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Yes this is happening today.

Yes I'm spinning chipmusic for 3 straight hours.

Yes, if you have some chill melodic chip house I haven't heard yet, send it over and I'll drop it in my set.

I agree with ant1, the music is way better than the description suggests.

I also agree with OP, if something is the "future of chipmusic," this might be it. Sometimes the best way to make waves for a style of music that might seem "weird" to people is to present it in a totally new way. For example:

but what do I know.

this is why I wear my blue glasses whenever I perform. plus, the fact I have trouble seeing through them prevents me from focusing on the crowd, which would probably make me very nervous.

A story: A couple years ago I was fortunate enough to catch a certain very accomplished chip musician playing a live set. This is a guy who almost never plays live shows. The music was insanely good and everyone was very into it, dancing like crazy and cheering a lot. While the whole crowd was going wild, the guy on stage pretty much stayed rigid, shrugging the whole time, and whenever he looked up he had this look on his face like "what are you guys looking at please don't look at me." Some months after the show, a coworker of mine mentioned that he had worked with this musician in the past and that this musician has the worst stage fright you could ever imagine. Apparently this guy abhors being up there. But it honestly didn't matter what he did because like I said, the music was outrageously good and we all got into it.

That being said, this won't work for most people. What I will say is that the advice that's already been presented is very sound: be honest. People can see through this kind of stuff. Case in point, I saw another performance where the musician had a keyboard and a mic and she was playing and singing, and her music was OK, kinda moody lo-fi dancey stuff, but she also had a couple friends in these blue bodysuits with glowing balls standing behind her, and they should probably have been dancing or posing but they didn't seem to know what to do, so they did a kind of half-dancing, half-posing routine that was just too awkward to go along with. It was like, what's the point of having people in costume up there if they aren't really doing anything? And to make things worse, I think they were distracting from the musician's playing and singing, which was actually pretty cool to see at a show where you usually just have some guy leaning over a gameboy the whole time. Furthermore, if you are going to put on some kind of show, you should definitely be prepared. It's gonna be obvious otherwise.

Anyway there is a lot to be said for stage presence, and I think some bands / musicians get a lot of points for putting on a good show live, even when their music is mediocre. Some people prefer to see that sort of thing... after all, some people respond more to visuals than others. Lastly, I would say that if you want people to dance or clap or jump around to your stuff, maybe you should do it too. If the crowd isn't dancing enough, show them what they should be doing. Maybe they just need that first person who is going to "break the ice" so they can feel comfortable dancing too, and maybe that first person should be you.

Okay, enough rambling. Just go with your instincts, put yourself out there and nobody can put you down for trying

so great to hear some new Note! I am excite

This is impressive, probably the best thing I've heard around these parts in a while. You definitely managed to capture a certain high-energy, raw atmosphere out of the gameboy that I think screams "this is why we rip the chip" and it all sounds extremely well produced too. Nice work.

awesome!

wow