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How do I dubstep my chiptune?

It wasn't initially clear that the NYC reference was a joke (I understand now), but that aspect aside, the ambiguity of whether the absence of an invitation implies intentional exclusion is an issue I'd been wanting to address anyway, because it's a point of confusion that's come up surrounding previous years' events. And I do understand where it comes from, and I thought it deserved to be addressed. So my first post was just an attempt to clear the air in that respect, and to explain the process and some of the unavoidable pitfalls that we encounter in trying to be comprehensive. My 2nd post was more in response to James / Kurt / etc.'s posts in which the conversation had turned toward peoples' feelings of why larger-scale events might not be feasible in their areas; I was mainly trying to clarify to them that I hadn't intended to imply that other areas needed to step it up or anything.

I did the math the other night, just out of my own curiosity. Since the first one in 2006, there've been 125 performing artists taking part in Blip events, inclusive of musicians and visualists. In my view that's both a big number, but also (obviously) only a small sliver of the community. The fact that it's taken us five years to log 125 acts, and that there are so many more incredible artists that we have yet to involve is a testament to the already staggering, and growing, number of massively talented people active in chipmusic.

For each event, we do our imperfect best to represent as many different styles, platforms, local scenes & communities, etc. as we can. We have never been, and will never be, 100% successful, simply because there's no way to distill a community of many hundreds of musicians & visualists down into a 3 day event. In addition to that, there are other influencing factors that affect the shape any given lineup takes. Availability, ability to make the trip; other commitments; visa, passport, and other travel logistics issues; and so on and so forth.

If we could do an annual event that was two weeks long with 8 sets a night, we might start closing the gap between the number of artists that we WANT to represent, and the number of artists we CAN represent. But at the moment, a 3-day event is about the maximum we're able to pull off without too much risk of disaster (blizzards notwithstanding).

Also Blip is just one event. I don't know why there aren't more of its scale, elsewhere in the world. There should be, and anyone with the interest and motivation to make it happen really should. The Blip team is basically three scatterbrained fuck-ups with a questionably functional practical relationship. If we can do it, other people definitely can.

Cockpit seats are lined with the fur from Nigel's chest

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