Monday, 21 March 2011

Chiptune

To some it may sound ridiculous, others may find it's highly pitched tones, 8-bit samples and often fast tempo unfitting for their tastes. Those people don't know shit, because chiptune music is the most epic musical form ever conceived by man kind, the pinnacle of the science and understanding of the audible sounds. Don't believe me? Listen to this.




Or this.



Chiptune music is also often referred to as 8-bit videogame or Keygen music, because those are the two forms this genre has been made most popular trough. The latter is making it extremely hard to track down the creator of the tune (or any other information about it whatsoever), because keygen tracks are named only by the name of the software/game they're made for and the group that cracked it/made the keygen.

If you're interested, check out the Keygen Jukebox. It's got exactly 1480 tracks in it's collection right now and they're constantly making new entries. Have in mind tho, that there are minor exceptions where some of the music isn't exclusively chiptune. But those are only a few songs, so you have nothing to worry about.
Posted by Polybius at 3/21/2011 10:56:00 pm
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25 comments:

  1. D421 March 2011 at 23:25

    1480. That's enough to make a never ending video game.

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  2. Daniella22 March 2011 at 00:00

    finally, another person who's into chiptune...

    I hope to read more posts about this!

    and thanks for the keygen jukebox <3

    Hope you get to follow my blog :3

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  3. leanmeansteen22 March 2011 at 00:41

    turrican! that's a name i haven't heard in a long time. megaman and the old dbz games on snes had some of my favorite chiptunes.

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  4. Jay22 March 2011 at 03:12

    old school!

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  5. Astronomy Pirate22 March 2011 at 04:21

    Chiptunes is some great stuff, I downloaded a bunch awhile ago.

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  6. Patti D.22 March 2011 at 10:34

    Awesome, I remember playing turrican in my old Commodore 64, nice tunes.

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  7. Unknown22 March 2011 at 15:20

    chiptune rocks

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  8. Greg22 March 2011 at 15:35

    haha so cool

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  9. Zed22 March 2011 at 15:38

    Nice. Check my music blog, no chiptunes yet but I'll post some soon!

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  10. tobiasroehmer22 March 2011 at 15:40

    nostalgic nice :D

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  11. Gnyte22 March 2011 at 15:50

    I wish to have these...

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  12. obi23 March 2011 at 06:25

    very cool thx ;)

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  13. A.C.Brown23 March 2011 at 12:54

    good old chiptunes. old school gaming had some of the best music

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  14. PvtCarlin23 March 2011 at 17:14

    I enjoyed that, thanks for sharing!

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  15. Brett H.23 March 2011 at 21:27

    Thats awesome, thanks for share.

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  16. Ingönyama23 March 2011 at 21:29

    awww. reminds me of my childhood.
    playing games all day long.

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  17. Asty23 March 2011 at 21:30

    I like a LOT of Anamanaguchi stuff, also I'm being very entertained by the Jukebox

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  18. dreamatlantic23 March 2011 at 21:32

    Diggin it man

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  19. Tibble23 March 2011 at 21:32

    8 bits of epic. +1 follow

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  20. Chrizzy23 March 2011 at 21:50

    nice post

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  21. DorfinAllDay24 March 2011 at 10:34

    too beautiful for mortal ears

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  22. DorfinAllDay24 March 2011 at 10:35

    also followed

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  23. Me24 March 2011 at 12:05

    oh I remember back when I used to pirate software I'd keep the crack open just to listen to the music!

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  24. Anonymous27 March 2011 at 21:13

    I love chiptune, the version of Dark Side of the Moon is very enjoyable.

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  25. Mush27 March 2011 at 21:26

    Always loved chiptunes. Pretty easy to make too.

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