is my music actually relevant to this site? (Page 1 of 3)

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You're good, man. Don't worry about authenticity or validity. People can have their own preference for what they like to do, but people that shame others for not sharing that same preference are jerks, IMO

but to answer your concern about lgpt, I don't think it's as complicated as you think. Sample-based trackers aren't just modern like with LGPT and Renoise, but they go back into the history of this community back to the Amiga - even many MOD chip tunes are just samples with a super short loop, making those simple waveforms we all lust for so much here

but the general consensus of most people in 2014 I think is: 'who cares?"

if you made like legit r&b on lgpt I'm sure the community that directly works with samplers would be impressed at the sound you've made from it. Anamanaguchi uses milkytracker (another sample based tracking) and they're like the buddha of the overarching scene

highly relevant

This is pretty cool stuff! Kind of reminds me of the Paul Weller project The Style Council.

For me the question "Is it chip enough?" is pretty subjective. Why make rules when we can make magical music however we want? That being said, there's a line out there somewhere between chip and fakebit, and it's best to enlighten your listeners about where you fall to avoid confusion. I like artists who are pretty transparent about how their music is created. It makes it easy for the listener to appreciate the relative difficulty of the process and product. Props to you for putting it out there and taking your listeners and the community into consideration.

yeah.. i mostly use piggy now (well entirely for d_strct), so does starpause, plus bleo, xc3n, matt nida, etc and no one considers any of us to be somehow less a part of the scene (even if some of my stuff isn't really that "chip" sounding since i'll use longer samples, guitar riffs, etc, but neither is a lot of amiga stuff that i like either)