"Songs in the Key of YM" released

Today, the trio of mOdmate, Evil and Jade released "Songs in the Key of YM" - a very impressive Atari ST music disk. The demo was two years in the making and features about 3 hours (61 tunes). Every track has been manually edited in native Atari trackers, the covers are made note-by-note, no automatic tools or emulation.

The creative process was partly overshadowed by mOdmate's disease but the team coped with it and the production morphed into a presentation of mOdmate's musical legacy. You will find mOdmates original compositions as well as many tracks by authors he admired on different systems. One can say, the sound design is exceptional, the YM never got that close to the Pokey or SID chip before. He was putting a lot of work into the details of these mostly unpublished songs and was surely looking forward to release these significant creations one day.

mOdmate decided however, that the demo should be released posthumousely. So, here we are.

You will find a very long scrolltext with background information and perspectives of mOdmate's Atari music friends (and also included as a separate text document for old eyes).

The demo is slightly enhanced on STe, TT and Falcon machines with three extra tracks using PCM instruments. It appears to work quite well on anything from an old 1985 ST with 1 MB memory to a Falcon 060. But as always, no guarantee.

 Enjoy!