...I've always known that I've been missing out and the modern day just lacks that special charm...

-- Palace, "Back to '85"

Ghostbusters were released in 1984, the first Back to the Future movie and Microsoft Windows - in 1985; and 1986 has brought us The Legend of Zelda and Castlevania. It was a different era, the one I too experienced only by watching the movies and playing games.

You might be wondering what do cats, 1980s and a musical sequencer have in common.

Well for starters, the song I quoted belongs to an artist known as Michael Palace,

the creator of psikat - the browser-based tracker-like sequencer- is holoflash

and both of them are the same person: Redas Jefisovas.

Why a successful musician decides to become a web developer is a story for another time, but it seems that neither of his passions ever fully took over because psikat has been born of them both.

Why psikat?

"Psi - as in the greek letter Ψ (psi); kat - as in cat, because I love cats" - said Redas when I asked.

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