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The song itself is cool. Nice harmonies and good employment of some chiptune techniques like what sounds like single-channel echo. Also, the steel pan arps are a nice touch. Overall, it's way more authentically reggae sounding than I could do.

But it seems like the mix is lacking in the high frequencies. It's kind of muddy, especially the noise percussion. Also, the bass is kind of weak. It's really low and bassy, which is good, but it doesn't have enough higher frequencies, and that's a shame, because the bass is pretty sweet in this tune. It just doesn't stand out enough. I'd start with a typical NES style triangle or sine or something similar, and go from there.

I don't know, though... I don't mind the repetition, but it just seems a bit too long for being so repetitive. It doesn't have that elusive quality that drags you into a repetitive piece and keeps you coming back even though it never changes.
I know how hard it is to delete things to change the length of a piece, so I'd suggest having something unique about each section. Maybe add an extra instrument to act as the "narrator"/vocalist, who will make exclamations and "adlibs" over the track as it goes along.

Sometimes we say things to individuals, but we're really saying it to the world at large.

It sounds to me that Saskrotch is just giving a bit of warning, "be careful because these are the trends and this is what usually happens," and just generally making interesting observations on modern society and internet sub-culture. I

Haha. When I first heard "8Bit Christmas" I told my brother it probably wasn't real chiptune/8bit/80's-game-console-music because it had too many sounds at once. ::) *smh*

This is a good read right here - http://journal.transformativeworks.org/ … view/96/94
It's amazing what you find when browsing the reference material for an article.

You got your description from the first paragraph of woolyss' definition of chiptune, right? Read a bit deeper.

For many people "chiptune" and "chipmusic", as woolyss defines them, are interchangeable. You may want to use the definition under "chipmusic" as your description.

It's confusing and contradictory, I know.

I'm really confused by the reception here. I know that dubstep is oft looked down upon here, and so is the description of "chiptune is remixed video game music". So are you guys defending chipstep as being more legitimate and original than simply  remixed vgmstep? Are you saying Super Mario is too good for dubstep? The definition posted is clearly a description of chipstep, not chiptune, as evidenced by the last sentence, just in case that wasn't clear. At least, I'm pretty sure that's what it is...

In any case, OP, what everybody is trying to tell you is that Chip* music has transcended it's video game roots, and mentioning "video game" and "remix" in the same paragraph as "chiptune" is not smiled upon. Chiptune has a very rich, original, and creative history, and I encourage you to visit the stickied "chipmusic faq" thread to see what it's really all about.

edited for missing words. ugh, I need to pay more attention

One thing that sets this apart, I think, is that the mix is really open and clear, rather than being dark and condensed. I don't know if the method of choice (*cough*?renoise?*cough*?) has anything to do with it, but I've noticed that often times when people mix chip with guitar, either everything is all mushed up together so you can barely distinguish what is what, or the chip is really muddy and dark and unprocessed, while the guitar stands out way too much, what with the reverb and the bright-boost, etc, to where the "bit" and the "git" don't even seem to be "listening" to each other, so to speak.

With the chip/electronic elements being mixed so light and bright in this, the guitar sits nicely in the mix, and with more tonal options, and the two just blend perfectly, along with the drums and whatnot.

Thumbs-up to your mix-master-man.

Hot beans that's cool! Thanks for sharing.

I just wish there was more of this. The last track doesn't really feel like "the end". It starts off like an ending, but then at the end it feels like the middle. >_> I dunno what it is... maybe because it doesn't end on the tonic...?

Subliminal programming...