Shiva Shidapu - Power of Celtic (running in the program it was originally written in)

First of all: YES, this is taken directly from the horse's mouth. It was posted on Infected Mushroom's site many years ago (maybe it still is?), and I downloaded it back then. I just thought it would be fun to watch for musicians and fans, who are oblivious to, or interested in, the way it was done in the past. I used DOSBox to open my good old Impulse Tracker, ran the file straight through that, and used DOSBox's amazing video-capture function, which happily included the audio.

Erez Aizen of Infected Mushroom didn't start in IM as many believe. He has been an active musician since the mid-90's, when he and his friends were making music, using modems to exchange the files and chat with each other. The 4 friends (including Domestic) formed Shidapu and gained local fame. Later, Shiva Shidapu was formed comprised of just Erez Aizen and Jörg Kessler (DJ Jörg).

Most of the music made by these guys, was produced in Impulse Tracker, a sequencing and sample-manipulation program, much like ProTools/Cubase/Reason/Fruityloops/Ableton, only this was of course a DOS-program, with little space for pretty glitter or any kind of movable window-frames, and with no plugins as such etc..

As a musician I think it's amazing to see what they've done with their samples, just by controlling length, pitch, note, vibrato and a few other nifty things, on some rather rough samples. They even make their own delays, simply by playing the same sample a bit later on different tracks. This is not the final FINAL version; a few sounds are missing, per example the guy saying "AUCH!" (or something) at one point, and a few others, but I think this is the basic file, and then they must have added more stuff in post-production.

I've tried to control the program's environment as it plays, to maximize the amount of information you can see, as it's very difficult to make out exactly what's happening, when many samples play at once, because of the cramped space.

Enjoy! I know I did!

DISCLAIMER: I did NOT make this piece of music. It does NOT resemble the original, published track completely. This was made from the blood, sweat and tears of Erez Aizen and Jörg Kessler, and an occasional sample :)

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