177 Reply by roboctopus

(112 replies, posted in General Discussion)

TheBronyChip wrote:
roboctopus wrote:

Monomania. The WAV channel bass on "West" still amazes me. Disappeared before he released his EP.

i cant find a trace of him anywhere you wouldnt happen to have a link to his soundcloud or cm.o profile?

As far as I can tell the dude just put a few tracks on 8bc and that's it. I remember he said something like, "I hurt my hand and can't play guitar for a few months so I'm making some chiptunes".  He dropped a couple of (in my opinion) flat-out amazing tracks and said he was going to release an EP.

Then *poof* no more 8bc, no more Monomania. 

Maybe he changed his name or something. No one seems to have known him.

*CHIP MYSTERY*

Here are teh boss tracks:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/648 … 20West.mp3

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/648 … %20Cut.mp3

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/648 … nokaze.mp3

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178 Reply by roboctopus

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Monomania. The WAV channel bass on "West" still amazes me. Disappeared before he released his EP.

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179 Reply by roboctopus

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This is so good guys! Can't wait for my CD to get here and blast it in my car. My car is going to be so happy!

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180 Reply by roboctopus

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This is about to go down!

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181 Reply by roboctopus

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I know I make well-mannered melodic music, but I'm always super inspired by people pushing the noisier envelopes.

This is awesome, and listening to this gave me fresh ideas to try in my own music.

Bra-fucking-vo!

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182 Reply by roboctopus

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Aw man. Some of my all-time favorite releases are were on Pause.

I'm honored to have been rejected by them!

*Salutes*

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183 Reply by roboctopus

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Later this month on CheapBeats! (Or, um, early next month?)

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184 Reply by roboctopus

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I record all my stuff straight. No individual channel recording or anything. I do EQ and light limiting and sometimes add a *tiny* almost unnoticeable amount of reverb.

For my upcoming album, which is 2xLSDJ, I recorded and EQ'd each Game Boy part separately. There's a bit of FX on a few tracks, but it still sounds like what you'd hear if you were listening to the output on my DJ mixer.

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185 Reply by roboctopus

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xylo wrote:

Test CD is in! \o/

That looks suuuuuuper slick!  I've been listening to 4chpcm Love a lot lately, and I'm really looking forward to this.

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186 Reply by roboctopus

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danimal cannon wrote:

Broboctopus

Every time I buy drinkable yogurt for my two-year-old  I think of you.

[edit - wording tongue ]

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187 Reply by roboctopus

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Zef wrote:

I managed to completely swallow up this french folk band's last.fm page though, besides the pictures haha.
http://www.last.fm/music/Zef

I've been using my name since 2006 and have a pretty solid google lock, but even still a year or two ago some guys in Georgia started an electronic music duo called Roboctopus and played a show or two. They seem to be inactive but their pic still shows up on last.fm, haha.

They both had beards and wore ties (I have a beard and have worn ties at several shows.) So I imagine there are people out there that think I'm a duo or something. Weird.

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188 Reply by roboctopus

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His big mistake was not Googling that name first, since all the Google results return pages about the software.

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189 Reply by roboctopus

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Kuma wrote:
roboctopus wrote:

I feel like this whole thread is secretly about how Sabrepulse doesn't really sound like anything I think of as "chipmusic" and recently announced on Facebook that he was thinking about starting a chipmusic tour.

I was not aware of that.  =O Kuma would go.

lol. I would go too! big_smile

But Sabrepulse has sounded more like "EDM/Electro with some chip elements" for awhile, so that's the first thing I thought of.

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190 Reply by roboctopus

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I feel like this whole thread is secretly about how Sabrepulse doesn't really sound like anything I think of as "chipmusic" and recently announced on Facebook that he was thinking about starting a chipmusic tour.

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191 Reply by roboctopus

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Maybe I'm weird, but I like my old stuff and what I'm currently working on. 

Sometimes I get tired of hearing a song while I'm working on it and take a break though.

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192 Reply by roboctopus

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For the party I played in Lexington in February or whenever, I took a sort of DJ set approach. Two gameboys, added silly mixer fx (filter sweeps, delaaaaaaay, etc) and transitioned my songs into a seamless 30 minute mix.

It worked really well and gave me a fair amount to do, since half of my songs were 2xLSDJ, there was a lot of juggling parts, switching files, and beat matching to get the songs to flow.

To add variety, I played the 1xLSDJ tracks in live mode and stretched out breakdowns (and spiced them up with FX).

If you are going to try and do something cohesive like that, you need to plan out your set list and practice all your transitions. The beginnings and endings of tracks may need to be altered as well.

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