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18 Mar 28, 2015 11:40 am
Re: I am looking for any and all songs made by Spamtron (4 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I checked my Google Drive backups and I have a lot of Spamtron stuff there (probably my whole collection) that I backed up on a system reinstall a while ago: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id= … sp=sharing
19 Dec 28, 2014 8:08 pm
Re: Just listening to some HVSC... (14 replies, posted in General Discussion)
sandneil wrote:
factor in that the sid chip can make like 10 different sounds
You have no idea what you're talking about.
SID songs doesn't sound any more similar compared to one another than Game Boy or NES songs do. There's plenty of stuff to do with the chip in terms of sound design. The SID is a proper synthesizer despite its limitations. Some artists are lazy\don't care about sound design.
Edit: The early stuff was more basic because people were just learning to code on the C64. The first few artists had to write their own software for making music or they would basically compose the thing in machine code. It got way easier when people started making\releasing trackers.
20 Dec 18, 2014 8:58 pm
Re: Chip tune Sexes! (23 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I'd say it is male dominated because most nerdy (I hate that term) things tend to be. Does it matter to you or should it matter? You either like the music or you don't.
21 Nov 2, 2014 10:54 am
Re: Thanksgiving Awareness Thread (18 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Both Halloween and Thanksgiving suck.
But on a serious and unrelated note, the opening post blew my mind. I've just realized that I've been listening to chip music ever since I was little. Those Christmas lights we used to have came with a little music box\device that played Christmas songs with a pulse\square sound. This was one of my influences towards liking chip music that I haven't acknowledged until now for some reason even though it was quite obvious.
22 Oct 1, 2014 4:02 am
Re: Any songs in 3/4, 6/8, 5/4, or 5/8? (28 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Damn. This makes me realize how little music theory knowledge I have.
23 Sep 28, 2014 5:28 pm
Re: "First Machine" - 10 electronic tracks (7 replies, posted in Releases)
Some of the songs remind me of Mesu Kasumai. This would have worked very nicely as an 8bitpeoples release.
My favorite tracks are "Beta Stone", "Extended Mode", "Filthy Signal", and "Strange Arrangement" (the last two being my favorites of all of them).
24 Sep 27, 2014 2:08 pm
Re: "First Machine" - 10 electronic tracks (7 replies, posted in Releases)
I listened to it briefly and it already sounds like the best thing I've heard in a while. I'll try to keep up with your music and I'll get back to you once I do a full listen of the album.
25 Sep 21, 2014 7:15 am
Re: What happened to Unicorn Kid? (21 replies, posted in General Discussion)
It depends on the person. Some people have very high standards when it comes to their own music.
26 Sep 5, 2014 11:19 am
Re: DOSKPOP (9 replies, posted in General Discussion)
It's hardly a new genre or style of music if it's barely even recognized. It certainly doesn't seem to be recognized by people outside the demoscene.
27 Sep 4, 2014 8:42 pm
Re: Converting inspiration and feelings into songs (21 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Well, nowadays all of the stuff I write is inspired by events in my life and this special person that I know. I come up with a concept first and then the title and then I try to make something that fits the mood of that concept. For example, the last concept song that I worked on is called "Krafptrov" (it translates to "effort" in English). The bassline is kind of uplifting because effort is very often an enjoyable thing but then the pad and melody were a bit more dramatic and moody because these sorts of feelings can also be a part of that.
Edit: Also, caffeine. Usually in the form of energy drinks.
28 Sep 4, 2014 8:33 pm
Re: What's the craziest thing you've done... (54 replies, posted in General Discussion)
sandneil wrote:
not given up yet?
in a past life i wrote an album in 12 minutes from start to finish
good luck with your 500 songs that sounds great & i love a dreamer
It's far from impossible. It's just going to take a long time to finish. I have tons of inspiration at the moment (life events and an amazing muse) so it is unlikely that I will quit.
Imaginary wrote:
I made an electronic/ambient/dark & spooky album by recording found sounds and electronic interference/static. That doesn't sound that cool or crazy, but the cool part is that I did it all in the reportedly haunted basement of a 100 year old house that I was living in. I recorded a little bit of guitar and some almost-static programing from a radio I found down there too, so it's not strictly found sounds. I should go dig that album up and put it on bandcamp...
Sounds interesting. I'd like to get into something like that in the future. I find certain sounds like that to be quite...musical. My refrigerator makes an interesting droney sound that I could incorporate in a song lol.
29 Sep 3, 2014 8:09 pm
Topic: What's the craziest thing you've done... (54 replies, posted in General Discussion)
What is the craziest thing you've done as a musician? Stuff like writing an insanely long song or album or using unusual things as instruments and stuff like that or anything else you can think of that relates to your writing process.
For me it used to be the fact that I have an album planned that is 100 tracks long (106 including bonus content) which is supposed to be at least 7 hours long because I don't like writing songs shorter than 4 minutes. It wasn't something I had planned. It just so happened that I wrote this many songs in that period of time which is the theme of the album (my life from late 2K10 to 2K12). I have other albums that are pretty long as well—in fact my regular albums range from 20 to 40 songs.
That used to be my longest planned album because now I'm in the process of writing 500 concept tracks (+20 bonus tracks) for this year's album. The number is symbolic for several reasons and I've upped the challenge of the first long album which is kind of fun (even though it will take me at least two years to finish this album alone).
30 Aug 20, 2014 12:25 pm
Re: If you were stuck for eternity with 1 chiptune song, what would it be? (93 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Panda Chan wrote:
The intro to 'spontaneous devotion' by random... Just repeating forever... The echoes... The filter sweep... The bass...
Shit. How could I forget that song. If we're talking about pure chip, then I guess that song would be it. It's one of those songs that has a really fitting title.
31 Aug 19, 2014 6:31 pm
Re: If you were stuck for eternity with 1 chiptune song, what would it be? (93 replies, posted in General Discussion)
This Gerudo Valley cover by Spamtron:
Or this song by Darkman007:
They both sound like amazing love songs to me.
32 Aug 14, 2014 6:57 pm
Re: Differences between covers and remixes (81 replies, posted in General Discussion)
^ Hahaha
baudtack wrote:
If someone remixed something I released, and it blew up and they made millions, whether or not I'd be upset isn't the question. The question is should I have legal protection from that happening and I'd say no. I'm willing to sacrifice those possible rights for what I see as the greater good of having free access to work with music. I think this is just a fundamental philosophical difference between us. If you can't tell by now I'm a bit of a socialist anyway.
The problem is that what you are suggesting is subject to abuse. Just imagine if you made an ambient song and someone added a drum track over it, called it a remix and sold it and made thousands of dollars. How would most people feel in a situation like that? I don't know if there is a "greater good" in a situation like that when you consider the fact that most people would feel cheated if the law allowed others to exploit their work in this way. In order for you to say that it would be for the greater good you would have to weigh the distress such a thing would cause against the cultural benefits that you are suggesting, and I don't think the odds are in your favor. I think it would be very easy to make money by exploiting other people's work and thus it would discourage a lot of people from making music.