crap. Pc usually plays the "Flute"-sample wrong so I HAD to use it :) Oh, and this one really takes a great amount of diskspace (about 46kb).
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C-JEFF_-_MR_FUNKSTONE_AT_THE_BBC.S3M
C-jeff - Mr. Funkstone at the BBC
16: C-jeff - Mr. Funkstone at the BBC (1:57), 4 channels, ModPlugTracker - Please, don't ask me who Mr. Funkstone is, and what the heck he's doing at the BBC :), hehe. The tune is fun, kind of disco-funk, separated with my lovely jazzy elements. Have fun!
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BUZZER_-_CANT_GET_ENOUGH.XM
Buzzer - Can't Get Enough
17: Buzzer - Can't Get Enough (2:33), 16 channels, Skaletracker - Can't get enough from ST-01 samples. Wanted to do a Lizardking-style tune, dunno about the result though...
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JAZZCAT_-_NO_CHEMTRAILS_TODAY.XM
Jazzcat - No Chemtrails Today
18: Jazzcat - No Chemtrails Today (2:57), 20 channels, Modplugtracker - This was originally written in midi for some mobile java game. I especially like certain type of game designers. I mean the guys who know exactly what kind of music they need from me. So that's how it was back then. They gave me some songs which they thought might be suitable for the game. And there were Schmoov's songs among them. While writing this one, I was very much influenced by Schmoov's style, in particular the song "Playground". Wow! It was just love at the first sight! Magical tune. And what are chemtrails? Well, do some google, look up in the sky and you'll be done. Btw, rumours say, that a side-effect of this chemtrail action is increasing penis size. So I measure mine every morning. And it grows 10mm per week! It means that in 20 years my one-eyed monster will be 2 inches long finally! Hooray. Virgins, dogs, goats and vegetables - shake in terror!
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RUNARO_-_POP_THE_BUBBLES.XM
Runaro - Pop The Bubbles
19: Runaro - Pop The Bubbles (1:40), 6 channels, Madtracker 2 - This was only the second tracked tune I had made in 13 years. I had forgotten how incredibly tedious tracking is. :-) It started life as two separate tunes, but the line between them blurred at some point while hacking in MadTracker on an ancient laptop enroute from Keflavik to Orlando. I thought it sounded like the theme from some game like "Pang!" Not an epic masterpiece by any means, but what do you want for nothing?
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DJ_JOGE_-_RUSTY_DUST-01Y_DISK.MOD
DJ Joge - Rusty Dust-01y Disk
20: DJ Joge - Rusty Dust-01y Disk (3:23), 4 channels, Amiga Protracker - I was making this tune a week before the Sundown 2008 party, and got a crazy idea: How about trying to cut the ST-01 samples sooooo much, do some looping etc, to be able to downsize the original nearly 200kb tune into the 64kb limit of Sundown competition. Believe it or not, that succeeded, and the 64kb version of this tune made it just in time for the Sundown 2008 open mod competition. Unfortunately they had some typos on the song title at the party, so the reference to ST-01 disk was totally lost there and probably all the party people just felt sorry for the lousy instruments on this tune :) Well, however the song ended up on the 4th place at the competition. The tune itself is a 2 part tune, the last part I already had composed a few years ago but now just got an inspiration to write the faster 1st part.
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SERPENT_AND_BUZZER_-_PRETENDING.XM
Serpent And Buzzer - Pretending
21: Serpent and Buzzer - Pretending (2:10), 10 channels, Milkytracker - The title tells everything about how this song started to form. There are some similarities with Karsten Obarskis song "Pretend". In the first few patterns i tried to come up with a melody as good as in Pretend and at same time it should resemble Pretend, as at first i was doing some kind of remix. After those first patterns and adding some strings, bass and drums to later ones i handed the song to Buzzer who did like 75% of the song i think. He added more samples and all the melodies you'll hear after the very first patterns except the couple patterns halfway of the song that are in minor. Song should be looped to a certain point but i dunno if that works in the disk.
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VIRT_-_NIGHTFALL_OVER_THE_CITY.IT
Virt - Nightfall Over The City
22: Virt - Nightfall Over The City (6:06), 28 channels plus NNA, Schismtracker - Besides chiptunes and game music, this is the first time I've used a tracker to make a song "just for fun" in a long time. It's also the first time I have used Schism tracker (A near perfect IT clone) for a full song. I'm still stuck in 80s filmscore mode, but I'm not going to apologize!
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PRM_-_ST-RIPTEASE.XM
prm - ST-Riptease
23: prm - ST-Riptease (1:53), 12 channels, Milkytracker - Contrary to popular belief, this song doesn't suck. Or as Serpent put it: "Doesn't suck. It has nice, happy mood of a jungle with apes jumping in trees and mating".
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JAZZCAT_-_JUST_A_SIMPLE_STORY.MOD
Jazzcat - Just A Simple Story
24: Jazzcat - Just A Simple Story (2:08), 4 channels, Soundtracker - Here is another one of those shorties I dearly enjoy doing when the opportunity and the idea come together. First, as usual, there was a Java game. I wrote the tune very fast, got paid and completely forgot about it. 2 years later, Mr.Acryl (who happened to program the game) told me, that he liked the tune so much, that he used it as his ringtone. Nice. But that's not all. Another 2 years later I was preparing a module for the Soundtracker music compo at the Riverwash party. I was scanning my huuuuuge midi game soundtrack archive for something simple, short and catchy that I could recycle. And I've found this. Converting it to MOD format took me 20 minutes. Ah... Whenever I play this loud, a fat spider walks out from an unknown place (my bed, probably), takes a look at me, ripples his face in an ugly way, waves its legs like crazy and dissapears.
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MICE_AND_BUZZER_-_VUNKKIJATSI.XM
Mice And Buzzer - Vunkkijatsi
25: Mice and Buzzer - Vunkkijatsi (1:32), 16 channels, Skaletracker - Buzzer did the backround and Mice finalized this one with melody and other stuff.
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AXEL_-_SOUNDTRACKER_FUNK.MP3
Axel - Soundtracker Funk
26: Axel - Soundtracker Funk (5:05), 8 channels, Renoise - The inspiration for this pretty much is to blame on Reed really. I so love his funky stuff that I simply had to try something out like that. I have found out over the years that the groovy stuff is more of the kind of tunes that I'd like to write. So I tried some simple grooves, nothing all too fancy, with this one. I also realized that I will never ever reach the technical virtuosity of fellow Brainstormers like Virt or Ruth Linde. I can't really add much more to this because after listening to Virt's "Keep Shredding Little Man", my jamming sounds pretty pointless (*throws a tomato at Virt*)
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BUZZER_-_CRAP.XM
Buzzer - Crap
27: Buzzer - Crap (2:29), 14 channels, Skaletracker - Tracked in the late night of February. That's the reason for the mood in this song.
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SERPENT_-_WHILE_BORED.XM
Serpent - While Bored
28: Serpent - While Bored (4:53), 4 channels, Skaletracker - Now this was the second tune i made after the long break in tracking. This either wasn't meant to be in any production, i just, as the title assumes, was quite bored at home and made this. For a long time I thought about not adding this to the musicdisk but what the hell, there's enough of good tunes to balance this crap :)
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DJ_JOGE_-_WRAITH_OF_ST-01.MOD
DJ Joge - Wraith Of ST-01
29: DJ Joge - Wraith of ST-01 (5:37), 4 channels, Amiga Protracker - This is the FIRST song I did compose after a huge 10 years long break in making any kind of music (and this is exactly how it sounds, rodl). It is a pure protracker tune with 3 separate parts. For some reason this reminds me of a game soundtrack: first an intro part, then the actual gaming action fast part, and finally the relaxed highscore/credits part.
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JAZZCAT_-_EMME_YA.XM
Jazzcat - Emme Ya
30: Jazzcat - Emme Ya (1:36), 18 channels, Modplugtracker - And this time... guess what... it's another Java game soundtrack! "Fairies, magic, fantasy" - designers said this time. So I did it again. Perhaps I was looking for inspiration listening to SNES game soundtracks. Yeah! That's probably one of the best inspiration sources for every game musician. And the title? Well, Emme-ya is a star. It was discovered way back in 1995. But the really interesting thing is that Dogons, the African tribe from Mali, knew  about its existence many years earlier. "Yeah, there are many strange, bizarre things on this planet", I think to myself everyday when I look in the mirror. Especially when I look in the mirror being naked!
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BUZZER_-_BEFORE_DARK.XM
Buzzer - Before Dark
31: Buzzer - Before Dark (2:13), 16 channels, Skaletracker - Composed in the late evening of May 2006, so this is quite a tired piece of ST-01 :)
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ROMEO_KNIGHT_LAST-1_LEFT.MP3
Romeo Knight - Last-1 Left
32: BONUS TRACK - Romeo Knight - Last-1 Left, unlimited channels and bling - This is my last audible reminiscence to the very early AMIGA soundtracking days. Everything you hear is created out of a selection of the infamous st-01 samples. I chose the sounds I hated most (especially "pizza") to create something that - hopefully - sounds different to the first ever released mods of Karsten Obarski. The samples were altered using Native Instruments' Kore 2/Reaktor 5/Absynth 4/Battery 3 and a shitload of VST plugins.

Brainstorm is more than happy to present you the wonderful, wonderful world of ST-01 music!!! Yes, believe it or not, but every single track on this music disk has been built using nothing more than the original sounds from the notorious ST-01 sample disk. The variety of different programs used to compose the songs here is quite big, so also the amount of individual channels in tunes is ranging from ProTracker's 4 to ModPlugTracker's Ga-Zillion (or anyway the very beautiful track by Xerxes surely comes close to that amount). Oh sorry, let me introduce myself: DJ Joge here kicking up the scrolltext. Could you believe, that it is already over 21 years since the very first SoundTracker was released for Amiga? Karsten Obarski donated the demoscene a priceless gift at 01.08.1987 when The Ultimate Soundtracker 1.0 came available for everyone. And not to forget the other awesome updates in this tracker evolution: Mahoney and Kaktus at 01.08.1989 with NoiseTracker 1.0, Lars 'Zap' Hamre at 01.10.1990 with ProTracker 1.0b and so on... For example protracker.de site lists 143 separate versions of these trackers for Amiga, and not to forget also MilkyTracker, FastTracker, ScreamTracker, ImpulseTracker, ModPlugTracker, MadTracker, ScaleTracker... hell the list goes on and on, but the origin for all this goes back to the very first SoundTracker and ST-01 sample disk.

The idea for this ST-01 music disk started somewhere around early 2005. Some old, retired (probably retarded as well, heh) scene people were chatting in Nectarine Demoscene Internet Radio (tm) and fooling around with an idea of how to build a tune using only those ooooooold samples from ST-01 disk. Well, the same people were also joking around with the idea of re-forming a demoscene group, and a little bit after it Brainstorm was alive again. Actually, some of the tunes on this disk were composed already in 2005, and more musicians were a little by little lured into making a tune here too. So, eventually there is now a whopping 32 songs made by 14 different musicians, and not to forget that this production has people from 10 different countries contributing music, code and gfx to you in this form that we simpy call TiT - Tracked in Time. And oh boy, the amount of TiTs here... I just downloaded the whole playlist of 32 tunes into winamp in order to check the total running time, and guess what? A WHOOOPPPINNNG 1 hour 37 minutes both audio pleasure and torture in store for your ears!!!!!!!! How about that! :D

It is a shame that there isn't any nice player for renoise files... Since now there are 29 "normal" tracked tunes just a bit over 3 megabytes all together, but the remaining 3 mp3 tunes reserve over 11 megabytes. But I think we can forgive Axel, Ruth and Romeo for stealing the disk space, hehee. Oh, and I have to state here that _EVERY_ of the 32 tunes here is done using only original, holy ST-01 (*bows*) instruments, and not any kind of modifying, use of effects, filters or whatsoever, has been allowed. The only exception to this rule is the unbelievable bonus track by Romeo Knight, where he was allowed to go crazy over these samples with all the effects and stuff he could think of - but still just the same ST-01 samples are used on that tune as well, could you believe it?!?!?

I see somebody running this way with a necklace made out of ST-01 disks swinging around his neck, so I better quickly take cover and let the next anxious fellow start banging the keyboard. DJ Joge signing off for a while.....................

BLARGH! Runaro in ur scrolltext, eating ur floppies. *pfech!* *spit!* Yuck. Atari formatted. So hey, yeah, oh my, this production is finally ready. Two years ago, I was on an airplane from Keflavik to Orlando, trying to put my tune together for TiT. Axel was going to beat me with a stick if I didn't finish it by the deadline. I finished the tune, but he ended up beating me with a stick anyway.

No, wait. Forget I said that. Axel is a wonderful master. Axel loves me, yes I know... Yes, Axel loves me, yes Axel loves meeeeee....

Ahem! Right, ignore that. This was actually the very first prod that the reformed Brainstorm plotted together. We were just joking around on the Nectarine oneliner. This was right after a few of us had made a little tune called "Oneliner Rumble" (available on Nectarine, yes indeed), and some of us hadn't tracked anything for well over 12 years. Alecs sent me the ST-01 samples (or was it Bpoint?) and hearing them, I was instantly transfigured to a fat 13-year-old sitting in front of his brand new A2000 with tears in his eyes.

I started out with a tune that had a grillion channels and dozens of samples, but I had forgotten how incredibly tedious tracking is, especially with lots of channels. So I scratched it and ended up with Pop The Bubbles. It has only 6 channels and doesn't use a lot of the samples, but I like it.

I'm going to get some coffee. Sure I'll get you some. Do you take cream or sugar?

Buzzer here. Hey Runaro bring me some hot, strong, black coffee (with some cookies maybe?)

DJ Joge already told us the history of st-01 samples, and Runaro did tell us something fun, so what's left for me? Politics? Nooo... It's so amazing how different tunes you can compose with this bunch of old samples. The ST-01 sampledisk and Amiga Soundtracker was my first touch of computer music composing and creating some own music stuff in an easy way. Yeah.. the very first experiment with Soundtracker and ST-01 was a lousy drum pattern I looped all night long. Then I added monobass and I was like "WOW I must learn some serious tracking".

...thats where all began. Before, I was using Commodore 64 and Future Composer, but that one was really hard to use for me. I only did some short music tests. (luckily I can't find those anywhere anymore)

So now we can say Brainstorm's old farts went back to the roots! Enjoy the music, and hopefully you'll get some nostalgic feelings. Buzzer signs off and gives the keyboard to ...

Mystra here. Wow! It's finally finished! Tracked in Time has been in the making for quite some time - most of the music was finished a couple of years ago, actually! It's nice to see the finished product eventually! Composing a tune with the ST-01 samples was great - who can resist that lovely "pizza" sample? I have had the tunes from this musicdisk in my playlist regularly over the last couple of years, and I am amazed by the diversity, considering we've all used the same sample pack. From DJ Joge's hardcore 4 channel mods to the madness of Ruth Linde and Xerxes. From the simple, beautiful melodies of Buzzer to Runaro's sugar sweet platform game tune. Well, I've certainly enjoyed listening to these ST-01 tunes, and I hope that you will enjoy them too. Tracked in Time (or TiT, as we like to call it :-) is the kind of production we initially wanted to make when we resurrected Brainstorm, while hanging around at Nectarine scenemusic radio, listening to the good-old tunes. Enjoy our trip down memory lane!

Virt up in this -- guys, I understand why the keyboard is sticky but why is my coffee mug sticky?  Oh well, basically this feels a lot like I'm working on a GBA soundtrack, in terms of sound quality, 8bit, 8khz -- so it's comforting, even though I never even touched trackers until 1998, let alone the original ST. From 88 onward I was stuck over in General MIDI land with a Soundblaster and Cakewalk DOS. Man, if only I had been given an Amiga and a batch of awesome-ass sounds like these. Still, it's never too late, and I'm never too busy (HAHA AHAHAHAAHHAHAAHA HAH hh ..hah hah.....) :( :( Okay, time to play GTA4 until my eyes bleed. Signing off, Brainstorm Brothaz!

(*DJ Joge pulling Virt off GTA-style from a moving car...emm scrolltext*) Virt you rock! Listening "Nightfall Over the City" gives me shivers down my spine, it really brings back golden memories from the first time I played Unreal (the very first game on that series) which contained some game soundtrack that has touched me deeply! This tune has somehow the similar atmosphere, and created only with ST-01 samples... whoah!!! And to top with the 150% energy-filled "Keep Shredding Little Man" that has power enough to jumpstart a small city! Indeed it is funny to see the huge variety of the tunes each composer has created with these samples, as there are so many different styles and each of them are simply superb... unbelievable :) And stop the press... there appeared yet another track by Prm, and this new song "ST-range love" sounds soooo sweet. Very nice and beautiful simple melody. Thumbs up!

Gentlemen. Ladies. (*tips hat*) Axel here. I must be one of the last persons who still owes Joge some text for the song and this scrolltext here. Shame on me. I'm really happy that Joge has volunteered to head this project, because with so many people involved it's a real pain to get it ever finished. So thanks that you always kept smacking our cheeks. We dug it.

If anyone would have told me that it would take THIS long to finish this musicdisk, I wouldn't have believed it. As was mentioned, the songs should all have been complete in May 2005 if I'm not mistaken (Runaro surely got that one right), but on the other hand the musicdisk kept evolving a lot. Originally Preacher thought he could do it. Then we changed the concept somewhat, going from retro-graphics (and by that I mean Soundtracker 2.4-look) to more modern ones, and Critikill and Pride worked on a visual concept for the musicdisk. At the same time, new musicians joined us and wanted to contribute. That's why the number of songs now is almost double as much as I originally thought it would be. But that's good, right?

So all of a sudden Imbusy comes along and says "hey, I've got a working preview", so now we're really fudged and have to wrap up the rest. Heh. I've made an mp3 encoding of my track long time ago since there's no renoise-player out there, but I want to change the ending of the song, but my PC is overheating as soon as I want to make anything with it, let alone CPU-intensive stuff. So we'll see. I might give it a try tonight. (*timewarp*). Okay, so I tried and decided to forget about it. :)

I'm hearing prm has an urgent need to fart? I'll hand him the keyboard so he can fart right on it.

Woops, Pride grabs the keyboard so prm can enjoy himself a little longer. Well, finally this great musicdisk is done. I've been incredibly lazy the past months (year), so I'm really the one to blame for the huge delay on this production. Well, not entirely, but anyway... Well, moving on... It has been great working on Tracked in Time with you CK - you really inspire me man. And it's great to hear all the retro-tunes from the many talented musicians - and from Axel aswell. Hehe well, great to hear a tune from you again mate. I will end this nonsense (yes already, thank God) by saying hello to the crazy bunch known as Brainstorm. Xerxes, your Chillo tunes have been playing nonstop on my laptop while working. Axel, I'm sorry for being a lazy bastard - have to quit my job, leave my girlfriend and kill the cat to get more time to Brainstorm in the future. I promise... Also big hellos to my old friends: s7ing, Ghandy, Virgill, Chromag, Jester, Boo, Magic, Warhead and the rest I probably have forgotten - blame it on the age. Well, moving on... Cheers!

Yo, deathy on the keyboard now... aw, man, who puked on the keyboard? Bunch of drunk bastiches. Anyhow, it's been a long time since I'vewritten texts so pardon me if I'm a bit rusty. I really enjoyed working on this project, and the Brainstorm guys are a great bunch of fun and talented guys to work with. I'm really looking forward to future productions. The music in this disk is also a real blast to listen to... amazing what can be done with only the ST-01 floppy disk. I'd like to send out a personal Yo to all my old mates from Epilogue, although I think the majority of the ex-members are probably not terribly active in the scene so they probably won't see it. So, maybe easier to say "Hi, XeF4!". Another quick personal to Midnite Son. OK, I think my text has gotten boring enough for now, time to give this keyboard back to one of the other guys so they can get the bile off. Unyo!

JazzCat here. It's been almost 17 years since I made my first tracker module. If someone had told me then, that I would be doing this for next 16 years, I would have said he was fucking mad. But that's true. For the first 10 years there was the scene. Later I messed with the games business (mostly on mobiles/consoles) and did the same, but for money. My typical day looks like this: I get up, put my pants on (or not), fart loud to check if there's no burglar in my appartment, check the mail and start to work on music. Sometimes I do 9-10 pieces of music per week (including those rejected ones of course). Although I do most of the stuff in General Midi nowadays, there is no problem in making MODS out of them. All songs included in this collection were initially written as midi files. OK... And now greets to some of the coolest guys on this planet: Slay, Chaser, Stelmi, Cosh, Acryl, Darklight, Axel, Scott, Szudi, Voy, Revisq, X-Ceed, Coner, Juen, Sqward, Crust, Rem, Mavey, Aceman, Black Dot... Later!

It’s Serpent at the keyboard (which is really dirty btw, from kebab and stuff). Wow, thanks to DJ Joge this musicdisk is actually quite near the release day! JazzCat (nice tunes!) wrote about having 17 years between his first mod and today. Well, I have to make it better and say that it’s quite exactly 20 for me. What’s best, my new tunes (well these were made 2005-2006 but anyway) sound exactly the same as the ones 20 years ago did! hmm.. Yes, I was just listening to the amazing Virt tracks, what can I say, "keep shredding" tune is just crazy, sounds like Jeroen Tel destroying the old ST-01 sampledisk! Ok, let’s just say Virt destroying the freakin disk. Did you use all the samples Virt, what, 43 or something? And the other one, "Nightfall over the City", starts (as do two of JazzCat's tunes) just like that it could be from FF/Chrono Trigger or some other rpg from SNES. It’s maybe my fave tune from this disk. I always loved Mystra’s "Nostalgia rides high" too, because of the really lovely melodies. In fact, I think there’s no bad tunes at all, except the obvious ones (mine). Finally, warm thanks to all guys involved and greets to friends, you know who you are (?). I hope you enjoy the disk! Serp out.

Ok. Since Serp is writing something I need to do that as well. I just wanna send some greetings to the fabulous people in SBD - you guys rule! I also want to take a bow to all the talented people participating in this disk. I'm not worthy. Seriously. And as an addition to that, I've got to mention that Brainstorm, as a group, is exactly what I was always looking for in a scene group. Besides a great deal of talent, there is also a  huge amount of love. Not goat love, love. We will celebrate that, and additional things, at Breakpoint 2009. If you wanna join us, please feel free to do so. Regarding my songs, well... They are more like chip tunes with ST-01 samples. But what the hell. At least I've got nothing to prove in the future. Now I really got to fart. pr!m

........phew... that's a load of crap in this scrolltext. But hey, who wouldn't love crap anyways :) DJ Joge still here, had to just pop out to comment on a few of the most recent tunes that were added to this disk: JazzCat had earlier told that he will make a tune here... _A_ tune... but oh boy were we surprised to see mindblowing FIVE tunes by him! Yippee!!! \o/... So, finally were are now closing this music disk, it has been a damn fun and _long_ production, having tunes from 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006 and even early 2005!!! But better late than never, right! That is about all I have to say, so just keep on enjoying these tracks, and never forget the true origin of tracker music. Enjoy the TiT :D

All right, C-jeff at the keys. I'm really happy to be here (yeah, right here, on that scroll), since it is first time I release music with my Brainstorm fellas! I've got the "Tracked in Time Betatest closing in!" letter a time ago, and thought... (Hey! ST-01 samples? That should be fun!) ...everything else you know - Mr. Funkstone done his minute gig at the BBC :) See you next time and take care, yours C-jeff!

So, Axel at the keys again, since I'm getting into writing-mood right here right now. I've organized a seminar, and the 30+ people are sitting in a meeting room next door, while I'm another room with my laptop. I've put a brandnew track by Hansee (noope, not for Tracked in Time) in my Windows Media Player and am totally relaxing. It's kind of weird to be listening to Hansee's music over the laptop speakers in a huge meeting room. Kind of of surreal. But awesome. Take notes, you'll be hearing a lot more from Hansee in the future. So I thought damn, I could use the time to write some text, so here I am.

deathy wrote to Joge and me again today, stating he's getting the opening sequence of Tracked in Time in shape. The main problem was the circular cloud-scene where the credits pop up to Ruth Linde's mindblowing opening track. Pride made some experiments with clouds which didn't work out that well, so deathy started playing with it on his own, and I can't wait to get home tonight, because there'll be a new preview of Tracked in Time waiting for me, with all the songs in there and the opening section pretty much complete. Exciting times.

I still can't believe that Tracked in Time took this long. But what can you do. But we've got other good news too: we're already working on another musicdisk in parallel. And it features a picture by Mantraz which I seriously consider to be one of the best pictures I've ever seen in a demoscene production. So graphics artists out there, sharpen your pencils and clean your brushes. Of course the musicdisk doesn't only feature graphics. It will feature a silly amount of tracks by folks like Fleshbrain, Hansee, Mikael Fyrek, Buzzer, yours truly and many more.

With Tracked in Time nearing completion I'd like to shout some big thanks to DJ Joge who volunteered at some point to coordinate the mess that was Tracked in Time at the time. Luckily, it was well worth the effort, but the production surely wouldn't have been finished without your perseverance.

For a moment I wondered right now whether I should send out more personal greetings, but it's way too risky to forget anyone, plus the list would be pretty long. Maybe next time. :) So maybe I should get back to ZINE 14 now (yes, don't you dare to ask me about it, I do know we're late on that one, bastards).

So I think we should wrap this now. Enjoy the music, enjoy the good old vibes from the old ST-01 sampledisks. And you better expect us to be back soon.

Brainstorm - better than the smell of your socks since 1989.
















