rabble rabble rabble grump grump grump I post what I want butts And I was referencing fakebit because many of the unspoken artists seeming to be mentioned here seem to be using a fakebit hybrid style and the poser was in reference to everyone saying "they use the chiptune name for their shows when it's not chiptune" and I would say that can be summed up as poser. And isn't that what the original discussion is all about, people holding 'chiptune' shows while not using hardware or using sounds that seem chippy (fakebit) which makes them seem like they're using it as a gimmik (poser).
You see what I'm saying here or is what I'm saying just completely lost in translation?
Eh I quit, I don't know why I post in the forums anymore. I'll just stick to listening/posting music and stuff.
I swear I see the "What defines real chip/posers suck" thread every single week. Does it really matter how they made it as long as it's good? Who cares if they're using the "chipmusic name" the way I see it it opens up chipmusic to a lot more people which despite grumpy hipsters is a good thing. I don't see why just because they do hybrid stuff that they have to be labeled as "posers" when they were once a lot of people's here jam. They don't stop being good, they just change. Change is healthy and natural in a music community don't be so close minded I've heard a lot of "fakebit" that trumps true blue chip.
So I had an idea I thought might be kinda cool, just thought I'd throw it out there. I thought it would be really cool if there was a way to organize the music section by the medium it was created in: a.e. a section for gameboy, nes, atari ST and tracker stuff, ect. I'm not expecting anything to happen but I just thought it would be pretty neat.
it looks like a greyboy that was painted light pink. 2 big giveaways are the Nintendo Gameboy text not being visible, and also the classic purple/pink greyboy A + B buttons.
One of my biggest peeves is when people lump together entirely different genres just because they used the same medium and assume that it all sounds the same. I've gotten a few more friends into chip recently by starting them off with The J. Arthur Keenes Band, Anamanaguchi, and the like, and working from that towards other stuff, but if I just started them right out with Part II of Moe Moe Kyunstep, Bud Melvin, or Supercommuter, they probably wouldn't have taken to it as well as they have and moved on by now.
This is true and all, but I don't think the "issue" is whether they're in the same genre or not, it's more along the lines of "when does 'chiptune EDM' (or whatever genre you want) become 'EDM with chiptune elements'" or just straight EDM . A lot of pop songs these days have the occasional square wave or arpeggio here and there, but they aren't considered chiptune by most people.
I feel like chiptune is a very relative catch all term for this style of music. The definition varies from person to person but in the end only one question remains..
Kind of like how Unicorn Kid, and Sabrepulse both slowly transitioned into EDM. Anamanaguchi hit on it a lot in their new album as well, I see no harm in it. I guess it could be necessary to make a new genre to establish the difference between the two? Chiptune and nu-chip. I say this because even the newer stuff contains a lot of chiptune, just not necessarily pure chiptune. It is sort of an EDM chip blend, which in my book is just fine. I think genre doesn't really matter as long as the music is good.
Usually how it goes for me is I'll be inspired to make something and I'll be like "yeah that riff is tasty awesome holy shit this is gonna rock" then I throw it together and it sounds like shit so I delete it and cry for 3 hours then write music about being sad which eventually turns happy then into a song. I like it for a week then grow to hate it, rinse and repeat.
Life can be hard, but it always has a way of getting better when it seems at it's worse. Stay positive and keep moving forward, never been much of a religious man but I'll send my prayers your way. Best of luck
