Hackurr's Profile

Bio:

Hey everyone! The name's Hackurr. I produce tracker music in a variety of different formats and genres, most predominantly jungle and rave music.

I first found out about trackers back in early 2020 after watching cTrix's "Making budget dance music in 1990" video the week it came out. I was already enthralled about rave and dance music from that particular time period and I was in complete awe at what the Amiga could do for its time.

I kept on listening to a few mods here and there (particularly by cTrix and h0ffman) over the next two years until I discovered a PC tracked music compilation in December 2022. Inspired, I began to wonder how I could actually make tracker music. That's where I found out about the ProTracker and FastTracker II clones created by 8bitbubsy, of which I began to look for the finest mods I could find, going on MOD hunts almost every day for months.

Fast forward to March 2023 and I was bored - so I made my first MOD, Movements. At the time. I already was making music with other programs (and at the time, I was much better at using those!) so as you can expect, my first MOD was awful. I didn't even know how to set the tempo!

Over time, I learnt ProTracker and FastTracker properly and got much better at using trackers over the summer of 2023. After I few months, I decided to release my first EP Sugalumps, which you can find on my YouTube, Bandcamp, SoundCloud and TMA pages, respectively. To my surprise, it was recieved well and this inspired me to work even more with trackers.

I also began to extensively listen to the catalogues of legendary netlabels from the 90s tracker music scene such as Mono, No'Mo, Milk, Mo Playaz, Tokyo Dawn and Voodoo. Inspired, in September 2023 I decide to form Great Red, a tracker musician group and netlabel which to date has 10 members and over 50 releases.

A few weeks after forming Great Red, I dropped my second EP (Generation Y) and entered the first track from the EP (Blisters) into Amiga Rave Craze - Blisters ended up coming 2nd, to my surprise!

After that, I released handfuls of MODs/XMs throughout the rest of 2023.

2024 came, and within a few weeks I had produced the entirety of my third EP Avalon, which was entirely written with FastTracker 2 in the XM format, along with various tracked music singles - examples include Sand (breakcore) and Trigga Fingaz.

After a few months of working on various different projects in the scene, I released a collaborative album with fellow tracker musician FTC Project on April 25th - my four tracks make up the basis of my fourth EP Versus.

Now, after returning to the Amiga scene with dark jungle MOD Samurai, I produced an extra four tracks on FT2 and together these tunes make up my 5th EP Ikari, which I consider to be some of my best work yet. And I'm not stopping here.

That brings us today.

What's next? I don't know. Let's just see where it heads!

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