- smiker GBA tracker updates: http://8bitcollective.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=280021#p280021 #
- Demos are made by people out of a love for the medium .. (making) money makes them risk averse and conservative. http://tinyurl.com/yf8396x #
- minusbaby minusterview: http://minusbaby.tumblr.com/post/306788207 #
- NESMETAL “ordiMary Nan” SNDTK out on PTE Squad: http://www.ptesquad.com/more/pte022.html #
- Kaz is the best Blip attendee ever: http://vimeo.com/8453864 #
- Cynthcart Midi updated: http://truechiptilldeath.com/2009/11/c64-synthcart-midi/ opensourced! #
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Archive for the ‘Interviews’ Category
Another wonderful interview with one of the most iconic pixel pushers out there, Otro.
This is the second part of our interview with gwEm, you can find the first part here. LB – In the maxYMiser FAQ you make the comment that the other trackers available for the machine lacked in some way, I was curious which limitations encouraged you to start on maxYMiser. gwEm – Well, there were 3 different trackers all doing something different, I wondered why.. then I read a deeply inspiring interview (note: links to myatari.net zip of May2003 issue which contains the interview) with the legendary Tao, which went into details about his techniques. I decided to put all the effects into one tracker. LB – Did you develop maxYMiser in secret for a while or were you getting input from other Atari experts? gwEm – I make most of my projects secret, since I don’t want to disappoint, maxYMiser was a big secret though. I got input just from Dma-Sc on the interface – he tried all the early versions, from the very first mock up. I asked him, since I am a big fan of his music style, he seemed interested in trying a new tracker out, too – he was one of the first to move to Triplex. After the first couple of releases I got advice from 505 instead, since Dma was busy. Except for those two guys, I didn’t really listen to anyone else. But they are, in my opinion, the best two musicians on the Atari ST demoscene. LB – How did the ST community react to maxYMiser? gwEm -Well, I released some stuff – firstly the song ‘maxYMise’ as a compo tune. ‘maxYMise’ didn’t do that well, which effected motivation. I realized then, its not all about fancy effects. Next thing was ‘The Phatt Demo‘  Pictures used with kind permission of Bit.Shifter I was lucky enough to chat a little to gwEm, author of Maxymiser, hell survivor, Hardcore rave tunesmith and International Rock Star. LB – Thanks most kindly for doing this. gwEm – No worries! LB – What came first for you, music or computers? gwEm – Hard to say… Today music comes first though, I don’t care too much for computers. I was very young when I had my first computer, so I can’t exactly recall. Maybe I had a musical instrument before then..?! No idea :) LB – What was your first machine? gwEm – It was an Oric Atmos 48k LB – Not the most popular of machines at the time, did you start coding on it? gwEm – Yes, but I was very young, and didn’t do much worth speaking about. It was all BASIC stuff. LB – Did you hop from that to the Atari series or was there something in between? gwEm – No, the Oric broke, and then our family got an Atari ST. LB – Did the sound chip capture your imagination right away? gwEm – I’d have to say no – that came much later. The late 80s demo scene didn’t attract me at all. Atari ST was based around the megademo format – which in retrospect is kind of cool but at the time I thought it was an ugly way to present screens. But it only took a couple of years to get into making music on the ST. LB – Which trackers did you start on?
LB – Did you have any specific objective in mind when you released Papaya? Were you looking to bring your music to a wider audience, to bring the C64 into clubs? GT80 – Not really, no. I just thought it was fun to release a 7″. The first idea was to make an album with covers of cheesy 80s music, like my previous cassette release, but I was happy I settled with the Papaya. It’s a cover of a Swedish 80s schlager song, and it haunted me or many years. But yeah, the record received attention from all kinds of directions. I remember that I felt like an unwilling ambassador for C64-music. Lots of talented people remained unknown to most, but now I know that most of those people just don’t want to be famous or play live. Demosceners are a lot like that, it seems. LB – You said “Made on the Internet” was “the best thing I’ve made so far“, bearing in mind you had released over 1000 tunes by 2007 how did you pick MOTI as your favorite up until that point?  Picture : Karl Isakson Ed: Lazerbeat provides another interview with musican/organizer/chiptheologian Goto80. Part I talks about Goto80’s background, his setup, and the futurepast of trackersoft. LB – On your blog you mention your first release was “HARDCORETECHNO3″ under the name “Polaxe” for the “Mayday – a Day in May” Demo which you wrote aged 12 on the Amiga. The release is dated on Pouet as 1993. How long had you been writing for at that time? GT80 – Not for long, maybe a year or so. LB – Do you recall the tracker you used? Was the Amiga your first machine? GT80 – Me and my brother bought a Commodore 64 first, for gaming, and then got the Amiga500 and my brother showed me Noisetracker and gone were the days of gaming! Rather soon I moved on to Protracker and had a go with Startrekker and Audiosculpture as well as OctaMed to sequence my brother’s synthesizers. So my start was pretty much about samples and hardcore techno! LB – Did you have any formal music training before this? GT80 – Nope!
via An interview with Guatemalan chiptune artist Meneo, live from Barcelona. |
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