CGM UKScene Radio

CGM UKScene Radio is your go-to internet radio station for demoscene music. Streaming 8 & 16-bit; tracked, chip, module and in-game music.

Launched in 2000 from the UK, our station is self-funded and maintained by 'Solorize', co-founder of LESS Music Productions.

The songs you will hear on this station were created on various computer platforms including; Amiga, Amstrad, Atari, Commodore 64 ‘C64’, Sinclair Spectrum as well as the later PCs.

Featuring in-game music from legendary 1980’s composers; Rob Hubbard, Ben Daglish, Mark Knight, Martin Galway, Adam Gilmore, Barry Leitch, Allister Brimble, Antony Crowther, Jeff Minter, David Whittaker, and Tim Follin to name but a few.

In addition to the aforementioned, we have a vast collection of music from an array of Demoscene productions and music competitions, spanning from the early 1990’s up to the present day.

Songs have either been created by coding directly to the sound chip i.e. the Commodore C64’s SID chip and therefore are known as ‘chip music’, or using the likes of music tracker software; NoiseTracker (Amiga), ProTracker (Amiga), FastTrackerII (MS-DOS), Scream Tracker (MS-DOS), Impulse Tracker (MS-DOS), Milky Tracker (MS-DOS), to the more recent ‘open-source’ Windows-based OpenMPT (MS Windows), which are known as ‘tracked music’.

Tracked music is saved in various file formats and generally is dependent upon which music tracker software the song was created on. Some of the common file formats used are; MOD, STM, S3M, XM, & IT.

‘Noise Tracker’ & ‘ProTracker’ both saved their songs in the MOD file format and they were limited to 4 channels.

‘Scream Tracker’ saved its songs in the earlier ‘STM’ and then later ‘S3M’ file format. ‘STM’ was only 4 channel, whereas ‘S3M’ was up to 32 channels.

‘FastTracker’ saved its songs in the ‘MOD’ and ‘XM file formats, 'MOD’ files were limited to 4 channels, with the ‘XM’ (extended MOD), format supporting up to 8 channels.

‘FastTracker 2’ aka FT2, was later released in 1994 which then increased the available channels to 32, for the ‘XM file format.

‘Impulse Tracker’ saved its songs in the ‘IT’ file format and had a whopping 64 channels.

We are always expanding our collection and invite you to submit your Demoscene or in-game music. Please note, only these genres will be considered for inclusion.

We hope you enjoy listening to our station and we look forward to welcoming you back soon.