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Community => Help me find that... => Topic started by: EvilFactor on October 05, 2009, 09:29:07
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For many years I have wanted to locate the true name of a MOD I once downloaded from an emulation site (called The Emu Realm or something of the sort - it was a big ROM site at one point years back.) The site owner, from what I recall, said the MODs he hosted were all his own compositions but I am not sure about that because the only one of his MODs I was able to track down was a remix of Sunbeam's Outside World that was credited to someone other than the site owner.
The track in question starts off with a simple rendition of whatever stereotypical Chinese song is used at the beginning of The Vapors' song Turning Japanese. It then breaks down into a dancey sort of track, still playing the Asian jingle but also "harmonizing" with itself. It was called Orient Express on the site where I saw it, but I haven't found anything of that title on Mod Archive.
Apologies if my description isn't very descriptive...it's been ten years (most likely) since I last heard it. Anyone have any possibilities with other titles?
Thanks!
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Hmm, tricky one. The only tracks that would come to my mind:
orient expression by travolta (http://modarchive.org/module.php?128956) - not much orient in it, though...
orientxpression by StereoMan (http://files.exotica.org.uk/modland/?file=pub/modules/Impulsetracker/StereoMan/orientxpression.it) - this misses the "dance" part, though.
Do you recall anymore details, i.e. how many channels were approx. used, what format was it, etc?
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Thanks for the suggestions! :)
Unfortunately, I've already heard the first one, and while it's the closest thing to what I'm looking for, it's still only has a passing similarity to the track in question. The second one unfortunately isn't very close at all.
From what I recall, although I could be totally out to lunch on this, the format was mod or xm (although for all I know it could have been s3m or it as well, but I can pretty much 100% assert that it wasn't any format more exotic than those.)
For more information on the "stereotypical asian" melody the track was built around, see here: http://ask.metafilter.com/16201/Where-did-stereotypical-Asian-music-come-from (probably doesn't really help anyone at all, but at least identifies the specific riff.)
Thanks again for the help, I cannot express how exciting it would be to hear this track ten years later after a hard drive crash and the hosting ROM site shutting down!
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another one that came to my mind (but which I forgot to post) is Radix's a shogun named paul (http://modarchive.org/module.php?148452).
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Awesome as with all Radix productions, but unfortunately not the one. :(
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You could try here http://amp.dascene.net/home.php
Use the Quick Search option, searching for mod name and use "orient"...
Lists a few.