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Well, looks it's time to revise that "Best of 2012" list. This is incredible. So far, my favorite track on this is a toss up between Popsnare, Tropics and the title track.

Technically, if you're going by the textbook definition of genre, it's a genre.

Genre = a set of shared traditions that can include style, instrumentation, and forms.

The confusion comes in because most people use "styles" and "genre" interchangeably. A style (jazz, blues, funk, punk) can be played on anything. But for something to be considered a "genre" it only needs a set of rules or traditions governing the music presentation. Since chiptune/music is governed by the rule which requires that it be played by chip hardware, or software that emulates that hardware, it would be considered a genre.

A medium is anything that communicates information from point A to point B, so chipmusic is only a medium insofar as everything else is.

Thanks again, people. Also, I forgot to mention that almost all the chipsounds that weren't samples from the actual devices were created with Plogue Chipsounds. Wanted to give a shout out to the Plogue guys for the superb and meticulous programming and emulation.

http://www.plogue.com/

Frist, I don't think the mainstream/underground distinction applies to anything any more. The only reason there ever was an underground of any genre was because the mainstream was controlled by a small group of companies. The amount of people who get new music from mainstream sources is dwindling every day. Everything is accessible now. One of the things that made a sub-culture a sub-culture was it's exclusivity and the difficulty in obtaining media from that sub-culture. In the 70s and early 80s, you couldn't just go to a record store and buy a Bad Brains or Minor Threat album. You had to know somebody who would dub it for you onto tape. Now, anyone can just download whatever they want. And before that, in previous decades, the "underground" was only accessible through seeing live performances. ie If you didn't live in Mississippi in the early decades of the past century, you had no idea what Blues was.

Having said all that, there will always be a type of "underground" as a collection of like-minded people who have a genuine love of something vs. posers who are only into something because it's "the cool thing to do." No matter how widely accepted something becomes, there will always be outliers in the fringe experimenting and trying new things. To go back to the Blues analogy. For every mainstream Blues success like B.B. King, there were others like R.L. Burnside and Jessie Mae Hemphill who were simultaneously cranking out raw "underground" work. So, really, "mainstream" success doesn't matter. Even if there is mainstream chip acceptance, there will still be a "hardcore" scene going on simultaneously.

Yeah, mostly atari2600 and nes/GB sounds through distortion. Though some tracks have other synth vsts layered overtop as well.

My full length album will be out next week. Ten new unheard tracks along with a bunch of tracks already uploaded here.

Niiiiiiiice.