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"Hey dudes, it's me, Pharrel Williams! Can I have your culture for a sec? Just looking to make a quick buck on whatever's hot, LMAO! Don't worry, we'll credit those Japanese guys you love so much or whatever. This is me being a KAWII-chiptuning-vaporwavist-seapunk, ROFL. You'll buy it right guys? Haha, of course you will. BECAUSE I'M HAPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE."

Sorry, had to get that out of my system. I'll admit it's a cool video in it's own right. The credits really tell you a lot about whoever put this together too. Too much amazing work has gone uncredited for too long.

Personally I try to take things that I have feelings/thoughts about and try to convey that through music. I used to be a serious lyricist when I was younger, writing mostly topical political songs. Now that I'm making chiptune as my primary musical project, I've been trying to use my songs to tell more personal stories. Some turn out more like expository nature writing, or even like the condensed overture for a little play, but a lot of them can be summed up in a single sentence: "Emotions run wild as young love develops" or "Don't let the burdens of adult life dull your childlike wonder at the universe" or "Playing Outrun at a pizza parlor during a sweet birthday party circa 1994". Keeping that seed concept in mind, the song (hopefully) develops into a representation of that feeling.

All things considered, it seems like inspiration is where you find it. It's an incredibly personal phenomenon. Some writers have a story to tell that drives and informs their songs, some have a person who they use as a muse, some have drugs, some have emotional torment and/or fulfillment, others use and recycle other media. Maybe the question isn't so much "where does one get inspiration" but "where do I get inspiration". To me it seems like the answer to that should be easy. People usually know what they like.

Woah, your tumblr has some magic going on. I'm gonna check that out man. Good luck with your thesis!

Hay guise, Red Bull here! Can we have your market demographic pls? K thx bai. Lol JK!!111!!one!!!11!!
But seriously, buy our fucking heart attack in a can.

oh yeah and don' forget.

EXTREME LIFESTYLES BRO!

Sarcastic and well-deserved ribbing aside, this does look pretty interesting. How is it mostly Hip-Hop dudes though? Is there a significant Hip-Hop/chiptune crossover thing going on out there that I'm just not aware of?

I hope those dudes are still making music. It was really interesting to see each artist they featured incorporating vocals. That would have been a cool show to attend...

Dude, I'm moving pretty fast, but you're picking up speed in a big way. If I were you I'd get to work on a whole passel of new songs ASAP. You're material is evolving with every song too... "Pizza" is the happy funtime jam to the max! Thanks for your rad words. You're one of the dudes who pushes me forward and keeps me invested. I'm stoked to be here and to have the good fortune to be decent enough at music to actually make something people are into. It's not for lack of work of course, but I don't know. I feel lucky.

"Solid" is a good way to put it. I feel like there's a lot of things that you could call it, but solid really sums it up. And thanks J3wel, I listened to your stuff on soundcloud months ago but didn't follow you for some reason? (For how long I've been using the web I kinda wish I was more on top of my game sometimes...) Your stuff is great dude, especially "No Notion" hadn't heard that one yet.