What Happened to Chiptune?

What Happened to Chiptune?

What Happened to Chiptune is a podcast about the rise and fall (and rise?) of the chiptune scene where I (Space Town) will be interviewing former and current members of the worldwide scene about their experiences, stories, and histories with chiptune.

Episodes

June 25, 2025 88 mins

- Chillbrave Bandcamp: [https://chillbrave.bandcamp.com](https://chillbrave.bandcamp.com/)

- Kedromelon Bandcamp: https://kedromelon.bandcamp.com/

- Control-Flow Set: https://soundcloud.com/controlflownyc/chillbrave-control-flow-jnz

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hi! it's been a while! i'm really sorry for the delay and this episode explains a little about what happened! to the podcast, not to chiptune, i haven't figured that out yet (podcast art is me from 2013 at an open mic lmao)
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December 18, 2024 108 mins
Today’s episode (after a long break) features Jessen Jurado, a visualist and event organizer based in NYC. Jessen has been involved in the NYC scene almost since its beginning, and his enthusiasm led him to organizing and putting on shows and event series - most notably I/O Chip Music, a series that ran as a sort of counterpart to Pulsewave during the heyday of the NYC scene. Jessen invited me to play an iteration of I/O Chipmusic ...
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November 26, 2024 24 mins
been a while! this episode will explain it
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June 26, 2024 79 mins

Music Used:

- Space Town - What Happened to Chiptune Theme

- Matthew Joseph Payne - Civil Disobedience is Civil Defense

Reference: 

- Eliot Lash’s Visuals Setup - https://www.eliotlash.com/works/live-music-visuals

- Eliot Lash’s Game Music Visualizer - https://www.eliotlash.com/works/game-visualizer-1

- Max Capacity - https://linktr.ee/maxcapa.city

- Triggerboy - https://www.eliotlash.com/works/triggerboy

- Eliot Lash’s Games Portfolio - h...

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June 5, 2024 95 mins

Music Used:

Space Town - What Happened to Chiptune Theme

dot.AY - Vibraslop

Reference:

- Square Sounds Melbourne - https://www.squaresoundsfestival.com/

- Karlheinz Stockhausen - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlheinz_Stockhausen

- Music Concrete - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musique_concrète](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musique_concr%C3%A8te)

- Henry Homesweet - https://x.com/henryhomesweet

- 10k Free Men and their Families/Tom Gilm...

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May 15, 2024 55 mins

Music Used:

Space Town - What Happened to Chiptune Theme

Nestrogen - Making You Cry (feat. Dan Pantzig)

Reference:

- FL Studio - https://www.image-line.com/

- LSDJ - https://www.littlesounddj.com/lsd/index.php

- Famitracker - http://famitracker.com/

- Datathrash Recordings - https://datathrash.bandcamp.com/

- Cursed Hoof Studio - https://www.instagram.com/cursed_hoof_studio/

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May 1, 2024 107 mins

Reference:

- The Blood Zone - https://thebloodzone.libsyn.com/

- Kitschfork - https://kitschfork.podbean.com/

- Meet Me In The Bathroom - https://www.harpercollins.com/products/meet-me-in-the-bathroom-lizzy-goodman

- OCRemix - https://ocremix.org/

- VGMix - https://vgmixarchive.com/

- MAGFest - https://www.magfest.org/

- Electronicon - https://knockdown.center/event/electronicon_2023/

- Equip - https://worldofequip.bandcamp.com/music

- Zan-...

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April 17, 2024 96 mins

Music Used:

Space Town - What Happened to Chiptune Theme

Ultrasyd - Un croissant s'il vous plaît

(RIP Ultrasyd)

Reference:

- Bent Fest - https://twitter.com/bentfestival

- Chiptunes = Win - https://archive.org/details/chiptunes-win-discography-flac-lossless

- Kevin Saunderson - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Saunderson

- Juan Atkins - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Atkins

- Reel Big Fish - https://reel-big-fish.com/

- The Arrogant S...

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April 3, 2024 79 mins

Music Used:

Space Town - What Happened to Chiptune theme

Boaconstructor - Ditch The Biscuit

Reference:

- Nanoloop - https://www.nanoloop.com/

- Ovenrake - https://ovenrake.bandcamp.com/

- Live Animals - https://weareliveanimals.bandcamp.com/

- Glooms/Turtlesaur - [https://gloomsmusic.bandcamp.com](https://gloomsmusic.bandcamp.com/)

- Electric Children/Circles - https://electricchildren8bit.bandcamp.com/

- Fighter X - https://fighterx.bandca...

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Reference: 

Eindbaas - https://eindbaas.org/

xyce - https://xyce.nl/

Men of Mega - https://menofmega.nl/

Superbyte Festival - https://ra.co/events/751982

Square Sounds - https://www.squaresoundsfestival.com/

 

Music Used:

Space Town - What Happened to Chiptune Theme

RoccoW - Unbearable Thirst

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February 28, 2024 91 mins

Reference:

Pulsewave - https://pulsewave.rip/

8bitcollective - https://archive.org/details/Best_of_8_Bit_Collective-2006-2011

Note! - https://note.bandcamp.com/

AdamGetsAwesome - https://archive.org/details/pax-2011-adam-gets-awesome-chiptune-concert

Chillbrave - https://chillbrave.bandcamp.com/

Music Used:

What Happened to Chiptune Theme - Space Town

GAMEFORM - Chillbrave

 

Portrait of Dannel Jurado by dr1p - https://dripontheinter.net/link...

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February 7, 2024 90 mins

Music used:

Space Town - What Happened to Chiptune Theme

Dubmood - Solitude

 

Reference:

FastTracker 2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FastTracker_2

Protracker - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protracker

Amiga - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga

Modarchive - https://modarchive.org/

Trax in Space - https://web.archive.org/web/20010418144833/http://www.traxinspace.com/

Rebels - Chipmusicdisk #1 - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=3604, htt...

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January 24, 2024 87 mins

Music Used:

Space Town - What Happened to Chiptune Theme

Nullsleep - Motion Map (Feel The Rhythm)

 

Reference:

8bitpeoples - https://www.8bitpeoples.com/

International Chiptune Resistance Tour - https://coolhunting.com/culture/the-internation/

Pulsewave -

Monotonik - https://www.simoncarless.com/monotonik-a-net-label-1996-200/

Micromusic - [micromusic.net](http://micromusic.net/)

VORC - http://www.vorc.org/

Blip Festival - https://en.wikipedi...

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January 10, 2024 74 mins

Corrections: Micropalooza was actually started in 2003 instead of 2002 as stated in the episode. Apologies for the confusion!

Reference:

- Micropalooza - https://www.portlandmercury.com/music/2003/12/24/30443/wiggle-it-that-8-bit

- Dataport - https://www.instagram.com/dataportpdx/?hl=en

- 2 Player Productions - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Player_Productions

Music Used:

- Space Town - What Happened to Chiptune Theme

- Moon Talk - As We...

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December 20, 2023 92 mins
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December 6, 2023 66 mins

References:

Daedalus Controllerism - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spa4emMwhOM

Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture by Philip Auslander - https://www.routledge.com/Liveness-Performance-in-a-Mediatized-Culture/Auslander/p/book/9780367468170

Playing with Something that Runs by Mark J. Butler - https://global.oup.com/academic/product/playing-with-something-that-runs-9780195393620

Push: Software Design and the Cultural Politics ...

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November 22, 2023 72 mins

Music Used:

Space Town - What Happened to Chiptune Theme

minusbaby - Una Gran Parte de Tu Mente Rebanada

minusbaby - You Were Strong

minusbaby - Una Gran Parte de Tu Mente Rebanada (Live at Blip Festival 2011)

minusbaby - BIAS, Pt. 1

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November 1, 2023 107 mins

Music used:

Space Town - What Happened to Chiptune Theme

Awkward Terrible & Glowing Stars - George Jetson's Inflatable Cop

The Glowing Stars - Got It Bad

Matthew Joseph Payne - Pewter Handles

Matthew Joseph Payne - i think we're ready - cursed vibes (from audio log #25 2023_03_03)

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October 18, 2023 54 mins

Music used:

Space Town - What Happened to Chiptune Theme

Peter Swimm - Too Much!

Reference:

Pulsewave, a monthly chiptune event series in NYC: https://pulsewave.rip/

True Chip Till Death, a website chronicling all things chiptune: https://truechiptilldeath.com/

 

You can find Peter online at peterswimm.com.

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