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For real; they were composing, recording, and performing with the most powerful, novel, and expensive electronic instruments available at the time. Their instrumentation really isn't comparable to anything home computers or toy platforms could do until the late 90s.

This doesn't seem very well-researched…

This is a weird segue, and a link that is tenuous at best. Ryuichi Sakamoto and the rest of YMO were instrumental in their early adoption of powerful and complex synthesizers (they were the first band to tour with a full studio-size polymoog), exposing audiences to the instruments and modeling synthesizer use for adoption by later musicians. They also wrote a song called "Computer Games," which overtly references and acknowledges the influence of video game music on popular culture. But none of that is chiptune, and it really has nothing to do with anything else in the article.

lol.

EDIT:

There is so much wrong here.

Here's the author's twitter, @nescience. It's going to take a lot of restraint for me to not directly tell him how bad this article is.

Hire an attractive female singer and lyricist just to write lyrics for your more melodic songs and to be your surrogate stage presence.

Foolproof plan!

Absolutely. Your music project or stage name is a brand, and you are making an investment in it every time you represent it in an official capacity, every time you perform. Regardless of your level of talent, being unprofessional isn't acceptable and will close doors, lose you fans, and alienate your audience. No matter how small time your act, or even how unremarkable your music itself might be, a show where everyone leaves the venue with a smile on their face having had a good time will get you booked again and again.

Conversely, I've seen famous and established musicians really fuck up by being rude to bandmates, other musicians, technicians, staff, and audience members. The best example I have is seeing Al Di Meola when I was like 19. He played at the Cactus Café, an established and renowned smaller venue on the University of Texas campus. He had mild and avoidable technical difficulties that he made big issues of, thereby upstaging himself. He brought a dual rectifier half-stack as his main amplifier, way too much amp for the venue, which his sound techs walled off with Lexan acoustic paneling  and dropped a mic in front of. He had a dedicated guitar tech literally adjusting his amp in real time as he played. Whenever he would get the slightest hint of feedback, he would roll his eyes and stare daggers into the guitar tech from center stage. At one point, a song ended after he had used the distortion channel, and he sat there staring at the tech instead of, you know, turning off the distortion to kill the feedback. At one point he dropped out of a song just to yell at the guitar tech about the minutiae of the amp, and he let the rhythm section maintain a pattern around him for the minute and a half he was offstage. After all of this, he commented into the microphone on stage that the venue was "smaller than his bathroom." Seriously unprofessional.

After the show, I ran into the guitar tech and shook his hand. I told him he'd done an amazing job working with the unfavorable circumstances, and that I was sorry that the musician had been rude to him during the performance. He said, totally unphased, "Ah, that's just Al."

The lessons here are simple, but very important ones:

• Plan Ahead

• Know Before You Go

• Work With What You Have

• No One Likes a Primadonna

• Don't Rely on Others to Solve Your Problems

• Blaming Others for Your Problems Doesn't Garner Respect

• Being an Artist is not a Free Pass to Disrespect Others

Seriously, though, I don't know why I was surprised that this guy's a tool:

EDIT: A much more recent example of an unprofessional professional musician losing a lot of respect is the Danzig Fiasco at Fun Fun Fun Fest 2011. Virtually all of Austin now permanently knows Danzig as the guy who wouldn't play over French Onion Soup.

Does that back up the media too? Last I checked, archive.org didn't mirror resource demanding content like MP3s within pages.

It'll be good to have some of the articles, though.

…Had? Hopefully it all didn't just disappear into the void, and Jose has it backed up somewhere.

Oh, let me play!

History . . . . . . . . . (6000BC)
Repeats as Tragedy  . . . (27BC-476AD)
Then as Farce . . . . . . (1776AD-????)

Edgy.