Welcome to CM.O! (Introduction Thread) (Page 7 of 43)

Hey I'm Matt. not a musician. I did a country and bluegrass radio show for 5 years until I had Dot.AY, godinpants, and Cheap Shot on as guests. They ruined me (or enlightened me)

Hello. I'm Brick Breaker.

Some of you may already know my name from the recent Chiptunes = WIN compilation, where I had decided to give the group a track of mine before I realized how big the project even was. So, after being thrown into the genre a bit over my head (pun intended), I've gotten some healthy exposure to chipmusic and EDM production in general.

I'm fifteen years old, but I spent my youth playing secondhand Super Nintendo and Gameboy consoles rather than Gamecube, Xbox, and PS2. I've always been a fan of retro game music and the 8-bit aesthetic, but never knew there was such a following until a few years ago. Now, with my more recent involvement in actual production and design, I've taken a much larger interest in the low-res and chip genre.

As well, not to sound like a massive hipster douche, but with the explosion of young wannabe electronic music makers out there it's refreshing to be a part of a movement that isn't cluttered with kids my age using Garage Band to make 'dubst3p'. Also, the fact that this genre has not yet been completely raped of all credibility by mainstream pop music is also very reassuring.

So yeah, I've gotten some pretty positive response from the community. I'm currently doing a collab with Pete Lepley, also know as Phonetic Hero, so that's cool, too.

I dunno.

Chiptunes and stuff, man.

Last edited by BrickBRKer (Jul 26, 2012 3:10 am)

I sometimes have an 'ica' at the end, but never an 'e'. Thanks!

I think we're pretty safe from this for the foreseeable future.

Look at the "mainstream" breakouts from chiptune, who are genre blending: acts like Anamanaguchi and Sabrepulse are getting a lot of success outside of the community and the standard fan base, because they have a way to appeal to people who are put off by a purely chip-centric arrangement and performance.

From the other end, we have acts who bank on the idea of "the 8-bit sound," like everyone's favorite group, Crystal Castles.

Their name is a boring reference lifted direct from an older game without any kind of clever innovation. Their æsthetic is confrontational and lo-fi. Their actual sounds are lifted samples that they aren't using to anywhere near their full potential. I think in the press somewhere, they said they used an Elekom SIDStation, but those spectrograms that were floating around during the litigious period with Covox, et. al. clearly show that they were clips of MP3s looped into beats.

My point with all this is that for a "mainstream" producer to "cash in" on "the 8-bit sound," it's waaay easier to just lift samples than to dick around with original hardware, and the appeal of a purely chip arrangement has yet to grow into a widespread "mainstream" audience.

Last edited by Telerophon (Jul 26, 2012 3:25 pm)

Hi!

I was engaged in micromusic.net

Now I've found my way here, I hope we all will be friends...

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hey y'all. name is Raheem, I record music as Random or Mega Ran. I know a good amount of you, and I'm not sure why it took me so long to join up. Howdy!

For those that don't know, I record chip-hop over 8 bit samples as Mega Ran...mostly Megaman samples, but there are plenty of others.... I have a few albums out, you can see/hear those at

megaranmusic.com

I look forward to some cool discussions. Peace out!

Mega Ran