What Happened to Chiptune? – Details, episodes & analysis

Music Used:

- Space Town - What Happened to Chiptune Theme

- Matthew Joseph Payne - Civil Disobedience is Civil Defense

Reference: 

- Eliot Lash’s Visuals Setup - https://www.eliotlash.com/works/live-music-visuals

- Eliot Lash’s Game Music Visualizer - https://www.eliotlash.com/works/game-visualizer-1

- Max Capacity - https://linktr.ee/maxcapa.city

- Triggerboy - https://www.eliotlash.com/works/triggerboy

- Eliot Lash’s Games Portfolio - https://www.eliotlash.com/

- Tugboat (Jesse Novak) - https://archive.org/details/CDK030

- Slime Girls - https://slimegirls.bandcamp.com/album/as-if-youre-never-hurt

- Olde English - https://www.oldeenglish.org/

Music Used:

Space Town - What Happened to Chiptune Theme

dot.AY - Vibraslop

Reference:

- Square Sounds Melbourne - https://www.squaresoundsfestival.com/

- Karlheinz Stockhausen - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlheinz_Stockhausen

- Music Concrete - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musique_concrète](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musique_concr%C3%A8te)

- Henry Homesweet - https://x.com/henryhomesweet

- 10k Free Men and their Families/Tom Gilmore - http://10kfreemen.com/

- Girl Talk - https://www.girltalkmusic.com/

- Dan Deacon - https://dandeacon.com/

- Crystal Castles - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Castles

- Pictureplane - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictureplane

- Kristy Dossor - [https://www.sifter.com.au/post/chiptune-is-an-instrument-not-a-genre-square-sounds-festival-2020](https://www.instagram.com/postitmandala/)

- Eugene Davoren-Britton - https://www.instagram.com/hyphencutlery/

- Little-scale - http://little-scale.blogspot.com/

- cTrix - https://ctrix.net/

- Sound Bytes - https://www.facebook.com/SoundBytesOz/

- Doshy - https://ra.co/dj/doshy

- Robert Parker - https://www.instagram.com/robertparkerofficial/?hl=en

- Tom Foolery and the Family Jewelry - https://tomfooleryandthefamilyjewellery.bandcamp.com/

- Jamatar - https://jamatar.bandcamp.com/

- Reception Festival - https://receptionfestival.com/

- Melbourne Chiptune Academy - https://chiptuneacademy.com.au/

- Avrilcadabra - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8OqqNTPR_s9TNIXiBZfOcg

Corrections: Micropalooza was actually started in 2003 instead of 2002 as stated in the episode. Apologies for the confusion!

Reference:

- Micropalooza - https://www.portlandmercury.com/music/2003/12/24/30443/wiggle-it-that-8-bit

- Dataport - https://www.instagram.com/dataportpdx/?hl=en

- 2 Player Productions - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Player_Productions

Music Used:

- Space Town - What Happened to Chiptune Theme

- Moon Talk - As We Were

• References
  • Mother’s Day (Film) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081186/
  • Toxic Avenger (Film) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090190/
  • OB-6 (Synthesizer) - https://oberheim.com/products/ob-6/
  • Troma - https://www.troma.com/
  • 8-bit Punk (Wired article by Malcolm Mclaren) - https://www.wired.com/2003/11/mclaren/
  • The Tank (NYC Venue) - https://thetanknyc.org/
  • Mackenzie Wark (writer + scholar) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKenzie_Wark
  • Magfest (Annual music and games festival) - https://www.magfest.org/
• Music Used
  • What Happened to Chiptune Theme - Space Town
  • Roland & the Lamprey - Glomag

References:

Daedalus Controllerism - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spa4emMwhOM

Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture by Philip Auslander - https://www.routledge.com/Liveness-Performance-in-a-Mediatized-Culture/Auslander/p/book/9780367468170

Playing with Something that Runs by Mark J. Butler - https://global.oup.com/academic/product/playing-with-something-that-runs-9780195393620

Push: Software Design and the Cultural Politics of Music Production by Mike D’Errico - https://global.oup.com/ushe/product/push-9780190943318?cc=gb&lang=en

Music Used:

Space Town - What Happened to Chiptune Theme

The Attic Bits - Command Line Fail

Music Used:

Space Town - What Happened to Chiptune Theme

minusbaby - Una Gran Parte de Tu Mente Rebanada

minusbaby - You Were Strong

minusbaby - Una Gran Parte de Tu Mente Rebanada (Live at Blip Festival 2011)

minusbaby - BIAS, Pt. 1

Music used:

Space Town - What Happened to Chiptune Theme

Awkward Terrible & Glowing Stars - George Jetson's Inflatable Cop

The Glowing Stars - Got It Bad

Matthew Joseph Payne - Pewter Handles

Matthew Joseph Payne - i think we're ready - cursed vibes (from audio log #25 2023_03_03)

Music used:

Space Town - What Happened to Chiptune Theme

Peter Swimm - Too Much!

Reference:

Pulsewave, a monthly chiptune event series in NYC: https://pulsewave.rip/

True Chip Till Death, a website chronicling all things chiptune: https://truechiptilldeath.com/

You can find Peter online at peterswimm.com.

Music in order of appearance:

Space Town - What Happened to Chiptune Theme

Wizwars - Right Back To You

Reference:

Blip Festival, formerly an annual festival centered around chiptune held in NYC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blip_Festival

Survey of the LA Chiptune scene and 8BitLA/Freq.Fest in particular: https://www.vice.com/en/article/gvqwk7/las-chiptune-scene-is-more-than-just-nerds-with-game-boys

In this episode we mistakenly refer to the artist Lo-bat as Italian - Lo-bat is a Belgian artist. Apologies for the mistake!

Music in order of appearance:

Space Town - What Happened to Chiptune Theme

Wizwars - Game Boy Rock!! (performed at Shizzfest 2 at the Trunk Space)

Wizwars - The Violator

Wizwars - I Am Wizwars (Real Los Angeles Chipthrash)

Wizwars - Requiem For A Broken Heart

Wizwars - Right Back To You

Reference:

Reformat The Planet, a documentary about chiptune and the Blip Festival in particular: https://reformattheplanet.vhx.tv/

LittleSoundDJ(LSDJ), a piece of music software written specifically for the Nintendo Gameboy: https://www.littlesounddj.com/lsd/index.php

ObsoleteFM, an event series and collective based in LA that was active during 2011: https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/pop-hiss/story/2011-07-01/saturday-obsolete-collectives-monthly-chiptune-showcase-in-downtown-l-a

Blip Festival, formerly an annual festival centered around chiptune held in NYC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blip_Festival

Survey of the LA Chiptune scene and 8BitLA/Freq.Fest in particular: https://www.vice.com/en/article/gvqwk7/las-chiptune-scene-is-more-than-just-nerds-with-game-boys