![]() Then came Johan Kotlinski’s LSDJ (Little Sound Disc Jockey), which was even more of a revolution, as it allowed for real-time, free-hand wave-form drawing and real synth-modeling capabilities like resonant filters and arpeggiators, not to mention having a sample bank of nearly every drum machine ever made. Nanoloop, developed by Oliver Wittchow, is a sound-editing and sequencer application that was made famous on 2002’s Nanoloop 1.0 comp. Two notables were both designed for the original Gameboy. Soon, sequestered hardware hackers were creating home-brewed ROMs to interface with the consoles. They called it Chiptune, and by utilizing the simple sawtooth, sine, and pulse waves encoded in various consoles’ soundboards, a new realm of electronic music and composition was opened. In the mid-’80s to early-’90s, a music scene developed around the primitive 8-bit soundcards of now seemingly ancient computers and game consoles. Sampling video game sounds and delivering a message of relinquishing all of one’s money at the arcade, it was a herald in breaking down the walls between the video game world and the music industry. In 1982, Buckner & Garcia’s seminal Pac-Man Fever spawned Billboard toppers such as “Do the Donkey Kong” and the self-titled track. And while the game doesn’t account for the pacifiers and glowsticks, it proved to be even more prophetically poetic in its suppositions that many of these pill-munching party people would eventually wind up chasing ghosts. In fact, by the dawn of the rave era, many people were doing the very things they had grown up watching Pac-Man do. But it would be naive to think a technological novelty so earth-shattering as the video game would not wind up affecting other aspects of our culture, both musical and sociological. Most everyone has heard of that little satiric meme made famous by British comedian Marcus Brigstocke. I mean, if Pac Man affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.” Others: Neon Hunk, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Atari Teenage Riot, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, DAT Politics Styles: Gameboy-gabber, chiptune, happy hardcore, experimental, 8-bit grindcore ![]()
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