Who do you admire? Why? (Page 2 of 3)

Everyone from Piko Piko Detroit that has inspired me, Boaconstructor, Sabrepulse, Trey Frey, Anamanaguchi. Chiptune has brought so many amazing people into my life.

I got into chiptune by first hearing keygen (tracker) music in cracktros and keygens (I used to have lots of pirated software when I got my first PC in 2004). I didn't actually start listening to it really until later because I always thought it wasn't real music given that it was made exclusively by electronic means and nothing else sounded like it.

Skip forward to 2007-2008 and I heard this song composed by Timbaland:

Hearing it for the first time I was blown away. My initial reaction was "wow, they actually ripped off that keygen sound and now that I think of it, it sounds really cool and futuristic". I later looked it up and saw that Timbaland actually used a MIDI synth (Elektron Sidstation) based around the SID chip in the Commodore 64 to create these sounds I recognized from keygen music. That quickly made me realize how much I actually liked the sound of chip music. It was very different compared to everything else and it sounded like something from the future.

Eventually I found a chiptune forum since I started to love the music so much. I joined 8bitcollective in 2008 or 2009 (I can't remember) and I stumbled upon 4mat's songs there and I recognized a lot of the sounds I loved from keygen\tracker music because after all, 4mat was a tracker musician and somewhat of a legend in that scene (he's one of the first musicians to recreate chip\SID-like sounds in a sample based tracker). I've been blown away by his music ever since. He has his own style that gets better and better with each release. He's incredibly creative and talented and one of the few artists I really look up to—in fact I can't even think of anyone else off the top of my head that is as great as him. If I had the means I would totally want to fund his music projects (if I had a lot of money I would probably offer him money just to do what he does). I always look forward to new releases from him because they are almost guaranteed to be a hit.

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Henry Homesweet and Je deviens dj en 3 jours are my leaders! #CYMBA

This guy.

though really, too many to mention and much not in the scene.

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Is your name a refrence to Tamayura, by any chance?

Roboctopus

Michael is one of the best general musicians to work in this medium, and this isn't the type of compliment I like to hand out. But he's also settled, he knows what his style is and even when branching out he lets that style shine through. He's a mature musician, essentially, someone with a lot of skills that he knows when not to use.

That's just musical stuff though, he's also extremely friendly and has probably caused more LSDJ improvement in the general user population than anyone else out there. I really admire people who can write tutorials as stand-alone writings, I love helping people out but I always need to know what they're trying to do first because I don't have a good grasp on what I can teach that people want to learn.

i'll mention the two that no one else will (and probably most people on this site don't even know about):

8cylinder: not only one of the noisiest, most unique artists ever to use chip hardware but he also made his own software (Sludgeon, Faderfox, Pounder, UCBN). was a huge influence on me back when i started using chip stuff in my music back in 2003. very happy that my final environmental sound collapse set in chicago was on the same bill as him

baseck: a master of using custom kits in lsdj and one of the hardest sounding artists to ever use a game boy. one half of sonic death rabbit (with wet mango). excellent musician who mastered the darker side of lsdj

neither do much chip stuff anymore, unsurprising with the way the scene has sort of focused heavily on hyper-melodic dance music over the past 8 years or so