bryface wrote:...there needs to be more trusted curators, more recommendations from trusted artists, and more of a catalogue for finding good chipmusic...
I strongly agree that chipmusic is an art form. I listen almost exclusively to chiptune and Amiga/DOS music and I get sick nerd chills when I hear the PC Speaker rendering of the Monkey Island theme. If chipmusic was a religion, I'd be living as close to chipmecca as possible. That being said, I don't see anything wrong with people enjoying and having fun with chip music. I don't think chip music has to be a dark, contemplative thing. 'Chiptune' isn't a genre, it's a very wide set of aesthetics and I think that it's great when people do a wide variety of stuff.
i'm in the same boat as you - i'm as much of a "chipmusic geek", obsessed with the finer details and history, but i'd also like to not take my music deathly seriously and leave plenty of room for myself and others to approach it with some levity.
It's just that the reality is this: no matter the good intentions of the veterans and new guard have where inclusion is concerned, there is friction between these two camps and there always will be.
But this is true in pretty much any discipline outside of chip. sometimes i wish we would all just accept this, instead of lampshading the issue and pretending that the chipscene is the most welcoming community in the world, when there's clearly a (albeit vague) unwritten expectation for new artists who want to join in.
What i think oldies and newbies can agree on, though, is this: the chip scene celebrates innovation and adventurousness on the musical, technical, or cultural level. those who merely take the well-trodden roads should not expect to be regarded the same way as those who carve new frontiers, and shouldn't be surprised if their work gets a "bleh" response or gets ignored altogether.
