[2013] #52 | Trey Frey - Resolve

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WT: What was your first introduction to the chiptune scene?

Trey Frey: Around 2007-08 I was starting to get into electronic music after getting bored with the hardcore/punk music I had been into at the time. A friend introduced me to a band called Slagsmalsklubben, a Swedish electronic group comprised of several members playing live synthesizers, etc. I immediately fell in love with the warm analog sound that early synths could produce. Something about simple wave forms especially struck a chord in me. Naturally I spent many hours surfing the internet looking for similar artists to listen to, and came across a YouTube video of the chip musician Maru playing on a street in Japan. (I believe it's the first video that comes up on YouTube when you search "Gameboy music").  Upon seeing this I immediately decided "this is something I have to do." I purchased LSDj and a flash cart in the winter of 2009, and 'the rest is history.'

[2013] #51 | Jay Tholen - Oh, Come On

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WT: What was your first introduction to the chiptune scene?

I used to download chiptunes from MODArchives to use in my terrible games when I was active in the Klik community as a wee 13 year old. From there, I got into tracking and the rest is history.

WT: You’ve got a huge back catalogue of releases, could you talk us through some of your favourites and why?

Oh man, that's a really difficult question. There are like 25 releases now, and I think they were all pretty necessary for my growth as an artist, even if I'm embarrassed by some of them now. My favourites are The Low Drone of Earth, Epidemic Deluxe, and Control Me. Low Drone is my most recent album, and I feel like it works well as a cohesive work. Epidemic Deluxe is a revamped version of an album I released in 2008. I think the Zombie association is holding it back a bit, but musically I feel it has a few of my strongest tracks. Control Me is close to my heart because I worked tirelessly on it. So many hours put into recording that one.

[2013 ] #50| Alex Mauer - kittensaw

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WT: What was your introduction to the chiptune community?

Alex Mauer: I have told the story about how I was introduced to chip music... so I'll give you one about my introduction to the social, "real life" aspect of chip.  In 2005 I stumbled onto a message board for Gameboy music where I met Dino Lionetti (from Cheap Dinosaurs).  We both lived in Philly, so we met up IRL and hit it off... Not long later, I was selling my midiNES to a guy I knew online... Joey Mariano (Animal Style).  We also met up in person in a Sam Ash parking lot and made the exchange.  About a year later we all got together to perform an early Philly chip show w/ Don Miller (No-Carrier) on visuals... that's where I met Don for the first time.  Before all that, I had never met anyone in real life who was making chip music.

[2013] #49 | Maxo - Chalktopia ~Chipmix~

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WT: What was your first introduction to the chiptune scene?

Maxo: I've always loved 8bit music, ever since I've owned a Game Boy, but playing shows with Anamanaguchi and Starscream (now Infinity Shred) with my band in high-school really introduced me to the DIY chip-scene.

WT: Who influences you musically?

M: I grew up around a lot of prog rock and jazz fusion records, so many of my influences reflect those styles.  I really try and listen to a wide variety of music, so at this point influence can come from almost anywhere.   I always try and keep up with video game music however, so that's one thing that remains constant!

[2013] #48 | HunterQuinn - Final Selector

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WT: How did you first come in to contact with the chipscene?

HunterQuinn: Well this is going to sound pretty cliché, but the first introduction I had to the ‘chipscene’ was sabrepulse when I was a wee high school lad. Later the same fine gentleman who showed me said ‘first chip experience’ showed me “Reformat the Planet”. This fine gentleman was my long-time friend Andrew (who ended up becoming AndaruGO). He and I had spent a long time trying to find out how to make music that sounded reminiscent of old school systems like the Gameboy. He showed me this fine film and blew my mind. I’ve been changed ever since. Later I ended up finding out about Pxl-bot who released one of my first collections of chipmusic.

[2013] #47 | Vegas Diamond - Vampires of Dirt

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WT: What was your first introduction to the chiptune scene?

Vegas Diamond: I've always been interested in making "lo-fi" or experimental music with lots of distortion and bitcrushers and what not. I used to play in a 2-piece (bass and drums) rock outfit and I was always busy experimenting with effects stompboxes and feedback. I don't recall when I discovered that making music on old hardware was a thing. I knew about demoscene music from cracks and hacks of popular games but I never really connected the dots. In 2005 I tried to make some sample-based hiphop in Milkytracker but failed miserably (I can provide the .XMs). I then quit making electronic music for a couple of years. Late 2011 I bought a nanoloop cart out of the blue and I just started tinkering and making simple tunes.

I guess what attracts me most about the Gameboy is the 4 channel workflow and trying to make a lot out of very little. In a DAW you have so many options that I get swamped and usually end up doing nothing musical at all. My involvement in the scene basically stems from me being a chiptune musician myself. I really didn't listen to a lot of chiptune before I started making my own music but I am VERY glad I discovered it. There's so much great music to listen to.

[2013] #46 | EGR - ANON (Faith In The Faceless)

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WT: What was your first introduction to the chiptune scene?

EGR: The first time I listened to music that I knew had been made using video game sounds and hardware was when someone started linking Saskrotch and Sabrepulse chipbreak tracks on ihatebreakcore.com where I used to spend an enormous amount of time.  I loved that stuff and started looking around for more but the easily discoverable cutesy chiptune that I found didn't hold my attention at all and I pretty much forgot about it.  Later I got into circuitbending and started seeing links to modded Gameboys and whatnot and began searching around for music made with such things.  This time I dug a bit deeper and found a lot of high quality chiptune that I actually enjoyed beyond the simple novelty or "tech demo" surface.  That would have probably been mostly 8bp stuff, Unicorn Dream Attack, and contemporaries.  I really haven't been involved with chip for all that long, 2008 is when I signed up on 8BC so I guess that would have been my "official" chip love date. :P

[2013] #45 | Bear & Walrus - Cavalcades

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WT: What was your first introductions to the chiptune scene?

Zachary: I somehow ended up working the door for some of the first 8static events in 2009. I was terrible about showing up reliably to work the door, but I loved the music. Up until that point we didn't realize there was a chip music scene... we had been using trackers and old hardware for years to get interesting sounds, but not really thinking anything of it. It was great to have a sort of click moment and discover this entire subculture. 

Chad: Zachary took me to an 8static in Philly one weekend I was visiting. I think it was Covox and Nullsleep. I'm a bit older than most the people in the scene so it was a little awkward. But I totally got into the sound and the technique.

Z: Yeah, we're notably older. Most people at 8static or Pulsewave are in their late teens, early twenties. I've had people at shows ask me if I was there to see my kid play.

[2013] #44 | Auxcide - Genesis

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WT: What was your first introduction to the chiptune scene?

Auxcide: I was never too big into scenes before I started posting on Chipmusic.org. I sort of fell into the new generation of chipartists like Vince Kaichan, Parallelis, Frostbyte, HunterQuinn, AndaruGO, etc. and they started friending me on Facebook and we made our own little collective. I didn't feel like I saw the scene until the first show I saw in San Francisco where trash80 play earlier this year. At that moment, I felt the scene. And then at BRKfest, I reallllly felt it.

[2013] #43 | KODEK - ((((O____O))))

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WT: What was your first introduction to the chiptune scene?

KODEK: As far as i remember i think it was GOTO80 & PAZA and all that micromusic.net stuff :--0

WT: Who influences your style musically?

K: LOVE, CATS & SYNTHS

WT: What genre would you class your music as?

K: I call it OVER-MODERN-FUTURE-WAVE.

WT: You played Blip back in 2012, how did that come about and what the experience like?

K: Oh it was pretty good times. The crowd was really open minded. 

It seemed that they really enjoyed my performance even though I didn't play any single chiptune track that night. I enjoyed my stay in the New York city a lot.  

Thanks 8bitpeoples.com guys who invited me. Much love to them! : )

[2013] #42 | The Laohu- Haggis, Neeps & Tatties

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WT: What was your first introduction to the chiptune scene?

The Laohu: My younger brother  has been involved in the chiptune scene for about 6 years now, so I've been aware of it for at least that long. However, it wasn't until about a year and a half ago that I got really interested. One morning my brother called me over to the computer to check out a video. It was Danimal Cannon playing 'The Big Crunch' live. I was blown away and instantly fell in love with the raw and unique sound palette. The next day, my brother hooked up the SNES and taught me how to LSDJ. Then, while perusing Kitsch Bent's store for a gameboy cart, I heard Crack Pinocchio by Comptroller. It was so dirty and delightful, I knew I had to implement chip in my music.

[2013] #41 | Matthew Joseph Payne - Quintation

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WT: How did you first come into contact with the chiptune scene?

Matthew Joseph Payne: In high school, I played way too many instruments and gadgets in a band called Formerly Bridgeway. On one song - a rap about Mega Man - I provided interludes between verses by playing synths over parts of the music from Mega Man II for Game Boy, literally by playing the game during the verses to cue up the music and SFX I needed. Someone saw me doing this and told me "hey, there's this neat thing called LSDJ…". This was around 2001, so pretty early on in the modern LSDJ era of the chiptune scene. I ordered a cart, as you did in those days, and pumped out a few tunes, including one that also involved a "Fishing for Phonics" toy that I performed live at a music camp. I then summarily forgot about LSDJ for 10 years. At this point I had no clue whatsoever that there was any kind of community or scene surrounding this stuff.

[2013] #40 | DJ Cutman - Space Hustler

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WT: How did you first become aware of chiptune?

DJ Cutman: 8bitcollective.com, I went to the site almost every day. I loved the fact that there was a weekly top 10 chart; it made it easy to learn who were some of the best chiptune musicians and track down more of their music.

[2013] #39 | ChasingBleeps - Incredible

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WT: What was your first introduction to the scene?

ChasingBleEPs: The first time I had ever heard the term chiptune was during my 2nd year of Secondary school. At the time I listened to allot of artists like Nick Drake, Radicalface, Jose Gonzalez, stuff like that. I did not listen to any form of electronic music.

It was my friend Jack who brought up chiptune and introduced me to the genre. Jack had been introduced to it by his brother (SkyPope), and after that day all I listened to was Sabrepulse, Shirobon and Henry Homesweet. After a year I grew tired of the same old songs so I went back to listening to other music. My "chiptune phase" was over.....Or so I thought.

[2013] #38 | Kool Skull - Booty Toast

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WT: How did you first come into contact with chip music?

Kool Skull: My friend Lars (http://brainjuiceink.com) showed me the band Mindless Self Indulgence, and they had just released the "Animal" video by M Dot Strange. I looked up M Dot strange, and his movie "we are the strange" had a chiptune soundtrack. I hit him up and he showed me kittenrock.co.uk and that's always been my favourite chip label ever since.

[2013] #37 | Andrio - Transmit

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WT: How did you first come into contact with chip music?

Andrio: It was 2008 when I discovered the world of chipmusic and pixel art via the now defunct 8bitcollective. I was something like 12 years old at the time, and a pixel art friend of mine linked me to it. I posted pixel art for a year or so on 8bitcollective until I became inspired to write my own music. It was horrible at the time, but I have learned a lot since then, and yet I still have much to learn.

[2013] #36 | Poisoncut - Hidden Legacy

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Weekly Treats: How did you first come into contact with the chiptune scene?

Poisoncut: I don't know if you would call it 'the scene' but the first time I heard chiptune music would have been around 1990, playing copied amiga games as a kid. I often left the cracktros running at the start to listen to the music. Over the years I still listened to it occasionaly but what revived my interest in a big way was the 8-bit collective site.

[2013] #35 | The J. Arthur Keenes Band - Lost Bay

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Weekly Treats: How did you first come into contact with the chip scene?

The J. Arthur Keenes Band: I first found out about people making music on actual videogame hardware in 2006 when I was 14; I believe I actually read about it on Wikipedia in an article about gameboy music, found the best sounding name in the list of artists (Bit Shifter) and proceeded to have my mind blown on first listen of "Particle Charge" from his then recently released, now legendary "Information Chase" EP.  After that I found a buttload of great music that was being put out at the time on 8bitpeoples and otherwise: Anamanaguchi, PeeR, The Depreciation Guild, Tobiah, Random, David Sugar, etc...The idea that people could make music on real consoles and it could sound THAT good was incredible to me.  I started by sampling NES game sounds and using them in FL Studio, soon moved on to an LSDJ demo in an emulator, then I manned up and bought a cart.  In my youthful naivety I of course decided that everything I did had to be heard by everyone, so In looking for places to do such a thing and places to find new music I found 8bitcollective, micromusic, and probably a few more places no one remembers.

[2013] #34 | AndaruGO - Ice Wall

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WT: What was your first contact with the chiptune scene?

AndaruGO: My first contact with the chipmusic scene was through myspace in 2006.  I was getting really in to Japanese synth-pop and came across a band called Enie Meenie (https://myspace.com/eniemeenie).  Then somehow-- I managed to come across Sabrepulse's myspace page, and downloaded all of his albums for free off of his myspace.  I wanted to make chip music so bad, but I couldn't find any information about how it was made.  I ended up searching forever (close to 4 or 5 years off and on) until I found out how to make chip music with the Gameboy using LSDJ after watching Reformat the Planet in early 2011.

[2013] #33 | OxygenStar - SPACE RACE

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Weekly Treats: How were you first introduced to Chiptune and what cemented your place in the scene?

OxygenStar: I'm pretty sure my first exposure to chiptune was when I came across a video of Nullsleep performing on a NYC street. When I noticed he was using a gameboy, I had to delve further and find out all about it. However, composing on a gameboy with a tiny screen never appealed to me, so I starting composing chiptune on the NES initially via midiNES.

I had been on the forums for sometime prior to meeting anyone but my first contact with people in person was a random show put on in Brooklyn some years ago. This girl emailed me out of the blue asking me to play a "chiptune" show in Brooklyn. She asked me first (for some reason) and had no other artists in mind. So I blindly emailed some artists that I never spoke to or met before, and asked them to play. They all said yes. And that was cool! Those artists were minusbaby, glomag and 8GB. I have played many more shows with those folks since then. That was my first contact with the scene and I was immediately hooked/inspired from then on.

[2013] #32 | Jakim - High Tension

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WT: What was your first contact with the chip scene?

Jakim: Thanks to demoscene or to be more precise, tracker communities. As a kid, I met my first .MOD files on an old CD from 1996 and it just began. I started my work with music using Sound Club (my first music files had to be awful, I'm glad I don't have/remember them). After some tries I gave up with music. My first internet connection in 2005 opened a gate to modules.pl - a site concerned with tracked music - I've started once again with modules. A shift in chiptune direction was just a straightforward consequence. 

I do want to mention till 2006 I haven't had contact with thing called 'normal' music. Except some popular tunes I was free from mainstream music.

[2013] #31 | Electric Children - Emerald City Outrage

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WT: What was your first contact with the chip scene?

Electric Children: Way back in the dark ages of 2007. I started out just making generic pop electronic music and playing shows with my friends, regardless of the genre, until one of them introduced me to a couple of local artists, Fighter X and the now defunct Kids Get Hit By Buses. Since we all played some form of electronica we ended up playing a lot of shows together, so I was around the music so much it became more and more enticing, not just because it was made with video game devices, but I got very addicted to the sound of it in general. Chiptune junky 4 lyfe.

[2013] #30 | ABSRDST - Get Real

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WT: What was your first experience of chiptune?

ABSRDST: It's actually funny; I didn't really realize that there was a scene for chiptune. I had plugins that sounded like 8 bit, so I started making 8 bit music. I posted some of them to 4chan, and the good people on 4chan pointed me to chiptune.org, where I found Eric Byrnes (who happened to be running an 8 bit radio show out of my school) and the rest is history.

[2013] #29 | Decktonic - Any Time Any Place

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WT: First off, how and when did you first come into contact with the chiptune scene?

Decktonic: Years ago I discovered a few chiptunes artists via 8bitpeoples. I remember listening to a lot of David Sugar and little-scale on my iPod. The song that really stuck with me was "Come Back To Me" from little-scale's Error Repeat EP.

[2013] #28 | Seal of Quality - Slow Drive

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WT: To start, what was your first contact with the chiptune scene?

Seal of Quality: I think the first time I heard about this scene was when a friend of mine told me about the 8bitpeoples website - he had downloaded a Paza release if I remember well, and I was quite impressed when he made me listen to it! Then I downloaded some releases there, like Bitshifter, Nullsleep and so on... It wasn't long before I started investigating on how this music was made

[2013] #27 | Spaceman Fantastiques - Zen & The Art Of Lightcycle Maintenance

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WT: To begin with, what was your first contact with the chiptune scene?

Spaceman Fantastiques: Well I grew up playing video games since as long as I can remember, but I would say my first interaction with the chip community was about three years ago. Summer of 2010 was when I found 8bc.org.

[2013] #26 | A Art - beingscareoflivingyourlife

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WT: First up, how did you originally come into contact with the chipmusic scene?

A Art: Forums! Everyone started on the forums right? I was technically introduced to it by my good friend but only got into the 'scene' via the forums. I then moved to Melbourne where there is actually a physical scene! By that point I'd already been in contact with quite a few of the people in it though.

[2013] #25 | Solarbear - Animals Do Not Belong in the Street

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WT: To begin with, how did you first come into contact with the chiptune scene?

Solarbear: I guess it all started when I saw the movie "Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World". I loved the music in that movie, so I bought the soundtrack. Good stuff. The last track on it was a chiptune version of the song "Threshold" and it was, honestly, the first chiptune I'd ever heard. After a few Google searches and YouTube vids about chiptune I stumbled upon the documentary "Reformat the Planet" on Hulu and I was hooked! It was all downhill from there, haha!

[2013] #24 | Optimus Chad - Red Ranger

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WT: What was your first introduction to the chiptune scene?

Optimus Chad: I grew up with a Nintendo so playing through those games gave me a certain affection for the music. Games like Duck Tales, Batman and The Legend of Zelda had really killer soundtracks that I never forgot. I then found metal bands who covered various game tunes but that wasn't enough until I did some search on the internet and last.fm and found people who actually used the old game hardware to make the music. It was then that I found Wizwars and began listening to his music pretty heavily. Then I found Bubblegum Octopus, Kool Skull, then eventually the 8bitpeoples stuff. Wizwars' Gameboy Rock and Kool Skull's Gunk are still my 2 favourite chip releases of all time.

[2013] #23 | Smiletron - TRINITY

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WT: What was your first contact with the chiptune scene?

Smiletron:  I guess the first exposure to chipmusic I would have had would have to have been... about seven years ago now, through the now-mostly-defunct 8bitcollective. It gave me the opportunity to explore a world of music I had never known of before. Basic waveforms, archaic technology, focus on compositional prowess... It sucked me in. I had the chance to exchange knowledge and techniques with other artists, as well as provided an output where I could get external opinions on the music I was writing.

As far as the first chipmusic people to run across in life's travels... Probably Goatslacker! He showed me a number of things while I was homeless down in Florida four or five years ago. I owe him much gratitude.

[2013] #22 | The Hamlet - A Journey's End

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WT: How did you originally come into contact with the Chiptune scene?

The Hamlet: It was down to nostalgia I guess. I have fond memories playing on a variety of 8 bit consoles and home computers as a kid and the complex but 'bitty' soundtracks were always a massive part of these early adventures. Cut to about 7 years ago and I came across 'the advantage', their NES covers took me right back to the days of sitting on the floor as close to the TV as possible screaming at pixelated ducks. I was hooked again, and so I grabbed a NSF player and started trawling through the Nintendo back catalogue and enjoying a slice of my childhood. It wasn't long before I came across the newer original NSFs and the work of people like Rushjet1. It expanded from there really, as soon as I found people were making their own stuff I looked for it everywhere.

[2013] #21 | Comptroller - Stand Up! Yukawa!

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WT: How did you originally come into contact with the chiptune scene?

Comptroller: Back in 2006 I found my faulty old NES in a cupboard and looked online for a way to fix it. I ended up finding NES Dev forums and sites like 2a03.org, discovered people were making new music with these old machines, and got sucked in. I remember finding a video of Nullsleep playing some European club with a Game Boy & keyboard, people dancing like maniacs, and being amazed. The NSF Archive, 8 Bit Peoples catalogue & Nullsleep's MCK/MML tutorial were my main starting points.

[2013] #20 | el Musho - 0xDWARF

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WT: How did you first come into contact with the chiptune scene?

El Musho: When I was eleven or twelve I got a shareware CD with modplug tracker on it. It took me some time to learn how to use it but at thirteen I was spitting out midi-instrumented tracks at a steady pace. A while later I learned that the music from my favourite games (jazz jackrabbit and unreal tournament) were actually XM modules and a lifelong spree of stealing samples began.

In 2011 me and a friend decided to buy Gameboys to further progress in the chiptune scene, I was bored with milkytracker and thought that a real sound chip might spice things up (it did).