Sabrepulse/what do you think of 8-bit?
 

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

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.

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?

Check this out;

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

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.

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.

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

edit: yayyyyyy :D 200th post :pimp:

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.

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



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. ;)

High production value music video there :D

Yup, I drugged the fly myself with ether which costs a bit ;)

I love how pacey the music is as if you should be running or doing something and the visual accompaniment is ... a dead fly.

I''ve listened to that album a few times. Can't handle it front to back...but a song here a song there isn't bad.

so your a geek :D, pretty smart if you ask me. Barnards jelous.

I don't consider myself a geek and I don't think other people do either, but there's definetly a geeky side to me. For example I have played a lot of roleplaying games including Dungeons and Dragons, I know the entire dialogue from the 1986 Transformers : The Movie, I like old chip-tunes like the music from Last Ninja 2 and I once started an insect collection .. ;)

everyones a bit geeky, im a bit of a biology geek! but at the same time by friends im not considered a geek, unless they talk about me behind me back :(.
and an insect collection?
do the ladies love it :D?

The only girl who ever saw it was my GF and we were moving around too much. Eventually, it was just too much of a pain in the arse to move around big polysterene sheets with insects pinned to them so we threw it all away! If I'd been single, maybe it could've been a hit with some of the girls in the biology building. There are more cute chicks there than in any of the other natural science institutes. ;)

I used to have a beer bottle collection as well once upon a time. It was destroyed by our pet rats at the time.

To keep this from getting waaay of topic, I might as well post another old favourite of mine .. Central Park theme from Last Ninja 2!



Still awesome :D