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Oh, and the main point: I don't like people liking bad music simply because it is of one particular genre or style. Bad music is bad music, good music is good music.

..and Sander has leading anyway. :)

the type of "chiptune" that would get mainstream has little/nothing to do with the demoscene anyway - a nintendo vst making some bleeps and bloops with a woman singing/shouting over the top. the demoscene is about technical prowess, individuality, creativity. pop music is about image, cheese and accessibility. i think a pure sid song or amiga chiptune won't ever get into the charts for that reason (and instrumentals are rarely as popular as vocal music anyway).

maybe proper tracked/"sceney" chiptunes could grow into a reasonably-sized genre (like dubstep or metal - the sounds wouldn't appeal to most chart-listeners but they are still popular genres), but whether any of us really want that to happen (or care either way) is doubtful imho.

2002 called - they want their chiptune-inspired club music trend back.

Good that im listening to stuff noone else listens to...

I always chuckle when I hear the word "creativity." Frankly, guys?

Exin: probably animal noises or some wierd shit? :P

Also: I think it's pretty far-fetched to claim that chiptunes are mainstream. A few ripped phrases in a Nelly Furtado-song doesn't make the genre itself mainstream/trendy :)

close this thread plz, the real avantgarde (muhahaha) is discussing the topic on twitter now!

crosbow: Old Cartoon and anime musics from italy, spain and france.

Have you heard of this little band called CYRSTAL CASTELS?

and slagsmalklubben?

Boss for president! Arf arf!

pssst, its Crystal Castles.

that's what i said!

Whatever. I like these better http://nacho.cps.unizar.es/exincastillos/

mainstream or not, chiptunes still are annoying and cause headaches!

blasphemer, burn him at the stake!

maali secretly has a jazz music fetish

sure, miles davis > chiptunes

Kind of Bloop > miles davis > chiptunes

DEMOSCENE VS EMOSCENE, FIGHT!

Lame.

But really, I think the major difference in how "true chip" and "nu-chip" sound comes from the attitude towards the sound. In the former, you aim at using the chip efficiently to create rich sound, but in the latter, one just enjoys the "bleeps and bloops" in the rough way how they come out, with no intent for musical or technical elaboration.

I mention this difference (of "optimalism" vs "reductivism") in my recent text at http://www.pelulamu.net/countercomplex/computationally-minimal-art/.

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