April 2013
13 posts
“My favourite soundtracks are definitely The Secret Of Monkey Island One and Two...”
– Jan from Jahtari, in an interview at Niceup
“Honestly, this guy turns up, whose name’s Jan, first time I met him was at...”
– Fascinating interview of Solo Banton in United Reggae
““if you think about it, Japan is strongly tied into Jamaican and Western...”
– Jahpan versus Jamaica, in Jahtari magazine.
Definitely close to Basile Zimmermann’s work
““On the other hand Dub and reggae are few on the whole.
You will be able...”
– says aka_obi at SID Media Lab
“in this explosion of incredible diversity, linguistic relations have marked by...”
– Edouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 2010, University of Michigan Press.
March 2013
1 post
February 2013
3 posts
Megadrive Riddim - Balkan remix
Produced with a...
January 2013
15 posts
“My thesis shows clearly how there is a sort of ‘anti-nostalgia’ among...”
– goto80 in a comment about his post on Retromania. I’m quite interested in this notion that there is not necessarily a fetishization of the retroculture, and that chiptune music can be new and original.
“After his studies as an engineer, Tanaka gained his job at Nintendo through a ...”
– An excerpt from “8-Bit Heroes: A Look into the Development and Presence of Early Video Game Music in Popular Culture” by Anthony Martello (2010)
This looks like an interesting anecdote to describe circulation between reggae-dub and 8 bits culture.
“I’d argue, though, that a move towards 8-Bit music is another iteration of...”
– tendenzroman
Different components of chip music
Frequency modulation synthesis with FM sound chips.
SID Music (see previous post)
Use of trackers
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Patent for the The MOS Technology 6581/8580 SID... →
The MOS Technology 6581/8580 SID (Sound Interface Device) is the built-in Programmable Sound Generator chip of Commodore’s CBM-II, Commodore 64, Commodore 128 and Commodore MAX Machine home computers. It was one of the first sound chips of its kind to be included in a home computer prior to the digital sound revolution.
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"droids @ the consoles" →
“This site is an 8-BIT reggae tribute community, where 8-BIT reggae artists, SID dubbers, chipreggae trackers, digital laptop reggae producers, fans and listeners from all over the globe can join and unite.”
The terms used here are strikingly intriguing.
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“Instead of looking for obligatory trends, dominant means or imperative points of...”
– Zielinski, Siegfried. Deep Time of the Media: Towards an Archaelogy of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006.
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“The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend...”
– Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, The Medium is the Massage, pp. 73-74
Xinge Yehaiyahann (Cha Cha) - They Lie.
Excellent...
December 2012
22 posts
“Les « musiques du monde », la world music relèvent souvent de...”
– François Laplantine, 2002.
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“The more popular tools of the chipmusic (or chiptune, or 8bit) trade were made...”
– “A brief history of chip music” by Thomas Gilmore, 2012.
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“gameboy happiness bass”, “8 bit reggae”, “8 bit...”
– Fantastic tags used on Soundcloud.
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“ A la Martinique, j’avais visité des rhumeries rustiques et négligées; on...”
– Claude Levi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques.
“When the industrial and mechanical environment first enveloped the old agrarian...”
– Marshall McLuhan, Art as Anti-Environment, Art News Annual 31, 1966, 55-8.
Thanks Douglas for this reference.
“The project has five main points:
1. Opposition to dead media. Media never...”
– Garnet Hertz and Jussi Parikka’s ‘Zombie Media‘ project
“El «neobarroco» es simplemente un «aire de tiempo» que invade muchos fenómenos...”
– Calabrese, Omar (1994) La Era Neobarroca. (Madrid: Cátedra)
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“Qu’est-ce qu’une poétique de la relation ? […]...”
– Edouard Glissant et Patrick Chamoiseau, L’intraitable beauté du monde, 2009
