I smell the same and can't help but to mention just a few off the top of my head.
rgba / elevated
Conspiracy / Chaos Theory
Bran Control / Memories from the MCP
Andromeda Software Development / Lifeforce
Farbrausch / fr-041
mfx / 1995
pouet.net - go there, download and watch it yourself. Youtube is cool but real stuff is so much better, especially when you check the file size. Though be aware, some of these old ones don't play well at non-96 dpi display settings.
This is art and I'm not even joking. This shit should have replaced wars.
Seriously I'm 15 minutes into the history of computer generated sound and am still wondering wtf this has to do with cracking music. This is some next level autistic shit. 10/10.
I had no idea what I was getting into clicking that link. Saw another comment about it being 40some minutes long but I watched the whole video, it was very interesting! I was tickled by all the things that I can remember from growing up that were referenced
An aside, do you have first hand knowledge of tinkering with trackers?
Especially the longer ones like "POLYBIUS - The Video Game That Doesn't Exist", "Nuclear Fruit: How the Cold War Shaped Video Games", and "The First Video Game". His iconic arms series is also, well, iconic.
Someone out there has been collecting the best keygens with songs and they don't even know it. And now their job is to release a compilation album on bandcamp or something.
Oh man there was one that I'll never find again, I think it was on some XP keygen that I probably still have somewhere that I'll never run again... There was an epic walkdown at the beginning of it that I can still hear
How else can it be done? Any attempt to convert images or text into ASCII art automatically looks at best uninspired and boring and at worst like trash.