LSDJ, Chip music.

[in·clover]

Just curious how many people here appreciate chip music.

LSDJ is pretty sweet if you're into that kinda thing.

[Pitch]

I think Chiz sent me something or other he described as a “chip tune” that I thought it was rather catchy. That was a long long (long long) time ago, though.

What exactly is that fellow doing? I'm not sure I understand.. @___@

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[in·clover]

He's kinda like DJing with a couple of homebrew gameboys.

Yeah, basically chiptunes is taking old computer sound chips and composing modern inspired (and often elaborate) music with it. A lot of it is garbage but every now and then someone with talent will whip out ye olde homebrew portables and start jamming all 8-bitly. I love it.

Maru is my fave at the moment. Keygen Master's pretty good, too:

[Qwertman]

Holy crap! I've seen many a feature of chip music, but never anything this good. If that second video was composed live, I am truely amazed.

[KYTE]

I'm a fan of the genre, although it's hard for me to find musicians I like a lot.

I've listened to quite a few artists, and the ones I like most are probably Bit Shifter, DJ Scotch Egg, Oxygen Star, and Halko Momoi's "Famison 8-Bit" album.

Anyways, I've tried to mess around with LSDJ a bit, but trackers are way overwhelming to me.

I really want to get a MIDInes www.wayfar.net/0xf00000_overview.php, and I'm interested in PushPin code.google.com/p/pushpin/.

I've always wanted to see how NES drums would sound along with my band.

[Chiz]

There was a time when I listened to chiptunes/chip music/compu-synth music on a regular basis. I remember spending a great many months listening to Kohina Radio which has a wide selection of chiptunes broadcasting regularly as an OGG stream for all those interested.

I think the first chiptunes that really got me into the whole thing would be from the So-Phisticated III 'album' from the late Edwin van Santen of 20CC (20th Century Composers). It had 7 tracks to it, all of them brilliant.

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So-Phisticated III Part 1
So-Phisticated III Part 2
So-Phisticated III Part 3
So-Phisticated III Part 4
So-Phisticated III Part 5

There's also a 6th part by Falco Paul (also of 20CC) which is just as good...but I can't find a copy on Youtube. *shrug* If you have a SID emulator like SIDplay or a plugin for WinAMP, for example, you could just get the original SID files from here.

Mind you, a great deal of what 20CC has produced is very good. Definitely a group to look more into, if you're into this sort of thing.

[in·clover]

This is insane...

Aug 23, 2009 3:03:12 GMT -5 Chiz said:

Mind you, a great deal of what 20CC has produced is very good. Definitely a group to look more into, if you're into this sort of thing.

Holy crap that's 80's (in a good way). Not exactly my taste, but good nonetheless. I'll definitely look more into that though, might find something I'm more into.

Aug 21, 2009 23:36:09 GMT -5 KYTE said:

I've always wanted to see how NES drums would sound along with my band.

I've heard acoustic bands use chiptunes as a backbeat for a lot of their stuff, and it works tremendously well. If you guys are still active you should definitely #$%^ around with different things like that, find a unique sound.

[Qwertman]

WOW. Makes me want to try something like that. Last LEGO film I made was in Middle School. I still have them.