A timeline of record releases with 8-bit music. Also contains demoscene events, hardware and software, art, performances, hacks, etc. Focuses on 1977-2005 and is most likely euro-centric (sorry). Suggestions and corrections much appreciated – please get in touch.

Thanks to Otro, C-Men, sh4do3, Yonx, Aphrodite, Amiga Junglism, Mark from Nasenbluten, Patric Catani, Rambones, Role Model, Venetian Snares, Coma, dj mips, 8GB, Göran Sundqvist, Jonesey, Smurf, Rosa Menkman, Low Res Records, d0us, Nils Dittbrenner, TSR, Team Doyobi, Osdorp Posse, 8 Bit Weapon, djnick, Nomex, Anal Cunt, Stagediver, Hedonist, Cybermouse, Irrlicht Project, Johnny Billquist, Mulder, Fifth Era, Unibomber, Davros, Spot, Max Tundra, Paradox, Lazerbeat, tlr, herv, Ant1, nitro2k01, Dr Ops, Jellica, Yuppster, b-hack, Tero, Kaneel, The Destroyer, Hexadeci, Koney, Laurent Ho, Low Entropy, Brendan Ratliff, Traffik, Jan Pravda, Celsius, Frank Zolex, Emmanuel Top…

Check out A Timeline of 1-Bit Music for more on the early years and also this timeline.

1930’s

REC: Evgeny Sholpo’s Variophone plays chip-like timbres and compositions. It turned paper waveforms into sounds. youtube + youtube + youtube

HARD: The Rhythmicon drum machine by Theremin sounds chippy. youtube

1949

LIVE: Frances E. “Betty” Holberton programs the BINAC to play “For He’s A Jolly Good Fellow”. source

1951

LIVE: The UNIVAC plays music in public using AM interference on June 14th. source

LIVE: The CSIR Mk1 (CSIRAC) computer publicly performs real-time generated digital music. By Geoff Hill in Sydney. reconstruction source Turing’s theory (1950)

LIVE: The Ferranti Mark 1 computer played music at University of Manchester, UK. source + recording + another recording

LIVE: The Whirlwind 1 plays music, see video around 5:00. 1953 REC: Two kinds of speech synthesis: Parametric Artificial Talker by Walter Lawrence and OVE by Gunnar Fant. Info + audio

1956

LIVE: Push Button Bertha, algorithmic (pop music) composition by Douglas Bolitho and Martin Klein. source

1957

LIVE: Illiac Suite by Hiller & Isaacson. Algorithmic composition performed by a string orchestra, recorded in 1967. Similar approaches later made by e.g Xenakis, Koenig, Stockhausen. source + source

SOFT: MUSIC I for IBM 704 by Max Mathews. 1ch triangle, only pitch control. source + source

1958

LIVE: The Zuse Z22 plays Hänschen Klein and Mitternachtsblues. chipflip

LIVE: Christmas carrols performed by the UNIVAC, programmed by John Kamena & colleagues. Perhaps even earlier. source

LIVE: Janet Norman plays ‘Noel’ live on TV using a Bendix G15. info youtube

SOFT: MUSIC II for IBM 704 by Max Mathews. 4ch wavetable. source + source

1959

LIVE: SARA (the computer) performs music in Stockholm, Sweden. source: correspondence with Göran Sundqvist

LIVE: Peter Samson progams the TX-0 to perform 1-bit Bach music. source

LIVE: Rudolf Zaripov makes algorithmic music on the URAL-2 computer. source paper h/t: utz & Nikita Braguinski.

REC: Raymond Scott – Cindy Electronium. Although analogue, it’s an early example of chipmusic aesthetics. youtube

1960

SOFT: MUSIC III software for IBM 7094. By Max Mathews. source

SOFT: Peter Samson’s light pen controlled GUI-software for TX-0. 3 channels. info

1961

REC: V/A – Music From Mathematics (10″ @ Bell Telephone Laboratories) IBM 7090 (?). Also a 12″ on Decca in 1962. Listen here and here. info. source source, source

1962

LIVE: Radio-broadcast featuring LaFarr Stuart and his computer music made with the CYCLONE the year before. source

REC: Wim Nijenhuis – Rekengeluiden van PASCAL (7″ @ Philips). audio and info.

REC: V/A – Music From Mathematics (LP @ Decca).

1963

REC: Bell Telephone Labs – Computer Speech (7″ @ Bell Labs) info

1964

LIVE: PDP1-music made by Bill Ackerman, Dan Smith, et al. Additional hardware and software by Peter Samson. samples + source

SOFT: Harmony Compiler for PDP-1 by Peter Samson. 4ch squarewave. chipflip. More info here + check vinyl here.

1966

LIVE: IBM 1403 line printer performs “Mungu Ibariki Afrika” for Tanzanian exchange students in Västerås, Sweden. By Roy Brandhill. source 1967 REC: A Small Computer Plays Some Samples Of Mozart’s Dice-Composition Music (LP @ Barr & Stroud). Early example of minicomputer music. info + audio h/t: irrlicht

SOFT: ORPHEUS by T.H. O’Beirne. Music software for SOLIDAC. Exact year unknown. more info. h/t: irrlicht

1968

REC: V/A – FST 68 (LP @ Phono Suecia). Contains Jan W. Morthenson’s Neutron Star. Sounds by Göran Sundqvist on Datasaab D 21, edited by Morthenson in 1967. discogs + info + info

SOFT: Vercoe MUSIC 360 for IBM 360. Modified version of MUSIC IV. source

SOFT: Graphic 1 by Max Mathews and L Rossler: draw, copy, erase and edit notes with a lightpen, and store them. source

LIVE: Partita For Unattended Computer at Queen Elizabeth Hall. By Peter Zinovieff. Not computer-generated sounds, but the first live-generated computer composition (human interaction was also possible). Used the PDP8 computer. sources: here + ‘what the future sounded like’

1969

LIVE: BBC broadcasts the computer Nellie playing music. youtube

REC: Jean-Claude Risset – Mutations. source

REC: John Cage & Lejaren Hiller – HPSCHD / String Quartet no. 2 (LP @ Nonesuch). Digital compositions, digital sound played with tapes. source + source

REC: Heinz von Foerster & James W Beauchamp – Music By Computers (4×7″ flexidisc @ Wiley & Sons)

SOFT: MUSIC V for IBM 360. By Max Mathews. Fully written in Fortran. source

1970

HARD: Dimi-A – almost fully digital synthesizer by Erkki Kurenniemi. 2 channels. Machine code interface. source

HARD/SOFT: GROOVE “hybrid” system for DDP-224 for modular programming and realtime performance. Screen to draw waveforms. Mainly non-digital sounds. source1 2 3 4

HARD/SOFT: MUSYS for PDP-8 by Peter Grogono et al. Text-based sequencer for external devices, interactive in real-time. source + Manning, P: Computers and Music Composition. (1980)

REC: Göran Sundquist – EDB Mozart, Musikalisches Würfenspeil (7″ @ Sparekassernes Datacentraler). Mozart-covers made on Datasaab D 21 and D 22 (not the EDB). Also found on In Memoriam. discogs

REC: V/A – Kvitter som tystnar / Ett musikaliskt tärningsspel av W. A. Mozart (LP @ Industridata AB). Made with Facit EDB 3 & Datasaab D21 by e.g. Göran Sundqvist. photos & recordings

REC: V/A – Voice of the Computer: New Musical Horizons (LP @ Decca) source

1971

HARD: Dimi-O – digital video music synthesizer by Erkki Kurenniemi. Polyphonic and 1-bit video digitizer. source source

HARD: The Muse by Triadex – digital music syntheszier and (deterministic) algorithmic composer. source

SOFT: Chowning FM synthesis for PDP-10. source

SOFT: ST-programs by Iannis Xenakis,

1972

MEDIA: HAKMEM released, documenting various hacks at MIT, including some audio (e.g item 145 and 168).

1973

HARD/SOFT: Dimi-600 & Dismal by Erkki Kurenniemi & Jukka Ruohom. 8008-based, assembly-ish language. source source source

SOFT: Music 11 by Barry Vercoe for PDP-11. Music progamming language, forerunner to Csound. Real-time audio synthesis and processing, etc. source

1974

SOFT: Music routine in 45 bytes (for Altair 8080?), by Paul Mork source

1975

LIVE: Steve Dompier makes the Altair 8080 play music using an AM-radio. source It was probably the first time an amateur made it, but was apparently made before.

SOFT: Alpha-numeric music with amplitude control introduced for Altair 8080 by Malcolm Wright. source

SOFT: Richard Wilson’s Music Compiler for PDP-8 (?). Polyphonic (4 channels?). Uses AM-radio. source

SOFT: Sound Synthesis Program (SSP) by Gottfried Koenig. source

1977

1986

C64: E.g Triad and 1001 Crew call their works demos. Previous works made by e.g Flash Cracking Group, Jeff Minter, Anthony Crowther and Ben Daglish.

C64: Single-channel delay: Supercan by Lars Hård (02.20), or more obviously Hysteria (#3) by Fred Gray in 1987. discussion

C64: Multispeed: Michael Winterberg, Martin Galway (Yie Ar Kung Fu II title, Terra Cresta, Short Circuit). Probably made previously (Starquake). discussion

C64: Hard Restart: Rob Hubbard’s Zoids. discussion

C64: Digitronix – editor with 3ch SID + 2ch samples.

SOFT: Soundmonitor by Chris Hülsbeck. The first tracker ever? (cmp Muzix81)

SOUNDCHIP: YM 3526 OPL (Arcade, etc) 9ch FM. source + Dittbrenner

1987

AMIGA: Soundtracker by Karsten Obarski. source

AMIGA: Aegis Sonix, the first softsynth but not a tracker.

ATARI: Demoscene establishes on the ST. source

C64: First game music with samples: Arkanoid. (Hülsbeck’s Bad Cat made earlier, but released later) source

C64: two-channel sample routine simultaneous w/ SID voices, by The Banana/TEK. csdb

SOUNDCHIP: NEC HuC6280 (PC-Engine) 6ch wavetable/PCM, optional: 4ch wavetable/PCM + 1ch FM + 1/2 ch noise. source: Dittbrenner, N: Soundchip-Musik, p.50

SOUNDCHIP: YM 2413 OPLL (arcade, MSX) 9ch FM. source: Dittbrenner, N: Soundchip-Musik, p.43

SOUNDCHIP: YM 2610 OPNB (Neo-Geo, arcade) 3ch PSG, 6ch FM, 2ch PCM. source: Dittbrenner, N: Soundchip-Musik, p.43

SOUNDCHIP: YM 3812 OPL2 (Arcade, AdLib/Soundblaster) 9ch FM. source + Dittbrenner

1988

AMIGA: Karsten Obarski’s song Tanktitle – first MOD-file with chip-style arpeggios? song

DEMO: Byterapers Copy Party (first demo competition?) source: Polgar:Freax, p.38

SOFT: SIDmon (Amiga) by Reiner van Vliet. source: Kotlinski, J: Amiga Music Programs 1986-1995

SOUNDCHIP: YM 2612 OPN(2) (Sega Mega Drive) 6ch FM (incl. 1ch PCM) source: Dittbrenner, N: Soundchip-Musik, p.43

SOUNDCHIP: SAA 1099 (Sam Coupe, CMS, Soundblaster) 6ch 1989 AMIGA: Chip-modules appear (4-mat, Duz, Turtle). 4-mat’s blogposts

C64: PWM sample playback. according to rambones

MEDIA: Bit För Bit – Show on national Swedish TV with Amiga demo-compo every week. utub

(SOUND)CHIP: Ricoh DMG System (Gameboy and followers) 4ch PSG. source: Dittbrenner, N: Soundchip-Musik, p.37

(SOUND)CHIP: Mikey (Atari Lynx I+II) 4ch square and other waveforms. source 1990 SOUNDCHIP: Sony SPC-700 & DSP (SNES) 8ch wavetable/ADPCM. source: Dittbrenner, N: Soundchip-Musik, p.50

REC: Frontec Formatic – Electronic Minds (MC @ Ebus Music). 100% Amiga 500 with Soundtracker. source: mail with the artists. info 1991 REC: Nebula II – Seance / Atheama (12″ @ Reinforced) Amiga. youtube. source.

REC: Urban Shakedown – Some Justice (12″ @ Urban Shakedown, etc) 100% Amiga. Reached top 30 in the UK charts. source-file. info source: Aphrodite

SOUNDCHIP: RF5C164 (Sega Mega CD etc) 8ch PCM. source

SOUNDCHIP: YMF 262 OPL3 (Soundblaster Pro, etc) 19ch FM. source + Dittbrenner 1992 REC: Amiga Trax – 1st Assault (12″ @ Super Special/Industrial Strength) source

REC: Aphrodite – Raw Motion / Dub Motion (12″ @ Aphrodite Recordings) 100% Amiga. info source: Aphrodite

REC: John Boy – Arriba Arriba (12″ @ Melody Music) Amiga OctaMED. #1 in Spanish dance charts for 6 weeks. source

REC: Osdorp Posse – Osdorp Stijl (CD @ Djax Records) Amiga/Protracker + MCing. source + e-mails

REC: Osdorp Posse – Roffer Dan Ooit (MCD @ Djax Records) Amiga/Protracker. source

REC: Psycho Drums – Pattern 1-6 (12” @ Overdrive) Amiga (?). youtube

REC: Psycho Drums – Pattern 7-12 (12” @ R&S) Amiga (?). youtube

REC: Secret Squirrel – Mu-Venom / DDT (12″ @ Dance Bass Records) Amiga. info. source: Mark N

REC: Secret Squirrel – Volume 2 (12″ @ Dance Bass Records) Amiga. info. source: Mark N

REC: Stick + Glo – Analogue Alchemy (12″ @ no label) Amiga Protracker. Christian Vogel. source

REC: Undercover Elephant – Psycho Sounds EP (12″ @ Dance Bass Records) Amiga. info source: Mark N

REC: Undercover Elephant & DJ Secret Squirrel – Volume 3 (12″ @ Dance Bass Records) Amiga. info. source: Mark N

REC: Urban Shakedown – Do it Now! (12″ @ Urban Shakedown) 100% Amiga. info source: Aphrodite

REC: Urban Shakedown feat. Mickey Finn – Bass Shake (12″ @ Urban Shakedown) 100% Amiga. info source: Aphrodite

REC: Zookeepers Revenge – Keys to the Cage EP (12″ @ Dance Bass Records) Amiga. info source: Mark N

1993

REC: Aphrodite – Cocaine (12″ @ Aphrodite Recordings) 100% Amiga. info source: Aphrodite

REC: Aphrodite & Nutty Jim – Full Effect / Feel Real (12″ @ Aphrodite Recordings) 100% Amiga. info source: Aphrodite

REC: Aphrodite – Sea Mortar / Beautiful Bass (12″ @ Aphrodite Recordings) 100% Amiga. info source: Aphrodite

REC: Aphrodite – Break of Day / Break of Dawn (12″ @ Aphrodite Recordings) 100% Amiga. info source: Aphrodite

REC: Aphrodite – The Vine (12″ @ Aphrodite Recordings) 100% Amiga. info source: Aphrodite

REC: Aphrodite – The Vine Remixes (12″ @ Aphrodite Recordings) 100% Amiga. info source: Aphrodite

REC: DjNick / Deetronic – Teknoactive (MC @ TIOLI) Protracker. First techno-album of Serbia. source

REC: E-De-Cologne – Die Langspielschallplatte (2×12″ @ Mono Tone) Amiga. info. source: sh4d03, catani

REC: E-De-Cologne – Live at the Sex Shop (12″ @ Mono Tone) Amiga. Also released on MC in 1996. info. source: sh4do3, catani

REC: Eq8or + Moonraker – Eq8or + Moonraker (12″ @ Mono Tone) Amiga. info source: Mark N, catani

REC: Hardsequencer – Amiga EP (12″ @ Fire Recordings) Amiga. info

REC: Irish Coffee – Irish Coffee (12″ @ Titanium Steel) Amiga. source: catani

REC: Jan Pravda – Pravda Trax (12″ @ Overdrive) Amiga Protracker. source: Pravda info

REC: John Boy – Techno Toons / Tie Break (12″ @ Melody Music) Amiga OctaMED. source

REC: Neophyte – Protracker E.P. (12″/CD @ Rotterdam Records) Amiga. source

REC: Neophyte – The Three Amiga’s E.P. (LP/CD @ Rotterdam Records) Amiga. source

REC: Osdorp Posse – Vlijmscherp (CD @ Djax Records) Amiga/Protracker. source

1994

REC: Aladdin – Magic Carpet / So Good (12″ @ Aladdin) 100% Amiga. info source: Aphrodite

REC: Aladdin – Warm & Easy / Geni (of the Lamp Remix) (12″ @ Aladdin) 100% Amiga. info source: Aphrodite

REC: Aladdin – Aladdin Remixes (12″ @ Aladdin) 100% Amiga. info source: Aphrodite

REC: Amazon II / Aphrodite – Basslights / Solaris (12″ @ Aphrodite Recordings) Amiga. info source: Aphrodite

REC: Aphrodite – Beautiful Bass / Navigator (Remixes) (12″ @ Aphrodite Recordings) 100% Amiga. info source: Aphrodite

REC: Aphrodite & DJ Phantasy & Jack Smooth – DJs Unite Vol.1 (12″ @ Rogue Trooper) Amiga. info source: Aphrodite

REC: Aphrodite – Solar Flare / Fascination (12″ @ Aphrodite Recordings) 100% Amiga. info source: Aphrodite

REC: Aphrodite – Sub Groove / Shine (12″ @ Aphrodite Recordings) 100% Amiga. info source: Aphrodite

REC: AXL – Untitled (12″ @ Strike Records) Amiga. info. source: Mark N

REC: Christoph de Babalon – Love Under Will EP (12″ @ Fischkopf) Amiga. source: sh4do3

REC: Cybermouse – Surprise Attack EP (12″ @ Fischkopf) Amiga Noisetracker for the diskmag Neurowaver 1992/1993. “Manipulated st-00 to st-03 samples, plus MS-20-samples” / cybermouse (in mail). source

REC: Dr. Pravda – Krankenhaus (12″ @ Kick Down) Amiga Protracker. info. source: Unibomber

REC: Dr. Pravda – Happy in Raveland (12″ @ Kick Down) Amiga Protracker. info. youtube. source: Unibomber

REC: E-De-Cologne – Hello Again! (12″ @ Shockwave) Amiga. source: sh4do3, catani

REC: E-De-Cologne – I Believe in da Power of American Immigrants (12″/CD @ ZYX) Amiga. source: sh4do3

REC: Eradicator – Shortage of Oxygen EP (12″ @ Fischkopf) Amiga. info. source: sh4d03, catani

REC: Frank “Zolex” Struyf – Where’s the Dog? (12″ @ Zolex) Monosound made in Octalyzer on Amiga. youtube. source: Zolex

REC: Jan Pravda – Haus-Traxx (12″ @ Overdrive) Amiga Protracker. source: Pravda. info

REC: Jan Pravda – Pravda Trax II – The X-Perimental Trip (12″ @ Overdrive) Amiga Protracker. source: Pravda. info

REC: Jan Pravda – Pravda Trax III – The X-Perimental Drummer (12″ @ Overdrive) Amiga Protracker. source: Pravda. info

REC: Methylizer – Secret Project of Patric C (12″ @ Hellrazor) Amiga. source: catani

REC: Methylizer – Wodka (12″ @ Hellrazor) Amiga. source: sh4do3

REC: Nasenbluten – 500 / 600 / 1200 EP (12″ @ Bloody Fist) Amiga Protracker. info

REC: Nasenbluten – The Nihilist E.P. (12″ @ Mouse Records) 100% Amiga Protracker. info

REC: V/A – Newcastle Hardcore Volume One (12″ @ Bloody Fist) Amiga. info

REC: V/A – Newcastle Hardcore Volume 2 (12″ @ Bloody Fist) Amiga. info

REMIX: Mouse On Mars – Uah & Die Maus auf Mars (Ec8or remixes) (LP @ Too Pure) info source

SOUNDCHIP: SPU aka CXD2922Q (Playstation) 24ch ADPCM. source

1995

REC: Aladdin – Mash Up Yer Know / Geni (Lost in Zanzibar) (12″ @ Aladdin) 100% Amiga. info source: Aphrodite

REC: Christoph de Babalon – File Already Exists. Continue (Y/N)? (MC @ Cross Fader Enter Tainment) info. source: sh4do3

REC: Cybermouse – Body Pack 95 (12″ @ Fischkopf) Amiga 2000 with Noisetracker. 2 songs with additional hardware. source

REC: The Destroyer – Break Your Speaker (12″ @ D-Boy). Amiga, Oktalyzer 1.57. source: The Destroyer

REC: The Destroyer & Concetta – Khorona – Nooo!! (7″ @ D-Boy) Amiga, Oktalyzer 1.57.

REC: DJ Moonraker / Eq8or – Bass Terror / Highlights From Midi War (MC @ Midi War) Amiga. info. source: sh4do3

REC: DJ Moonraker / Eq8or – Highlight Tape (MC @ Midi War) Amiga. info. source: sh4do3

REC: E-De-Cologne – Kalte Kotze – Alte Trax von 91-93 (MC @ Midi War) Amiga. source: sh4do3

REC: Embolism – This Means Fucking War! (12″ @ Bloody Fist) Amiga. info source: Mark N

REC: Eradicator – I Cum Blood (12″ @ Fischkopf) Amiga. info. source: sh4do3, catani

REC: Eq8or – AK-78 (12″/CD @ Digital Hardcore) Amiga. info. source: sh4do3, catani

REC: Eq8or – Eq8or (2×12″/CD @ Digital Hardcore) Amiga. info. source: sh4do3

REC: Fifth Era – [FE 01-04] (12″ dubplates @ Fifth Era) Amiga. Some of them released in 1996. source: interview

REC: Napalm – Napalm 4 (12″ @ Napalm) Amiga. info. source: catani

REC: Napalm – Napalm 6 (12″ @ Napalm) Amiga. info. source: catani

REC: Nasenbluten – 100% No Soul Guaranteed (2×12″ @ Industrial Strength) Amiga Protracker. source

REC: Osdorp Posse – Afslag Osdorp (CD @ Djax Records) Amiga Octamed, Sound Canvas for bass. source

REC: Taciturne – Potpurri (12″ @ Fischkopf) Amiga. youtube. source: Davros

REC: Violent Shit (12″ @ Loop (Austria)) Amiga. source: catani – “mixture with Feedbacks of Dj Pure”

REC: V/A – The Best of the Amiga Scene (CD) source

REC: V/A – The Electric Family – Mariopaint (LP/CD @ Irdial Discs) SNES Mariopaint. source

SOUNDCHIP: YMF 278B OPL4 (Arcades, etc) 43ch FM/samples. source

1996

LIVE: Maxsoft live in Poland, Amiga 1200. youtube

AMIGA/PC: Mono releases 90 songs by e.g. Mortimer Twang, Vim!, Substance, Dreamfish. “Proto-netlabel” source

REC: Amiga Shock Force – Untitled (12″ @ Speedcore) Amiga. Re-released 2005. info. source: sh4do3

REC: Anal Cunt – (12″ @ Hartplastik) Amiga. info

REC: The Apprentice & 4.9.7.5.19.20 – (12″ @ Cloak). Amiga 600 Protracker. source

REC: The Apprentice & 4.9.7.5.19.20 – Let’s Give it Another Shot (12″ @ Cloak). Amiga 600 Protracker? source

REC: Celsius -The Bad Trip (10″ @ Genetiks). Protracker. discogs. source: Celsius

REC: Christ of Noise – Hardcore From A 1200 (12″ @ Radikal Groov). source

REC: Cristoph de Babalon – Destroy Berlin! (12″ @ Digital Hardcore Recordings) Amiga. source: sh4do3

REC: The Destroyer – You’re Like a Toasted Dork!! (12″ @ D-Boy) Amiga, Oktalyzer 1.57.

REC: The Destroyer – Mass of Shit EP (12″ @ D-Boy) Amiga, Oktalyzer 1.57.

REC: The Destroyer – Hardcore Healing (10″ @ D-Boy) Amiga, Oktalyzer 1.57.

REC: The Destroyer – My Brain is Sick (12″ @ D-Boy) Amiga, Oktalyzer 1.57. Black Jungle is the only Destroyer-song ever that uses non-Amiga sounds (but still sequenced on the Amiga). source: The Destroyer.

REC: DJ Freak – E.P. Vol 6 (12″ @ Hard of Hearing) Amiga. info source: smurf

REC: DjNick / Deetronic – Rave the Brain (MC @ ITMM) Amiga Protracker. info/listen

REC: E-De-Cologne – Synthetic Overdose (CD/LP @ Shockwave) Amiga. info. source: catani

REC: Embolism – Massacre EP (12″ @ Bloody Fist) Amiga. info. source: Mark N

REC: Eq8or – Cocaine Ducks (7″ @ Grand Royal / DHR) Amiga. info. source: sh4do3, catani

REC: Eq8or – Spex is a Fat Bitch (12″/CD @ DHR / Intercord) Amiga. info. source: sh4do3, catani

REC: Eradicator – Agitprop (2×12″ @ Fischkopf) Amiga. info. source: sh4do3, catani

REC: Kippu – Downunder E.P. (12″ @ J-Com) Amiga. info. source: sh4do3

REC: Hedonist – Hedonist EP (12″ @ Bloody Fist) Amiga. info

REC: Memetic vs Netas – Memetic vs Netas (12″ @ Bloody Fist) Amiga. info

REC: Osdorp Posse & Nembrionic – Briljant, Hard & Geslepen (CD @ Djax Records) Amiga Octamed + Sound Canvas + Nembrionic. source

REC: Rage Reset – Damage EP Part One (12″ @ Bloody Fist) Amiga. info

REC: Syndicate – Appetite for Destruction EP (2×12″ @ Bloody Fist) Amiga. info

REC: Taciturne – 6 Fragmente in der Chronolige des Wahnsinns (12″ @ Fischkopf) Amiga. source: sh4do3

REC: Traffik – Crapshoot 10 (12″ @ Crapshoot) Amiga, OctaMED. info. source: Traffik

REC: Xylocaine – Cluster Bombs (12″ @ Bloody Fist) Amiga. info

REC: Xylocaine – The Double One (2×12″ @ Strike Records) Amiga. info. source: sh4do3

1997

GAMEBOY: Gameboy sequencer programmed in BASIC by Sebastian Burdach. source

REC: Amiga Shock Force – Psycore Kids vs Rave-Fascists (12″ @ Fischkopf) Amiga. source: sh4do3

REC: Amorc – (12″ @ War) Amiga. Possibly 1998? info

REC: Anal Cunt – (12″ @ Strike) Amiga. info

REC: Body Mass Index (MC) C64/C128 DMC. info+dl. source: bmi

REC: Christ of Noise & David Lagon – Amiga Tools Industry vol.1 (12″ @ Provision). hardcore. source + source

REC: Christ of Noise & David Lagon – Amiga Tools Industry vol.2 (12″ @ Provision). hardcore. youtube + source + source

REC: Christoph de Babalon – If You’re Into It I’m Out of It (CD/LP @ Digital Hardcore Recordings) Amiga. source

REC: Christoph de Babalon – Seven Up (12″/CD @ Digital Hardcore) Amiga. source: sh4do3

REC: The Destroyer – Total Hate (12″ @ D-Boy). Amiga, Oktalyzer 1.57.

REC: The Destroyer – Neighbourhood (12″ @ D-Boy). Amiga, Oktalyzer 1.57.

REC: Dispyz – Schadenfreude E.P. (MC @ Radiograffiti) Amiga. source: sh4do3

REC: DJ=U=E=P – G=G=M (12″ @ Skrewface) Amiga. info source: smurf

REC: Eradicator & Din – Gopherraid (12″ @ Spite) Amiga. source: catani

REC: Eq8or – All of Us Can be Rich (2×12″/CD @ Grand Royal) Amiga. info. source: sh4do3, catani

REC: Eq8or – Discriminate (Against) The Next Fashionsucker You Meet – It’s a Raver (12″ @ Grand Royal) Amiga. info. source: sh4do3

REC: Eq8or – Until Everything Explodes (CDm @ Digital Hardcore) Amiga. source: sh4do3

REC: Fifth Era – [FE 05], [FE 06], [FE 07] (12″ @ Fifth Era) Amiga. source + interview

REC: Hedonist – Hardcore is Dead, More of the Same (12″ @ UHF). Amiga OctaMED. source: Hedonist. info

REC: Koney – The Great Dance Swindle (12″ @ Zero Muzic). Amiga 3000 + Amiga 600 running OctaME, in MIDI-sync. info source: Koney

REC: Memetic – Still More Fukt Muzak (12″ @ Bloody Fist) Amiga. info

REC: Nasenbluten – Toys / Necros (12″ @ Deadgirl) Amiga Protracker. info source: Mark N

REC: Nomex & Scud – Eurostar (7″ @ Maschinenbau) Amiga. info source: Fifth Era

REC: Patric Catani – Harmdasher (2×12″ @ Spite) Amiga. source: sh4do3, catani

REC: Patric Catani – Snuff Out (12″/CD @ Digital Hardcore) Amiga. source: sh4do3, catani

REC: Suicide Squad – 8 Bit Shit (12″ @ Industrial Strength). Amiga 1200, except for Shirtraiser. info. source: Suicide Squad.

REC: Syndicate – Syndicate EP (12″ @ Bloody Fist) Amiga. info source: Mark N

REC: Test Tube Kid – H (12″ @ Praxis) Amiga. info. source: catani

REC: The Horn of Fanyulo – Chatarra Informatica. TI-99/4A, Timex Sinclair 2068, Commodore 128, Radio Shack 128k. info+download.

REC: The Horrible Plans of Flex Busterman – The Horrible Plans of Flex Busterman (2×12″ @ Digital Hardcore Recordings) Amiga500+C64. source + catani

REC: Traffik – Darkside (12″ @ Born To Kill) Amiga, OctaMED. info. source: Traffik

REC: Venetian Snares – Fake:Impossible (MC, not on label). Amiga, OctaMED. info. source: himself + Davros

REC: Xylocaine – Pressure Sores EP (12″ @ Strike) Amiga. source: sh4do3

REC: Xylocaine – Xylocaine EP (12″ @ Kill Out) Amiga. source: sh4do3

REC: V/A – Strike Records vs. Bloody Fist (12″ @ Strike) Amiga, atleast B1. info

1998

REC: Anal Cunt – (12″ @ Strike) Amiga. info

REC: Bodenständig 2000 – Hemzärmelig (MC). source

REC: Christian Morgenstern – Sexy World 1-4 (12″ @ Kurbel). Amiga MOD-chiptune (Sexy World 2) source

REC: Christoph de Babalon – In a Bad Mood (12″ @ Ghetto Safari) Amiga. source: sh4do3

REC: D8A – Ruff Beats / Phunk Rhyme Shaker (12 @ Tribe) Amiga. info, source: mulder

REC: The Destroyer – Sicilian Antibith (12″ @ Head Fuck) Amiga, Oktalyzer 1.57.

REC: DjNick / Deetronic – The Resurrection (CD @ Deetronic) Amiga OctaMED & Protracker. info

REC: Dispyz – Untitled E.P. (MC @ Radio Graffiti) Amiga. source: sh4do3

REC: E 605 – True Force (12″ @ United Speedcore Nation) Amiga. info. wrong year? source: sh4do3

REC: Eq8or – World Beaters (CD/LP @ DHR / Beat) Amiga. info. source: sh4do3, catani

REC: Fifth Era – Doomhall EP (12″ @ Fifth Era) Amiga. info

REC: Fraughman – Fraughman EP (12″ @ Bloody Fist) Amiga. info source: Mark N

REC: Koney – Sound Pollution (12″ @ Zero Muzic) Amiga 600 (OctaMED) + sampler. info. source: Koney

REC: Mulder – Gettin’ Blunted / The Hardway Remix (12″ @ Tribe) Amiga. info, source: mulder

REC: Overcast – N©! (12″ @ Bloody Fist) Amiga. info source: Mark N

REC: Overcast – Grief / Fallout (12″ @ Bloody Fist) Amiga. info source: Mark N

REC: Scud & Nomex – Total Destruction (7″ @ Maschinenbau) Amiga. info source: Fifth Era

REC: Syndicate – Visions of Death (12″ @ Bloody Fist) Amiga. info source: Mark N

REC: Taciturne – Ebizeme (2×12″ @ Blut) Amiga. source: sh4do3

REC: Traffik – Untitled (12″ @ Disturbance) Amiga, OctaMED. info. source: Traffik

REC: Unibomber – Distort 1 (12″ @ Distort) 512k Amiga500 OctaMed. info. Doormouse-side not Amiga. source: Unibomber

REC: Venetian Snares – Spells (MC, not on label) Amiga, OctaMED. info. source: himself + Davros

REC: Venetian Snares – Subvert! (MC, not on label) Amiga, OctaMED. info. source: himself + Davros

REC: V/A – Spectrum EP (12″ @ Plastic Raygun). Spectrum. Ft2-chip. source

SOFT: Gameboy Camera with the music program Trippy-H. source

1999

Micromusic.net was founded

GAMEBOY: Nanoloop for sale in Germany. Gameboy music software by Oliver Wittchow. source

MEDIA: 6581 Show – weekly C64-only radioshow on KDVS in California, USA. 1999-2001. source

MEDIA: micromusic.net goes live source

MP3: Vim! – 4-Bit Xmas / Wakey Wakey Wales – It’s Christmas! (Monotonik) Buzz tracker. info

REC: Amiga Shock Force – Crush-Suicide EP (12″ @ Blut) Amiga. source: sh4do3

REC: Anton Maiden – Anton Gustavsson Tolkar Iron Maiden (CD @ Lunacy). General MIDI and MOD + vocals. source chipflip

REC: Bodenständig 2000 – Maxi German Rave Blast Hits 3 (LP/CD @ Rephlex). Atari ST. source

REC: COiN – Attract Mode (CDr, no label). Sampled C64 game music. youtube, source: margaret montreux

REC: D8A – The Technique / Illegal Life (12″ @ Tribe) Amiga. info, source: mulder

REC: Fraughman – 12 Gauge Double Barrelled Sawnoff Shotgun EP (12″ @ Extreme Electronics) Amiga. source: sh4do3

REC: Koney – [white label] (12″ @ Koney) Amiga 600 (OctaMED), sampler, TR-909. info. source: Koney

REC: MAT-101 – Goodbye Mum! (CD/LP @ Balance) Early example of the arcade-romantix of micromusic. youtube

REC: Memetic – A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again (12″ @ Bloody Fist) Amiga. info source: Mark N

REC: Nanoloop – 01 (7″ @ XXC3). Gameboy. source

REC: Nasenbluten – Untitled (12″ @ Deadgirl) Amiga Protacker. Wrong year? info source: Mark N

REC: Nintendo Teenage Robot – We Punk Einheit! (CD/LP @ Digital Hardcore Recordings). Gameboy Trippy-H. source

REC: Role Model – Wiping Out (CD @ Bleepstreet) Amiga MusicLine. source: Role Model

REC: Venetian Snares – Greg Hates Car Culture (12″ @ History of the Future) Amiga, OctaMED. source: himself discogs

2000

MEDIA: M-P3/Syntax Error. Weekly chipmusic show at national Swedish radio P3. 2000-2003. source

MEDIA: Video Computer System by Lobo and Golden Shower wins the MTV Brasil Video Music Awards.

MP3: Tero – Pako (Commie) C64. archive.org

MP3: Vim! – Chip Van Winkle – Best of Vim! Chiptunes 1992-2000 (Monotonik). Released as MOD. Amiga Protracker. info

MP3: Vim! – Fit At the Front (Monotonik) info

MP3: Vim! – Timecrunch EP (Monotonik) info

REC: COiN – Architects of Character (CD @ Anal Log). Sampled C64-songs. discogs + youtube

REC: The Destroyer – Remix Collection (12″ @ Head Fuck) Amiga, Oktalyzer 1.57.

REC: Ewmyren – Saker Som Går Sönder (CD @ Bleepstreet) Amiga OctaMED. source: kotlinski

REC: Fifth Era – Doom or Dishonour (12″ @ Fifth Era) Amiga. info

REC: Fifth Era – Support Your Lokal Doomkommando (12″ @ Fifth Era) Amiga. info

REC: Fraughman – Insect Sex Attak & Machined Death EP (CDr @ Extreme Electronics) Amiga. source: sh4do3

REC: Goto80 – Lo-Fi Mono Festival (MC) C64.

REC: It & My Computer – Eat My Computer (12″ @ Invasion Planete). Amiga500+DX7+etc. chipflip. source

REC: Klangstabil – Sprite Storage Format (12″ @ Ant-Zen) Gameboy+Misc. source

REC: Klangstabil – Gioco Bambino (12″ @ Mhz) Gameboy+misc. source

REC: Koney – Peoplegrider(12″ @ Koney) Amiga 600 (OctaMED), sampler, TR-909. info. source: Koney

REC: Koney – Software Failure (12″ @ Koney) Amiga 600 (OctaMED), sampler, TR-909. info. source: Koney

REC: Team Doyobi – Push Chairs For Grown Ups (12″/CD @ Skam). Amiga500. source

REC: Tero – First Blood (12″ @ Rikos). C64. source

REC: Traffik – Mind Meld (12″ @ Epiteth) Amiga, OctaMED. info. source: Traffik

REC: V/A – Micro_Superstarz 2000 (CD @ Domizil) source

REMIX: Paleface – Back to Square One (Tero C64 remix) (CD @ BMG) source

REMIX: Dr.Robotnik – Retro Electro (C64 Retroteroremix) (12″ @ Rikos) source

2001

ART: Notendo starts to bend the NES. link

ART: Spotmap by Jeremy Wood. Gameboy Camera, GPS, www. link

GAMEBOY: Little Sound Dj (LSDj) sold as cartridge.

MP3: Vim! – 8-Bitten Break Smitten (Monotonik) info

MP3: Virt – FX EP (Monotonik) source

MP3: V/A – Smack My .SID Up – the Best of Vibrants (Monotonik) info

REC: 386DX – The Best Of (CD @ Staalplaat) source

REC: 6955 – 6955 (LP @ 555 Recordings) source

REC: 8-Bit Construction Set – 8-Bit Construction Set (12″ @ Beige, C64/Atari) source

REC: Bud Melvin – 657,644 (CD) source

REC: Goto80 – Papaya EP (7″ @ Bleepstreet) C64. source

REC: Kippu – Drama of War (LP @ Hardact) 100% Amiga 1200. Da Jormas. source

REC: Llorca – New Comer (CD/LP @ F Communications) Fasttracker 2.08. source

REC: Mark 4 – SUM-3(AA,r6)x4 (CD @ Crank Satori/Disco Bruit) Gameboy Nanoloop. Wrong year? source

REC: Nasenbluten / Warwick Capper – Dog Control / Fist22 Sampler (3×12″,7″) Amiga. info source: Mark N

REC: Psilodumputer – Full Of Sid EP / Microcompo Remixes (12″ @ Domizil). Remixes by Paza, Sami and Drop Da Bomb. source

REC: Puss – We Are Puss (CD @ Pusstracks) Gameboy LSDJ. source

REC: Syndicate – Badman (12″ @ Bloody Fist) Amiga. info

REC: Team Doyobi – Cryptoburners (CD/LP @ Skam) Amiga 500. source

REC: Team Doyobi – Demons To Diamond (7″ @ Skam) Amiga 500.

REC: Tero – Bombs Away (7″ @ Rikos) C64. source

REC: Traffik – Untitled (12″ @ Epileptik) Amiga, OctaMED. info. source: Traffik

REC: Welle: Erdball – Super 8 (CDM @ Synthetic Symphony) C64. Their first release with more than one C64-song, afaik. chipflip. info

REC: V/A – C-SID Musique (LP @ Erkrankung Dursch Musique) Mostly C64. info. source: 8bitweapon

SOFT: Carillon Player – Gameboy tracker by Aleksi Eeben source

SOFT: Little Sound DJ – Gameboy software by Johan Kotlinski. source

SOFT: Live Loops – Gameboy Advance software by Chris McCormick. source

2002

ART: Jet Set Willy variations by Jodi. 10 glitchy versions of the Spectrum game, achieved with byte-by-byte BASIC poking. work + info

DEMO: Origami Digital – probably the first gallery exhibition with demos info

GAMEBOY: The Gameboy Music Club was formed in Austria. source

MP3: Aleksi Eeben – Music Box (Monotonik) C64 John Player. source

MP3: Aleksi Eeben – The Grand Rules (Monotonik) C64. source

MP3: Glomag – Naught (Slapart) source

MP3: Glomag – The Axis and the Alloy (Kikapu) source

MP3: Goto80 – Monkeywarning (Monotonik) source

MP3: Mark VII – Presents Action Replays (No’Mo’) source

MP3: Nullsleep – Depeche Mode Megamix (8bitpeoples, Gameboy) source

MP3: Nullsleep – The Gameboy Singles 2002 (8bitpeoples) source

MP3: Rugar – My Girl, the Princess (8bitpeoples) NES MCK/MML. source

MP3: Vim! – Time For the Squares (Monotonik) Gameboy LSDj. source

MP3: Virt – FX 2.0 (Monotonik) source

MP3: V/A – Best of AHX Vol.1 – Dexter’s Pinkboratory (Monotonik) Amiga AHX. Pink, Geir Tjelta, etc. info

REC: Brotha P Touch (V/A) – C64 SID 6581 Massive (CD Tigerbeat6) source

REC: Cow’p – Africa (CD @ 19-t) Gameboy. source

REC: Cow’p vs Kema Keur – Cow’p vs Kema Keur (12″ @ ADAADAT) Gameboy. source

REC: The Destroyer – The Return (12″ @ Head Fuck) Amiga, Oktalyzer 1.57.

REC: The Destroyer – Dumbastard (12″ @ Cunt). Amiga, Oktalyzer 1.57.

REC: Farbror Blå – Jorden Runt Med Farbror Blå (MC @ Johnny Bråttom). Gameboy LSDJ. source

REC: Gameboyzz Orchestra – lajv_ad_hom (CDr @ Mik Musik). Gameboy. source

REC: Goto80 – Bushrunner (7″ @ Penpal). C64 JCH. source

REC: gwEm – Cold War Angst EP (12″ @ Preromanbritain). Atari. source

REC: Reconstructing Richard – Fun Rabbit Facts (Kikapu) info

REC: Role Model – En Tyst Minut EP (7″ @ Bleepstreet) Amiga MusicLine. source

REC: Team Doyobi – DF0:BAD (12″ @ Skam) Amiga500.

REC: V/A – Nanoloop 1.0 (CD @ Disco Bruit) Gameboy

REMIX: Little Computer People – Little Computer People (Tero C64 Remix) (CD/12″ @ Psi49net) source

REMIX: Radio Dept., the – Bad Reputation (Rugar Mix) (CD @ Slottet, NES) source

2003

MEDIA: Malcolm McLaren launches “8-bit punk”. source

MEDIA: Puss nominated in Swedish grammy Awards (club/dance) source

MP3: Geir Tjelta – AHX To Excess (Monotonik) Amiga AHX. source

MP3: Overthruster – xGBxHCx (20kbps). Gameboy LSDj. source

MP3: V/A – The 8bits of Christmas (8bitpeoples) source

REC: 6955 – On the 1’s and 0’s (CD @ 555 Recordings) source

REC: Bit Shifter – Life’s a Bit Shifter (CD @ 555 Recordings, Gameboy) source

REC: Covox – Final Mission EP (7″ @ Rebel Pet Set, Gameboy) source

REC: The Destroyer – Prepare Yourself (12″ @ Head Fuck) Amiga, Oktalyzer 1.57.

REC: Mmfan316 – Dot Matrix With Pop Music (CD @ 555 Recordings, Gameboy) source

REC: Mortimer – Ageema Blues (7″ @ Backseat Recordings) Amiga Protracker. info

REC: Orlingo – One Time Too Much (7″ @ Backseat Recordings) Amiga Protracker?. info

REC: Puss – Master & Slave (7″ @ Pusstracks) Gameboy: LSDJ. source

REC: Tero – Cracker’s Revenge (LP @ Rikos) C64. source

REC: V/A – Boy Playground (CD @ Relax Beat, Gameboy) source

REC: V/A – Heavy Rotation (CD @ Polygame Records) source

REC: V/A – Hot Gameboy Music (CD @ Plag Dich Nicht) source

REC: V/A – Join the Party (pic-12″ @ Müller Music) with Gwem, Tobiah, Puss, Der Tante Renate. source

REC: V/A – VGM Mixtape #8 (CD @ No Sides) source

REMIX: Koro Osanogo – Mini Klik (Role Model remix) (12″ Relax Beat) First LSDJ-song on vinyl? source

REMIX: Tim Koch – Obatem By Night (Goto80+Extraboy Remix) (CD @ Aural Industries) C64+misc source

2004

HARD: Midines (NES midi-slave) released?

MP3: Aleksi Eeben – The White Box (Monotonik) C64. source

MP3: Blasterhead – Killbots EP (Monotonik) Gameboy. source

MP3: DMG Plantlife – The Dumbass Techno Techno EP (20kbps) source

MP3: AY Riders – ZX Spectrum is Alive (8bitpeoples) source

MP3: Overthruster does about 20 releases, much of it soundchip-based e.g 4 bit Sludge n Bass, Meth Date Dance, Vociferous Reiteration, Plays the Gameboy, Namelessly Evil. Download, info.

MP3: Paza Rahm – Ninjani Diskus (8bitpeoples) source

MP3: V/A – 1984: Chipolitiks vol 1 (Toilville) source

REC: Amiga Terror Corps – Active Meditation (CDr @ Ravedome) Amiga, Digibooster Pro 2.21. info, source: CJ Warlock

REC: Bodenständig 2000 – Hart Rockende Wissenschaftler (12″ @ Feed the Machine) Atari ST. source

REC: Firestarter – Wuppertal EP (MCD @ Retinascan) Gameboy. source

REC: Firestarter/Plemo – Randale/Die Hintergründe (7″ @ Audiolith) source

REC: gwEm/Kingkas – Den of Rock EP (7″ @ Preromanbritain) Atari ST. source

REC: Lo-Bat – Game Boy (MCD @ Retinascan/8bitpeoples) Gameboy LSDJ. source

REC: Overcast – 3:P.M Eternal (2×12″ @ Bloody Fist) Amiga. info

REC: Pharmacom – Bloxx (MCD @ Retinascan). source

REC: Phriz-B – Pulsing Quiche Gas (CDr @ Go Away Recordings). Amiga: 8 channel OctaMED. source: herv

REC: Sputnik Booster & The Future Posers – Better Living Through 8-Bit Technology (MCD @ Retinascan) source

REC: Starpause / K9d – The High Quality Texture of Pure Shit (Floppy @ Floppy Swop) info

REC: Superdöner – Achtung Ertballe (12″ @ Beermania) C64/Gameboy/PC. info

REC: Teamtendo – Miss EP (12″ @ Deco) source

REC: Teamtendo – We EP (12″ @ Institubes) source

REC: Tree Wave – Cabana EP (CD @ Made Up Records, C64, Atari2600, 286, epson-printer) source

REC: TSR – Transexual Swiss Rebels (12″ @ Hörspielmusik) Made with various trackers. source: TSR. info

REMIX: Siemers – Inter Pares (remixes by Naughtyboy, Pharmacom, Lo-Bat, Sabastian Boaz, Hyperkut, Firestarter, etc) (Retinascan 2004) source

REMIX: Sophie Rimheden – Strange (Puss Remix) (CD @ Mitek) source

2005

ART: J. Schrier’s Gameboy Exhibition at Burning Man source

C64: Dekadence – PICO! New waveforms invented by resetting/restarting the noise waveform periodically. dl

MP3: Divag – Gameboy Tunes (8bitpeoples) source

MP3: DMG Plantlife – Drastic Measures (20kbps) source

MP3: DMG Plantlife – The Great Mystery of 8-bit Flora (mp3death) source

MP3: Goto80 – Bravo (Candymind) source

MP3: Goto80 – Contech (8bitpeoples) source

MP3: Random – Happy Ending After All (8bitpeoples) source

MP3: Rushjet1 – Sounds of the 2A03 (8bitpeoples) source

MP3: x|k – Nestek (8bitpeoples) source

REC: 8 Bit Weapon – The EP (CD @ Intellivision Music) source

REC: 8 Bit Weapon – Vaporware Soundtracks (CD) source

REC: Covox – Delete the Elite (CD @ Socom/Shanshui) Gameboy LSDJ. source

REC: The Destroyer – EpileptikAct11 – The Destroyer Album (CD @ Epileptik). Amiga, Oktalyzer 1.57.

REC: DJ Scotch Egg – KFC Core (CD/10″ @ ADAADAT) source

REC: Goto80 – Commodore Grooves (CD @ Rebel Pet Set) C64, Amiga, Gameboy. source

REC: Mini Melodies – If I Never Come Home Again (CD @ NRKO) C64, vocals. source

REC: Paza – Janin Tendo Data Risotto (CD @ Ninjani Diskus) source

REC: Pharmacom – I Am GBsequenced (business card-CD @ Here is my Card Records) Gameboy. source

REC: Receptors / Mommy Was an Asteroid – Controller Array EP (7″ @ ReceptorsMusic) source

REC: Role Model – A New Fragrance (CD @ Retinascan/8bitpeoples) source

REC: V/A – Schubfladen #1 (7″ @ Musikfladen/Pingipung) source

REC: V/A – Newcastle vs Newcastle (12″ @ Strike) Amiga. info. source: smurf

REMIX: Bodies Without Organs – Open Door (Covox Correction) (CD @ Capitol Records) source

REMIX: Beck – Hell Yes (Remix EP) – remixes by Paza and 8-Bit (Interscope Records) source

REMIX: Beck – Girl (Remixed by Paza) source +++ 2006

HARD: 1-bit Groove Box by Noah Vawter

REC: 8 Bit Weapon – Vaporware Soundtracks 2.0 (CD) source

REC: Bodenständig 2000 – Hart Rockende Wissenschaftler (12″ @ Feed the Machine) source

REC: Bubblyfish – Peripheral v.1.2.2 (CD @ Retinascan) source

REC: David E. Sugar vs Ears – David E. Sugar vs Ears EP (12″ @ Brikabrik) source

REC: David E. Sugar – Coin-Op Rocker EP (12″ @ C Side Trax) source

REC: Firebrand Boy – Orange (7″ @ Pale Fox) source

REC: V/A – 8BP050 (2CD @ 8bitpeoples) source

REC: V/A – GB (CD @ Intikrec) source

chipflip REC: Yoav Gal & Yael Kanarek – Bit by Bit, Cell by Cell – Music For Soprano & Atari 800XL (CD @ Innova) info

2007

MP3: Cuomo, Jim & Divag – Significant Bits 2007 (Pigeon Music) source

REC: Alex Mauer – Vegavox (NES-cartridge) First cartridge release?

REC: Bodenständig 2000 – Uber Album (LP @ Storage) source

REC: The Destroyer – This is Hardcore (2xCD @ Thorntree) Split with Bryan Fury. Amiga, Oktalyzer 1.57.

REC: DJ Scotch Egg – Encyclopedia of Hardcore Chiptune (CD @ De-Fragment) source

REC: DJ Scotch Egg – Scotch Hausen (CD/12″ @ ADAADAT/Wrong Music/Very Friendly) Gameboy. source

REC: Goto80 – Made On Internet (CD @ Pingipung) C64, PC. source

REC: Mommy Was an Asteroid – Jumpin Jack Flashcart (CD @ Retinascan) LSDJ, Nanoloop 1.3. source

REC: Naks – Sellout EP (12″ @ TSR) 90’s Amiga techno/electro. source

REC: Sulumi/USK – As Vivid as Your Lips (CD @ Bedzoo) source

REC: Superdöner – In the Jungle (7″ @ Ken Rock) Amiga/PC.

REC: V/A – 8-Bit Operators (CD @ Astralwerks) source

REC: V/A – Getsumen Toheiki Mina: Chiptune Collection (CD @ Mina) source

REC: V/A – The Low Times of Hi-Fi (10×3.5-floppy @ Pharmacom Records). source

2008

C64: Mixer, SounDemon, THCM – Vicious Sid. 4 channel 8-bit sample replayer. Also plays audio with the graphics chip Vic. info+dl

REC: Davros vs Unibomber – The Final Amiga 500 Battle (2×12″ @ Noizetek) Amiga500+Octamed 1.8. source

REC: Unicorn Dream Attack – Love Bits (CD @ Little Bit Records) source

REC: USK – Dot Matrix Melodiator (CD @ Shanshui) source

2009

ART: Samson Young – Gameboy Haiku. link

REC: Dispyz – Raverblood EP (7″ @ Radio Graffiti) Amiga OctaMED. source

REC: Jonas R Kirkegaard – Quiet Works For Cello & Commodore 64 (memory stick, no label). source

REC: Stagediver – I (7″ @ Radio Graffiti) Amiga OctaMED. source 2010 REC: The Mist Toggles – Boneless (Gameboy cartridge @ 8!t). First GB-cart release? info 2011 REC: Education of the Noobz – Live in Stoccarda (7″ @ Stora). Vic-20, etc. First time for Vic-20 on vinyl? info

REC: Mobb Beep – Modificeret (LP @ Altid). Gameboy. source 2012 REC: Tero – Suodatinjauhatus EP (12″ @ Sewer Leak). C64. listen 2013 REC: Hailon, Junglistic – Rollerz vol.1 (12″ @ Jungle Rollerz). Amiga jungle. link 2014 REC: Doctor Popular – Destroy All Presets (CD/MP3/cartridge). First Gameboy Advance cartridge release? link

REC: Max Tundra – Selected Amiga/BBC Micro Works 85-92 (MP3, no label). bandcamp

listen REC: V/A – 20 Years of Da Jormas (12″ @ Sewer Leak). Compilation of Amiga Protracker modules. link 2017 REC: Celsius – Fire on Wax (12″ @ Sozialistischer Plattenbau). Protracker-mods from 1995. discogs . source: Celsius 2018 REC: Celsius – Fire on Wax II (12″ @ Sozialistischer Plattenbau). Protracker-mods from 1995. discogs . source: Celsius

REC: Pete Cannon – The N4 EP (12″ @ Kniteforce). Amiga OctaMED + AKAI-sampler. discogs . source: Amiga Junglism

REC: Pete Cannon – N4 Part 2 EP (12″ @ Kniteforce). Amiga OctaMED + AKAI-sampler. discogs source: Amiga Junglism

About the list

This timeline lists important/pioneering objects, works, and events relevant to the chip- and demoscene primarily up to 2005. At first I tried to limit the list according to scientific rules, but gradually it got more subjective.

What’s in the list? Mainly non-DIY releases with music composed using a computer/console where the sounds are generated by the internal sound chip, or has a very small filesize, or is made with 8-bit tracker software, or emulations of it, or music that is otherwise similar or relevant. Important technical achievements, performing music with computer peripherals, live performances, media coverage, releases of soundchips and other hardware, awards, demoscene history, and a small selection of software.

What’s not in the list? Usually I have excluded videogames, ‘other’ uses of soundchips in e.g synthesizers, arcade games, expansion modules, etc. Also many early digital/analogue experiments, ultra-limited releases, songs where the chipsounds are only for the background, etc. Remixes are included especially if a chipmusician remixed a mainstream artist.

Also check A Timeline of 1-Bit Music and there is also 120 years of electronic music and a good thesis on The Evolution of Digital Music Production.

TODO:



MEDIA: otaku sweden go go!

PRECURSORS: JIM CUOMO! + Spoils of War (“Spoils of War was primarily a saw-tooth kind of band”), Gottfried Michael Koenig: Which were computer performed? Terminus 1, 2, X and Funktion [color]?,

HARD/SOFT: MUSICBOX by Knut Wiggen… Fortran … 1972?

HARD: Atari Video Music

SOFT: Dpysnd, sound editor for PDP-10 (197x) by Bill Schottstaedt.

HARD: 1977: Systems Concepts Digital Synthesizer (SCDS), built by Peter Samson for CCRMA, signal generating and processing elements all executing in parallel, and capable of running in real time. There are 256 digital oscillators, 128 signal modifiers (filters, reverb, amplitude scalers), a scratch-pad memory for communicating values between processing elements, and a large memory for reverberation and table storage. source

Boy 8-bit started with OctaMED on Amiga

FYI: