new 8-bit netlabel: 8!t (Page 1 of 2)

I also encourage you to analyze name options. I don't even know how to say your label's name

I pronounced it "AIGHT!"

Neither do I but it looks fun ! Like your comment, I somehow sense self-irony here....:).

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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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Oh well, first, I trust people, generally, what's the point to cheat here anyway ? I mean I don't lose anything if someone is cheating this or that way, if I don't hear it someone else will notice it sooner or later. Second, the idea is to experiment, try something new, I don't expect that people buy all machines, I'm well aware that people will use emulators (whether VST-based chip emulators, game emulators, 8-bit computer emulators) to make their samples, or they record stuff if they own real machines. We are making music, the only people we can cheat is ourselves, I'm just delivering the stuff for others, perhaps few people start making this music when they hear it from this netlabel or some other. Hopefully. Third, and most important, I listen, I've several original machines at home, over 20 computers and consoles, I've have heard the original machines, probably 90% of them, I just listen. Not only trying to keep things as original as possible, small, quick to download etc, not accepting VST/MP3/WAV/OGG-thing I eliminate (or at least try to eliminate) the temptation of postprocessing the stuff with extra reverbs, delays, VST-based stuff and so on. Rules are clear, let's just make music, that should be the main thing. I assume

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Last edited by pXtR (Jul 23, 2010 9:08 pm)

Random negativity galore! Is there anything wrong with doing things just for the hell of it?

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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