#fasttracker ii

[laurabsantiago]

Gimmick! - Sophia (Take 2) (Super Scribblenauts Soundfont Cover)

[tarxzvf]

Hello, we're 'tar xzvf', two people who make noise music; so far we've only used old school tracker programs such as were popular in the 1990s to make it. We've released an album, which can be listened to below, called "mini-album no. 1". We like to use digital sources of noise, such as executable files which we edit for what we consider to be their best parts and use them in the composition of the tracks. All of our songs so far have come from XM (FastTracker II) modules and were made in MilkyTracker and FastTracker II Clone in Linux.

Our name comes from the Linux command to extract an archive into a folder, specifically one that ends in the .tar.gz extension.

[axamdotvbs]

severe lack of blinkies on the internet for obscure ass shit that people should be catering to me for really so i just made one myself .fasttracker II blinkie for all 3 people interested just in case theres anyone out there with the same dilemma

[tarxzvf]

Being the second release and first full-length album by us, the harsh glitch noise duo "tar xzvf", this release is about technology you may remember 20 years ago. Sound cards, CD burners, speakers, microphones, graphics cards. They created a world that concentrated more and more power in the hands of the individual consumer and as time went on, this power only increased. Some used it for destructive purposes, and others used it to create. Some created destructive things. The entire order of the world was shaped by how this technology was used, and this album is about the intersection of the analog human with the digital world, very abstractly. It is not an easy listen.

The album was made largely with modular synth samples recorded from diig's synth setup, and then they were sequenced by misusing old-school-style sample-based trackers like MilkyTracker, MilkyTrackerX, and FastTracker II Clone, which are limited in their capabilities but which prove time and time again to be the correct tool for the job of creating tar xzvf's noise. The album is at the intersection point where harsh noise, glitch, industrial music, and our own ideas meet.

tar xzvf is "tarballrat" and "diig".