Chiptune forum

Hello!"!! I was going to write just a short hint to presentational tunes of hirasawa in my introduction but it got long so I'll write an introduction of my favorite music artist here:
Susumu Hirasawa, veteran really cool japanese synth musician using studio of amigas (not tracking, rather old midi setup). He has made music for two satoshi kon productions: millennium actress and paranoia agent and maybe most well known opening for berserk (all anime).

anyway. his music is the most impressive style for me, I never sieze to envy his cool style like no other artist for me. he is the most chiptune-close musician I know before the genre chiptune was announced.. I think chiptune musicians searching for influences sort of out of the box will like him alot!

recommendation of tunes (try first mentioned first maybe):  Homo Gestalt, Forces, Rubedo or Run, Hansen 108, Bridge Builder, Nurse Cafe (it's so cool and charming it could become a fad if only it was wellknown ;), Rotation, P-model (sideproject band) - No Room (arpeggio :), Song of Force, pevo 11, OAR, Cluster, Chevron, Ancient Sounds, Mind Scape...)

recommended whole albums: Blue Limbo, Technique of Relief, Big Body, Philosophers Propeller (talk to me if you need music and can't find).

If anyone has similar taste I'd love to talk! :)

Last edited by nim (2005-09-15 03:28:28)

my favorite contemporary chiptune musicians are today (worth checking out for those who have missed) zabu maak shogun and saitone.

one outstanding tune which is kind of half chip is wrrd.it "weather report & rainy day" and maak_-_m-tune_04.nsf both by maak.
oh I know more
lumbar pain by shogun (mdx on his website) and long time ago his bullworker and "eye of the bare knuckle" excerpts were announced on vorc.
KSSORG01 by naruto
eheh, I'm only listing the could-be/already-professionals.. well well.
check out saitones gameboy music ep and the tunes clavialoop and lc3-2, don't know if he calls any of that chiptunes but it's based on nanoloop anyway and I think he's quite ingenious and the two latter mentioned is like which style I often try to conceive of when it ends in something simple and melodic instead.
for commercial:
recently been mad about the dragon saber soundtrack, the .hes is fine version. (check the arrange on my dump)
check out MAD's cover of Vulcanic Gheyser (stage 2 dragon saber) SABER_SCC.mp3
dragon saber music isn't really typically chiptune maybe but lends it self well to the old platforms it was played on.. shinji hosoe is amazing when you discover something he doesn't seem to have gained enough recognition for... in my partial opinion
I'd like to buy alot of more supersweep/troubadour and related albums and I'd like to buy everything on http://www.linear.nu/release.html
about the recent kind of chipcentered hifi jpop or whatever it's called.
I really like kirameki moon diver (on my dump space) which I've mentioned.
and strawberry machine's and ymck's Twinkle of the Stars, Little Stars, Shining Stars
is there a genre name for this music already stated? low level seems to be some key work by the aprils.. don't know all those petite fool naive pop electro terms.. when chippy probably not very defined...?

i started this thread to discuss if we needed a new section for sharing favorites ...

and seriously, each of nim's posts deserves it's own thread ... hell, each artist deserves their own thread ... i think a 2nd category for "favorites" wouldn't be so bad .... so many hot hot names!

there is some music in anime that i really love (woh and bezerk for sure, i'll add KITE to that list), but i never have access to ost (i'll admit, i don't hunt hard--my ears are quite busy trying to keep net label relaeaess straight!)

direct links to tracks/releases mentioned when availible ... would be very nice ... thanks for dumping to us nim!

is anyone else on soulseek? i use 2 names ... home and work  ... "+ k 9 d +"  and ",kay,nien,dee,"

ignat ... i think that distinction does exist, but howe pure do you want to get? is it a chip tune if you run LSDj in a gb emulator and record a .wav straight out of that? how many could hear the difference between that and an "authentic gameboy track"???

hmm, like any genre .. . there is a lot of vgm that just does nothing for me ... it'll take me some time to work my way through nim's posts here ...

many times names or music genders are serving to different purposes
may that mean something?

hehe
I'm happy mp3s are endorsed! great to link directly. I'll use my dump space more actively.. only thing is I'm unsure of how to act around purchased chiptune albums.. guess I will only refer to those songs and albums since if we convince eachother enough, one would buy the album since it's chip and that'd be good

anyway, can't get Hex125's Note Launch test tune #1 out of my mind or playlist my favorite thing to listen to atm. (nl01.mdx) http://sound.jp/hex125/ I think it's relatively new
and I meant to correct myself earlier about the Bare Knuckle D! (dokkan!) for I forgot to mention it features both Shogun and Hex125's tunes which I like alot!
http://members.at.infoseek.co.jp/shogun … bk/mbk.htm <-about the bullworker and eye of the.. excerpts.
http://members.at.infoseek.co.jp/shogun_point/index.htm <- here is lumbar pain.. his website might be hard to find I remember now.
Are these albums possible to obtain outside of japan? I saw them in stores when I went to my first trip to japan in march this year. I met with hex125 and shogun (and chesterfield, digigig and hally! (big suprise so many came , I had so much fun!)) and they gave me a pile of bare knuckle albums which I sent to people who had shown interest except me and Shogun explained he wanted to spread the album in the west. If there is no way to reach the album I'd like to exclaim a solution must be found, the albums should not be missed!
Maybe should ask the authors or bug cocoebiz (rr I couldn't, she is a savior as it is already) or white-canvas to start releasing doujin cd's for export.
maybe it'd be a working solution to set up a model where you gather 20-50 people who want a japanonly album and then make a special order to japanese doujin vendor.. kaminari talked about this need some while ago, could ask him if he knows any solution.. some doujin cd vendor might have started to export.

anyway, atleast imo. I like deviating fully on every noteworthy subject relating to the discussion even if not the topic

about what is chiptune. I feel this is a discussion is since a while on everyones tounge but maybe it is hard to find the meaning of the question even.. hey check the new thread in general discussion! it's a horribly long post but hopefully I said something interesting and even if the length of it doesn't support such a claim, I'd like to start a discussion about the matters discussed in my post.

hey I just looked in my CHIP\Guten\-folder and found a trio of classics which were my second favorite group of tunes after PM's two hits... grab the BATTLESHIP.ZIP on my dumpspace. plays best with ("smurf's.."?) oldsk00l mod plugin for winamp/xmplay if I remember correctly cause I think some lead melodies are too silent in xmplay (bass' mod playback) (which otherwise is probably the best windows player to my knowledge).
this is the kind of "classic chiptune"-style I like.. I think it has somewhat degenerated last half or full decade.

checked out Huoratron! DISLOCATED RMX is mad! really cool. Does Crazy Q have his music on a website?

thanks for link hope the play was nice! (sucks being broke)