[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.