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You're welcome. Some criticism is needed to make any progress, isn't it? I'm still waiting for your experiments, I hope next time you will improve harmony section.

Why new nickname? Added to playlist anyway.

I didn't read whole topic, i guess it would be pointless but... I think the main reason of today's things get going on is what chitpune artists listen to.

Decade ago there were other inspirations, no dubstep & electronic/glitchy pieces but melodical pop, tunes from C64. Experimenting with non-melodical stuff started for good about '97 and later (obviously there were many such tunes before but it wasn't that popular). It could be possible thanks to new machines, new samples and birthing VSTi.

It is easy to observe how has changed the tracker scene by simple looking into the .mod/it/s3m/xm files. First era with poor samples has an easy goal: to recreate modern or natural sounds. We had Moby's rock tunes, Bruno's funk first attempts, Walkman's piano pieces and so on. Next age comes with ability to record/create synths voices. For example, we have these two guys: Lizardking, Revisq (a bit later); they had many tunes with sampled synths and it was blockbusting! But the second one started to esacape from melody as long as Lizardking keeped giving to us many sweet leads. With 1997, if I recall correctly, when there were many different samples yet, there have formed many subgroups specializing in making noise tunes and they started to be mainstream in the demoscene environment. There was no longer need to recreate natural sounds if there were such good sounding samples. Although, obviously, some artists like Reed, Quasian or Smash didn't stop to make funky/rocky/jazzy tunes.

Why do I tell about tracked tunes and not chiptunes? For two reasons: chiptune genre is a mirror of other genres and people's look at music, how its goal is, what it supposed to sound is, etc. and, earlier, chiptune was a product of almost only demoscene artists.

Also, nowadays it's easier to start with making not melody but own waves/sounds. Many new artists start their practice from creating unusual sound, the melody and harmony start to be peripheral in this deal. Unfortunately, some of them are forgetting to back to learn melodies.

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Thanks for reply. Obviously, I don't demand quality as it is on example I have posted, it could be much simpler and more repetitive. But some glitches are wanted, so your clip, although is fine, does not fit actually .

Harsh stuff, I would add more leads (high-tones) and reduce this percussion; or at least turn it to more subtle drums instead of boom boom boom .

Some nice parts, but in my humble opinion there are lacks in the melodic solutions and harmony, melody leads a bit to the nowhere, but it has own charm, I suppose there are plenty people liking such raw composition style .

That's my review after 12 minutes, I will listen it to the end but I guess mentioned by me things won't change .

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