naxat wrote:
HEY GUYS SOMEONE FAMOUS USES CHIPTUNE. ITS NOT COOL ANYMORE! CHIPTUNE IS OVER WAAAAAAAAAAAH
We've been saying this for months, not news.
1,537 Oct 2, 2010 12:40 am
Re: Trent Reznor puts some chip in his new OST (31 replies, posted in General Discussion)
1,538 Oct 2, 2010 12:37 am
Re: my new synth hero's... (6 replies, posted in Other Hardware)
Freaks, weirdos.
1,539 Oct 1, 2010 9:37 pm
Re: Chiptune Dubstep (129 replies, posted in General Discussion)
SKGB wrote:
btw, isn't chipmusic inherently not cool and not trendy, simply cause it's nerdy? or is it ironically cool now?
ironically cool. shocking, actually.
1,540 Oct 1, 2010 9:19 pm
Re: Self marketing on chipmusic (70 replies, posted in Tutorials, Mods & How-To's)
Saskrotch wrote:
ant1 wrote:]
tony thai who doesn't start threads here or 8bc and doesn't release EPs at 8bitpeoples, but still everyone knows who he iswho the fuck is tony thai?
Yeah FFS, I don't know who tony thai or peeR are. This isn't the first time I've seen a post like this... a while back someone said something similar about "hanny" and I was like who the hell is hanny? Marketing is better than not marketing, IMO.
1,541 Oct 1, 2010 4:58 am
Re: Self marketing on chipmusic (70 replies, posted in Tutorials, Mods & How-To's)
Piksel Blue wrote:
"Is that really your question?"
uhh...hold on let me think......uhh...im going to say.......yes ...yes final answer!
FFS... I'm going to say two things.
1. Soundcloud.
2. Every record label's "contact" page.
I have a folder with about 50 different record labels' contact forms / email addresses / Soundcloud dropboxes which I have gathered, over the course of a few months, with just some Google searching and Myspace / Soundcloud hopping. It's not hard. From the sounds of it, however, you shouldn't be thinking about record labels for another 6 months or so.
1,542 Oct 1, 2010 3:32 am
Re: Self marketing on chipmusic (70 replies, posted in Tutorials, Mods & How-To's)
Piksel Blue wrote:
"you should send this to a record label"
How?
How do you send something to a record label? Is that really your question?
1,543 Oct 1, 2010 12:32 am
Re: Self marketing on chipmusic (70 replies, posted in Tutorials, Mods & How-To's)
Piksel Blue wrote:
I'm new to this place.
Are there any tips you guys can give me as to how i can better market myself and get my music heard?
Once you have something that is actually good, and I mean, not like, YOU think it's good, but more like, you show it to other people and they are all really impressed by it, and they tell you, "this is really good, you should send this to a record label or something," then do that, but also, send it to a bunch of relevant music blogs and try to get them to write something about you.
1,544 Sep 30, 2010 7:43 pm
Re: Chiptune Dubstep (129 replies, posted in General Discussion)
µB wrote:
I think the problem is that people tend to confuse genres and templates. I blame the house/techno scene and their genre micro-management; just because your synth stabs are in a slightly different position doesn't make it a new fucking genre.
Anyways, the same thing happened to breakcore, and a lot of other genres (Akira's spot on with D&B). Initially there's plenty of experimentation, because nobody has any idea where this all goes. Then one track gets popular, copied by everyone, and it goes downwards from there. I really liked the early Akira Kiteshi stuff (Pinball/Noglitch), but he's becoming more and more generic. What's worse is that the template is expected by the audience as well. Don't sound like vsnares? It's not breakcore! Don't sound like Aphex? It's not IDM! Don't sound like (ick) Rusko? It's not sick mate.
It's not just that. It's that once a certain song becomes popular, there's a thousand tutorials on the web that tell you how to recreate that same sound, step by step. It's the same as "my first LSDJ." Part of the problem is that everyone is focused on making stuff that is "commercial friendly" and easy to spin, so you have to follow all these rules about measures, buildups, drops, breakdowns, etc. That's when a genre becomes a template and if you do anything that is slightly outside the box, you get weird looks and none of the record labels will want it.
Obviously you can replace "dubstep" with any other genre that's been around for a while, I see the same thing right now with house music.
1,545 Sep 30, 2010 7:25 pm
Re: Chipmusic Chillout - Chipbient Compilation 1 (145 replies, posted in Collaborations)
1,546 Sep 30, 2010 12:51 am
Re: Minecraft: Oh god, what have I done? (20 replies, posted in General Discussion)
BR1GHT PR1MATE wrote:
so i've been kind of wondering where all my online friends have been for the past few weeks. I just thought everbody was busy doing stuff. and now i know the truth.
Also Starcraft 2!
1,547 Sep 29, 2010 9:10 pm
Re: 8STATIC •10/9 • PHL• La Belle Indifference, Cheap Dinos, George & Jon (118 replies, posted in Past Events)
NO CARRIER wrote:
Decktonic wrote:A lot of my friends are coming out for this... apparently everyone I know suddenly loves chiptunes.
Don't get it twisted - this is a good thing.
Dude, trust me, I know... starting my sentence with "A lot of ... friends" is a step up the ladder for me.
1,548 Sep 29, 2010 8:59 pm
Re: Chiptune Dubstep (129 replies, posted in General Discussion)
gizmo wrote:
Damn, you guys are cynical. I've heard some pretty diverse dubstep n the past few years. You do have to look for it tho. It's not all wubwubwubwub. Anyhow I like that ??? Guy. Someone posted a good one here a while ago too...Anyone like ikonica? She's does some good fake bit, some not so good.
I really like Monster! Monster!, I actually bought the physical copy of his latest single, and I don't do that often. That being said, dubstep is not my cup of tea and I do not listen to it regularly.
1,549 Sep 29, 2010 7:29 pm
Re: Minecraft: Oh god, what have I done? (20 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I definitely will not be playing this... only because if I got started I would never ever stop.
1,550 Sep 29, 2010 6:57 pm
Re: Chiptune Dubstep (129 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Once you've heard one wub, you've heard them all.
("wub" can be replaced with "chiptune," btw)
1,551 Sep 29, 2010 6:50 pm
Re: 8STATIC •10/9 • PHL• La Belle Indifference, Cheap Dinos, George & Jon (118 replies, posted in Past Events)
A lot of my friends are coming out for this... apparently everyone I know suddenly loves chiptunes.
1,552 Sep 29, 2010 1:25 am
Re: WTB/WTT-White GBA and A GBA/GB program. (12 replies, posted in Trading Post)
OK I'll sleep on it and get back to you.