[HN Gopher] Online Collection of Keygen Music
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Online Collection of Keygen Music
Author : mifydev
Score : 156 points
Date : 2025-07-30 02:53 UTC (3 days ago)
(HTM) web link (keygenmusic.tk)
(TXT) w3m dump (keygenmusic.tk)
| stuckkeys wrote:
| That is awesome.
| charcircuit wrote:
| >There is no illegal content. Just music from keygens
|
| Does this mean this site properly licensed these songs?
| 1970-01-01 wrote:
| Yes, I believe it does. No lawyer knows who the hell these
| underground artists are or if it is even possible to sue them.
| The first step in any lawsuit is have someone to take from.
| dehrmann wrote:
| It's actually the artists who can sue since it's their work
| being distributed. The distributor might have a fair use
| argument since the purpose is artistic preservation and the
| artists clearly never intended to profit off the songs. If a
| trendy DJ remixed one and it saw commercial success, the
| original artist might have a case.
| jimmydoe wrote:
| brought back lots of nice memories
| glimshe wrote:
| Great memories. "Keygen music" feels like a genre of electronic
| music... Are there people making electronic music that sounds
| like Keygen music but with modern instruments?
| nvllsvm wrote:
| mind.in.a.box's album "R.E.T.R.O." (2010) has a few songs that
| sound keygen-esque (aka chiptune).
|
| Not all their stuff sounds like that, but I've been a big fan
| since first discovering them via a sample included in the XMMS2
| media player way back in the early 2000's.
| lock1 wrote:
| Tracker music? Pretty sure communities that develop those tools
| and use them to create music still exist.
|
| Relevant link: Ahoy - Trackers: The Sound of 16-Bit -
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roBkg-iPrbw
| webstrand wrote:
| Well, there's still people making still making chiptunes, and
| there's still interest in developing tracker technology both
| for chiptunes (i.e. OpenMPT) and for music composition in
| general (Renoise DAW).
|
| <https://4mat.bandcamp.com/album/modern-closure> came out in
| 2019 and is one of my favorite albums of all time, but I'm not
| sure that it fits all of the elements of "keygen music" which
| are hard to pin down.
| JdeBP wrote:
| It's a whole YouTube genre. Witness this chiptune version of
| Howard Carter's _Stand-up Maths Theme_ :
|
| * https://youtube.com/watch?v=PHiJpwrLCUA
| jaharios wrote:
| The Glitch Mob?
| chrisco23 wrote:
| Ha! Memories from 25 years ago when you had to run Windoze for
| your audio and sometimes chess software.
| JdeBP wrote:
| More than 25 years.
|
| The first thing that it played to me was _Crockett 's Theme_.
|
| I spent the first few seconds looking at the description, which
| said something else, and saying to myself "No, that's
| definitely _Crockett 's Theme_.".
| fortydegrees wrote:
| I've been looking for that Paradox Photoshop CS2 one for years.
| Great nostalgic memories.
|
| I've always been in slight awe of these kind of teams/releases.
| Cracking (mostly) for the raw intellectual challenge and bundling
| it with demoscene-ish artistic expression - usually a unique UI
| and obviously a great chiptune. I've always wondered why that
| behaviour emerged..
| bryant wrote:
| > I've always wondered why that behaviour emerged..
|
| Speculating: there may be parallels between this and other
| fields with entirely unnecessary artistic expression. Think
| watchmaking where watch movements with superlative finishing
| are celebrated and often command premium pay (e.g watches with
| the Geneva Seal). Beyond a certain point, the finishing adds
| absolutely nothing to the watch aside from showcasing talent.
|
| There's something to the idea that if someone spent a ton of
| effort building something, even if it's superfluous, it garners
| a level of trust in the end product.
| xyst wrote:
| I used to hang in those IRC channels. Some of the "crews"
| mentioned spending more time on creating graphics, mixing new
| sound rather than cracking/reverse engineering the software
| itself.
| daneel_w wrote:
| _> I've always wondered why that behaviour emerged.._
|
| Because they share the same roots, the same general "scene".
| The demo groups and the crack groups always mingled. We were
| all "sceners". Tons of groups had a presence in both areas.
| Most of the graphic artists and musicians were mainly part of
| the demo scene but lent their talent here and there.
|
| (Computer-wise I grew up in the C64 and the Amiga demo scenes
| during the early-to-late 90s.)
| mdavid626 wrote:
| Really cool!
| djeastm wrote:
| This music was always great, but always played so loudly.
| darknavi wrote:
| Seems to be missing one of my most nostalgic from Sony Vegas 9
| cracks:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmdprbBOMT8
| SuperShibe wrote:
| ,,This is EPIC" - King Harkinian
| swinglock wrote:
| Unreal Superhero 3! I'm also fond of the ORiON Nero tracks for
| some reason. Also dubmood.
| officeplant wrote:
| Impressive collection, the although website is slamming my poor
| T8100 powered thinkpad to 100% at times listening to the
| collection.
| kls0e wrote:
| try Estrayk - Her Collection
| pie_flavor wrote:
| An album of keygen music covers and remixes:
| https://sgfr.highquality.rip/sgfr-0009/index.html
| irusensei wrote:
| "I've opened that site and the activate windows watermark on my
| desktop vanished."
|
| I'm joking. I don't use Windows.
| EDM115 wrote:
| as covered in this YouTube video : "The Soundtrack of Online
| Piracy" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHgcrdv8zpM)
| larodi wrote:
| 2621 is sa remix of Bubble Bobble II gameplay music.
| throaway5454 wrote:
| I forgot about this site! Keygen music is one of our unsung
| cultural treasures imo
| cluckindan wrote:
| If you like this kinda music, check out 4champ and modizer on
| iOS.
| daneel_w wrote:
| I always considered this the real deal and authorative collection
| of chip tunes: https://ftp.modland.com/
|
| Modland is over 20 years old at this point.
| joecool1029 wrote:
| Wild they still have a .tk domain, I paid for one and when
| renewal came up it was not possible to renew due to the Meta
| lawsuit. Wonder how much time they have left....
| sdenton4 wrote:
| SharpPlus Sqlite Developer v3.2.8.354 goes hard.
| anthk wrote:
| The S3M modules which came with the BB demo from AAlib were
| magical.
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