1 Reply by marshare

(17 replies, posted in General Discussion)

chunter wrote:

Search for chiptunes = win (a compilation) and press lurk more.

much obliged guv'nor

Boner wrote:

luckily no one is releasing anything in 2013 so you'll have all year to catch up

i support this canny move. a year of consolidation worked wonders with my vegetables

extreme-butt what happened to the old ones? I'm still happy talking aimlessly to your various user accounts mind. pretty adept at getting lost myself

maybe i'll drop by ircs, i do like exploring on my own despite all this, but am competing with laziness

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2 Reply by marshare

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listening to music once is ok if it's good music i suppose

yeah it's a shame, mr beep announced the release of an all-star comp in a week's time then had fatal computer death or something. I was just drifting away when that blog started up, otherwise I would've been more appreciative of the work he was doing. but it ain't all on me, baby

I suppose I'm missing what that old website had... the one with the poker ads. The weekly chart thing was crap but being able to lurk everyone's likes was handy. I suppose Soundcloud has a similar sort of thing going on? Should probably use that more.

I was asking for myself but also wondering for casual fans in general, who IRC might be a bit "involved" for. I've got accounts on dozens of websites and find I've been socialising on practically none of them these days, so tend to stick to wherever's lurker-friendly.

anamangamuni are good! I listened to them and was cool but it's wearing off. i like a bunch of different stuff (vgm to bitgrind, progtronica, chipbreak, chIDM, glitch funk and microrock, and a bit of dunce) and follow the same musicians i used to, it's just getting like I'm not finding much new blood dropping in my lap. I haven't got the energy to blindly explore like i used to you know?

someone should tell all the good musicians to make one big amazing compilation to promote themselves to me

thanks for the knowledge all

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3 Reply by marshare

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i must've missed that launching when i lost internet... sounds ideal
thanks guys, think i have most everything i came for

drat now i wish i didn't buy from bandcamp with different emails

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4 Reply by marshare

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ah thanks. I did plan on checking lists but was wondering what to do regularly over a year, without being 100% involved in the community. Is there a way to stalk the likes of my idols / people with my sort of tastes (kind of thing)

(serious question raised incoherently)

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5 Topic by marshare

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I don't plan on listening to any, I'd just like to know what I should be listening to. ~What the cool kids like~

Bandcamp recommended release pages?
???

btw what happened to Megabeep? (I'm not allowed to bump this http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/5536/ … te/page/2/ but a compilation was imminent a year ago and quietly forgotten).

To sum up the point of this thread, it would be "chiptune stop making it hard to find the things i might like. unless you're not and i'm just not looking in the right places. in which case sorry but tell me where they are. thanks"

thanks

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6 Reply by marshare

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Thankis everyone who bought these and/or spread the word. It's much appreciated and will keep Zan in good spirits and/or fed and/or motivated in writing more awesomeness in ftm format. I finally made a sort of permanent banner for the Bandcamp so that's my justification for belatedly bumping this, go look at it! or something

I still have a few copies left (hohoho) so if anyone else wants to buy they'll be able to, until the internet ends and/or other unforseen circumstances like WWIII and/or IV

I didn't really consider people would be buying individual tracks so the price there is a default... you have to change each track's price individually which I can't be arsed doing so sorry :{ I wouldn't know what to charge anyway. For the price of a few you could get a whole album, and the prices go down the more you get *SPECIAL OFFAZ* and I think I mentioned Drop Outs #1 is FREE but not in ALLCAPS

ARRIBA!

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7 Topic by marshare

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HEY YOU GUYS

I made this account just to post this; don't hate me

Some of you old folks must remember Zanzawmatania from back in the day? Some may even remember how awesome it was and liked it and asked Santa for some but got a ruler/eraser/protractor instead? Well today is your lucky day!

To mark the 4th anniversary of Zan being Zanzanzawaveia there are some ~new~ retrospectives out. Don't know if any of you remember Drop Outs (do noy click offsite links unless you're feeling dangerous) but this is the follow-up; bigger, better and shinier with added bells. It's a secret history of ZZZV from 2010-11, for ravenous completists or curious new fans, gathering together all the rare tracks that never got a proper album release (you might know some already so it's not-so-secret for you). Since Zan is an old-school conceptualist wrt albums, that means a lot of tracks never made the cut, in fact whole releases never got released. So here it is!

As before they're fan-made comps (since they wouldn't get released otherwise) but with Zan getting paid for all this hard work (Drop Outs was free for a year so if you missed it more fool you~), put simply they're made both for your and Zan's benefit. A lot of time and thought has gone into these: track selection (a lot was left out) and research, track sequencing for flow, chronology and narrative, volume levelling yada yada; tracks were fiddled with only where absolutely necessary, the intent being to stay as true to the original Zzzv sound as possible.

Don't think this is inferior material, in fact I personally prefer a large amount of this to the albums, and it's arguably more accessible; think of it as a collection/anthology/box set of "lost" albums (Zan abandons more projects than most people release in their careers), compilation subs, single tracks and b-sides (since that's what it basically would be without the internet making distribution totally different).
Anyway, not gonna overhype – you know what this sounds like, don't you?! If you don't, then luckily you can hear it all now~

**~>** There are some special offers on at the moment, poke around. Drop Outs is also back online, the first volume is still free but the others are just too good to give away sad smile To reiterate, this wasn't made to make a quick buck (took like, a year to compile and release) but out of a love for Zan's amazing music (and businessphobia). **<~**

tl;dr click here and listen to mega-amazing music

PS enjoy!

the end

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