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Mike Mol

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Jun 1, 2005, 11:55:55 PM6/1/05
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I'm trying to track down the copyright holders of a number of old (and
not so old) songs in various module formats. The email addresses I've
tried so far don't work, and I haven't found much info on the Web (via
Google) so far.

So I've turned to active asking on forums and newsgroups. As far as
newsgroups go, where am I likely to find information on authors of MOD,
MED, STM, S3M, XM and IT formatted songs?

Jukka Aho

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Jun 2, 2005, 12:20:33 AM6/2/05
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Mike Mol wrote:

> I'm trying to track down the copyright holders of a number of old (and
> not so old) songs in various module formats. The email addresses I've
> tried so far don't work, and I haven't found much info on the Web (via
> Google) so far.

If you already haven't, you might want to take a look at the Amiga Music
Preservation website; especially their artist database:

<http://amp.dascene.net/>

> So I've turned to active asking on forums and newsgroups. As far as
> newsgroups go, where am I likely to find information on authors of
> MOD, MED, STM, S3M, XM and IT formatted songs?

Hard to give any recommendations about that, but for starters you could
probably simply post your list of tunes here.

--
znark

Mike Mol

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Jun 2, 2005, 1:26:51 PM6/2/05
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Jukka Aho wrote:
> Mike Mol wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to track down the copyright holders of a number of old (and
> > not so old) songs in various module formats. The email addresses I've
> > tried so far don't work, and I haven't found much info on the Web (via
> > Google) so far.
>
> If you already haven't, you might want to take a look at the Amiga Music
> Preservation website; especially their artist database:
>
> <http://amp.dascene.net/>

Niice. That's helping already.

>
> > So I've turned to active asking on forums and newsgroups. As far as
> > newsgroups go, where am I likely to find information on authors of
> > MOD, MED, STM, S3M, XM and IT formatted songs?
>
> Hard to give any recommendations about that, but for starters you could
> probably simply post your list of tunes here.
>
> --
> znark

The dates are all screwed up, and a lot of the filenames are different.
(mod.1989-anumber becomes 1989-anumber.mod, for example)

1989-anumber.mod 27-May-2005 01:05 175k
7_days_1_week.mod 27-May-2005 01:03 840k
808 overdrive.xm 27-May-2005 00:58 1003k
____basic3.xm 28-May-2005 14:43 979k
aarghh!!.s3m 27-May-2005 00:06 133k
acension.xm 26-May-2005 23:55 1.2M
apocalyp.xm 28-May-2005 23:39 796k
astray.s3m 26-May-2005 23:31 703k
astroidb.s3m 26-May-2005 23:27 376k
atlantis.s3m 26-May-2005 23:34 343k
aym_uofp.it 28-May-2005 18:05 163k
basicinstinct.mod 28-May-2005 15:09 155k
dtn-heav.xm 28-May-2005 16:24 908k
figment.s3m 28-May-2005 23:52 303k
i-abyss.xm 27-May-2005 00:01 830k
lg-acid2.it 26-May-2005 23:46 510k
mdsw8bit.it 28-May-2005 16:48 549k
pff-immh.xm 29-May-2005 00:20 535k
pnm-hakk.xm 27-May-2005 00:26 517k
rds_1.xm 28-May-2005 16:40 212k
twitch.s3m 27-May-2005 00:52 294k
winter's dream.it 28-May-2005 18:16 118k
wk-smile.s3m 27-May-2005 00:22 70k

I'm not done sifting through my collection...I've got over 2700 mod
files, 2400 XM files, 1300 S3M files, 500 IT files, and several hundred
files of the other formats.

Jukka Aho

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Jun 2, 2005, 9:44:18 PM6/2/05
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Mike Mol wrote:

> The dates are all screwed up, and a lot of the filenames are
> different. (mod.1989-anumber becomes 1989-anumber.mod, for
> example)
>
> 1989-anumber.mod 27-May-2005 01:05 175k

Eike Steffen (aka Romeo Knight). See

<http://totem.fix.no/pub/mods/RomeoKnight/>

You might also want to take a cursory glance through the other artist
directories on that website:

<http://totem.fix.no/pub/mods/>

(That collection includes most of the "classic" Amiga demoscene modules
and renowned 4-channel mod composers, without the bland average
everyone-and-their-dog-can-compose-a-mod junk you often see in other
collections.)

Sorry, can't help you with the *.it, *.s3m or *.xm modules. Those are
mostly PC formats, anyway, and I've never followed the PC demoscene
much.

--
znark

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