Game audio has inspired producers and musicians to create all manner of electronic tunes from chiptunes to Nintendocore
For almost as long as video games have existed, their audio has inspired musicians in myriad ways. One of the most direct examples is the chiptunes scene. Fiercely prolific, wildly varied and not an alien to the charts, its a genre defined not just by its sound, but also by the production method. Strictly speaking, chiptunes refers to music crafted using the soundchips of games machines, or emulations of those chips. Or thats what the purists will tell you. Over the genres 30-plus years, it has evolved to include heavy uses of game audio samples and many forms of music that evoke a sense of retro game sounds. In the last 10 years, a hint of chiptunes even started to appear in tracks by the likes of Dizzee Rascal and Nelly Furtado. The genre even saw producer and rapper Timbaland accused of plagiarism, for allegedly sampling chiptune creations without permission in a Furtado LP.
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by Will Freeman via Electronic music | The Guardian
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