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KungFuFurby wrote:
Well, for all I know, chiptunes have technically existed since at least the 1930s (older than you might expect for this kind of genre) (if we're talking about the style of the sound and the fact that these sounds are technically synthesized with relatively simplistic waveforms). I think of these for a start...
https://youtu.be/YiIB36ZY0WM
https://youtu.be/Z7Zb4rso82MThus, chiptune has technically existed for a very long time, and perhaps they will continue to exist for that length of time.
Thanks for sharing. That was really fascinating! The dance of the crow was pretty weird, but cool at the same time.
In terms of the topic. Perhaps far in the future, there will be a retro nostalgia, people wondering what the first computers and video games were like. Or maybe those sounds will just be integrated into music for generations to come. Like they'll be relics unidentifiable except to cyber nerds pumped up on useless factoids.
You still have people who are really into ancient instruments and even harpsichords, and all kinds of century old sounds and things out there. So I could see chiptunes lasting in some form for quite awhile.
I don't think the mainstream record companies getting a hold of chiptunes as a new pop cultural scene would be a good thing. Although, I wouldn't mind going to an alternate timeline where that happens for just a few days (won't happen in this one, so no worries). Inter-demensional travel has been a little hard on my body lately. 
So I'm sticking around here for a bit.
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Chipmusic will never die, because of iconic games like mario. That guy that did the symphony including a gameboy proves that chipmusic can be pretty much anything its master wants. As long as someone makes a lsdj track every once and awhile, someone else is going to get the bug for it.
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marcb0t wrote:
Thanks for sharing. That was really fascinating! The dance of the crow was pretty weird, but cool at the same time.
This one's got some cool arps and Famicom Disk System-style modulation in places
https://youtu.be/0y-2shMhv0M
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Im_A_Track_Man wrote:
marcb0t wrote:Thanks for sharing. That was really fascinating! The dance of the crow was pretty weird, but cool at the same time.
This one's got some cool arps and Famicom Disk System-style modulation in places
https://youtu.be/0y-2shMhv0M
Haha, yes I did watch that already last night with my little bro last night. But thank you anyway. Isn't that wild? That they were getting those poly chord rapid arps before my dad was born? Fun stuff! 
Good to meet you, by the way!