I remember Lizardking (Gustaf Grefberg, composer for what is now Starbreeze Studios) used to distribute his early music on "musicdisks", bootable Amiga floppies with the tracks in MOD format and a player program. The module music scene fascinated me with its ability to distribute sampled music in a form that took up tens or hundreds of KiB. Plus the often synthesized, somewhat bitcrushed sound of the era was an aesthetic in its own right.
Was Lizardking a pioneer in that regard? I had quite a collection of musicdisks back in the day but never wondered about their origin. It just made sense that musicians got to strut their stuff the same way the coders and 'graphicians' did.
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