Sabrepulse/what do you think of 8-bit?

[ExopoliticalIdealist]

Is the rhythm to random?
As for myself, it makes me want to do uppers.lol

[Guybrush]

If you wanna make a thread about 8-bit music, you should perhaps be aware that it has a very small audience and by your post, very few will actually fully understand what 8-bit music means or sounds like and much fewer than that will actually understand who Sabrepulse is. If you make a thread, make an effort.

I'm just old enough to remember the real 8-bit era well and I've made a lot of 8-bit and similar music myself. However, it was more like a little hobby, it's not something I'll put on and actually listen to nowadays although I do notice when popular artists squeeze in a little 8-bit sounds here and there. The oldschool stuff makes my GF crazy too and not in a good way.

I don't understand what you mean about random rhythmn, but I guess it might be some kind og Sabrepulse trademark. Random rhythmn does not describe the chip tunes I've heard over the years very well.

[ExopoliticalIdealist]

Yeah it's pretty random,as well as other breakbeat and 8 bit artists I've heard in today's underground, the bpm could go from 200 bpm to 180 to 280 in 5 seconds,so it must have changed during your day, which was prob during the 90's?
I normally put a great deal of effort into what i write or type, but I've just been kinda lazy k?

[Barnard17]

Check this out;

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Originally Posted by toretorden

If you wanna make a thread about 8-bit music, you should perhaps be aware that it has a very small audience and by your post, very few will actually fully understand what 8-bit music means or sounds like and much fewer than that will actually understand who Sabrepulse is. If you make a thread, make an effort.

this stands for me, ive been reading this thread since it got started, and still have no idea.

[Urban Hat€monger ?]

It's basically music that sounds like it was made on 80s computers like Spectrums & Commodore 64s.

It usually appeals to retro game geeks and anyone with no taste in music.

[Guybrush]

It's a retro genre influenced by music made on 8-bit systems like the Commodore 64 or Nintendo. Sometimes it is made on those old systems or it's made to sound like it was or it just incorporates that sound into otherwise more modern-sounding music.

If you want an example of old-school 8-bit games music, I loved the music from Bionic Commando when I was a kid




The skating game 720 degrees for the same system had the most intense music I've ever heard in a game, though not in a good way.




Nowadays, groups like Sabrepulse make stuff like this .. can't say I'm impressed. The time signature sounds fairly traditional in this one by the way.



edit :

Wow, Urban beat me to it.

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i wouldnt even class that as music, no offense. so people actually listen to that :|?

edit: yayyyyyy 200th post

[Barnard17]

The appeal is more nostalgic than musical for most people ... it's not the sort of thing you sit down and think "I want to listen to this" but more "oh lol" when it comes on.

[Guybrush]

Originally Posted by kayleigh.

i wouldnt even class that as music, no offense. so people actually listen to that :|?

Listen to? I used to make tons of little 8-bitty chip tunes when I was a teenager



It's fun, but it doesn't really have that much appeal music-wise for me and I can see that if there's no nostalgia tied to it, it can seem a bit pointless and perhaps even annoying.

As Urban says, it's music for geeks.