How is your local chiptune community? (Page 19 of 27)

im guessing giveupnewyork is no longer active or left arizona then?

Worm http://www.worm.org & Roodkapje (it's closed till May) http://www.roodkapje.org

Yuma is a small town so it's not surprising that it's horrid.  I think there's one person here in Tucson who does chip and I do chip when I can (school, work, and the wife take up a lot of time) but I did do a set at a house party in 2011.  What about in Phoenix?  Phoenix isn't far so that can still be considered local?  There aren't people there doing chip?  I know a guy who has a good PA system that is a DJ and party promoter that might help set up a show here in Tucson if there was enough interest.

Last edited by nerdsome (Feb 4, 2013 3:54 pm)

He might very well be, Yuma however is in an isolated corner between a border, and hard place. It would be killer to go up to phoenix or tuscon to do a show. But it seems like I have not find an audience that has positively responded to my sounds. I either hear its too downtempo/ambiant for a club, or too hyphy/industrial and is not mellow enough for an audience to tolerate; so I've steadily been losing confidence to promote myself, especially out of town. I wouldn't know the first place to start, or where I should even begin looking. Last I knew phoenix had (somewhat of) a chiptune artist that I knew by the name of Milk:Blood. I met him when I was 14  back in 04'; when I brought up chiptune he had no idea what I was talking about. I told him his menacing tunes reminded me of columns meets beethoven to which he responded," I'll show you my column! But seriously I don't know what your talking about". All of his music was mainly composed through a pc and a few synths with a handful of midi-plug ins. It sounded like hardcore GG or SMS built instrumentation, it was the first 8bit-esque music I heard before I even discovered it, which then lead me to discover Bit-Shifter, Nullsleep, Random.SE, Sabrepulse and all those other pioneers. I might try to do something soon; a venue just opened promoting local talent but I'm not quite sure how to approach them with my style/genre.

The Los Angeles community is becoming pretty awesome. There is a pretty good base of people who are super supportive, friendly, respectful and generally just want to play music and have a good time. It's difficult sometimes, though. The nature of LA in general is that everything is incredibly spread out and everyone is wrapped up in their own lives. This translates to the chip scene as well at times. It can be hard to get people to come out to shows simply because they're busy or it's not in their part of town. I'm even guilty of this now that I'm almost two hours from downtown LA via public transportation.

The amount of talent out here is fucking astounding. We're probably right behind New York City and Philadelphia with the amount of Blip Fest alumni residing out here (though Mr. Spastic recently left us). Despite this, the chip scene has mostly been restricted to warehouse parties and small art spaces that never last. With the Frequency chip music festival that myself and my friend Jesse from 1000 Needles run, we're definitely trying to step it up a bit and help put Los Angeles on the chipmusic map. The one we most recently did had the biggest turn out at any LA chip show I've ever been to that didn't have Anamanaguchi on the bill (around 120 people per night), which is definitely a step in the right direction.

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