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49 Nov 8, 2011 3:44 pm

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Xuriik wrote:

I'd love to do chipmusic reviews, I think I have the writing skills to pull it off. Should I start a blog?

I was wondering about this. I'm a technical writer and I listen to a ton of chip. I was just wondering if there would be interest in starting a chipmusic review blog of some sort. Something that aspires to quality in both look and content with a small staff that keeps on top of releases.

Does anyone think there would be a reader base for something like that?

50 Nov 9, 2011 1:25 am

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Why not talk to peter at TCTD about a monthly or bi weekly column? YOu would have a built in readership and wouldn't have to spend time building a site/doing web stuff,

51 Nov 9, 2011 12:10 pm

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Yea id be into that.

52 Nov 9, 2011 12:50 pm

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Another job successfully foisted off on someone else!

53 Nov 9, 2011 1:13 pm

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I would be a reader. That is absolutelly something that the scene misses: reviews. It's hard to have the will to listen an album because the composer of it announced it as "my second lsdj effort". But if one writes a review commenting it, there would be more general interest, I think.

54 Nov 9, 2011 1:17 pm

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I think in an era of tldr and the ability to simply stream a record, reviews aren't really relevant, i mean look at how many people hate on pitchfork? But if the right writer came along, who knows?

55 Nov 9, 2011 1:48 pm

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tldr

56 Nov 9, 2011 1:54 pm

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More stuff like "Chip Bass Monthly" would be good. Doesn't have to be genre/style specific like that but the format is good.

Example link: http://generationbass.com/2011/10/28/ch … onthly-10/

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57 Nov 9, 2011 3:12 pm

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herr_prof wrote:

I think in an era of tldr and the ability to simply stream a record, reviews aren't really relevant, i mean look at how many people hate on pitchfork? But if the right writer came along, who knows?

I think this is true to a degree, but at the same time, so many releases are put out with such poor descriptions I often can't tell if I even *want* to stream it. Telling me that something might melt my face off or that something is diverse doesn't actually tell me anything about a release. I mean, even the best chip netlabels are guilty of this. If you go to Pause right now, you'll see:

"Giant Claw - Tunnel Mind. If you liked Midnight Murder and Erasers Fantasy then this is right up your alley!"

Ok. Cool. What if I didn't even listen to those?

Maybe the chip scene doesn't even need full Pitchfork-length reviews. One weekly article with a few sentences about several releases (actually describing the music) and commenting on the level of quality might be nice.

58 Nov 9, 2011 8:00 pm

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roboctopus wrote:

herr_prof wrote:
I think in an era of tldr and the ability to simply stream a record, reviews aren't really relevant, i mean look at how many people hate on pitchfork? But if the right writer came along, who knows?
I think this is true to a degree, but at the same time, so many releases are put out with such poor descriptions I often can't tell if I even *want* to stream it. Telling me that something might melt my face off or that something is diverse doesn't actually tell me anything about a release. I mean, even the best chip netlabels are guilty of this. If you go to Pause right now, you'll see:
"Giant Claw - Tunnel Mind. If you liked Midnight Murder and Erasers Fantasy then this is right up your alley!"
Ok. Cool. What if I didn't even listen to those?
Maybe the chip scene doesn't even need full Pitchfork-length reviews. One weekly article with a few sentences about several releases (actually describing the music) and commenting on the level of quality might be nice.

I agree. Something like this review, it won't kill you to read it, and you're actually helping draw someone's attention.

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59 Nov 9, 2011 8:22 pm

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Xuriik wrote:

roboctopus wrote:
I think this is true to a degree, but at the same time, so many releases are put out with such poor descriptions I often can't tell if I even *want* to stream it. Telling me that something might melt my face off or that something is diverse doesn't actually tell me anything about a release. I mean, even the best chip netlabels are guilty of this. If you go to Pause right now, you'll see:
"Giant Claw - Tunnel Mind. If you liked Midnight Murder and Erasers Fantasy then this is right up your alley!"
Ok. Cool. What if I didn't even listen to those?
Maybe the chip scene doesn't even need full Pitchfork-length reviews. One weekly article with a few sentences about several releases (actually describing the music) and commenting on the level of quality might be nice.
I agree. Something like this review, it won't kill you to read it, and you're actually helping draw someone's attention.

Ahahahaha. No, that's the kind of album description I wish people would shy away from.

60 Nov 9, 2011 8:47 pm

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So who's willing to be the bad guy and give bad reviews when they're called for? Put another way: Who wants to waste their time talking about something they don't like? Not me. That's got to be one of the biggest reason every chip review/description you read is just glowing and sycophantic.

61 Nov 9, 2011 10:12 pm

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I just want to say that demarko does a really good job of this, and I wish we had more people writing stuff like this about chip releases:

http://tuned.demarko.org/post/102338265 … ace-rocket

I wouldn't mind doing reviews of chip-dance music (that's all I'm really qualified to speak about) but in a small scene no one wants to be the guy that bashed that one release everyone likes. There's a reason artists are not reviewers. You need reviewers that aren't trying to get people to like them in the scene.