I'm going to take a blind guess that Kraftwerk are not mentioned for the same reason as Moroder and Hot Butter, they popularized synths to a point that I expect most people to know what tracks made them important, etc.
Have some Bruce Haack
1,201 Jul 2, 2011 3:27 am
Re: Early Electronic music albums (39 replies, posted in General Discussion)
1,202 Jun 26, 2011 10:31 pm
Re: Writer's Block - Evasive Maneuvers? (20 replies, posted in General Discussion)
1,203 Jun 3, 2011 7:30 pm
Re: Do you guys have any quick reads on Electronic music? (29 replies, posted in General Discussion)
inb4 polk audio
To OP: Though Reformat the Planet doco is the closest I can think of to a proper explanation of where the music came from, I'm not aware of a definitive book that describes this little set of electronic music (relative to, say, a biography of Kraftwerk, which would be a better read anyway. 
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If you want to learn about the instruments there are books on synthesis but it's much easier (and most of the people called "good") learn slowly through personal experimentation. Hope that was useful
1,204 May 30, 2011 12:09 am
Re: Amazing SEGA Soundtracks (50 replies, posted in Sega)
This thread is now fixed.
1,205 May 24, 2011 11:59 pm
Re: This girl is stealing chipt00ns. (175 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Subway Sonicbeat wrote:
Calling off the uni about her tefth is pretty much morally debatable. Not that I care.
In academia, plagiarism of any kind is grounds for expulsion and while it's career threatening, why shouldn't it be? Not doing your own homework is cheating.
This would be a non-problem if she said that she is a DJ playing the music of others (which is something this sort of music needs more of) instead of pretending to have created something that she didn't.
At least TDS tried to seem athletic when "performing..."
I agree that there would be less plagiarism if people knew how music (any music, really) is made.
1,206 May 9, 2011 1:39 am
Re: Wallflower - Visual/audio demo in 23 bytes. (14 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
That is indeed quite awesome
1,207 May 8, 2011 5:00 pm
Re: Wallflower - Visual/audio demo in 23 bytes. (14 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
Bonus for posting the demo's code in its entirety.
1,208 May 2, 2011 1:31 am
Re: drinking and driving is stupid, NO MATTER WHAT (62 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Unfollowing. Thanks for the notice.
A part of me thinks he's joking but it's not funny and never will be.
1,209 May 1, 2011 10:31 pm
Re: The Chiptune Market (22 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I forgot to answer most important part of OP: my measurable audience are 25-35 yo males in many countries, strongest results in US, Canada, Germany, Japan, and UK. (That's where I got "spread thinly" from)
1,210 May 1, 2011 7:23 pm
Re: The Chiptune Market (22 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I'm glad the right people have answered on this thread, and hope I'm adding something useful by saying:
Speaking mostly for myself, the chipmusic audience is spread very thinly around the world and is occasionally on the socially introverted side, so if you're in this gig/art to make money you are probably barking up the wrong tree.
In the places where there are regular gigs and big festivals, I have a lot of respect for the hard work (and hard-earned funds) put in to create them, so much thanks to the people that make it possible.
1,211 Apr 27, 2011 8:09 pm
Re: Guitar for ChipTunes (18 replies, posted in Audio Production)
What Wizwars and OP said, relating to my own stuff, sounds like everyone is doing it right.
When I use guitar it is usually very soft on purpose but it's the same idea- I mess with pan and EQ (and compression) until I can put it where it sounds nice in the mix. This is true about blending any instrument in really.
1,212 Apr 8, 2011 8:54 pm
Re: Revisiting Old Tunes (15 replies, posted in General Discussion)
The opposite of "remove one-third of a song" is to take your favorite song and add a section to it.
You can give yourself any number of deliberate limits for creating a song, you can also make only one section or one fragment of a song and pass it to a friend to add the next bit (and so on,) or there are those gigantic module files that a dozen composers will pass around until they get sick of it or reach the pattern limit; I think I remember Brian Eno saying he had a drill where he'd make the band members exchange instruments- the key in all these drills is to make sure that you are uncomfortable in some way and that causes you to create something you wouldn't normally do.
1,213 Apr 7, 2011 2:43 am
Re: Revisiting Old Tunes (15 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Hitori Tori says that all his tunes are constructed from previously composed fragments:
And I once made this:
http://soundcloud.com/chunter/geocache-release-zero-mix
from this:
http://soundcloud.com/chunter/geocache-prototype-mix
But just as there is no real set pattern for where your ideas should come from (and you should be willing to mix things up all the time to keep your writing fresh) there are no rules for what to do with a revisited piece as long as you think the new piece is better.
An exercise I had to do once in school- remove one third from the song (you've written) that you like the most and record it that way. Most people come out of the exercise liking the song better. (Not recommended if you write like ant1, nothing personal.)
1,214 Apr 5, 2011 4:24 am
Re: Fantasy Blip Festival 2011 (295 replies, posted in General Discussion)
10k wrote:
We should be celebrating the fact that a few dudes can pull this thing off and that we can be there... ...Don't take this awesome event for granted!
...
Sure there are more that deserve to be on the bill... but there are more people who deserve to be played on radio, playing regular shows and getting listened to by heaps of people. Sometimes there is only so much space.
Some thoughts I have already shared on the subject elsewhere:
"Do you expect them to pass a DMG through the audience so everybody gets to play?"
"Nobody complains that they don't get a turn at Coachella."
"If apathy continues it will go away."
If a disgruntled reader hopes for the event to improve it must be supported, otherwise, we will have to hope for a rival event, and I can't think of a single person who can accomplish that anytime soon.