161 Reply by BeatScribe

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I can't guarantee you won't regret checking out Jandek lol! Jandek remained an elusive strange character for years too until he finally came out and played some shows. He has more albums than most legacy bands, of course, how hard is it to make an album when you just bang an out of tune guitar and yell over it.

The mystery about this guy has always been interesting to me. A while back the outsider music forum had people like camping outside his house in Hyde Park (the address on the public copyright records) trying to find him. I wonder why this guy will think when he finds out all these random folks in another country love his obscure album. He must be pretty old (he sound old in the 1994 recordings already), we can only hope it'd make him happy. This is the kind of thing that needs a kickstarted documentary. I'd love to find out what happens with the letter they sent to him in Peru.

I am also curious if that's supposed to be a Meatloaf cover on the album....

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162 Reply by BeatScribe

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DeerPresident wrote:

Dude! Wow! This shit is so awesomely twisted. I love it. Thanks for exposing me to this album! I cant promise a cover, but it will surely inspire everything I write forever.

Funny thing is, YB is not actually that hard on the ears...it's strange, but he has an interesting voice and the sound quality is surprisingly good.

It's just so confusing. Apparently sometime in the 80s/90s he would walk into record stores, hand the owner this record and walk out. If you (seriously) liked this, Jandek might interest you, he's even more hard to listen to, downright painful. It makes you cringe..

Crazy thing is that just like a month ago, someone figured out where he is after 20 some years!! I hadn't looked at voxish.org in a while, but yup, seems like someone tracked him down.

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163 Topic by BeatScribe

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Jesus OS got me thinking of this guy. People have spent years trying to contact this guy and find his other copyrighted releases that have never surfaced. Really interesting story.

http://voxish.org/yb.htm

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164 Reply by BeatScribe

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Dire Hit wrote:

That was actually really moving in a strange way.

It kind of was...Its probably just the kind of outlet someone like him needs. I had a freind who went through the same thing, was like building Robots when he was 17, super smart, promising future, few years later, he starts to think people are following him, and now he's on meds that leave him in a stupor most of the time. It's really sad. At least the writer didn't poke fun at him, I respect that. I see it as an outsider art kind of thing.

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165 Reply by BeatScribe

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Pm'd!

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166 Reply by BeatScribe

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Interesting stuff, thanks for sharing.

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167 Reply by BeatScribe

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Jansaw wrote:

My brain just goes right to the feel of rhythm over longer periods of time.

Cool discussion:)

Same here. I mostly played in punk-ska bands as a kid, and I didn't even know there was a way to count. Those little metal chug-chug-chug off beat moments in songs were just something I learned to play by feel. I didn't realize a "swing beat" was different until I tried to program a MIDI with a swing beat and couldn't understand why it sounded too rigid. It wasn't until I jammed with some old guys from my area and was playing Money by Pink Floyd and some other prog-ish stuff that I realized how that works. I think it's still best by feel. But somehow Castor and C-Clamp completely get in my head with their changes, I feel compelled to understand them...

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168 Reply by BeatScribe

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collurio229 wrote:

Hello there!

I'm a programmer (actually I'm still studying) and digital artist who just discovered Chiptunes recently, but since then I rarely listened to anything else big_smile.
I'm from Germany and I plan to make some videos about Chiptune music on Youtube. Maybe I'll even make some tracks myself, but since I'm not really a musician, don't expect too much wink.
If you're interested you can checkout my Youtube channel or my soundcloud.

Greetings,
collurio229

I have yet to meet a good programmer who DOESN'T like chiptune. Some random guy at my old job noticed me humming megaman one day..turns out he was like a senior dev for the company.

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169 Reply by BeatScribe

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I realized I never did an intro thing. I'm a indie game composer and developer who left his normal day job about two years ago to do music full time. Although in the last year I've gotten back into freelance programming for some more stability. I'm sort of obsessed with retro stuff, I run a blog about old video games, emulation, chiptune bands and any other thing that appeals to children of the 80s. I don't really perform live anymore but I do play guitar and drums on many of my professional commissions.

I'm not super well known as a composer but I have enough loyal clients to pay the bills. I'm best known for the Cognitile and Rubicon soundtracks. I'm not gonna use this post to get hits so if you care, you can google to find my blog, business and games I've worked on. I work with DJ Cutman sometimes and write for his blog video game dj. I like all kinds of chiptune, most of the time BoTB radio is playing in my house when I'm programming and I love any shoegaze/post rock styled fusion. I do some stuff with LsDJ but mostly I use Plogue Chipsounds just for expediency (heresay!).

I also enjoy fitness and have two insane cats and a cool wife as coworkers.

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170 Reply by BeatScribe

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ForaBrokenEarth wrote:

Might be "Kyubey" that I wrote for Toriningen
https://soundcloud.com/forabrokenearth/ … -album-out

Or maybe "Toriningen"  the title track
https://soundcloud.com/forabrokenearth/toriningen

Though If I did them today the production would be way better.

Toriningen is one of my favorites. You need to make a whole album like that.

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171 Reply by BeatScribe

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an0va wrote:

Sorry for the double post but this is kinda referring to my Tera Melos post before:

I actually count things kinda weird. I don't count by the measure, I count by the beat. So everything to me is 1/4 I guess, and then when a smaller/larger subdivision occurs I then use that to count upwards.

So a pattern of 3/4, 5/8, and then 4/4 to me would just be:

one, one, one, 1-2-3-4-5, one, one, one, one

I do the same thing. It's easy to keep the steady beat, it's the extra beats that can throw you, but I admit I've never played anything more complex than black dog by led zeppelin.

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172 Reply by BeatScribe

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The Phoenix Syndicate main theme, is probably my all time favorite. I put the most work into it.

https://soundcloud.com/beatscribe/asmad … -syndicate

However, Rubicon Level 1 seems to be chiptune fan choice:

https://soundcloud.com/beatscribe/epic- … ubicon-ost

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173 Reply by BeatScribe

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zerolanding wrote:

good lord, I know people who work their, said they sold out multiple times, and people by it four twelve packs at a time! I missed that soda, but not the intense stomach aches it gave me. When asked the only way I can describe it is like some weird butt baby of 7-up/squirt and dew. Complex soda

Yeah, I remember I put on some serious weight when I was like 17, learning to program drinking loads of surge to stay awake. I had to order one can for old time's sake (although the 16oz is a ripoff).

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174 Reply by BeatScribe

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danimal cannon wrote:

They're off time triplets. Meaning they're in regular triplet time, but odd accents.

Now if you want to get really fucked, have fun with these quintuplets

That was enjoyable. Weirdly, that makes more sense to me than Castor. It has some twists (3:40-4:10 especially) but I can see where it's going. Castor just seems to drop totally out of synch and then wind back up again. I guess thinking as a drummer, I can follow what she's doing, Castor, to me is a mystery.

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175 Reply by BeatScribe

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That's what I observed too, it's like it goes all shifty and weird but if you keep tapping the snare at some point it comes back together. I can't decide if they're geniuses or just really good at following a crazy drummer. Similar band that does this is C-Clamp. Yet they somehow manage to be relaxing mixing up tempos and time sigs...i am considering making some chip tunes inspired by this stuff..

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176 Topic by BeatScribe

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Forgive me for 2 off-topic posts in two days (it's music related, if not chip)

As a musician my mind is boggled by this..how the heck do they keep track of these changes? Is there some weird tempo/time signature thing going on here that's beyond my understanding?

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