593 Reply by 4mat

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I think the plastic part with cut-out shapes is a flow diagram template.

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594 Reply by 4mat

(141 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Men of Mega wrote:
VCMG wrote:

No we'll say chiptune has sold out and move on to other niche-y music.

But seriously I fear for the day when chiptune becomes fully "mainstream."


Why fear the day when chiptune becomes mainstream?

chiptune "as a thing" is mainstream anyway, even Community had an 8-bit episode.

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595 Reply by 4mat

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Auxcide wrote:
4mat wrote:

* remember, nobody gives a damn what you wrote it on if they like it. (and don't go on about what hardware you use, using X to make Y stopped being a novelty years ago and stops the music being the focus)

This couldn't be more wrong.

The only people that care about that are here, if the music wants a wider acceptance on it's own merits it should distance itself from the process of how the music is made. Pretty much every chip article sounds like an excerpt from Sound on Sound and we're past the point where it's the journalist's fault.

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596 Reply by 4mat

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at a guess about 90% of the chip community are other chip musicians. if you want to sell more I'd suggest:

* don't publicise your work only in the chip community..
* don't publicise your work only on blogs made by your friends.
* don't label your work chiptune/chipmusic outside of the community, as it comes with a lot of baggage.  call it electronic music or if you focus on one genre call it that genre.  if THEY call it chipmusic then fine, but chances are they'll tag it in a genre with a broader base.
* remember, nobody gives a damn what you wrote it on if they like it. (and don't go on about what hardware you use, using X to make Y stopped being a novelty years ago and stops the music being the focus)

whatever you're making there will be people out there who like it, but if you only try selling to your peers you'll never extend your audience.  seeing a playlist which is 99% other styles and a couple of your tracks is THE BEST FEELING.  honestly.

edit: and this is in no way dismissing the chipmusic community, before people start flaming.

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597 Reply by 4mat

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probably because it's yet more chipscene celebrating itself BS.

edit: that probably sounds harsher than I meant it to be, but honestly it's like that time people were all interviewing each other on a blog not so long ago. there's a tendency to keep everything within it's own little safety net of the scene and it just gets really quite tedious.

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598 Reply by 4mat

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Popular tags: sad

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599 Reply by 4mat

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how much are chip musicians worth?

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600 Reply by 4mat

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an0va wrote:

thread close

I haven't released my EP yet.

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601 Reply by 4mat

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After moving house and getting rid of 500+ CDs I will always still digital now.  It was nice to have artwork and packaging but there's no reason you can't do something as interesting with digital releases. (printable artwork, apps, games)

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602 Reply by 4mat

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if dangermouse was chiptune, would he use lsdj or nanoloop?

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603 Reply by 4mat

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George's EP of Bond covers coming soon.

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604 Reply by 4mat

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OPEN SOURCE MUSIC TOOLS.  FREEDOM FROM "THE MAN".

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605 Reply by 4mat

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if you prosound your gameboy enough it sounds like a full orchestra.

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606 Reply by 4mat

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ant1 - "2011 was bad and 2012 so far has been bad"

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607 Reply by 4mat

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"that's pretty darn good"

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608 Reply by 4mat

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Jellica wrote:

i wish ant1 still had his chipmusic blog.

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