"When I was 12, my dad bought me the first computer I ever owned. Like everyone else, I played around with it, destroying QuickShot II's and trying to program the damn thing. It wasn't long however, until I found something that was a lot more fun.
To cut a long story short, I discovered the PLAY [string] command."

Per Almered of Excellence In Art

 

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64ish
FILENAME: 64ish.xm
SIZE: 7 384 BYTES

THIS IS A TRIBUTE TO all the C64 musicians that inspired me when I was 12-13 (and still do), especially Martin Galway (Hey Martin!), whose music really turned my head upside down. Especially the middle-8 part in this song sounds very Galway-esque. All samples from different C64 tunes, ripped using SidPlay.

Per Almered

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Death does not discriminate
FILENAME: ddnd.xm
SIZE: 1 729 188 BYTES

ONE OF MY LARGER SONGS, mainly due to the voice samples, and that wonderful Korg X5-piano... Interesting thing: The vocals samples are from AT&T's speech synthesizer, although I must admit to retouching them quite a bit...

Per Almered

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Perish
FILENAME: perish.xm
SIZE: 195 502 BYTES

THIS IS THE FIRST SONG I made in FastTracker 2, sampling all instruments from my BOSS DS-330 (Actually the first synth ever to feature Roland's MkII-chip, which makes a lot less noise than the first one...). I really like the arrangement in this song, not that it's very complex, I just like the sound of it...

Per Almered

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03b
FILENAME: 03b.xm
SIZE: 207 138 BYTES

ONE DAY PETER "PG" ANDERSSON called me; he needed some techno-style samples, and wanted me to check my sample-library to see if there was anything he could use. I sent him a bunch of sounds, and discovered some of them were pretty neat, so I made this song out of them. I don't know if PG ever used them, tho...hehe. So additional credits to him, for making me inspire myself!

Per Almered

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Pulse
FILENAME: pulse.xm
SIZE: 9 912 BYTES

YET ANOTHER C64-SOUND-ALIKE. This song was made only to try out a pulse-wave sound I created in WaveCraft. It's a bit short, but downloading it shouldn't take too long, so I feel no remorse...

Per Almered

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"Stunder" (?)
FILENAME: stunder.xm
SIZE: 1 500 BYTES
ORIGINAL AUTHOR: UNKNOWN

THIS IS REALLY JUST A test-thingy, but my friend aM on IRC liked it, so I thought I might aswell release the damn thing. If you haven't watched swedish commercial TV, chances are you've never heard this one... Either way, it's from a swedish McDonalds commercial, and cheesy as that may sound, the actual song isn't bad at all.
At 3315 bytes unpacked, it's also the smallest .XM file I've seen. And don't start sending me smaller ones, just a bit of trivia there...8-)

Per Almered

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Working
FILENAME: working.xm
SIZE: 180 493 BYTES

THIS IS THE SECOND .XM I made, so it's a bit experimental, I'm afraid...8-) Don't go looking for Basehead influences, tho, it's pretty catchy, like most of the stuff that I listen to myself.

Per Almered

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You to me are everything
FILENAME: u2mereve.xm
SIZE: 3 787 783 BYTES
ORIGINAL AUTHORS: KEN GOLD AND MICKY DENNE

OK, BEFORE YOU CHOKE ON the filesize, consider that this file contains the complete lyrics of the song, sampled at 22KHz 16 bits...
Another reason to download this song is that it's a really great song (I can say that safely since I'm not the original author...hehe), recorded in '76 by The Real Thing, and it must've been a fairly big hit, not only because I found it on one of my compilation CD's...

Per Almered

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Rasterburn
FILENAME: rastrbrn.xm
SIZE: 259 716 BYTES

HERE'S AN OLDIE FROM '93, which I can't recall ever being released. Since it's so old, it was originally made in ProTracker on my Atari, which, as you may know, is not very compatible with most PC-trackers, so I converted it to .XM. Please don't use any other player than the latest FastTracker 2 to play it, tho; most players can't handle my little effects thingy at song position 0D.

Per Almered

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Greenish
FILENAME: greenish.xm
SIZE: 142 635 BYTES

"ANOTHER OF PER ALMERED'S 1993 songs, Greenish won the music compo at the Motorola Inside-convention, firmly establishing him on the Atari scene, since he also won the demo-compo."
Let's just say 1993 was a pretty good year, and then leave it at that, shall we?
"Oh, ok then"

Per Almered

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Octalyser Demo
FILENAME: octademo.mod (8 channels)
SIZE: 98 230 BYTES

THIS SONG WAS FIRST RELEASED as a demotune for Octalyser STE, the first and (so far only decent) 8-channel tracker for Atari's STE machine. It was rushed badly in the making, but I doubt you'd be able to tell from the song, because it was just so much fun doing an 8-channel mod, my adrenaline just wouldn't stop pushing me. 8-)

Per Almered

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2f
FILENAME: 2f.mod (8 channels)
SIZE: 283 800 BYTES

LISTENING THROUGH THIS SONG FOR the first time in 2 years, it sounds a little unfinished, which it may actually be. Still, I like it a lot. It's definitely from my "disco"-period. Er...

Per Almered

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Fatale
FILENAME: fatale.mod (8 channels)
SIZE: 485 171 BYTES

THIS SONG IS FROM MY Atari-demo Fatale, which was never released due to a harddisk crash. The only part of the demo that still exists is this song, which was played during the second part of the demo.
If you're only downloading one song from this page, make it this one; it's without comparison the song I've done the most work on (as was the rest of the demo...103 days of work into the trash...).

Per Almered

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Musique - Zero
FILENAME: musique0.mod
SIZE: 246 517 BYTES

THIS IS THE SONG USED in the second, and "main" part of my Musique demo. It's fairly short, but then again, so was the demo...

Per Almered

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Musique - Two
FILENAME: musique2.mod
SIZE: 85 327 BYTES

THIS SONG IS USED IN the first part of Musique. As far as I know, this is the only song I've made that's been done as a cover by anyone else. (Hi Gregzy!!!) Listening thru it again, it doesn't sound like "me" at all, but I still like it. Hehe.

Per Almered

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Smooth.
FILENAME: smooth.mod
SIZE: 331 382 BYTES

I REALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT to say about this one. I know for sure that if I did this song again, I sure as hell wouldn't be using those voice samples, which I think were originally supplied with the MasterSound sampler for the Atari. It's a pretty good song, tho, and one of the few that I can't remember writing. 8-)

Per Almered

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Tipish
FILENAME: tipish.mod
SIZE: 89 570 BYTES

AMONG THE FIRST MOD-MUSICIANS THAT really impressed me were Tip and Mantronix. I don't know how many hours of my life that I've wasted/accelerated listening to "A Final Hyperbase" and "Overload". In a state of hybris, I decided to try to do something similar, and, well, this is it.
The structure here is a little interesting; the entire song is transposed upwards every now and then, and when it finally loops, it has gone 360 degrees, and is back in the original key.

Per Almered

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Obsession - Main
FILENAME: obs_main.mod
SIZE: 100 024 BYTES

THIS IS THE MENU-MUSIC USED in Obsession by UDS, a pinball game for Atari's STE and Falcon machines, aswell as the Amiga series of computers.

Per Almered