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I saw this one, yeah. Great work! It's surreal to see this, really 
So not all Hubbard's songs can be converted? Is that because your converter doesn't support all his players, or something else?
I'm really looking forward to see more of this. Keep us posted!
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I'm not sure I understand you. You want to have two composite video out signals? And both the outputs work separately?
The RCA-output sends a TV-signal (RF) so you just need a particular cable to plug it into the antenna input on your TV. Afaik, the antenna and composite signal always work together.
USA TRACKER
good music, hot gfx, mad codez. +++
Nice!
As you say, would be great to be able to import songs into this (since there are still irritatingly few options for tracker music & visuals). I'm not only thinking about NES/GB-songs, but perhaps also other tracker formats?
I would encourage you to go beyond the NES/GB sound capabilities. To me it seems like a waste of potential to restrict it like that. Maybe include support for 4 channels of 8-bit samples (to play mod-files, for example), or add some rudimentary synthesizer with more than squarewaves. Maybe add some generative features for composition aswell, just to get even further away boring tracker dogmas... hehe.
Either way -- great project! (PS, collaborate with JSR because he does good stuff )
I saw a performance with the people that launched the term skweee (Flogsta Danshall / Harmönia) last year at a festival, and I was a bit surprised by what they played. While for me skweee was about wonky slow beats and old electronic sounds, it seems to have drifted more towards hiphop and dubstep these days. And like you say, the method of production was involved in skweeezing as much as possible out of old analogue gear. But I guess it's been VSTified since. Or did you mean something else by method of production?
akira, cheers! although "Clark O." is not really dnb, or..?
wub'n'bass (after a while) -> http://www.archive.org/details/mtk069
btw, was recently happy to find some good drum n' bass by Current Value.
but, of course, it's not called dnb but doom-step-anti-wub-bang-schoooo.
skweee? hmm. ok.
C128 is cool. The babes prefer C64 though. It seems like the SID-chips of the C128 often get semi-destroyed and make amazing noises though. So, babes or noise. It's your call.
Great initiative!
I'm also working on a "book", which is based on my master's thesis about the methods and motivations in chipmusic, that I just finished. As Natty suggests, a book needs to be made more interesting than the dry academic discourse allows for. There are many misconceptions that should be cleared out, and there is long history (in Europe) that can/should be properly documented. Especially when the short-styled Internet-memory has become dominant.
That said, the main purpose would be to write an interesting book about particular things, not to give some wannabe-objective view.
There's a pouet-thread about this, where lots of the songs have been identified:
http://pouet.net/topic.php?which=3627&a … 28&y=5
Anyone has any more info?
Ha-ha-ho-ho! He has a point though 
.. If anyone who knows Italian would like to translate the interview, that would be great!
(hehe, when I google for "burzum 8bit" the first result is http://www.myspace.com/superdoner)
I think there are enough published material to write a well-referenced article, if only for the sake of lazy journalists/bloggers. From the earliest use of the term (as far as I've managed to find), chipmusic was a combination of technical restraints (filesize), aesthetics (beeps) and method (trackers) on the Amiga. Fakebit is more a reaction to the newer PSG/FM-centric definition of chipmusic, I guess. I published early ideas about this (and chipmusic as media/form) in Karen Collins' book From Pac Man to Pop Music.
I'm currently finishing my thesis on chipmusic, which partly focuses on the "social construction" of chipmusic rather than the ill-fated dream of one (1) "objective" definition (whatever that would be). It's not as easy to say that it's (almost) a consequence of hardware, for example since the software has standardized so many aesthetical elements. The techno-centric way of thinking also reproduces some rather dusty (humanist/individualist) ideas of man & machine as two completely separate things.
Anyway. If someone wants to get these ideas into Wikipedia, feel free to fight the Wikipedia maffia and I can join in and help. I still think that the media-form distinction works, where media is both production/distribution/consumption, whereas form is more about consumption. After my thesis, I'll try to get some of these things published so there'll be some more weapons in the Wikipedia war
@Mono/RG: Well yes, micromusic excluded people like most groups do. They were honest about it, though. I guess I was referring to DIY and the talk about using old shitty stuff and, perhaps, make pretty shitty music. Rephlex blabla. But I think it combined organic organisation (anyone could join & start an HQ, right?) with a sort of community coherence (who wasn't fucked by qfs?).
For me there is no punk-vibe to 8BC, although I was never really involved (in fact, was never much involved in micromusic either tbh hehe) but I think I understand what you mean. In the 70s it might've been pretty new & provocative to get shit music out, but that was 30 years ago and it's time to move on I guess. Anarchism is now even more about building rather than destroying, imo.
Just in response to Mono -- I think that there was a "punk" attitude in chipmusic. Some kind of non-explicit politics in how micromusic branched out, and the way people made/discussed music. [yes, it was elitist too] Or am I way off? I guess it became embarrasing to talk about this after Malcolm McLaren. Maybe this 'network politics' was something that never really took root in the US?
My point is perhaps, that chipmusic has (had) so many political aspects connected to it (in terms of hacking, distribution/communication, aesthetics) that it is almost funny how harmless and non-political it is often described. Naääaäääeäeä! Chipmusic is the only (political) digital music!
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