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rob bubbard is a god. I also like some of the guys that worked on consoles like jeff van dyck, and robert prince for PC as well!

and the chiptune scene is still alive and kickin' with things like 8 bit peoples, plopbox, and artists like anamanaguchi, bitshifter, shawn phase/temp sound solutions, etc.

hubbard did a lot more work on c64, which is why you won't hear much from the younger crowd, but he did some great stuff on other platforms, thankfully the pc [which is where I first encountered his works].

I myself even continue to write original chiptune music because I have such a passion for it. people walk by my desk at work and hear me listening to music from marble madness, amongst other things. by the way, the intermediate track from marble madness sounds like a lou harrison/alan hovhaness piece with so much chaos, it's not as well known as say, level 2 though. worth a listen for sure.

Nice! Does anyone know the name of the first song on the hour long video? That's a really nice chiptune.

Well, it was driving me insane as I have been listening to Chiptune songs for the last 2-3weeks, and I knew I had heard it, so after a search through my play list, here it is:

Mr. Spastic - Sloppy

His album and many great others can be got for free (under creative commons) from 8bit Peoples

...hell yeah!

If you liked this, you might also check out the 8bitpeoples, who specialize in this sort of thing.
http://www.8bitpeoples.com/

You managed to watch Meaty McMeat?? I was bleaching my eyes just a few minutes in.

On the flip side, LegalTorrents was how I discovered Revolution Void (the Thread Soul and Increase the Dosage albums) and the 8bitpeoples.

Chiptune all the way baby.

http://www.8bitcollective.com/

http://www.8bitpeoples.com/discography_gfx.php

I take it you're not a fan of 8 bit peoples.

"A combination of low quality hardware, poor digitising algorithms, and sloppy mixing does produce audibly awful results compared with say an inexpensive 12 track mixer and a good old tape recorder."

Bach's music is not brilliant because he recorded in digital surround(if anything, he recorded on paper, and the minds and souls of his followers), it is brilliant because of the inherent structure within the music itself. Yes, the organs used to play it were (and that are used to play it) are awesome and fantastic(see Wendy Carlos), but the same music seed could be written for a smaller device, and grow to make use of a larger; a scaleable work. God alone can create the organ worthy of a Bach; all else is close approximation; human imperfection. I do not claim to write music, or that I will ever be able to write music on that level. But that is my goal. And I plan to do so with the ubiquitious hardware that I knew would be available eventually; ie crappy computers.

Some music makes sense only to the artist(guilty as charged here), others seem to take a community and act as a catalyst of thought or action for that community(study music, another of my interests, is included here, along with rap, moving political music(most of bob dylan?), and so on). These three types of musical art(brilliant, self-delusional/nihlist, social) are examples of music that is orthogonal to your 3 criteria.

Thank you for allowing me to bring clarity and focus to an otherwise busy and complicated life by posing such a delicious example of why it is I strive so hard.

I'm a 17 year old kid, I listen to classical music. I'm actually right with all of you guys complaining about the crappy music being pumped out. It all sounds the same, it all sounds bad, the lyrics lack meaning, there is no variety. I do not go to the stores and buy music, but at the same time I don't pirate music. I get better quality music by downloading works freely available under Creative Commons than any of the stuff they want me to buy. There is a wonderful selection of Electronic music freely available at this website, I listen to this most of the time: http://www.8bitpeoples.com/index.html and this: http://www.jamendo.com/en/

Although Nanoloop 2 doesn't do what most people consider to be "hard disk recording", it's a cool sequencer, and the original Nanoloop for the old Gameboy was cool too. Here are some other related links:

LSDJ, a powerful Gameboy tracker:
http://www.littlesounddj.com/

A NES Midi cartridge:
http://www.wayfar.net/0xf00000_overview.php

My own Atari 2600 Sequencer Kit:
http://qotile.net/sequencer.html

Prophet 64, a C64 sequencer/drum machine prog:
http://www.prophet64.com/

8BitPeoples, musicians into this kinda stuff:
http://www.8bitpeoples.com/

Micromusic, more musicians into this stuff:
http://micromusic.net/office.php3

No one has addressed your record label point: see Soulseek Records, 8bitpeoples, or a host of other net labels. These labels generally don't pay the artists, because the albums are free to download (DRM-less, of course). There's also Magnatune, which lets people "try before you buy" music, which pays all its artists 50% (of album sales, merchandise, everything) and keeps the rights to the music in the hands of the artists, where they belong.

That device may be old... But I'm lame enough to still do chip music for it. As are many others, like Nullsleep from 8bitpeoples.

That reminds me, I need to pick up a GBA SP still.

Of course, I was downloading MODs well before then. Can't imagine what the first one was. Something starting with a number probably since I'm guessing I found an FTP archive and typed mget *.