Music For DOS, by Simon Stålenhag

Music For DOS

by Simon Stålenhag

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Anthony Childs A great reminder incredible music can be created with "obsolete" gear. And it completely fits into his entire Sci-Fi world of imagery, sound and story. Old technology waits patiently for new hands to re-discover its value. Favorite track: A Mist Of Tiny Switching Elements.

AB Pre Pandemic memories of forgotten futures. A beautiful album Simon.

softchassis A calming yet intense ambient album consisting of familiar but unfamiliar MS-DOS synths. Each song takes you to a recognizable point in time, but in an unrecognizable place, yet you'll feel at home at the same time. Favorite track: Rainfall Over Parallel Ports.

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1.	Memory Block 06:31	buy track
2.	Casio Patterns One 04:05	buy track
3.	Blank Lines 04:06	buy track
4.	A Mist Of Tiny Switching Elements 04:56	buy track
5.	Interference In E: minor 03:41	buy track
6.	Casio Patterns Two 04:17	buy track
7.	Rainfall Over Parallel Ports 04:12	buy track
8.	Dew Points In Hidden Folders 07:41	buy track
9.	64 Kb Waterspouts 07:26	buy track
10.	Fog Over Tone Banks 03:29	buy track
11.	Single Byte Droplets 05:07	buy track
12.	Compressed Data Uncoils 07:10	buy track
13.	Disk Writes Back 05:20	buy track

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A collection of ambient tracks, composed with Impulse Tracker, running on a Pentium 266 Mhz. Very much influenced by Brian Eno and Harold Budd, and I thought it would be interesting to explore if I could do something similar using only super cheap toy keyboards, sampled and tracked on old PC hardware.

Tracks use mostly samples from Casio SA21 and Yamaha Portasound PSS280. I also sampled a few patches from my Reface DX, and imported some data files from my DOS disk. Since the music is written on old DOS software on ancient hardware there isn't any real digital effects used at all, delay effects are manually tracked duplicates of pattern data or manipulated volume data on looping samples.

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released August 17, 2018

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