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The Mod Archive was established in February 1996 as a place for tracker artists to upload their work. [2] Since then, the site has emerged into being a community for artists and module enthusiasts. In an effort to make the website more dynamic , the community part of the site was added around 2000, in the form of message boards and an indexed ...
Module file (MOD music, tracker music) is a family of music file formats originating from the MOD file format on Amiga systems used in the late 1980s. Those who produce these files (using the software called music trackers ) and listen to them form the worldwide MOD scene, [ 1 ] a part of the demoscene subculture.
MOD is a computer file format used primarily to represent music, and was the first module file format. MOD files use the “.MOD” file extension , except on the Amiga which doesn't rely on filename extensions; instead, it reads a file's header to determine filetype.
The Jazz Scene, Rawlings, Terry. Mod: A Very British Phenomenon; Scala, Mim. Diary Of A Teddy Boy. Sitric (2000), ISBN 0-7472-7068-6; Verguren, Enamel . This Is a Modern Life: The 1980s London Mod Scene, Enamel Verguren. Helter Skelter (2004), ISBN 1-900924-77-3; Weight, Richard. Mod: A Very British Style. Bodley Head (2013) ISBN 978-0224073912
Freakbeat is a subgenre of rock and roll music developed mainly by harder-driving British groups, often those with a mod following during the Swinging London period of the mid to late 1960s. [22] [23] Freakbeat bridges "British Invasion mod/R&B/pop and psychedelia". [24] The term was coined by English music journalist Phil Smee. [25]
The mod revival is a subculture that started in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s and later spread to other countries (to a lesser degree).. The Mod Revival started with disillusionment with the punk scene when commercialism set in. [citation needed] It was featured in an article in Sounds music paper in 1976 and had a big following in Reading/London during that time.
Scene.org (also known as The International Scene Organization) is a non-profit organization, providing the currently largest demoscene file repository. It was founded in 1996 by Jaakko "Mellow-D" Manninen, though originally it existed as ftp.fm.org , an FTP-server for releases from the group Five Musicians.
[26] [27] Yet such ventures risked confusing and alienating the band's hardcore mod following. [6] With the Action seemingly having reached an impasse, the demos were shelved for 30 years, and vocalist Reg King departed from the band in mid-1968. [1] [25] King was hired by Gomelsky to produce Gary Farr, and eventually pursued a solo career. [4]