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Victory Road wrote:not sure if trolling
Wait, my bad. C is 7 in hex, making it 7 semitones, one semitone short of an octave!
So whose "My First Chiptune" thread is this actually?
LOL.
Yeah I'll just go ahead and give that a downloads. Can you a throw me a link for the first album please?
Accompanying single now out http://thewaveformgenerators.blogspot.c … ingle.html
Crafting an album for two years yields a lot of content, but almost everything created during Starpilot’s Ragged Smile sessions were gold. As a compromise, we bring you a single release featuring one the best summarising tracks for Ragged Smile’s atmosphere and styles as an A-side, and with it five never-before-heard B-Sides that didn’t make the album cut, not due to lack of quality, but for the purpose of running length. As a result, this 6 track single is as strong as the album, comes with its’ own front and back covers and also, as a nice treat, features 8 bonus tracks recorded in 2011 you get on download. These older tracks are guitar-and-vocal-only demos of some of the songs that made it through to the album (vastly changed) and some that did not, giving you, the listener, a better insight into the sheer amount of time and care that Starpilot has put in to morph Ragged Smile and Nomad Planet into what is sure to be his defining work.
Grab and Stream the single through here!
Tracklist:
1. Nomad Planet
2. Solar Year Zero
3. Lady Liberty's Pie
4. A Stringle Of Strangles
5. Helvetica Lies
6. The Alarmist Clock
The lovely lovely people at Nerdyjunkfood, a "nerd culture" radio show hosted on Arecibo Radio which covers a vast amount of different music from the various crevices of geekdom, are having a Starpilot listening party, playing selected tracks from his most recent albums, Experimentalist, Gate and Glitch, Sparkling and TWG release Ragged Smile! So tune in for two hours of Psychedelic chiptune greatness starting 7pm PDT on the 16th of July!
http://www.facebook.com/events/262716070497036/
[of no affiliation to me, just love-spreadin']
I must add, there is an equally beaut back cover in the re-release zip!
Pxl-Bot’s favourite Chilean dance-floor decimator returns graciously to our shores with a re-release of the much overlooked lo-fi hardstyle chip house genre definer, Azul Petróleo. Featuring six tracks of non-stop brutal floor-levelling stompers fuelled by the injustice felt within his own country, Analog reached a new level of indispensably uniqueness upon this release, and we’re both hoping a fresh spotlight on this fantastic piece of work will reveal just how ahead of its time it was. So nearly a full year after its original release (or over a year if you’re reading this past the eleventh of July) and with brand new artwork by Spanish sweetheart Love Through Cannibalism, Pxl-Bot are incredibly proud to present to you, Azul Petróleo.
Artwork by Love Through Cannibalism
http://www.pxl-bot.com/2012/07/pb075-an … roleo.html
Tracklist:
1. Azufre
2. Gobierno Terrori$ta
3. Srta. Siniestra
4. Dignatario$
5. El Levante
6. Derritiendo Plá$tico
The Waveform Generator’s debut release comes in the form of Starpilot’s magnum opus, ‘Ragged Smile’. For the first time in his musical career as a chiptune artist, one which has been vibrant and busy, having appeared on over three separate labels this year alone, Starpilot has upped his game and produced a full length chiptune album utilising vocals and guitar to expand and revitalise the sound of this already versatile musician.
Starpilot takes influence from artists such as Smashing Pumpkins, My Bloody Valentine and Syd Barrett to create a visceral blend of alternative rock, post-punk and psychedelic music supported and enriched with chiptune sounds and samples, covering systems from Gameboys to Commodore 64s.
Starpilot’s lyrics embody everything from political grievances to the importance of love, both delivered with a satisfyingly emotional input. The lyrics also serve as anchor points to weigh down and emphasis the more experimental portions of the album, giving a new spur of life to Starpilot’s already well-established grip on noise and Avant-grade musings.
Featuring such a huge level of attention paid to the smallest of details, and having been worked on for two years and including only the most eclectic choices from the sessions, this is Starpilot’s defining point as an artist, and the strongest possible release for our label’s launch. On a personal note I’d like to add I enjoyed every second of working with Duane to put this release out, and consider myself, and this label, extremely lucky to be the ones showing you this astonishingly realised piece of work!
Grab the release at the TWG Bandcamp (where there is also a direct link to an archive.org hosted download for those who dislike BC downloads! Aren't we good to you?)
Tracklist:
01. Only Sickly On The Outside
02. Branch Canopies And Sunshine
03. Let Us Make Bliss
04. Out The Blinding Line
05. Nomad Planet
06. Togetherest
07. The Sun Is Love
08. Annulus
09. Worldwide Coma
10. Stumble Crumbly Crumb
11. Gnarl
12. The Air Is Bright
13. Kiss Kiss Caress
14. The Generator
15. The One Thing You Cannot Replace
16. Moonwalking On A Porcupine
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PUT IT AWAY
I HATE TOGETHERNESS
Communities? YUCK.
wow I'm not even sure if that was in a consistent key
please finish your compositions before you post them here for critique
Also, did you only use two channels? Because it sounded limp and rather void
All music is limited. Otherwise it'd just be a random cacophony of sound. Even noise music is limited. Even atonal music is limited.
Yes, but we're talking about a relative scale of limits under the moniker "music".
AndrewKilpatrick wrote:Because dance music by definition is music made to make you dance, thereby limiting its potential. For instance, for a more striking example, the difference between, say, Deicide and Opeth, one goes for a straight genre-definition affair, the other doesn't attempt to limit themselves. That's probably a bad, and definitely an irrelevant to this topic, example, but I hope you catch my jist.
As I said, there are always exceptions, I just think when someone creates something that goes towards a specific audience on preferred method of consumption (whether purposefully or otherwise), they are creatively tying one hand behind their back. That is what I think causes my perception of dance music, in general, being one-sided.Eh... Sure dance music is made to make you dance but it also builds and releases energy, conveys emotion, carries a message, and builds atmosphere. Lots of genres do this but not all genres make you want to dance. EDM's potential is only limited to the person creating it which you've described in your Deicide/Opeth example. All music is subjective or created for a specific audience no one musician is liked the world over. For instance I think Deicide kills it while Opeth blows pretentious butthole.
When did I say dance music DIDN'T do all those things? I just said it is more potentially limiting, and limited in reality, than other forms of music. So is Dubstep/Trance/DeathMetal/Folk etc etc, my point with Opeth was just a group who don't give a shit what they sound like and just write with out any preconceptions of what they are or what they should sound like, you can swap their name with any hundreds of chip/metal/indie/pop or hippity hop acts, it's all the same point. I'm not say ALL dance music is limited, though if we are getting into a genre debate, when it gets to a point its not limiting itself it'd be difficult to class as dance. And I know music is subjective, I was being subjective as it was my opinion
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