545

(97 replies, posted in General Discussion)

There's some great electronic music coming out recently. One of the nice silver linings of electronic music entering the mainstream is that people are more open to the idea of hearing it outside of the club, and so there are some artists that are using electronic music  to make stuff that you can both listen to laid back as well as dance to. Obviously these artists are few and far between, but isn't that the case with all great music?

Anyway some recent stuff to check out is "Trouble" by Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs and "Juicy Lucy" by Jupiter. Both albums that I loved from start to finish. Going a little further back, "In Ghost Colours" by Cut Copy and "Idiosyncracies" by Kris Menace (2 CDs!) were also great. You just have to know where to look!

546

(206 replies, posted in Motion Graphics)

SubWooferSpecial wrote:

at 9:50 you can clearly see me dancing like an idiot.

good times.

Shiru wrote:

So if you mention any of these details, this would only create new questions

Inspiring questions can be good, if you want to peak peoples' interest. I'm advocating going for the "here's something mysterious and surprising you have not seen before" approach. I'm also advocating the nostalgia element here. Marketing is easy if you go for the lowest common denominator.

You could also tailor it to your genre of music.

It's up to you.

man, you guys suck at marketing. all these descriptions are so damn boring.

"chipmusic is raw, no-frills electronic music made by pushing old game consoles and computers to their absolute limits with expert programming"

549

(97 replies, posted in General Discussion)

geckoyamori wrote:

When it comes to pure rhythm and sound design I love Techno. I stopped keeping up with it though after the minimalist trend gobbled up everything. Pretty much every big act I cared about jumped on the bandwagon.

what do you think of new artists like Gesaffelstein?

pixls wrote:

nope that one is this one http://chipmusic.org/pixls/music/mister … o-meet-you

oh ok. i like them both. heart

551

(1,620 replies, posted in General Discussion)

thebitman wrote:

DAT BRASS. sorry, had to.

this is the track you played at blip open mic right?

553

(97 replies, posted in General Discussion)

SketchMan3 wrote:

Has anybody here ever played an old Win95/98 game called "Scorcher"? I'm not a huge fan of repetitive four-beats-strong music that starts off with a cool syncopated beat in the intro then just falls back into the four-the-floor-for-the-most-part beat, but I love me that Scorcher soundtrack. The game was okay, too, but the OST has definitely out-lived it in terms of play-time.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFA85898EC777F0C4

man, that's from the golden years when trance was in all the game soundtracks. I wish those years never ended.

554

(86 replies, posted in Releases)

Heosphoros wrote:

Telefuture's new upcoming release by Garth Knight!

OuO

i'm so excited

heart

555

(26 replies, posted in Releases)

thanks so much!

I should take this moment to point out some other expert work done on DS10, that you should listen to if you haven't heard much DS10 music (these are all Bandcamp links):

Anthony Seeha - Transcend
(progressive house, electro, dubstep, chiptunes, japanese techno)
this guy is the absolute king of DS10, and he's like 15 years old. make sure to check out his youtube vids.

HarleyLikesMusic - Thunder Shock EP
(electro house)
whatever I've managed to do with DS10, this guy takes it 10 levels higher. I still can't explain how he does it. also check out his earlier EP "The Adventure".

bryface - how to dodge lasers
(soundtrack style, chiptunes, house, dnb)
an oldie but a must-listen, probably the first to really capture just how perfect the DS10 is for a space-themed shmup. I don't know if bryface is making DS10 music anymore but I hope he is.

also DS10 is big in Japan and there are some awesome musicians over there doing all kinds of stuff with it, I wish I had links to share but whatever, if you can find it it's all gold

556

(97 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Maybe this is an age thing, but if you study the history of electronic music, it's not hard to understand why the term "EDM" exists. "Dance" music has always existed, used to describe a style of music that had some kind of formal dance to go along with it (look at Sketchman3's list, almost all of those are also the names of a style of dance), while early electronic music started out as reinterpretations of classical music (see: Hooked on Bach), therefore, it was not dance music, just like most video game soundtracks are not dance music either.

digging deeper into actual genres, house and techno started out simultaneously with 2 very different directions, house being heavily influenced by disco and motown via samples, and techno being heavily influenced by early computer synthesis... but to be honest, early techno and house still had a lot in common, and it wasn't long before the two influenced each other.

more recently, even dubstep and its predecessors dub / garage were based on dance music that predated electronics. the history of jamaican dub is really interesting to study, as something that was originally entirely acoustic, producers started bringing synthesizers and drum machines into the studio for the purpose of recreating what was originally done acoustically, but also to unlock the almost limitless potential for sound design that these new devices offered.

most recently it's interesting seeing the evolution of brostep as a form of EDM, being that headbanging and skanking originated from rock music, and a lot of brostep producers have their roots in various styles of rock.

tl;dr yes, acoustic dance music has always been a thing

557

(97 replies, posted in General Discussion)

EDM as a term was around long before Skrillex. I can't pinpoint when it was invented but I can promise that much.

I'll be honest, I'm a dance music fanatic and when I picked up the DS10, it was with the intention of making dance music, not chiptunes. Daft Punk got me into it back when those clips from Interstella 5555 were on Cartoon Network. I like listening to chiptunes and like SKGB said on another thread a while back, I can get down to just about anything, but in my own work I'm solely interested in exploring dance genres and I don't apologize for that.

(trance) seems like it can get the most complex melodically (which I like), whereas other genres are more focused on the uniqueness of the sound design

it's funny that you say this, because I've always been obsessed with sound design. when I started making music it was all I cared about, and I didn't put too much effort into actual composition. I have to admit that listening to lots of complex chiptunes from many of the people that grace this forum inspired me to explore composition and learn as much as I can about music theory. and I definitely see what you mean regarding what is mainstream right now... a song like "Levels" is really just a single melody, a few buildups and breakdowns, a drum loop... and that's it. not that I won't try to make songs like that... just that I can appreciate songs that are more complex.

558

(141 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Zan-zan-zawa-butt wrote:

chiptune can sell out without you selling out. if the standard perception of low-bit music is dance music and covers then if your tunes sound like Art Bears kicking an atari ST to death you are still an underground lich king

559

(26 replies, posted in Releases)

Downstate wrote:

act IV is very rad

almost forgot to say, it's criminal how bad Bandcamp's MP3 encoder messed up the opening of this song. I can't even explain what is going on there. It sounds nice and clean when you download it. Oh well, complaining about audio quality on a chipmusic forum, lulz.

560

(26 replies, posted in Releases)

Thanks everyone!

Jake Allison wrote:

Best album of the year, and I'm not just saying that because I have a feature on it

It's only june, I'm sure something better will come along soon.