We hit you with its history, we held the contest, we let things simmer for a while, and finally… we can share the results with you!

Presenting, for the first time anywhere in the existing digital record, the outcome of a Tracker Fix computer music compo! This one is (at press time) the most recent, held February 20-21, 2016, and represents the only complete account of any Tracker Fix activity, previously known only to posterity in fragments and references from the late ‘90s. The event was envisioned as unfolding across two phases – an initial “rapid prototyping” phase and then a later “improve, expand & polish” phase – and scoring was going to be calculated as a function of improvement from the first phase to the second. But none of the initial song-sketches ever came back with improved versions, so the compo is not scored. As a bonus, in addition to the initial set of song-sketches, there are a couple of late “non-competing” songs that were sent in outside of the compo’s official times, as well as the initial track from MIST1015 by Claire Roberts that provided the offbeat belly-dancing sampleset we had to work with. (The samplepack is included with the archive, in case you feel, well after the fact, that you’d like to take a crack at them also.)

Participating composers ultimately included DraXx, Simon, Evgthug1, Cthulu, Nobilu, Freddy43, and bryface. Share & enjoy!