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.

25 comments:

  1. 1480. That's enough to make a never ending video game.

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

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

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

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

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  8. I enjoyed that, thanks for sharing!

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  9. Thats awesome, thanks for share.

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

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

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

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  14. Always loved chiptunes. Pretty easy to make too.

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