8Bit Music

Do some people call this "chiptune"?

crystal castles are the most popular

does anyone remember the Game Gear Shinobi in-game tunes? they were pretty good!

I've been trying to find "Supernova Kiss" by Nullsleep after hearing a clip of it in a youtube video but the comp it's on is sold out.

incidentally: http://www.archive.org/download/8bp029/8bp029-05-nullsleep-depeche-mode-minimix.mp3

Newman Guttman - first computer music pieces 1957 - http://www.sfsound.org/tape/Guttman.html -- sound like Mego

League of Automatic Music Composers -- first band to improvise live using computers (the KIM-1's 8-bit processor), 1978-1983. they sounded like a quartet of SIDstations playing John Coltrane's 'Ascension'

if anyone had told Mr. Guttman that people would still be using 8bit engines for music 50 years later, let alone that there'd be dozens of artists, hardware / software engines, album compilations, annual music festivals... he'd probably be laughing because he'd be happy

apologies for typical egghead milton post

http://youtube.com/watch?v=caIBKOztlAo

didn't some dinosaur like malcom mclarren or somebody proclaim this music was the new punk a few years ago?

8-Bit Construction Set?

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.11/mclaren.html

Wow, thanks everybody.

forks sez: http://tofuhut.blogspot.com/2005/02/as-always-its-not-size-of-your.html

im more about the gameboy music revolution

SD2 soundtrack (http://www.secretofmana.planets.gamespy.com/soundtrack.html) is my favourite, but some of those Galway tracks are rad.

Tay Zonday - "Chocolate Rain (8Bit Remix)":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caIBKOztlAo

I suppose people don't like Crystal Castles around here but I think they have some pretty great tunes at the heart of their 8Bit noodling. Whoever does the base tracks has a strong sense of melody, for sure.

8-bit "Chocolate Rain" link = classic mostly because of noticing this in the sidebar:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1oFS-q8BIps

http://www.chaoscontrol.com/category/music/gameboy-music/
http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2006/12/blip_festival_8.html
http://crunchgear.com/2006/12/08/name-that-chiptune-2-the-growing-niche-of-8-bit-music/

I guess I shouldn't be so surprised it's still building as a focused genre, these sounds aren't fringe, they automatically hit the happy button of anyone who marinated themselves in these games from 1975-1995 i.e. pretty much everyone I know

and to anyone younger it'll be weird new 80's nostalgia

There''s this track called "Succotash Wish" by Autofire I once heard... anyway it's very good (so I hear).

i really like YMCK, even though they are the tweest band in existence
brush teeth before clicking link -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVYLAVOU2po
song about tetris -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-sEy1vhlBo

check out 8bitpeoples.com for lots of great stuff (free too).

Also, Treewave out of Dallas are pretty great.

mikron 64 - was ich weiss
http://youtube.com/watch?v=iaDnCLyP_28

Timothy Lamb / http://trash80.net - missing you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lb9Fy2H96k

from
8BitPeoples Release #86
http://s3.directupload.net/images/101212/imqxnklq.jpg

YMCK have free plugins!

http://www.ymck.net/magical8bitplug/index.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekRrnlP4pYE

I've mentioned it a couple times on the video game music thead, but the freeware platformer Cave Story had some really great 8-bitty music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiZIr2Xc4zU

Super Zappa Bros. - peaches en regalia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V2VZdzQK9k

Treewave were ok, are they still going?

peaches en regalia was MADE for 8bit. Something in the melody sounds so authentic.

Algorithmic symphonies from one line of code -- how and why?

http://countercomplex.blogspot.com/2011/10/algorithmic-symphonies-from-one-line-of.html

Sounds great!

Not a huge fan of the genre, but a few things I like are:

Paza - Tiutiu http://www.illegalart.net/mp3s/507/01-Paza.mp3
Former ILX hoster Andrew 'nf's cover of Tainted Love http://nf.wh3rd.net/music/taint.mp3
Shameless self-promotion but someone did an 8Bit version of one of my songs. http://spitfireparade.bandcamp.com/track/time-crisis-forward-konami-cheats-remix

Special mention to 1Bit music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl_ovH9ypkM

Jakim - Ekopiryna #2

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iuqgn7FzQLM

as an aesthetic choice, this is always going to be a bit like wearing deep sea diving equipment on land, and so it is going to be really difficult to top wearing deep sea diving equipment in the deep sea, and now we live in a world where there is no water.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/PICTURE-VINYL-HUDSON-GAME-MUSIC-sega-/380417843538

I think this may be the first chiptune music ever released on vinyl....? It's a picture disc! And it comes with sheet music!