[2013] #13 | Starpilot - Fleur Dans Un Voyage Psilocybine

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WT: What was your first introduction to non-game chiptune music?

Starpilot: I think it was the example programs in the c64 user's manual actually lol.

WT: What programs do you use, and what are your favourites?

S: Renoise is by far my favourite. I don't really use anything else these days. I used to use Milkytracker and LSDJ and cybertracker and goatracker.

[2013] #12 | Parallelis - Lazor Dragon Pizzeria

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WT: How did you first come into contact with chiptune, and what was your first experience with it?

Parallelis: I actually first discovered chipmusic through a Nintendo Power article covering the chip-hop group Supercommuter. I just thought it sounded like a really cool idea, with like, modern music being interpreted through old hardware. So I got the album, and that basically opened to door for me to the wonderful online world of chipmusic.

[2013] #11 | DKSTR - Stomper

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WT: Could you begin by telling us a bit about yourself and how you first came into contact with the chiptune scene?

D: I’ve always been a fan of videogame, ever since the late 80s when I got my hands on my dad’s work computer. During the 90s when I got my first modem I remember downloading demos and thought they were cool but kinda forgot the whole thing. Around 2000 I got into making electronic music almost by accident. At my new school around 2004 or so my friend Ville (Keff) introduced me to the micromusic scene and some of its artists. As a teenager I listened mostly to just punk rock, hip hop and some metal. Bit still I had done very primitive electronic music with basic waveforms and rough sounds (Mr. Oizo’s Analog Worms Attack was a huge influence for me), so chip music and its raw sound sucked me in almost instantly.

[2013] #10 | softRESET - Conscience

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WT: Could you tell us a little about yourself and how you first came into contact with chiptune please?

softRESET: Yeah, my name's Casey and I'm 20 years old. I really got into chiptune a few years ago; I was making really awful nintendocore under the alias Red Gyarados, and ended up befriending PANDAstar on Myspace. From that point on, I was completely hooked. I remember going right out and buying a used gameboy and a flash cart, only to be entirely discouraged by LSDJ's learning curve. Fast forward to last year, I decided to pick it back up and softRESET was born!

[2013] #09 | 505 - Chipjacker

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WT: Could you tell us a bit about yourself please, and how you first came in to writing chiptune?

505: Well, my name is Nils and I am 32 years old. My first contact with chipmusic was back in the 80s and especially in the beginning of the 90s when our family got an Atari 130XE computer with a tape recorder as a Xmas family gift. Back then my brother and I spent countless afternoons playing all those lovely 8-bit games such as Zybex, International Karate, Fort Apocalypse, Dropzone or Henry's House. The included game sounds were naturally produced by the soundchip (Pokey in this case) and actually I don't think we really thought specially of chiptunes back then. Chipmusic was simply the only computer music available beneath our horizon and it was stunning. Sooner or later we stumbled about the sound programming possibilities of BASIC and later even better and more impressive a music program called Black Magic Composer. With this program I remember to have made my first chipmusic composing steps. Sometimes, I wonder if the old 5.25" floppies still work.