Help growing the Chiptune community (The Thread Lives On) (Page 6 of 7)

also there's little reason to feel like you've been shit on OP, also your own good intentions would make up more than 5% alone :v

If I get the time and inspiration it may start up again.. but I figured there might be a bunch of music you would be into posted there

The most idiotic thing I hear on this forum most the time is "Omg these noobs are killing chip" Every genre has new musicians. So the lack of respect for new members is ridiculous, not to mention new artists, who can possibly carry this beautiful style of music when the older generation sort of fades away. In a way, it's always like a paranoia, I mean no one on this forum invented chiptune... we are all related to chip style music though right? I mean members should try their  best to get along, we're a small community, and after all why burn bridges with musicians we are in the same house as? Rant is over now, *exhales some herb

These two posts seem to contradict each other, but I can see where they don't.

Anyway, I see newbies on this forum get praised and embraced, or at least encouraged, on a regular basis. I'd say one out of every four. And most of the time it's not by other newbies.

Plus, it isn't anything new for some of the "old guard" to pit themselves against the newcomers who are looking for the acceptance of the veterans, and the new artists to eventually say "who cares what you think anyway?" (but they don't really mean it) and do their own thing . It happened with Rock n Roll (what kind of music? The Real kind, man.) vs. Rock,  the original Punk Rock in the 70's vs. everything else that came after that dared don the Punk mantle, Metal vs. Nu Metal vs. Hardcore, OG vs. New-School Rap, Hiphop vs. New Jack Swing, Gregorian Chant vs. Hymn, Henry Ford vs. Anything that isn't the original Model-T...

Not saying it's right, but it's natural. I'd even go so far as to say that this phenomenon is actually often good for progress and reinvention and change in the arena of art. It's just a little extra push to keep newcomers from being complacent in the old ways.

Actually, I'm not really sure about that. I tend to like retro-oriented stuff over trendy stuff, myself. >_>

That's so true man. *exhales some herb and then passes it back to you*

It's easy to forget how small chipmusic still is and how relatively new as an artform it is.  The "inventors" of chiptune as distinct from pure game soundtracks or cracktros are still very much around and even on this forum.  Even 2nd and 3rd generation artists like the micromusic.net or 8bp crew (and contemporaries) are still very close to the source and obviously still active and relevant.  Annnd... I guess that's all I have to say about that.

Truth.. I sure didn't invent it, but when you're talking about a scene that's approx 30 years old and we have people on this site who have been doing it for ten, fifteen, twenty years that's damn close enough to the source to maybe be a little protective of our already horribly misrepresented and misunderstood scene (mario at a rave, all nerds, all about nostalgia, covers, remixes, no girls around, , all happy/danceable music, etc)...