because finishing idm albums is fucking hard
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Seattle, WA US
I feel like I've explained this at some point before.. but fuck it.
I was walking around the local 'Folklife' festival with a couple of friends. Amidst the few thousand hippies, gypsies, and other varieties of homeless people, I find my attention drawn towards a circle of skinny kids with cool hair and tight pants, all nodding their heads in unison. Curious as to why their heads were bobbing, I decided to investigate.
It was here that I came into contact with chipz for the first time, as their was some serious LSDJ busking going down in the center of this very hip circle. I stuck around for a good hour or two and got to watch Fighter X, Sabrepulse, Electric Chidren (then known as Circles), McFiredrill, and Ovenrake throw down a series of some of the most unique and energetic songs I'd heard in my entire life... asked a couple of people what was going on and they told me to go the free 8-bit showcase the festival was holding the next day if I wanted to get a better idea.
The next morning came, and I ventured back into the heart of the hippyfest. Unsure of exactly what I was getting into, I tentatively made my way into the venue. The nervousness quickly turned to excitement as I watched Fighter X fist pump the shit out of his set. Trash80 takes the stage, my excitement builds. I couldn't believe the sounds I was hearing.. it was unreal. Finally, Sabrepulse starts playing. It wasn't more than 10 minutes into his set that I knew I loved chipmusic, and that I wanted to do exactly what was going on before my very ears and eyes.
The rest is history..
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The Multiverse ::: [CA, Sac]
Jeez what a fucking show! Chiptunes have never been new to me. I've always listened to videogame music as my primary music genre.
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washington
Here's my superlame story. I found a gameboy in my garage. The battery in my Pokemon gold cartridge was dead, so I looked up how to fix it on youtube. I stumbled across a Henry Homesweet video, and thought it was pretty whatever. Then when I heard a different one, it was the greatest thing ever. I decided I'd at least try to make my own chipsongs and it worked out-ish. I started making it for somewhere to put all my sadness and angst. Whoo!
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Austin, Texas
Because I like the way it sounds. I also like the associated hardware and computer culture.
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vancouver, canada
i was sick of having garbage samples in all my .ITs and .S3Ms that prevented me from finishing anything
but also so that i can be featured in a chiptune documentary by 2 Player Productions that hopefully educate more people abroad about chipmusic, i hope i'm not too late for this.
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shanghai
i started making electronica idm yonks ago
so i always had a love for odd sounds, either very complex sounds or just bleepy sounds
after 5 years of making that with vst and stuff i started to incorporate some 8bit sounds.
purely for the sound. i just like those sounds. cant beat a tracker arp you know.
not for the community. chip community is full of dicks like me.
and not so i could paint a gameboy either.
yeah mostly id just say SOUND. pure and simple.
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Granada, Spain
1. The sound, unique, special.
2. Its not really hard.
3. I always get distracted in PC if i try to make music.
4. Bitches love chiptune.
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West Yorks, UK
the point is downstate, if your music is good, you can be a dick. your beats* certainly qualify for that! not too sure about saskrotch tho...
edit to clarify*
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uhajdafdfdfa
well i got into it because i liked the sound
i stuck with it because i like the sound, mostly
but als the community is nice to take part in. and also i always suckd at DAWmusic
now i am addicted to the trackers i use and even if i'm not doing "chip" stuff i suppose i will always be tracking
nostalgia and limitation don't really come into it. not on a conscious level anyway. i was never a gamer. but before this i was making music with microsoft sound recorder and/or a qy-20, so maybe old sounds and crap interfaces are permanently inprinted into my head
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Brunswick, GA USA
Why not? At face value the question sounds silly.
The inspirations are nostalgia (HVSC and module collections,) transient, and the group tree wave. I'd be fooling myself if I didn't say cost effectiveness is part of the draw too, though i've noticed that casual listeners are put off when I say "my gear is inexpensive" so I'm trying to avoid that now. It still confuses me when someone says they use thousands of dollars of gear to plug in a game boy and push the start key, so I avoid the gear thread...
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West Yorks, UK
haha yeah expensive compared to pro audio gear. but anyone whos ever bought a full price nanloop or three knows that its a bit of a stinger!
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IL, US
chunter wrote:
It still confuses me when someone says they use thousands of dollars of gear to plug in a game boy and push the start key, so I avoid the gear thread...
plenty of people do way more than just playing back lsdj tracks, so this statement is pretty silly
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Cambridge UK
yeah e.s.c. why all that gear when you only need a gameboy? tsssss. :3