The essence of chip music is in reverse engineering an electronic interface - whether it's a Game Boy or a computer's sound chip - and subverting its original design. Chip music can be made using run-of-the-mill equipment, like a Casio keyboard, but first the insides must be scrambled. The lo-fi sound of the White Stripes and their ilk has a certain aesthetic kinship with chip music, but it's less tech-centric and not nearly as subversive. Kraftwerk might be the grandfathers of chip music - like today's reversible engineers, they invented many of their instruments. As for programs like Pro Tools, chip musicians don't think they're really creative. The sound isn't generated by circuitry, and you can't alter it by twisting a knob.
This ties in with the CasioNova piece posted and with the somewhat nebulous casiopunk aesthetic. And with vinyl fetishism; chip musicians apparently scorn CDs, not to mention MP3s. Though the article raises two questions:
Btw, McLaren's next album, Fashionbeast, will be all chip music; could it be the Duck Rock of the 21st century?
yes, it is clever and somehow logical that malcolm mclaren jumps on the chip music/micromuic bandwagon. chip music is a real fresh trend after all that over-produced shit_pop, r&b, hiphop etc.
but if you wanna listen to the finiest chip tunez for free, go and check http://micromusic.net
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mclaren's new album: fashionbeast will be great
Malcolm McLaren is a poser. Chip music has been around for a long time. I'm surprised Wired printed this tripe considering I have an issue of Wired magazine from 1997 with a large spread on the demo scene.
And the "seminal moment" of the genre that he mentions didn't happen three years ago, it happened when Kraftwerk turned up!
Not to mention that the whole thing really misses the point of chip music. As a friend just said to me, "it's missing the advantages and everything that's significant about it and just turned it into a music genre".
Chip music came about because of the limitations of a _chip_ that the music was programmed for. These guys are saying "this is chip music" and pointing to a bit of vinyl. It's not even digital anymore!
Heh. I hear what you're saying, Sam.
What about fish-and-chip music?
Fish-and-chip music is a whole other kettle of fish!
Would that include bands like Minimum Chips and Clag (who did a song titled "Chips & Gravy")?
I was actually thinking more along the lines of the Devilfish mod for the TB-303
Ah, you mean acieeed retro, or possibly feral busker djembes-and-303s jamming?
Dear curious people,
You might be reading this words because youre giving interest to Game Boy music & Chip music ...
Fortunately in the end the Web is a wonderful space to collect tight informations !
So if you would like to know the common denominator between Chip music, Game Boy, LSDj, Chip musicians, Role Model, Mark DeNardo, Puss, AdLib Sinner Forks, Bit Shifter, The Hardliner, Lo-Bat, Covox, (Glomag and Nullsleep as well), Ivry Sur Seine, and consequently Malcolm McLaren, Wired, 8-bit Punk, Rock 'n' Roll Gameboy, Wild Strawberries, Foxy Lady, Stephan Grieder, C-Men ... and the FashionBeast Party (Fashion Beast Party) ... amongst others ...
The answer is Boy Playground, a Lo-Tech trip to GameBoy Chip music, a worldwide project/album developed by Relax Beat from March 2002, and announced officially for the first time via the 12 Mini-Klik by Koro Osanago ...
Boy Playground, an introduction to Chip music:
http://www.relaxbeat.com/boyplayground.htm
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Jacques & Thierry
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