View Full Version : 8-Bit Weapon on MSNBC
digitalpress
10-02-2003, 07:28 AM
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
10-02-2003, 06:31 PM
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
10-02-2003, 06:34 PM
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
10-02-2003, 06:42 PM
Wicked tunes, ID love to go to one of those EURO concerts, thanks for the update DP
8bitweapon
10-03-2003, 12:11 PM
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 :D
djbeatmongrel
10-03-2003, 04:26 PM
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
10-06-2003, 12:56 PM
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
10-06-2003, 10:58 PM
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 ;)