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Great demos! I'm having a small demoparty for my upcoming 21st birthday (I know, I'm so cool) so I'll post anything that gets made (most of the attendees are programmers but have no experience with demos, so we'll see what happens).
We'll be using an Atari ST, a Hydra platform, and an NES. Among other things.
I tried out a U-force controller at my local vintage gaming shop today. Super cool, I'd love to try working it into my live show, perhaps use it to control Ikaniri Musician or NTRQ's live mode.
Pretty much everything I write is "mellow." :3
Are you looking for stuff as energetic as Walrus Report or do you want even MORE mellow?
How did I forget you?
EmThree, go download Mobius Strip! It's absolutely great!
Twilight Electric has some good mellow stuff. "Self Portrait", for example. MC Firedrill has a nice mellow song called "superkeyz". There's also "Cyboshellfish", by Animal Style. Really I'm just picking some random songs in my library via shuffle, so it's not exactly a complete list or anything, but lemme give you some more:
Big Ideas - James Houston
rockrocs - MC Firedrill
Sea of Memories - Rushjet1
day 7 - She
Sjutton - Coova and Bud Melvin
Ruby Cactus - I, cactus
Ter4 - Goto80
1997 - She
Sweetly - Sulumi
Troubled Dreams - Rushjet1
Ichi Ni San Cuatro - Mr. Spastic
That's a pretty widely varied group of songs, but they are all pretty mellow. A low of great songs in there, too. From ambient chill to funk, and some dreamy melodic stuff.
I've found XLR8 to be quite nice, too. However, MaxYMiser is still the clear winner. I might try to write at least one song on XLR8 to understand it's idiosyncracies - both pros and cons - just to be fair to it. Really though, I don't feel like MaxYMiser is really lacking anything that I'm looking for. I'm especially fond of the CPU usage tester that it comes with and the z function, as I plan on using at least some of the music I write with it in demos.
Certainly gwEm is god.
Hoorah!
Both the leach and envelope mods are awesome. Great noise coming from the leach, especially. I'd love to do this mod using a second Game Boy (something I can spare, like a pocket) acting as the "control" unit and plugging into a second Game Boy which would act as the main synth.
The bot mod could certainly also have some great uses! If you wired it to larger stepper motors or servos - and mounted it correctly - you could have it play large drums, tambourines, shakers, guitars, pianos, etc. All controlled via LSDJ and easily synced to MIDI or to another Game Boy!
Ok so I just watched it.... it was pretty good.
But for the sake of argument I don't know of any well known artist in Seattle that is any more well known then any other artist in any major city in USA. (Except NYC)
Also you forgot to mention my name which totally ruins this interview. Next time please mention my name at least 6 times or the interview will be deemed noneffective by the international internet chip music committee panel for accuracy. (IICMCPA)
I actually did mention your name! I also mentioned way more cities with active musicians.
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jefftheworld wrote:I didn't even find it to be unreasonable. Some people seem to want chipmusic.org to become the new 8bc. Can't we stop fighting stupid things?
That wasn't directed at you dude
I know, the "I" was supposed to be italicized. Fixed now.
FantomenK wrote:oh come on..
Jesus Christ. Everyone is so fucking precious! What about the above was unreasonable?
I didn't even find it to be unreasonable. Some people seem to want chipmusic.org to become the new 8bc. Can't we stop fighting about stupid things?
jefftheworld wrote:The genre I was mentioning was demoscene.
The demoscene is not a genre.
My point, more than sadly over-proved now
There is a very distinct sound to demoscene music. Again I consider the word to apply to both a genre of music, a community and a culture.
My point is that I am not stating something that is proven to be false, it's an opinion. You don't agree, clearly, but there is validity to what I think as there is validity to what you think.
Both the demoscene and chip scene have their own distinct "sound" that goes deeper than just the tools they use. For this reason I, and many others, consider them to be distinct entities in terms of musical genre. At least in some cases.
"I'm Jeff and I make a kind of music called chiptunes..." CUT "...it's a really old genre."
The genre I was mentioning was demoscene. Regardless, I consider chiptunes to be both a genre and a medium. It really is a confusing term and certainly hotly contested. Personally I agree with a lot of the points on either side but my real opinion is this:
Who really cares? I like making music, I don't care too much about what it's called. Call it crapfucktunes if you want. I still like making it, I still like listening to it. Oldschool chip, newschool chip, demoscene, micromusic of all types. We need to stop dividing this stuff up with stupid semantics.
UNITE OR PERISH!
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Hi-fi means high fidelity. There's slightly less noise on the modded sound output so it's technically higher fi than standard. I just wanted to use a term other than "pro sound mod". I don't know, I've always just called it that. The main reason I use them as an output is that the cables are less likely to come out while performing.
This just swung between vague and inaccurate. Not my cup of tea.
People : If you are going to be interviewed for the love of God, do your homework!
It's the fact that they cut down and edit it to spin it how they want to. I don't believe I said anything inaccurate and everything I said about the origins of chip music was cut down. The one thing I noticed is that they removed the part where I explained that the "pro sound mod" was not all that important, because they wanted it to seem more extreme.
For future reference, what was it in particular that you took offense to?
As much as I hate bad twitter usage, it can be useful when used creatively.
Available to download here. Still getting the streaming version online, but it'll be up on the music page at jefftheworld.com as soon as I have a spare minute.
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