Game boy music is a mixture of several genres of music. The most common is a mixture of electronic music and music from the game boy games. Game boy music is a kind of 'chip music' or chiptune. It all started with Oliver Wittchow and Sebastian Burdach. In 1997, they started to work on programming music applications for the Game Boy. During three nights, Sebastian Burdach wrote a very simple sequencer in Game Boy BASIC, probably the very first sequencer for the Game Boy, which allows the user to edit loops in real time.
To produce Game boy music, one needs a Game Boy and a cartridge containing appropriate tracking software, such as Chime and Paragon5 tracker. Nowadays, Game Boy musicians preferred using tools like LittleSound DJ (LSDJ) or Nanoloop. Choosing the right hardware is essential for getting the sound that you want. Although you may not think so, different models of Gameboys vary vastly in terms of sound quality and noise. And even for the same model, sound can vary alot between units.
Interested? You could check out these artists :)
- 8 Bit Weapon
- Anamanaguchi
- Autechre
- Bit Shifter
- ComputeHer
- Dammit! I Lost My Cookies!
- Gameboy Music Club
- Horse the Band
- Glomag
- I Fight Dragons
- Kool Skull
- FuturNari
- Fauxhound
- Nullsleep
- Optimus Chad
- PDF Format (the band)
- pixelh8
- Random Select
- Starscream
- Trash80
- Wet Mango
- Unicorn Kid
- Huoratron
- Doctor Octoroc
- 1up Collectif
- Karolis Burzinskas
- Wizwars
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