There’s a really cool interview with YMCK (yay!) on VH1 Game Break. (Link after the break)
zug: oh QQ I hope chiptunes stays underground so I can have a subculture to cling to
I think chiptune will get big, but not huge-big. Maybe gothtopic big at apex. There will only be 1 ‘first computer synthesis’ sound, no matter how technology progresses, and only one ‘first video games ever’ concept around in culture. So even in the far-far future retro electro ‘back to the roots’ will be square and sine waves.
zug: I think it’s made it’s mark already in like beck and madonna and gwen stefani. but I don’t think people have the attention span for just and only beeps
‘People’ being of course the society du jour. I on the othe hand will like it long after the fad passes.
But brace for the wave if you haven’t been already for the past couple years… it’s about to get trendy in here.
Here’s a link to my favorite chiptune-ist and my favorite song of his, appropriate for discussion:
http://virt.vgmix.com/music/arrange/virt_-_Thong_Song_%28GameboyMix%29.mp3