^tyvm for compiling an intel mac version!
322 Feb 7, 2011 6:02 pm
Re: 4MAT - SURRENDER (37 replies, posted in Releases)
^yup #3 as of 1pm today
323 Feb 7, 2011 6:01 pm
Re: - (11 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)
bucky wrote:
Looks like I should finally dig into nullsleep's tutorial, this looks really cool.
dito.
324 Feb 6, 2011 7:26 pm
Re: "Sales figures" for chip releases? (178 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Downstate, we don't mind loosing the 60 secs. Just use the return or enter button on your keyboard once in a while. for real.
325 Feb 6, 2011 7:18 pm
Re: 4MAT - SURRENDER (37 replies, posted in Releases)
very nice cover.
gonna stream it today, and probably buy it tbh.
would love to argue with you over the track title chipmusic is dead, but I'll resist 
326 Feb 5, 2011 9:56 pm
Re: "Sales figures" for chip releases? (178 replies, posted in General Discussion)
^10k? Wow. You guys must have worked hard on getting your stuff out there? Or is this mostly thx to your FOX television appearance? Can you tell?
327 Feb 4, 2011 7:29 pm
Re: iPhone apps (23 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)
go for it, I for one would have fun trying out something new
328 Feb 3, 2011 5:42 pm
Re: "Sales figures" for chip releases? (178 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Yes that is more like it.
But I have this attachment to 'chipmusic' as a concept or scene. I think, and maybe I'm not the only one, it will be hard to shed.
329 Feb 3, 2011 5:31 pm
Re: WEEK OF BLIP: OPEN MIC // AFTER PARTIES // PRE PARTIES (164 replies, posted in Past Events)
trash80 wrote:
Someone needs to give me a reason to go to NYC
I was there when you played montreal a while ago, it was great! Everyone should be amped to see you play! I hope you make it out to nyc to play at anything blip related or the event itself even, in may.
330 Feb 3, 2011 5:28 pm
Re: "Sales figures" for chip releases? (178 replies, posted in General Discussion)
A step towards thinking about ourselves and what we do and how to go about it differently is great. If a price tag can do that, then so be it, go for it. But, does it do that? Since I'm not really providing any real alternatives, I guess I have to agree at this point, don't I?
(note: but i would much rather find an alternative )
Yes, I understand and agree that the chipmusic community often perpetuates it's on stereotypes on a daily basis. This was the basis for my initial contempt for "fakebit". I saw it as people avoiding the actual technology, avoiding understanding anything and just hopping on the bandwagon with some vsts or whatever. But that's changed now (my opinion).
331 Feb 3, 2011 4:56 pm
Re: "Sales figures" for chip releases? (178 replies, posted in General Discussion)
@4mat: I have hard time believing we could extricate ourselves from journalistic ignorance, ie. "mario in a rave" or "hacked tetris cartridge" or what have you bullshit, with a price tag. But I'm happy you elaborated on your point. Because maybe I'm wrong! heh.
332 Feb 3, 2011 3:51 pm
Re: what happened to 8bc (265 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Jellica wrote:
and he should update his brilliant blog
lol
where's the link to the rss feed? how am I gonna stay up to date on the nanoloopz vs. LSDJz flame war? how am I gonna remember which scene colloquialisms I need to know? Just think, all the embarrassing time i said chiptunes music in public!!
333 Feb 3, 2011 3:46 pm
Re: "Sales figures" for chip releases? (178 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Subway Sonicbeat wrote:
In my next gig I will bring some physical copies, some sort of best of of my music, draw some covers and sell it. I think I will get at least the money for the beers I will drink and the subway I'll get to go home. Which is all I want now, actually.
yup. paid gigs i do usually just end up covering that each time, which I'm fine with too. Only replace subway with taxi (only because the subway has stopped here in montreal by 3:00am)
334 Feb 3, 2011 3:40 pm
Re: "Sales figures" for chip releases? (178 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I like what you said here:
Decktonic wrote:
It's interesting because in the end, I think that's the real answer to the issue of "what makes a song legitimate," what people think of it
Although it sounds so derping simple, word of mouth as a legitimizing medium seems more... legitimate lol.
The problem, or (to be careful) what I think is a problem, is that people value something in terms of monetary value as if it's an intrinsic value, when it's not. Anyway blah blah I'm not really adding to my own argument anymore.
Maybe for me it's just hard to see outside my own box, so to speak, since I highly value free things. I honestly don't understand overlooking something because it's free.
ant1 wrote:
hey if legitimate music costs money i'd like to stay illegitimate for ever
it's pretty hard to believe i just read a thread with a backlash against FREE MUSIC
I know, right?
335 Feb 3, 2011 2:46 pm
Re: [US] NEW YORK NY • 2011 05 19-21 • BLIP FESTIVAL 2011 NYC @ EYEBEAM (603 replies, posted in Past Events)
that may be true
336 Feb 3, 2011 2:43 pm
Re: "Sales figures" for chip releases? (178 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Well if people think they are legitimizing something by purchasing it, even if they are not, then what matters is what they think, and nothing else, because it supports the argument? Because it makes you feel legitimate? (not necessarily you Decktonic but a more global "you") That doesn't seem right.
I feel like talk about "listeners" and "common consumers" is condescending, and I don't want to go there.
I still don't buy the legitimacy argument, but I'm definitely open to discussing it more.
(note: i think chip music is legitimate, i mean i don't believe it's only legitimate if bought)
But I understand this thread is suppose to be about numbers.
OK, last edit, promise ;p
My point for arguing against the legitimacy stance, which is not a new stance, isn't to play devils advocate but to expose it for not being about legitimacy at all, and to replace it with a stance that would actually be about legitimacy and expose chip musicians to a larger audience.
Also, that when people say they are seeking legitimacy through purchases, that's not really what they are seeking. Or at least I hope not because that's not what they're getting.