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I've been playing with this again lately and desperately wishing a "hold" feature were implemented.

~Got hit by a car on the first day of high school (2007) and got wicked jacked up.

~Couldn't play guitar for almost a year; learned about Famitracker and GoatTracker instead of going to gym class.

~Acquired lsdj eventually; busked a lot. Got some house shows after busking hard. Came up with a lot of ways of making it functional as a live instrument.

~Got more shows. Went to college for American modernist lit theory; focused too much on lsdj. Played more shows. Started an indie/new wave band that used lsdj. Played shows with them.

~Dropped out; started playing even more shows. Went on tour for a month, honing the craft and thinking a lot about the use of space and the weird "social dynamics" operating during performance.

~Started reading/re-reading a lot of stuff from college on theories of occidental culture, technology and industry, post-futurism, and neo-modernism. Wrote out and revised a lot of ideas that I wanted to explore in my act. Totally lost interest in any chip stuff that didn't make the gameboy sound ugly and gross. Developed a caffeine habit and got really pessimistic about stuff. Became determined to make absurd/bleak work. Started listening to a lot of breakcore and harsh noise/power electronics (Hanatarash, Datach'i, Whitehouse, etc.), went to a lot of performance art and noise shows. Pretty much left the chip "scene" (?) like 99.98% by this point (I'm still on here hehe). I don't bill myself as "chipmusic" and am careful to avoid advertising/pimping out the gameboy as this big 'part of' the project or anything like that, and I kind of don't even play with other chip acts anymore. Generally get booked for shows with noise/performance acts and hardcore/grindcore bands.

~Applied for a room in an artists' studio in the city; got accepted. Started a new band (not chip) with friends and a side project (slow, wacked out lsdj + no-input noise module) with a different friend. Still find time to do IRH shows sometimes, but I make it a point to never have my sets repeat themselves at all, which means it takes like a month to prepare a show.

I've been making "pure" vaporwave with custom-made modular vsts, some sneaky '80s mixing techniques, minimal sampling, and a tape deck (as opposed to any chip gear), which isn't really what this thread was about.

But yeah, here's a taste from a while back:
http://invisiblerobothands.bandcamp.com … 420fuckyou

I did also do this once:

but i guess that's not really what this thread is about, either.

Vaervaf, Orangy, Viking Girlfriends; internet-only samples-only weird dudes.

Dirty-ass crusty wav sample breaks at high speed (BRKCORE)

Generally people are slightly put off during my sets because I make the gameboy do dissonant abrasive stuff, write undanceably fast shit, break stuff, scream pessimistic things about the future, and mosh into the crowd a lot. Not "metal" really; usually hardcore/harsh noise/breakcore/shitdicks

https://invisiblerobothands.bandcamp.co … e-emulator

https://invisiblerobothands.bandcamp.co … reattthhss

https://invisiblerobothands.bandcamp.co … ked-brunch

https://invisiblerobothands.bandcamp.co … /lightning

also check out dudes like overthruster, shitbird, b4byf4c3, nnnnnnnnnn, kool skull, desumate, comptroller, 10thousandfreemenandtheirfamilies, timeheater, ccdm, narwhalz of sound, ralp, abortifacient, hexadeci, and meneo

maybe Nasenbluten's "We've Got the Balls"