The death of 8 Bit music (good riddance)

[Comptroller]

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.

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?

[StewCat]

does any of this really matter? i mean - you cant take 8bit music with you when you die? so whats all the moaning about?

thats my thought of the day...

[milner]

i think the thing is there will always be people wno put across their version of a certain type of music which people do not enjoy. Not everyone is a fan of everyband in the genre they like.

[emergency72]

Originally Posted by Comptroller

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?

Come on FFS! Theres NO SUCH THING as 8 bit music. Computer game music, in the 8 bit day sounded that way BECAUSE THATS ALL THEY COULD DO!!!...as soon as newer consoles came on the go which could use 16 bit sampled music, the musicians composed real music...do you think anyone writing music for NES games really thought "yeah this is amazing 8 bit toonz" instead of "christ this sounds so pish, but its all this stupid console is capable of producing" !!!