Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:34:36 +0200 https://hearthis.at/FW7ZMLgb/ en-EN contact@hearthis.at contact@hearthis.at https://hearthis.at/FW7ZMLgb/ https://img.hearthis.at/5/4/4/_/uploads/dummy/user/w1400_h1400_q70_ptrue_v2_----cropped_user_00445.png no no https://hearthis.at/FW7ZMLgb/free-motion-machine-12-acid-december-remaster/
I'll leave the original up for comparison for now, but if you've heard any other version of this so far, this one is better.

Brand new tunes coming soon!

Original description:
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This song took 3rd in the Flashback 2014 music compo and I'm pretty damn pleased with that because I was up against some INTENSE competition! Written almost entirely with REAL Impulse Tracker & DOS tools on a Pentium 233. No virtual machines or emulators! I made my samples on a Roland S-760 hardware sampler & exported them to waves that IT can use. Trivia: the kick drum you hear is actually two layered kicks - one I created on my Roland MC-202 (WTF?) and the other from a 'real' drum machine - from the Soviet Union.

Tools used:
x0xb0x / MC-202 / S-760 / P233MMX / IT2.14p5 / AWE64 / GUS PnP

You can download the source IT file from here:
http://www.buzztunes.org/music/jmph/free-motion-machine

Remixing, chopping, and sample ripping are encouraged - send me what you make if you do!

Hope you enjoy it!]]>
I'll leave the original up for comparison for now, but if you've heard any other version of this so far, this one is better.

Brand new tunes coming soon!

Original description:
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This song took 3rd in the Flashback 2014 music compo and I'm pretty damn pleased with that because I was up against some INTENSE competition! Written almost entirely with REAL Impulse Tracker & DOS tools on a Pentium 233. No virtual machines or emulators! I made my samples on a Roland S-760 hardware sampler & exported them to waves that IT can use. Trivia: the kick drum you hear is actually two layered kicks - one I created on my Roland MC-202 (WTF?) and the other from a 'real' drum machine - from the Soviet Union.

Tools used:
x0xb0x / MC-202 / S-760 / P233MMX / IT2.14p5 / AWE64 / GUS PnP

You can download the source IT file from here:
http://www.buzztunes.org/music/jmph/free-motion-machine

Remixing, chopping, and sample ripping are encouraged - send me what you make if you do!

Hope you enjoy it!]]> 410805 no no Wed, 06 May 2015 04:35:11 +0200 2015-05-06T04:35:11+02:00 3:37 https://hearthis.at/FW7ZMLgb/unzervalt-2005-unfinished/
It still doesn't open in New Buzz - well, it does, but a lot of the synth plugins no longer work. But I was going through my backup disk and to my great surprise - found I'd made a wav render that I'd completely forgotten about! So this is obviously unfinished but I thought it has enough good ideas that I'd post it up for anyone who wants to hear. Sorry about the clicky bassline - was probably a bad sample (I have a version a couple files after this one called "-newbassline" but I have no idea what it sounds like anymore.) I tried a bit of mastering in Reaper so I hope it sounds pretty good - probably not perfect but with only a 2-channel stereo render to work with there wasn't a whole lot I could do.

Man, I had some awesome guitars going in Old Buzz! Wish I knew how I did that. I reserve the right to re-use whatever I want from this track in new songs without any of you calling me lazy - especially those drums, which kick ass.]]>
It still doesn't open in New Buzz - well, it does, but a lot of the synth plugins no longer work. But I was going through my backup disk and to my great surprise - found I'd made a wav render that I'd completely forgotten about! So this is obviously unfinished but I thought it has enough good ideas that I'd post it up for anyone who wants to hear. Sorry about the clicky bassline - was probably a bad sample (I have a version a couple files after this one called "-newbassline" but I have no idea what it sounds like anymore.) I tried a bit of mastering in Reaper so I hope it sounds pretty good - probably not perfect but with only a 2-channel stereo render to work with there wasn't a whole lot I could do.

Man, I had some awesome guitars going in Old Buzz! Wish I knew how I did that. I reserve the right to re-use whatever I want from this track in new songs without any of you calling me lazy - especially those drums, which kick ass.]]> 410806 no no Tue, 14 Oct 2014 05:18:52 +0200 2014-10-14T05:18:52+02:00 1:44 https://hearthis.at/FW7ZMLgb/glitchnbass-sunspot-bonus-track/
Recorded direct from the GUS line-out on my S-760 - NO mastering done at all, because what possible good would that do?

Wanna try a remix? I have a version without the drums AND a full dump of the GUS mem at the time that can be played at whatever sample rate & bit depth you like! Contact me the usual way if you want...]]>
Recorded direct from the GUS line-out on my S-760 - NO mastering done at all, because what possible good would that do?

Wanna try a remix? I have a version without the drums AND a full dump of the GUS mem at the time that can be played at whatever sample rate & bit depth you like! Contact me the usual way if you want...]]> 410807 no no Tue, 15 Jul 2014 06:43:35 +0200 2014-07-15T06:43:35+02:00 1:45 https://hearthis.at/FW7ZMLgb/sunspot/
This track took 3rd in the Oldschool Music Compo @ Solskogen 2014! Party version - all samples crunched to 8-bit to meet a 1MB size limit - the final XM was only 4406 bytes under! I may not do a "HQ" version as I don't think it's lost anything - the extra rawness & grit fits the tone of the song just fine.

The first minute or so dates from 2006, but then it stalled, and I didn't really add anything until July 2014. Was it 8 years in the making? Well, not really... Most of it was done in the week before Solskogen and I was rushing to get it in the compo. No complaints about how it turned out though!  

Incidentally, yes, all the wubwubwub is from 2006. It was fresh back then!  

Written in the awesome DigiTrakker 3.2 by Prodatron/nFactor (from 1996)! How did such an amazing tracker get so overlooked? Working in XM was a pain though; look at what I had to do to get the echo tracks right in the first patterns! Expect some MDL releases from me sometime? (MIDI parts were done in Impulse Tracker because sadly DT lacks MIDI-out.)

Hardware used: P233 (DOS/GUS/AWE64), MC-202, Microkorg, S-760, and the real star of the show, an MXR Distortion+ pedal. Lots of "old" samples from my library too.

Enjoy the music!

PS - now that you've read all this way, there is a bonus track that goes with this one! Contact me or check back here...]]>
This track took 3rd in the Oldschool Music Compo @ Solskogen 2014! Party version - all samples crunched to 8-bit to meet a 1MB size limit - the final XM was only 4406 bytes under! I may not do a "HQ" version as I don't think it's lost anything - the extra rawness & grit fits the tone of the song just fine.

The first minute or so dates from 2006, but then it stalled, and I didn't really add anything until July 2014. Was it 8 years in the making? Well, not really... Most of it was done in the week before Solskogen and I was rushing to get it in the compo. No complaints about how it turned out though!  

Incidentally, yes, all the wubwubwub is from 2006. It was fresh back then!  

Written in the awesome DigiTrakker 3.2 by Prodatron/nFactor (from 1996)! How did such an amazing tracker get so overlooked? Working in XM was a pain though; look at what I had to do to get the echo tracks right in the first patterns! Expect some MDL releases from me sometime? (MIDI parts were done in Impulse Tracker because sadly DT lacks MIDI-out.)

Hardware used: P233 (DOS/GUS/AWE64), MC-202, Microkorg, S-760, and the real star of the show, an MXR Distortion+ pedal. Lots of "old" samples from my library too.

Enjoy the music!

PS - now that you've read all this way, there is a bonus track that goes with this one! Contact me or check back here...]]> 410808 no no Mon, 14 Jul 2014 06:31:50 +0200 2014-07-14T06:31:50+02:00 2:54 https://hearthis.at/FW7ZMLgb/free-motion-machine/
Tools used:
x0xb0x / MC-202 / S-760 / P233MMX / IT2.14p5 / AWE64

You can download the source IT file from here:
http://www.buzztunes.org/music/jmph/free-motion-machine

Remixing, chopping, and sample ripping are encouraged - send me what you make if you do!

Hope you enjoy it!]]>
Tools used:
x0xb0x / MC-202 / S-760 / P233MMX / IT2.14p5 / AWE64

You can download the source IT file from here:
http://www.buzztunes.org/music/jmph/free-motion-machine

Remixing, chopping, and sample ripping are encouraged - send me what you make if you do!

Hope you enjoy it!]]> 410810 no no Mon, 09 Jun 2014 02:48:37 +0200 2014-06-09T02:48:37+02:00 3:36 https://hearthis.at/FW7ZMLgb/under-a-foreign-sky/
Little acid piece for fun. Made for Acid December 2013 on Devsound.se - always a great collection of tracks & I was very happy to participate again!

This song was done as a demo/proof of concept of my new 'oldschool PC' setup, which means it was made almost 100% using DOS tools on a Pentium 233. Sequencing was done in Impulse Tracker using an AWE64 for simultaneous sample playback and MIDI out. Original samples were recorded/edited with Allsound Tracker and SamplEd, with a little assistance from a Roland S-760. (There are even also some samples from the old Amiga ST-xx sample disks. :) See if you can spot them.) All mixing/EQ was done 'in hardware' on an analog mixer and the final render was recorded in one take with no multitracking.

What can I say, this rig works AMAZINGLY well. MIDI timing is dead-on accurate and everything just fires up and works. No messing with uncooperative USB devices, no noisy laptop power supplies, no ALSA/JACK issues... It's like having a dedicated hardware sequencer that's also a tracker. I should have built this years ago.

For some reason I got it in my head that I was going to avoid the usual 808/909 drumkits so the drums I chose may seem a little unusual. But I like how they turned out.

It did end up a little shorter than I'd like, might extend this one in the future. Enjoy the tune & please leave a comment if you have any feedback!]]>
Little acid piece for fun. Made for Acid December 2013 on Devsound.se - always a great collection of tracks & I was very happy to participate again!

This song was done as a demo/proof of concept of my new 'oldschool PC' setup, which means it was made almost 100% using DOS tools on a Pentium 233. Sequencing was done in Impulse Tracker using an AWE64 for simultaneous sample playback and MIDI out. Original samples were recorded/edited with Allsound Tracker and SamplEd, with a little assistance from a Roland S-760. (There are even also some samples from the old Amiga ST-xx sample disks. :) See if you can spot them.) All mixing/EQ was done 'in hardware' on an analog mixer and the final render was recorded in one take with no multitracking.

What can I say, this rig works AMAZINGLY well. MIDI timing is dead-on accurate and everything just fires up and works. No messing with uncooperative USB devices, no noisy laptop power supplies, no ALSA/JACK issues... It's like having a dedicated hardware sequencer that's also a tracker. I should have built this years ago.

For some reason I got it in my head that I was going to avoid the usual 808/909 drumkits so the drums I chose may seem a little unusual. But I like how they turned out.

It did end up a little shorter than I'd like, might extend this one in the future. Enjoy the tune & please leave a comment if you have any feedback!]]> 410811 no no Sun, 22 Dec 2013 22:57:34 +0100 2013-12-22T22:57:34+01:00 2:44