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I was having this discussion yesterday with someone. And we both seemed to agree that there is very little high quality material being produced in this scene. There seems to be a general opinion that "meh, it's just chip music, it's okay not to put any effort in what I do" is an accepted fact of life. I've listened to a metric shit ton of releases lately and I'd say around 90% of it is entirely forgettable noise. People don't seem to take much pride in what they do, often using chip music just to put out unmusical pieces because "it's just chipmusic".

Now maybe I'm being extremely picky, I don't know. Maybe I'm not avantgarde enough to appreciate walls of noise and random notes, but I was wondering if anybody else feels this way. Or has it really become acceptable as a general concept that face-rolling the keyboard and making an "album" out of the results is just as good as spending two weeks on a single piece fine tuning every details?

Maybe the problem is indeed, as this thread suggest that there is no limits on the number of songs a user can post directly on this website? The general opinion in the thread seemed to indicate that people would like some kind of quality control in order to not be exposed to the bottom of the barrel. The countless works in progress that are clearly unfinished, and all the music that is definitely not even close chipmusic like bands that record themselves with a potato and think they're making chips because their keyboard player could not afford decent equipment?

Would peer review be acceptable? Or would that create a kind of nazi elite that dictates what's good and what's not? How do we solve the problem of bad crappy music? Do we just ignore it and move on to the next piece? Is it in fact a problem or am I just a grumpy old fuck?

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