[2013] #17 | Fauxhound - Jos

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

Fauxhound: Well, I first heard chipmusic, other than via video games, through a small variety of emotronic artists like PlayRadio!Play. It was a very loose form of chipmusic but it definitely inspired me to dig up other artists, like Henry Homesweetand Rushjet1, from the worldwide web. I was thrashing Henry's Pocket Monsters EP on a regular basis when my friend, Dove Bailey of futurnari andA Art , was like "I'm gunna put an order in for some stuff from kitsch-bent, we can get free shipping if you get off that emulator and buy an LSDJ cart!". So I got my first cart, modded my DMG, and decided to go see cTrix and 10k at a festival in New Zealand called Campus Alow Hum. It was during this festival, after watching NZ chip-hero Old Grey Wolf, we got talking with Tom and Chris and everyone decided to play for each other from Chris' car stereo in the car park, my passion for NZchip spawned!

[2013] #16 | Boaconstructor - Ft. Wenty VIP

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

Boaconstructor: Ah, this one's a pretty good story actually.. chiptune really fell on my lap. I was 16, walking around Seattle's yearly Memorial Day weekend festival with a few friends. Walk up on this semicircle of interesting looking dancing folks and decide to investigate. Sabrepulse, Fighter X, Electric Children (Circles at the time), McFiredrill, and Ovenrake are all getting their busk on. Asked one of the dancing dudes wtf these guys were doing and was blown away. I was really getting into dubstep and hardstyle (lol) at the time, and had only had a Gameboy when growing up, so I was definitely intrigued to say the least. Find out about the free "NW Chip Showcase" happening the next day and decide to go. Got to see Sabrepulse, Trash80, and Fighter X play in a small space with good sound. Turned into a fucking party. Sold for life.

[2013] #15 | bryface - Disk 3 of 977

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

bryface: This is interesting to me because of how the popular definition of chiptune has evolved over the years!  I can identify two distinct phases in my life where I "discovered" chiptune, and both phases are equally formative.

The first phase occurred in the early 90's when I was about 10 years old - this was when my older brother and I were discovering the world of dial-up BBSes.  It turned out that some of these bulletin boards' file collections had sections for .MOD files, which was really intriguing to me.  I mean, the very idea of something as intangible as music being encapsulated inside a digital file??  say what??  Anyway, I went ahead and started downloading.

[2013] #14 | AlexOgre - Henna

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

AlexOgre: My first introduction to the chiptune scene was I think in 2005 and started with The 8bits of Christmas compilation (8bitpeoples). Yerzmyey and Bit Shifter blew my mind! And I think since that time I had an idea to write chiptune myself! And of course I was shocked when I saw how people play their music right from game boy and I remember I thought that one day I will use this device too!