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Absolutely thought this would be a thread about Bit Shifter getting chatted up by Rihanna.
That relationship would never work out. He's not violent enough.
Also for the record, the real beastie boys tribute I've been getting together was pitched a few weeks after he died, but there was a "MCA is dead" thread before then.
Sorry, my mistake.
I also think that it's really silly and straight-up reactionary for people here to be alarmists meanwhile the scene covers plenty of popular artists' music. A Beastie Boys tribute compilation thread surfaced within minutes of the announcement of MCA's death and dozens lined up to be a part of it. That's really cool, but if you guys were really worried about being crushed by the Unquestionably Destructive Power of Pop™, then why is there be such an impetus to reach out to the industry? Truly you don't think that chip music versions of pop music end up any less pop, do you? Have covers of pop tunes by chip musicians become a version of Stockholm syndrome [no pun intended <):'p]? The whole thing is really bugged out and full of holes. I just want to hear cool shit from cool people.
Nadia wrote:Would such dilution ruin the genre? Or would you welcome the influx of new content?
If chiptune were to burst forth onto the mainstream I think it would ruin a lot of things. For one, hardware would become more expensive and harder to find. Then, if everyone and their mom is pulling from the same limited sound palettes, at some point all the songs are going to start sounding the same. Yes, some amazing things would happen, but then there'd also be a lot more crap to sift through to find the good stuff.
That's always the easy answer; the one that throws an impenetrable bunker around the idea of a fringe scene moving closer to popularity and, by proxy, turning to shit. Sure, there are plenty of reasons to worry about an insincere A&R man storming into a scene like a heartless golem to suck the life from its source, but if a scene is strong, it'll never truly die. Besides, it's not like chip music is very new. Producers and musicians have had plenty of time to scour waves of popularity to incorporate and/or outright steal bits for personal gain and chip music has been out in the open for nearly 20 years. We're not the only ones on the internet, you know. I feel like this "OMG! THEY'RE COMING TO GET US" hyperbole is largely borne from green artists looking for solidarity in paranoia. It's only natural; I remember thinking the same way back in the 20th century with the release of Micromusic's first chip music compilation in 2000 featuring plenty of friends and myself.
I always mention jazz when chip musicians feign artistic bullying and pending theft en masse - not as an analogy to genre, but of intent. What if Monk, Alice and John Coltrane, Miles, Jelly Roll Morton and every other master had stayed in their homes, apartments and basements to play music for their friends, family, a limited group of people and no one else? We'd arguably be without electronic music, hip-hop, soul and, most importantly, people like our parents, their parents and colleagues of the musicians themselves who fell in love with jazz because they were given the gift of shared fandom. Without that, Nina Simone might've ended up a seamstress. Mingus might have ended up a butcher. Bill Evans might have taught chemistry to kids with buzz cuts. Sure, all of those professions are respectable and good, but I'm a bit selfish and want to be able to hum Clifford Brown & Max Roach tunes while working.
All I'm saying is that sincerity and genuineness will always outlive any disruption to the essence of any art form; and without a bit of trauma blown to the musicians and the music, it will suffer in spite of a tight adherence to technique. So make noise and use it to keep the Boogeyman away. We'll be alright!
minusbaby wrote:Sylvester, why are you lying about boos and ewws? GOD.
Aren't boo's homophonic to yay's and eww's to wow's?
I dunno; my boos have always left saying, "yaaay." o man 
Sylvester, why are you lying about boos and ewws? GOD.
Covers for the upcoming Falling for a Square release, "Diary".
You can listen to previews at http://soundcloud.com/fallingforasquare … ng-sampler
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fak u geam boy y u do dis
well I don't hardly any of my guitar pedals that I used to anymore but I do have the mini KP and KP3
That'll work <):') Just experiment until you like what you hear. Hybrid set-ups are awesome.
minusbaby wrote:You can plug your DMG into echo and reverb pedals.
If you had a phaser and a breakdown section, that'd turn out good. Just light phaser though. Or flanger. Or chorus pedal. Any would help bring out that type of effect.
Or this:
You can plug your DMG into echo and reverb pedals.
This is too much like a hedgehog thread. Closed.
spacetownsavior wrote:it's really up to how we conduct ourselves as musicians now.
weren't you the guy with multiple accounts on 8bc sockpuppeting your stuff onto the charts?
I'm not even judging or anything, just sayin.
No. He's a bad-ass who posts thoughtfully and who's live sets are fantastic. He joined crashfaster, E.N. Cowell, Zen Albatross, starPause, Trash80 and I at a gig at "Mist Ultra Club" in San Francisco this past March.
Oops, I took too long to click "submit" because Oreo was head-butting me (he's a cat, I don't need stiches), so now I'm late. o man <);')
Not if each off-topic thread is marked with a little peepee icon!
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