Well that's strange. First allegedly music forum I've been to, out of a whole bunch, that has this little actual music discussion at all... I mean, not even a requisite recommendations or Now Playing thred? (Or are they just hidden somewhere? I do know about the archive's favorites and reviews features)
Still surely there must be other people here who are interested in mods just for the music and not the retro-computing aspect? I've never created a piece of music in my life, I've never touched a C64 or Amiga or such, know just about nothing about coding, etc etc, and yet here I am.
Related question #1: what other music do you people listen to? I'm a pretty huge fan of oldschool electronic music a la Tangerine Dream, Jean-Michel Jarre (I remember seeing several MOD transcriptions of the latter's work back in the 90s); also ambient, several other strands of synth music, occasional bits of acoustic things like jazz fusion, post-rock. Over the last about two years I've been investigating the growing netlabel and chiptune scenes (which I guess did its part in me eventually registering here, too).
Related question #2: anyone have a list of mod-related album releases and the like? I've wound up with a small handful of CDs over the years (Bjørn Lynne's
Revive kicks ass, in case this wasn't obvious to everyone by now; Xain's
Born in the Stars also gets pretty regular rotation) and a few digital album releases, but it would be interesting to know how much there really are. Also I'm a regular at RateYourMusic and I'd love to add any that are missing from their database, should count for something on keeping the knowledge of the scene out there...
(Okay let's see if that'll do for starting up some discussion.)
