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Re:The Impossible Music of Black MIDI by msutherl on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @05:54PM (#6643682)
Some "scene" music that I actually listen to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GIemGd3Ctk&list=PLkMjO0BRqWu... (FM funk)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl7TjvZzWMY (Zabutom)

Basically just really good 4-part harmony on 8-bit chips. It's really not unlike pre-Rennaisance church music (early polyphony), or a lot of modern choral music.

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Re:The Impossible Music of Black MIDI by plaguuuuuu on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @07:44PM (#6644328)
That first one reminds me more of a jazz / electro / rnb / funky house type of thing. Mixed with some japanese video games of course. If that's done entirely on one 8-bit chip it blows my freaking mind.
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Re:The Impossible Music of Black MIDI by ingrownpsyche on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @10:45PM (#6644918)
I don't know if it's done on a real chip or not, but that's FM synthesis, like produced by the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_YM2612 in SEGA machines.
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