[2013] #08 | Jellica - Remoss33

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WT: Could you begin by giving us a bit of background info on yourself and how you got into chiptune please? 

Jellica: I am Jake. I am 33 years old. I live with my lovely girlfriend in a flat in Cambridge with a foster cat call poppy and she is black and white and quite old and deaf she is very cute and likes lots of cuddles and purrs a lot through her purr hole she is sleeping on the camel stool next to the radiator at the moment all of the cats in my life have loved the camel stool it is quite old. I had a c64 and we used to make tapes of the music with a cassette recorder next to the speaker of the television. I discovered tracking on the Amiga when we got Octamed on a magazine cover disk and me and my brother both got into it that way my brother still uses the Amiga to make music and he is very good at is because he has been doing it for so long. I played with fruity loops and Cubase for a bit but no one is allowed to hear that music but when I got the internet I discovered the HVSC, Micromusic.net and then I got an Amiga again and a Game Boy.

[2013] #07 | Vince Kaichan - Dog Days

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WT: To begin, could you please give us a background about yourself, what you do and how you came to write chiptune?

Vince Kaichan: Ever since I was really young I've been involved in music in some way shape or form. I started taking instrument lessons at 6 years old, and coincidentally that's about when I started 'writing' music; I was shown an introduction to the wondrous world of computer music through a copy of Cakewalk Studio that my dad had bought, haha. I didn't write anything really worth presenting until about 6 months after I started writing chip though.

Unfortunately, I don't remember exactly how I came to get into the chip community, and every time I tell the story it's bound to change somewhat. All I remember was that it involved Crystal Castles (LOL), Anamanaguchi, and strangely enough little-scale, back when he actually did Gameboy tracks; after a while I wound up stumbling on to 8bc. I finally bought a bleepbloop cart from Nonelectronics and a DMG from eBay around October/November 2010, and the rest is history, pretty much.

[2013] #06 | Steve - Shinjuku Rainbow Rave

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WT: Could you tell us a little bit about yourself, where you’re based, and how you first discovered the chiptune scene please?

Steven: Yo! I'm Steve, I've been repping the Bromley Massive since '92, and I make garish rave music using junk consumer electronics.

I first discovered chipmusic in the womb, as my parents whiled away pregnancy with their NES. I was introduced to the new wave of artists using old sound chips via micromusic.net, which I think stands as one of the greatest achievements of the internet age.

[2013] #05 | Bright Primate ft. Force Of Will - Pizza Hut Taco Bell

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WT: How did you first come into contact with the chiptune scene and what was your first foray into writing in the medium?

James: Lydia and I were originally in an indie band (called 'Fugitive Kind') for a few years, touring around and doing the whole rock scene thing. We had just gotten things going really well and had tracks on the radio, etc. etc., when randomly the band just collapsed! Long story short, the other musicians just didn't want to put in the effort, so all the hard work Lydia and I put in for like years just POOF was gone! We had already had a few line-up changes, and were sick of having to deal with all that just to drag a drummer and bass player around, so we vowed that if we were to continue with music, it would just be the two of us. But it needed to be something that sounded big and rocking enough to handle Lydia's vocals, which was no simple thing. Just on my own time, I was looking into messing around with noisy/circuit bent stuff a la Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, when I stumbled upon a gameboy moded on the Circuit Ben (a notable hardware hacker dude) page, and with it some links to YouTube vids of early LSDJ tracks by guys like Random and Combat Dave (this was probably 2007 or something). I grabbed a cart for fun to play around with, but NEVER thought it would turn into something that Lydia would actually want to perform with.