CHIPTUNES the thread

A musician's chiptune setup, involving Game Boy handheld gaming consoles


Chiptune, also known as chip music or 8-bit music, is a style of synthesized electronic music made using the programmable sound generator (PSG) sound chips or synthesizers in vintage arcade machines, computers and video game consoles. The term is commonly used to refer to tracker format music which intentionally sounds similar to older PSG-created music (this is the original meaning of the term), as well as music that combines PSG sounds with modern musical styles. It has been described as "an interpretation of many genres" since any existing song can be arranged in a chiptune style defined more by choice of instrument and timbre than specific style elements.


https://chipmusic.org/
http://www.chiptune.com/

https://www.last.fm/tag/chiptune
https://www.last.fm/tag/chiptune/artists

Chiptune is a style of electronic music where all sounds are created using vintage computers, arcade machines, calculators or video game console sound chips. More recently, the term has also been used to describe music that sounds like genuine chip music but that is created using more advanced technology, such as software emulators. Vintage chips provide a small number of channels to work with, each creating a different sound wave. For example, the chip in the Nintendo Entertainment System has 5 channels: two pulse waves, one triangle wave, one white noise channel, and one DPCM channel which was also capable of pulse-code modulation (PCM) sound. Composers developed techniques to overcome limitations of the chips, such as using fast arpeggios to mimic chords.

It has been described as "an interpretation of many genres" since any existing song can be arranged in a chiptune style defined more by choice of instrument and timbre than specific style elements.

Chiptune subgenres include: chipbreak, chipstep, bitpop, chipwave, bitcore, chiphop and more.

MASTER BOOT RECORD - Castlevania - Bloody Tears




MASTER BOOT RECORD - Castlevania: Vampire Killer




MASTER BOOT RECORD - DOOM




MASTER BOOT RECORD - Duke Nukem




MASTER BOOT RECORD - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle




MASTER BOOT RECORD - CONTRA




MASTER BOOT RECORD - Mega Man 2




MASTER BOOT RECORD - Altered Beast

crashfaster - Never Let Me Down Again




crashfaster - tonight




Crashfaster - Grind




crashfaster - anthem

Ephixa & Bossfight - Subside




Abducted By Sharks - Bring Forth My Armor




Electric Children YOU ARE 02 I AM

Anamanaguchi - Endless Fantasy


Watch Out For Snakes - Fight Those Invisible Ninjas (Official Music Video)




Watch Out For Snakes - Cry Little Sister

Tamagato
by Tamagato

Bossfight - Caps On, Hats Off








Youtube: Bossfight - Bronco Space Program EP
Bandcamp: https://bossfightmusic.bandcamp.com/


Bossfight - Milky Ways [Redux]




meganeko - Milkshake [Bossfight Remix]

STAHLSCHLAG is dipping his toe into chiptunes

Pixeled
by STAHLSCHLAG

Techno Mage - Escape Velocity




Techno Mage - Renegade




Techno Mage - Precognition

VULTA - Swarm (Chipwave / Chiptune)




Ankh Wave - Aimless Driver [Music Video] - Synthwave / Retrowave / Chipwave / Chiptune





Rise of the Chipmaster
by Turbo Knight




Rise of the Chipmaster 2.0
by Turbo Knight




Rise of the Chipmaster
by Turbo Knight




Turbo Knight & EPHMERIX - Press Play On Tape (Synthwave / Cyberpunk)




Turbo Knight & EPHMERIX - Press Play On Tape
by Turbo Knight

LukHash - Keygen (Official Visualizer) [ Chiptune / Chipmusic / 8-bit ]




LukHash - Amiga




LukHash - Video Games




Lukhash - 8 Bit Warrior




SPY vs. SPY (1984) - 🎹 C64 REMIX [LukHash]




LUKHASH - WALKMAN // 🎹+🕹️=🔥




LukHash - CyberChip - The Other Side 6581R2 0983 KR




LukHash - CYBERCHIP - pure chiptune album crafted and recorded on Commodore 64 and real SID 6581 & 8580




LukHash - Synthwave/Outrun song as 8bit Chiptune made on Commodore 64 tracker & played by a real SID chip 8580




LukHash - Cyberpunk/Synthwave song as 8-bit Chiptune made on Commodore 64 tracker played by real SID chip 8580




LukHash - 'PROXIMA' transcribed into C64 8-bit chiptune (Commodore 64 SID 8580 R5)




LukHash - CyberChip - Another World 6581R4AR 2786 S HK




Virtual Burnout
by LukHash




CyberChip
by LukHash




C64 reMIXed
by LukHash

See Colin Slash -  Hunting Baseballs...In The Jungle


Everything Goes Cold - Moon Base 2 - Shuttle Launch

Beckett - Select Your Player! from Pixel Perfect




Beckett - The Search of 34 (SNES Edition)





Pixel Perfect
by Beckett




Inspiring tracks, amazing art, graphical power... all fired into your childhood brain in the final boss stage battle of... the Console Wars.

'Pixel Perfect' is a selection of tracks greatly inspired by various games that blew my mind in the 80s and 90s. You will be able to hear nuggets of nostalgic gold and morsels of juicy retro dreams, things that, to this day, are ground breaking and inspiring to me for the music I create.

Along side the 15 tracks of retro goodness, I teamed up with LENAPIXELS The 'TopRun' art designer and creator to make every pixel count for the radical cover!

I remember back in 1997 writing to Acclaim and Konami, asking if they needed a 16 year old naive composer to write their next top trax... I wonder if they ever received my demo tape of synthy dreams?

Enjoy, Share, Listen, Download and Playlist. It's also on all the platforms like Spotify and Apple.

released July 7, 2023

Carbon Killer - People of the Night (8 bit)




8 bit SUN
by CARBON KILLER

Arcade High - Rise From Your Grave




Arcade High - Rise From Your Graves




Arcade High - Arcade Anthem




Arcade High - Select Start




Arcade High - Pixel Passion




Arcade High - High Score Summer




Arcade High - Night of the Genesis




Arcade High - Outrun This!