Subway Sonicbeat
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PULSELOOPER wrote:

And believe me, Brazil has the lamest and laziest journalism ever.

And expanding that, we got better coverage about the shit we do cause, well, we are the only shit they can ask about.

10k
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PULSELOOPER wrote:

When someone asks me to explain what chipmusic is, I always send them this link: http://chipflip.wordpress.com/chipmusic/

Woah, I think I might start doing that too.

8bitweapon
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WELL DONE!

egr
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herr_prof wrote:

Ive said this before but there are three temples of chip. People who think the sounds are whack but the songs are perfect (ocremix), that the sounds are awesome but the songs annoying (modern chip dudes) and that both are perfect and must never change (famicompo covers section big_smile)

I hate hearing shitty vst redux of ffII soundtrack as much as you, but having them mentioned in the same breath isn't so outrageous.

This idea has really stuck in my head.  I noticed I've been subconsciously categorizing stuff as:

Impressionist -- the sounds are whack but the songs are perfect

Modernist -- the sounds are awesome but the songs annoying

Purist -- both are perfect and must never change

Regardless of what actual words you use I think this type of differentiation is far more useful than "fakebit", vgm, chipstyle, or what have you.

mysterystain
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godinpants wrote:
10k wrote:

That's not what I was going for. I fucking LOVE me some chip covers. DAMNIT.

In b4 a hardcore band covers leaving home on real instruments and it comes full circle.

brb actually doing this

herr_prof
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herr_prof wrote:

The fourth temple are people who hate daft punk.

I should probably credit whom im ripping off now that this is becoming a meme:

http://templeofhiphop.org/

mjz
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this is a great read 10k, pretty comprehensive.
also, i empathize with you bringing up the chiptheft issue. @DaPantz: i think it's a very interesting idea to locate the cohesion of the chiptune community partly in its resistance to chiptheft, and in its attempts to overcome it.

also, here's a link to a not-so-brief history of chiptunes by two US scholars. it's written for an academic audience, so no lazy journalism here. i'm working on something similar for a different journal myself.
http://journal.transformativeworks.org/ … view/96/94