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2 Feb 25, 2019 5:45 pm
Topic: Looking for Nanoloop 2.7.8+ carts (0 replies, posted in Trading Post)
pretty much what the thread name says! will pay full online shop price + shipping
4 Oct 27, 2017 4:22 pm
Topic: Space Town - SIGNAL (1 replies, posted in Releases)
hi
I released a new album and you can find it here: https://gridwalk.bandcamp.com/album/signal
thank you for listening
5 Aug 3, 2017 5:57 pm
Topic: I need help for a panel I'm doing at MAGWest! (0 replies, posted in General Discussion)
hi!
I'm going to be doing a panel at MAGWest about how to better support creators and artists, and I'd like it to represent as many creatives as possible so I made this survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/32XD57L
if you have a few minutes, I'd GREATLY appreciate it if you filled it out!
the panel will apparently be live streamed so I will be sure to post a link to it here when I get that info 
thaaaaaanks
6 Jun 26, 2017 7:08 pm
Re: ChipMusic.fm (2.0 beta now open, see latest posts) (29 replies, posted in General Discussion)
this is the best
it should be on the site proper! I'd even put forward the idea that it's the default music listening widget when people visit, with the option to access the expanded grid version
7 May 18, 2017 12:36 am
Re: Some guy making tapes. Definitely not a 'label'. (38 replies, posted in Collaborations)
wow holy crap I didn't realize this was started last year! I only looked at the "may" part of the date
and by all accounts it seems like this is going really well and the tapes look really dope! any time I see anything about artists having to put up money to be part of a thing it sends up red flags for me because of previous bad pay to play experiences. but that doesn't excuse my dumb ass wading into something a year old to say dumb stuff in a public forum
so I'm gonna full on apologize for being a jerk -- I'm really sorry for any bad feelings my posts have caused, and I'd like to accept the mantle of The Biggest Idiot for being dumb about this
8 May 15, 2017 1:52 am
Re: Some guy making tapes. Definitely not a 'label'. (38 replies, posted in Collaborations)
sure, like you can do what you want and if people want to work with you it's fine
it just seems a little disingenuous when things like this are set up "for the love of it" while asking the musicians themselves to cover costs that pretty much every other label would front on their own, and THEN take commission off sales
it's gets even sketchier when you then go on to construe the costs as "negligible" because like, if they were negligible then it would be even easier for the label to cover them right?
good luck tho
9 May 15, 2017 12:19 am
Re: Some guy making tapes. Definitely not a 'label'. (38 replies, posted in Collaborations)
any label that asks for more than "your music" in the exchange is a risky label to work with
the whole point of the label system is that the you, the musician, are unable to distribute widely because you don't have the resources to do so; however, you have dope music that, if distributed widely, would make a lot of people happy and willing to buy stuff from you. meanwhile, the label DOES have these resources to distribute but lacks the actual product (i.e. music) to press to CDs/cassettes/whatever.
so the relationship between the musician and the label benefits both because the label gets something to distribute (and take commission off of) and the musician gets distribution
but like, if the label requires the musician to provide additional collateral (meaning money) along with the actual music, what's the point of working with the label in the first place? there's no benefit for the musician other than getting someone who can make cassettes, which they can do on their own if they google for like 15 minutes
it's a big bet on your own popularity for musicians to both give you the money to make the stuff AND for you to take commissions off the material once it's made. like you have to be so popular that you'll make enough sales through your distribution to cover the musician's money AND time + production spent with music
and like, providing art doesn't count you're not putting collateral of your own forth. it's essentially "free"
10 May 5, 2017 8:45 pm
Re: Korg Volcas on ebay (3 replies, posted in Trading Post)
hey, I'm interested in the beatstep pro but not sure if you're able to ship to the US -- I'm willing to pay shipping if that helps!
11 Mar 13, 2017 10:09 pm
Re: LSDJ analog sync with Korg Electribe 2? (10 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
can this just be the electribe 2 x chipmusic thread because I have an electribe and am starting to use it and I would like the tips
12 Feb 13, 2017 8:39 pm
Re: "Post-chip"/"VGM"? (43 replies, posted in General Discussion)
El Huesudo II wrote:
Considering the rest of the post- genres and what they do (post-rock turning more ambient and experimental, post-punk turning more worldly and theory-minded, etc), post-chip would have to define a tendency on the chip scene and break from it... except, which would this convention be?
This is why I oppose the notion of chip as a genre, because the only characteristic you need to be "chip" is to, well, either use chips, emulate chips, or work with near-chip limitations. And while doing so, you can write house, rock, salsa, tarantella, zydeco, whatever.
chiptune doesn't have to be a genre for something to be post-chiptune
I'm entertaining the notion that everyone who thought that chiptune was EVER a hardware-based aesthetic was completely wrong
or at least that the hardware meant anything other than "video games"
13 Feb 6, 2017 11:53 pm
Re: Creative music needed for 8bit style platformer (7 replies, posted in Collaborations)
got that vlambeer screenshake goin
14 Feb 1, 2017 2:58 am
Re: Mobile Game Dev Looking for 2 Tracks (5 replies, posted in Collaborations)
uh oh
15 Nov 29, 2016 5:48 am
Re: Pocketchip: IT works! (24 replies, posted in LittleGPTracker)
just ordered mine with that sweet cyber monday deal
CAPITALISM GET
16 Nov 22, 2016 7:20 pm
Re: Space Town - Ephemera (5 replies, posted in Releases)
hey thanks! the opener has a sample of tinashe covering a drake song, but I also like mid 00's trance (before the "uplifting" trend started) so maybe that's on me >_>
as far as tech, I used gameboys running LSDJ for most of the pads + long chord tones, and I also have an arturia microbrute that I use for the lead parts. it's all sequenced in ableton and I just have some percussion samples I scrounged up somewhere as the drumzzzz