Tag: Demoscene
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Keep Tracking: Trackers and 16 bit music
I have covered the musical history of trackers and 16 bit music before on the podcast, but this is a great in-depth historical look at the ‘sound of software piracy’ – although I’d argue that the early Amiga demos like the 1988 classic Wild Copper were more coding brags and weirdly computer shop adverts (?)…
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Reality Engine – TX 2 Bits and Bloops
I’ve collected a whole load more original musical digital cruft that was clogging up my hard drives and put it on Bandcamp and called it Transmission 2: Bits and Bloops…8-bit chiptunes, 16 bit Amiga (Octa)MED tracker songs, sound collages and live processing, funny songs, tape edits, video game music, rave, breakbeat/post-dubstep & acid house experiments,…
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Azealia goes to Atlantis; Seapunks get upset – News at 11
I love this new video from the rapper I can never spell right, Azealia Banks for her track Atlantis. Strangely I found out about it over the outcry of her and Rihanna apparently co-opting the sub-micro-so-hip-it’s-self-deprecating hipstertumblr genre ‘seapunk’. Now nothing funnier than reading the comments over there (‘post internet’? Rilly?) but apparently this ‘genre’…
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The Miles Davis Octet – Jazz goes 8-bit
8-bit jazz? Sounds like a bad idea? Well give it a go, I think you might be suprised from 0:30 in. It’s all a part of a crazy idea of doing Kind of Blue on 8-bit chips/synths called rather obviously Kind of Bloop. (via boingboing who has moar 8bit that you can shake a squarewave…
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Grandad, what was it like making music back in the day?
Cheetah Specdrum!!! I still have mine, and my Spectrum and 2 Amigas. Yes this is how you had to create music back in the day, although I have to say The RAM Music Machine on the Amstrad (or other computers) rocked more than the AMS – great for no additional hardware but you were stuck…