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DKSTR wrote:Decktonic wrote:Take out a sheet of paper.
Rank the likelihood that you would download a new EP from an artist you've never heard of, from the following sources:
- A netlabel you know & follow
- A netlabel you know & don't follow
- A netlabel you've never heard of
- A bandcamp page of an artist you've never heard of
I think you'll have your answer.
My personal 1st answer is bandcamp-page, everything else is at same level. Every net label have their own way of distributing mediafire links or god knows what or their players are flawed one way or another. One reason is that I mainly listen new music by streaming and only download music that I really like, Im on 40mb/s for the best part of the day but cant always dl stuff.
Besides, tons of "real" small labels release their digital stuff through bandcamp too. I'm all for standards on these kinds of stuff. If a label wants to have their own site, cool, but in reality everything would be easier through these really good services (Bandcamp, that other one like it, Soundcloud, etc) and info sent straight to our facebook666-pages. Many really nice netlabels exist, but its no way the only way for good exposure.
When I made this list, I meant to assume that the netlabel would be using Bandcamp too. I'll put it this way: there are some labels that I like, and I'll check out the music released on those labels even if the artist in question is completely unknown to me.
Take out a sheet of paper.
Rank the likelihood that you would download a new EP from an artist you've never heard of, from the following sources:
- A netlabel you know & follow
- A netlabel you know & don't follow
- A netlabel you've never heard of
- A bandcamp page of an artist you've never heard of
I think you'll have your answer.
Aw, darn. Quick, someone start a new blog to fill the gap. Hurry.
It's like you guys are inside my iPod right now.
If you like them vocals, check out Drive Me Home - Fast Life feat. Olivier Daysoul.
(only preview I could find on the interwebs)
Cathode Girls was one of my favorite songs of 2011. Cover art of all his stuff is awesome too.
What's even crazier is this guy lives in Princeton. I tried emailing him a while back but I think I just sounded like a creeper. No response.
bryface wrote:i had such an awesome experience that i was determined to repeat it at blip tokyo. the biggest surprise was getting the opportunity to play a full-length set live for the first time, alongside some huge names in the scene.
how did I not even hear about this? that's awesome! mad props!
Blip Festival NYC was pretty cool too you know.
This year I:
- played my first chip live sets
- played my first chip DJ sets
- went to Blip Festival for the first time
- met lots of cool people
- released lots of forgettable music
- did a remix for BRIGHT PRIMATE! that was cool.
also 2011 was the year every single pop artist used chiptune sounds. also dubstep.
snesei wrote:OMG, its been a rough week for me. Girlfriend of four years just broke up with me :\
Well at least now you can spend your money on pixel art instead 
Dauragon wrote:words of wisdom
+1
4mat wrote:don't call it chipmusic for a start.
There were at least 1,000 releases this year on Pxl-Bot 
This will definitely be on my "best of" list:
http://soundcloud.com/noisecuberecords/ … adventure/
Also I think you could count these:
- http://decktonic.bandcamp.com/album/legend-of-zeldub
- http://brightprimate.bandcamp.com/album … ry-remixes
and I did have that one album...
But yeah malobit has it all. If it wasn't on malobit, it didn't happen.
Ro-Bear wrote:Jellica wrote:I hate open mics. They tend to go like this in my experience:
Man with acoustic guitar doing a James Blunt cover. Everyone loves him.
Man with long hair playing metal guitars solos over backing tapes. They are covers. Everyone loves him because he can do a nice guitar solo.
Pretty girl with acoustic guitar singing her own songs. Boring but at least she writes her own songs. Everyone loves her because she is pretty.
Me. With a Game Boy. Drunken idiot comes up and starts hasseling me going on about how I'm just playing Tetris. People look on confused in horror. Someone shouts "play Mario" and gets a round of laughs. Afterwards someone tells me that they stole one of Sabrepulse's LSDJ carts at a gig. He is clearly a prick.
A guy reading bad poetry. He is rhyming sky with high.The crowds reaction is more positive than it was for me.
Another man with an acoustic guitar. This one does an Oasis cover. Everyone loves him. Oh for fucks sake.
Doing them was funny for a bit, it felt like trolling IRL. But that got pretty annoying after a while and I can't be arsed anymore.
People are typically talking about chip specific open nights in this thread like the ones before every 8static. However that's very unfortunate that those are the experiences you've had. I have not played an open mic in a while but I've always had a great response in people asking me what exactly I was doing afterwards. Maybe it is because the open mics I have played have primarily been in a college setting, but people tend to love what I'm doing because it is NOT the same old acoustic stuff that they will hear at your standard open mic.
What Jellica is talking about is true though. Chip open mics are great. Real open mics suck.
That being said, if chip music is going to break out of the "tiny little scene" mentality, we should do more to work with the electronic scene at large (which is doing pretty well, tbh) and stop this mindset of "electronic music / dance music / DJs / etc all suck". At least, that's been my approach.
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