THE LOST TAPE - MY TUNES FROM THE 8BC ERA 2009 - 2011

These are the first chiptunes I ever made. They were written and recorded on an original, un-modified DMG-01 running LSDJ 3.9.H (I think) some time between 2009 and 2011, so there will be some hiss and noise in the tracks. When 8-Bit Collective closed and the cartridge which was housing the tracks died I thought they were gone forever. But I've found a few of them!

The track order is the same order I made them, as far as I remember. They also have the same name I gave them back in the days. I used alot of kits for drums when I started out. The kits are very low in volume, and not compensating for this when recording made the drums on most tracks very low.

The tracks are old, and the only format I had them in is mid-quality MP3 and horribly mixed (read: destroyed), so I tried to save them as far as I could. But the overall sound is kept as close to 2009-2011 as possible!

It's free if you want, and uploaded just for fun as this was the start of the journey! :)

- SHORT COMMENTS ABOUT EACH TRACK BELOW -

- Happyman:
This is the first track I ever made with a game boy and LSDJ, sometime early 2009.

- Factory:
Trying to evolve, the second track used alot of the C-command.

- Trippin:
Some more exploring of the commands, mainly C, L, P and V.

- Payday:
Tried to speed things up a bit. I was very much into really fast upbeat chiptunes back then, so I tried to make a fast, happy-sounding song. I also threw in a key-change as I found the transpose function.

- Let Me Introduce Myself:
This was made to use with a bitpop song, called "Welcome to 8-bit Land" (it's out there under my previous nickname I used back then, easiest found when searching for "the complete archive of 8bc" or something like that).

- There is No Spoon:
Tried doing some harder sounding stuff here. This was the first time I tried to use the noise channel for drums, and diving more into using the wave channel for more than just kits. There is some reverb in the file, and it's poorly mixed and heavily compressed unfortunately, so it's really hard to save this track beyond this point...

- Roadrunner (Coyote Wins):
This is where I take a step up in my chipmusic journey, in my own opinion. I use everything I'd figured out up to this point and recorded the tracks separately which result in a much cleaner recording. This was also the last track I posted to 8-bit Collective before it shut down.

- Done:
This track was in the making when the site closed. It has been posted with different mixes on various music sites under different names over the years as this was the last chipmusic I made for 8 years, before getting a new pro-sound modded, backlit DMG and starting the work that would become RIOT.EXE