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the dog does or doesn't bounce too much

Commodore demo scene does the image blitting thing too in order to create a larger palette.  I don't know why they went for 3 frames instead of 2 in that blog article.  Proof of concept I suppose.  They flicker in emulators; I had assumed the CRTs could handle it though. . .

I'll just say I've faced enough cognitive dissonance already to accept chipchoons for what they are.  No, not all chipchoons are techno but you'll find that, compositionally speaking, that pop/dance/rock music inherently shares similar symmetrical rhythms and melodic/harmonic pacing.  Once the actual song writing is obscured by the medium's presentation the source genre is lost.  So no, not all chipchoons are techno.  There is metal, classical, bluegrass and everything in between chipchoons.  I speak from my experience going to and playing chipchoon shows for a long time.  Most acts sound like techno to me.

ilkae, thanks for the link!  I like to emulate my .nsf files in winamp for my shows. 

Wow, I haven't logged in here for over a year and this is the thread I fell upon.

The word 'chiptune' has become a joke to me.  I like to say 'chipchoon'.

I will always be playing the Commodore VIC-20 during my sets regardless if I'm doing chipmusic, chipchoon, EDM, IDM, bitpop, pop, jizz, assjuke, truchip or fakebit until the last VIC-20 dies and ebay refuses to cough up another one.  That being said, I've learned to quit being uptight about the chipchoon label because the bottom line is getting people out to shows if you're a performer and the scene doesn't seem to give a shit (like any scene) so long as the bar is selling drinks and asks you back.  Denouncing chipchoon is the same as saying "I'm all chipchoon" is the same as MC Chris denouncing nerdcore.   Fuck off.

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...so jelly that no one knows when it starts...

I love an excuse to ride teh megabus.