Chiptune: 8-Bit Music Revived

Limitations can often spark creativity. When an artist is given a blank canvas, the endless possibilities can be overwhelming. Only when the artist decides the paint, image, and brushes to use does creativity really kick in.

This is the same for 8-bit music.

8-bit or Chiptune music is a genre consisting of and deriving from the video game soundtracks for retro gaming systems. While it’s easy to dismiss this genre as an out-dated and obsolete form of music, the composers and musicians that keep this style alive show notable ingenuity even.

Listen While You Play: Video Game Music

We praise video games for being visually stunting or deeply immersive, but often neglect the music aspects of games. Music sets the tone for the events happening on the screen. It has the ability to accent dramatic events, give musical themes for characters or locations, cause a ton of tension, or energize players to victory. It’s effects goes unnoticed at times, but music in video games are vital to the overall experience.

Musician Embraces Bitcoin Technology

For years, the music industry has been playing catch-up to the internet. Like most new technological advancements, the web disrupted the way the industry operated down to its fundamental goals. Although it brought a host of pirating issues and made traditional revenue streams obsolete,  it was a new way to sell, distribute, and market music that opened up countless ways of making money with new ones being discovered or improved on daily.

Low-fi. High-fi. True-fi?

Since its beginnings, the record industry has been push technology to reach one goal: to make recordings sound exactly like the studio session. All the software, hardware, microphones, cables, equipment, pre-production, post-production, editing, mixing, and mastering that a recording goes through are meticulously done to shape the sound and tone of a song exactly how the artists want. However, that’s not often the sound you hear that the end of your headphones. Studios have A-list equipment and speakers to get a clear, crisp sound that are not in standard headphones or even some of the high-end headphones because of practically and price. The hard work of countless studio engineers and producers unheard because headphones cannot pick up on the finer details of the edit.