Wow this really blows my mind. I used trackers nearly every day when Drukqs was released and somehow I felt that Aphex Twin just had to have access to stuff I didn’t. Obviously that was kinda true, cause he had synths and teenage me couldn't afford those, but still, turns out it all boiled down to plain old tracking, just samples. No special effects, no fancy overpriced sequencer orchestrating a million pieces of gear, just… samples. It really blows me away.
I feel similar! I made tons of tracks, mostly with Impulse Tracker, and I liked listening to it myself but I had this belief that a record company would never accept something that was made in a tracker because it wasn't "professional", so I never even considered trying to release anything.
