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1. No MP3/WAV/OGG etc.,  acceptable are all trackers like MOD,XM,IT,S3M, FMT etc, 8-bit programs like TAP,SNA,BIN,XEX etc, as long there's a player/emulator available.

2. All sources 8-bit or less, old stuff. If you have bent say Gameboy consoles, yes, use them, record, make MOD or embed the sounds to 8-bit programs, dump registers, anything 8-bit (or less) that is playable. Keyboards is too general that I could answer, if you use old 8-bit digital keyboards for sampling that should work.

3. Noise, especially noisy experimental pieces, no pop tunes etc., noise, a lot of noise.

Here's the site with first two releases:

http://8it.shiftwave.org

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Thanks jikoo !!!

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Thanks arfink, exactly right point, this is more conceptual, emulating the old times, and in yours and many other case also reality when having a slow internet connections.

Tiny files, big noisy music !

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I meant exactly what you quote: as a musicians/composers/artists we can cheat only ourselves, it was general statement, that's all. You're right about blurring, for me especially blurring is to listen chipmusic and hear a lot of effects that wouldn't be possible without current technologies. My own working method is practically always same: I listen the sounds of the chip, then I search technical documents, start writing stuff to registers, study it, days, weeks, years, return it later, and again and again. I always find something new, some combination I didn't notice last time. For me that's composing with chips. When I understand how the chip works, I know exactly what the tracker (which is emulator of the chip) does (although I don't use much trackers, I'm traditionally educated composer, I simply can't read music top-down, only left-right direction. That's amusing, at least for me). All chipmusic is basically "retro-stuff", so why to use MP3 which didn't even exist at the time of ZX Spectrum 48k. It is good that there are other netlabels who use both modern technologies and also publish the original files too. I stick only latter, I emulate the old times, you know when stuff was sent by modems, 1200 baud or if you were lucky you bought 9600 baud modem, I would never send 20 MB MP3 with those machines, even 20 KB was pain. Small is good in 8!t, "in the netlabel impossible to pronounce !"

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Milkytracker is OK, any tracker, as long you use 8-bit sources only (consoles, old computers etc),
no 32-bit drum samples converted to 8-bit format, only real stuff, then zip all modules and possible cover and submit to address above (in original announcement in this topic). Please remember, all the music uncompressed should be 1 MB or under.

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A good advice, thanks, coming soon (very soon, I hope !).

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