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Originally Posted by Stripey
Ppl like colonopenbracket irritate me because such people already have a dated concept of what music is, - its as if suddenly they have discovered how to use a computar to maek some oldskool BLEEPZ etc. and prancing around on stage with disconnected keyboards pretending to play along with it pretty much demonstrates what these ppl are all about.
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I agree that that sort of thing is extremely lame, but then I don't think that's necessarily representative of 8bit music in general. Most 8bit acts I'm aware of (individuals, mostly) program music for a certain platform, take the Game Boy / NES / whatever on stage & then play the music through it. Of course, this mainly just involves hitting start and letting it run its course, not much in the way of real 'performance', but that seems to me to be very far away from the shitty ironic posturing described above.
I suppose what I'm getting at is, is the above also considered deplorable? And if so, why?