[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.