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These songs were all composed and recorded with a DMG. Pro-sound, even.

These songs were all composed between 2008-2010. I loved IAYD at the time but only Dirty Electricity and his random one off singles from 8bp. Never cared for the other two EPs, nothing against the guy, just wasn't my thing.

The chiptune only versions of these tracks have been available on the internet for at least three years, have been widely downloaded and this is the first that I've ever been accused of ripping off IAYD.

The only thing I've ever intentionally tried to emulate of his was the distorted wav channel bass, back in 2008, when he was just a dude with a couple songs on MySpace.* The melodies, I can't think of a single melody that sounds like anything on Supergalactic. To be fair, I listened to that album maybe once. I know that part of the melody in Telstar is copied from Kraftwerk's "The Robots", just sped up and changed a bit. Oh, and 8 Bit Raceway was a 2008 "tribute" to Random.

If you're going to accuse me of stealing from someone, I kindly ask for examples, otherwise kindly shut yer trap.

*For the record, by "tried to emulate", I mean that I wrote him a message and asked "hey man, killer distorted wav sound you got there, how do you do it", and he wrote me back and told me. Because that's how people did things in 2008.

Word. I dig. I put together some instrumental punk demos as an idea for the type of band I'd like to play bass in earlier this year, they can be found here: http://fucking-austria.bandcamp.com/

I'm really down for anything super loud, distorted and lo-fi.

yeah, back in the day a lot of people relied on mp3.com in the exact same way as they do bandcamp now, and then when it went away in '02-'03 or whenever the fuck it was, they were shit out of luck. there is nothing to suggest that bandcamp will always be around, though i'm sure business is good for them and, unless a worthy opponent pops up, it's the best way for artists to sell music digitally without spending any money themselves. so it's unlikely that bandcamp is going anywhere any time soon.

and regarding them becoming evil...meh, it's a lot easier for services like instagram, facebook, and youtube to become evil because everyone uses them. EVERYONE. bandcamp has a much more limited and specific user base (meaning people who upload music), and if they started trying to fuck with the rights people have over their own music, that would probably fuck with their business a lot. people are much less likely to stand for some website trying to take ownership of their music than they are a website claiming ownership over some square cropped vintage filtered photo of last night's dinner.

I'm pretty impulsive. Usually by the time I release an EP it's 9 months or more since my previous EP came out and I'm like "FUUCKKKK, must compile what songs I have into a release!!!". Some time it's a bad idea, sometimes it works. My most recent EP, "Gameboy Gutsfuck", it didn't work. At all.

I have a personal website, and my bandcamp gets more hits and makes me more money. I have to renew the domain for my site here in a couple days and I've really been pondering whether or not it is actually worth it...

Obviously, go with what works for you. I don't give a shit if people use bandcamp or not, I have no personal interest in it. But to discredit the entire site because of a couple of trivial complaints when it obviously works quite well for the majority of artists who use it, is fucking stupid.

Soundcloud is good for sharing tracks, but that's basically it. For artists who are trying to sell their music, I can't think of a better alternative than bandcamp.

And this, too!

http://www.thursdaycustoms.com/product/ … -boy-color

I thought most sites that modded Game Boys did GBC front lighting by now, it's just more expensive since it basically requires a GBC and a certain model of GBA SP.

If not, they should. Not to start this argument for a growing number of people, GBCs are preferable.