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257 Reply by roboctopus Jan 17, 2013 2:25 pm

Re: Remembering your first performance (64 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Here's a short clip of my first show, which was BRKfest 2012:

To prepare I put together a set of tracks I could sort of string together DJ-set like. I think I had maybe two pauses in the music. I have terrible stage fright so I didn't want to have to fill any silence with banter. I practiced my set a bunch.

I did have a technical problem though. During the beginning of one of my 2xLSDJ songs one of the game boys froze and I could not get it to work. I apologized and restarted the song.

I recommend bringing something to drink onstage (water, alcohol, whatev) because I didn't and I got very thirsty.

Overall I think it went well but it was a chip show and the crowd knew what to expect.

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258 Reply by roboctopus Jan 16, 2013 7:37 pm

Re: UBI058 Danimal Cannon and Zef - Parallel Processing. (62 replies, posted in Releases)

You two synthesized your styles very nicely. The melodies and glitches fit together without feeling at war with each other. Great release!

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259 Reply by roboctopus Jan 15, 2013 11:13 pm

Re: 1-15 (online) Danimal Cannon and Zef album listening party (20 replies, posted in Past Events)

Zef wrote:

Tomorrow Night! (Tuesday)

Are those vinyl records?

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260 Reply by roboctopus Jan 15, 2013 9:50 pm

Re: where do you want your songs to end up (62 replies, posted in General Discussion)

The Laohu wrote:

As a prelude to athletes emerging into an arena.

This is the only logical answer other than on a commercial for kids' cereal.

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261 Reply by roboctopus Jan 14, 2013 7:50 pm

Re: Clean bass sound in the wave channel (5 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Try some hand-drawn waves. I have a tutorial about it that might give you some ideas:

http://www.noisechannel.org/4515

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262 Reply by roboctopus Jan 13, 2013 1:04 am

Re: Solarbear - Solarbear Daisuki (14 replies, posted in Releases)

"How to Properly Use a Semicolon" is like my jam of the year. Awesome release!

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263 Reply by roboctopus Jan 9, 2013 10:55 pm

Re: Full Length Releases In Chiptune (84 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Subway Sonicbeat wrote:

roboctopus wrote:
I probably should have said "selected" or "chosen," hahaha.
I just meant that (in my opinion) a release shouldn't just be everything you're written over a period of time, but a carefully selected group of songs that are not only your best output, but that sort of, you know, go together. I guess sort of like a museum exhibit--a collection of related pieces by an artist. Or whatever. Yeah.
Actually that is the standard for being a release. Otherwise Dark Side of The Moon wouldn't be the same. Also "Heroes" from Bowie, even if its from over a period of time, he wrote the songs as they were meant to fit on the album.
Hell, actually most albums are made of these, unless we count Vanilla Ice album(s?).

Well, some people don't self-edit very well and just throw a bunch of random things on bandcamp as they do them. Or some people release "a collection of chiptunes I've written over the past 3 years". Or like Knife City's "Magfest Sucky EP" which was described as "here's a bunch of songs I'll probably never play live again" (or something like that). (Not that I'm knocking that magfest sucky EP...there are some cool tracks on it.)

I was just beating the drum of Quality Control.

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264 Reply by roboctopus Jan 9, 2013 10:06 pm

Re: Full Length Releases In Chiptune (84 replies, posted in General Discussion)

SketchMan3 wrote:

roboctopus wrote:
carefully curated
Can you go a little more in depth on this? My only experience with the term is in regards to museum displays.

I probably should have said "selected" or "chosen," hahaha.

I just meant that (in my opinion) a release shouldn't just be everything you're written over a period of time, but a carefully selected group of songs that are not only your best output, but that sort of, you know, go together. I guess sort of like a museum exhibit--a collection of related pieces by an artist. Or whatever. Yeah.

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265 Reply by roboctopus Jan 9, 2013 3:31 pm

Re: Full Length Releases In Chiptune (84 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I like both EPs and albums. I listen to music while I work so I can digest both, so attention span and time are not an issue to me.

Since Danimal specifically mentioned "Victory Lapse", I'll comment on that. I really wanted that EP to be succinct, tight, sequenced nicely, and to leave an impression. I basically wanted it to be like an album in miniature. I had other tracks written for it that I did not include for various reasons. Some of them weren't up to par and some of them just didn't fit with the vibe. I'm happy with the results.

What I always look for in a release, be it EP or Album is a carefully curated set of tracks that feel right together. If you have 3 tracks or 30 it doesn't matter, so long as they are high quality and flow nicely.

That being said, I am personally fond of EPs that feel like albums. Things like Peer's "Dances" and Bit Shifter's "The Information Chase" feel like fully formed epics to me.

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266 Reply by roboctopus Jan 6, 2013 12:56 am

Re: CCDM's set from BRKfest 2012! (9 replies, posted in Releases)

I was there!
Part of me is still there,
even now,
wandering the dance floor,
wondering:
who has the football?

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267 Reply by roboctopus Jan 3, 2013 7:09 pm

Re: Plans/Goals For 2013 (65 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I'd like to write some really good music and play at least one live show.

I also kind of want to do a chip soundtrack to a silent film, for some weird reason.

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268 Reply by roboctopus Jan 3, 2013 2:36 pm

Re: Best Chiptune+Rock Bands (56 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I'm not a band and I mostly use acoustic guitar, percussion, and some synths, but I have some LSDJ and live instrument stuff. You could listen to them all in a row and pretend it's an EP! Or maybe like a demo of an EP, hahaha.

https://soundcloud.com/roboctopus/roboc … ary-worlds

https://soundcloud.com/roboctopus/roboc … ing-on-the

https://soundcloud.com/roboctopus/roboc … go-romance

http://weeklybeats.com/#/roboctopus/mus … -is-broken

http://weeklybeats.com/#/roboctopus/mus … ditic-wonk

http://roboctopus.bandcamp.com/track/ov … nt-moons-2

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