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¶3 WHAT MAKES CHIP-MUSIC SO GOOD ?
¶2By THE CLASH of ANGELICA
¶1 Many people think that chip-tunes
is the greatest, and other people
think it stinks, but why ? Well, as
I'm a musician myself, I would like to
share some of my own opinions on the
subject, because I think that it
concerns many of the scene-guys of
today. So, here we go.....
About 7, or maybe 8 years ago, a
new computer was invented to the
world;Commodore 64. At that time, the
C-64 was a great machine, with great
graphics and nice music, cool code
(compared to similar machines), and so
on.... Well, actually, I did not own
a C-64 my own, so my point here is
that the chip-music was born on that
special computer. Visiting friends
who owned C-64, was always very nice,
and I did as often as I could !
Suddenly one day, a new computer came
around in the stores, and so everybody
ran to buy this new computer:¶3AMIGA 500
¶1was born ¶3! ¶1Well, I guess you all know
this story from before of, so lets
jump to where we are today.....
....Some musicians of today are
more known for their career as a
chip-tune composer than for making
music with "real" instruments. In a
way, you may say that the chip- music
is made of only "computerized" sounds,
and that it sounds a lot different
from, for instance, synth- music. I,
personally, think it is a lot easyer
to make chip-music than it is to make
"real" music, but on the other hand, I
don't think that people who have
specialized them- selves on
chip-tunes, had that in mind when they
first decided to do so ! I think that
one of the main- reasons for composing
chip-modules, is that the music is
"born" on the C-64, and as, maybe more
than ¶350 ¶1% of all ¶3AMIGA¶1-owners had C-64
before they bought ¶3AMIGA¶1, it certainly
has something to do with that !
So, what is actually chip-music ?
I guess that every ¶3AMIGA ¶1owner have
heard once or another. But just to
clear some things, I will shortly
explain what chip-music is to me. The
music is always built on chip-
instruments, with sometimes only drums
sampled. (This is at least how I do
it myself....) It is also very often a
very "happy" melody, if you understand
what I mean. Bass is also very often
high-sounded, compa- red (What is this
word ? -Ed) to the drums. The
arpegio in these tunes, are also very
frequent. This is the chords in these
modules. Besides, it's often only a
couple of patterns long, and this is
also one of the reasons that these
modules often are very short. Whether
that is good or bad, I actually don't
know, but as chip-tunes frequently
appears on introes and loaders, I
guess it's positive ! On the other
hand, this music is because of it's
lenght often monotonous. Maybe you
think I'm wrong, but this is my own
opinion about it. Anyhow, you might
think that I don't like chip-music,
(because I didn't own a C-64 ?) but
still, I like chip-tunes very much !
¶2 Ok, I guess I've written enough
about this subject by now, but it
would be very nice if some of you guys
(musicians ?) out there would respond
to this article ! After all, I like
this kind of music, so it would be
nice to hear from a guy who think it
stinks, or at least do not like it !
Signed:¶3THE CLASH ¶2of ¶3ANGELICA