8-Bit Weapon on MSNBC

[digitalpress]

My old pal and CGE entertainment director Seth and some of the gang at micromusic.net have been featured in an article on MSNBC about the culture of "low-tech music" styled and influenced by video game themes and samples.

Worth reading.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/972272.asp?0dm=L11XL

Congrats on the coverage, Seth!

[odysseyzine]

I was just dropping in to post about this! I've been listening to the site's radio feature off & on all day. It's very catchy, and I don't even like electronic music.

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

Darn MSNBC, always spying on me and trying to beat me to it. The 8-Bit Weapon CD was gonna be my music feature next week! Bah. It still will be.

[Classicgamesdepot]

Wicked tunes, ID love to go to one of those EURO concerts, thanks for the update DP

[8bitweapon]

Yeah, its shit kool...even though he forgot the word "music" from my big quote lol...I hope he fixed it..( I emailed him)

-8bw

[djbeatmongrel]

this is news to me. i've heard one or two electronic music songs using old video game sounds but i never knew it was a trend.

if you guys want, i have made a song a little while ago that uses loads of gameboy sounds that i sampled from my collection. heres the link http://www.soundclick.com/kratedigga, the songs called liberation

tell me what ya'll think[/b]

[8bitweapon]

this is news to me. i've heard one or two electronic music songs using old video game sounds but i never knew it was a trend.

if you guys want, i have made a song a little while ago that uses loads of gameboy sounds that i sampled from my collection. heres the link http://www.soundclick.com/kratedigga, the songs called liberation

tell me what ya'll think[/b]

You should upload it to www.micromusic.net! Good stuff!

-8bw

[Ed Oscuro]

From the article:

The resulting sounds were big and blocky and often about as musical as a dentist humming to the sound of his drill. But they were memorable and — to an 8-bit music enthusiast at least — extremely pure.

Damn straight! Especially like that Sega Mega Drive music, the good stuff that is. Not too fine, not too simple -- just the way all good things are ;)