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March 3, 2003

A trove of blippy beats

In my travels around the web yesterday I came across href="http://www.asciipr0n.com/mp3/">this page of downloadable mp3s at
asciipr0n.com. I've never heard of
any of the artists, but they're all great pieces of music, generally
classifiable in the 8-bit techno and ambient categories. It's well worth
going to have a listen; this is a hidden gem.

People have made up several names for related kinds of music: there's href="http://www.comparativesound.com/whatis/whatis.htm">"blip-hop" and href="http://www.google.com/search?q=click-hop">"click-hop", and href="http://www.micromusic.net/">micromusic is probably the most
well-known label offering this href="http://www.micromusic.net/micromusic_db_data/files/FLASH/prelisten/prelisten.swf?strAuthor=r%E4uberh%F6hle%26strFilename=my_heart_bleeps_noisy_beeps-raeuberhoehle.swf%26strStyle=lovely%26strTitle=my
heart bleeps noisy beeps" title="my heart bleeds noisy beeps, by r%26auml;uberh%26ouml;hle">kind of blippy music (req. Flash).
However, there is no overall name for this kind of music. So, I christen it
bit-hop. (And perhaps the really degraded, crunchy,
corroded-sounding pieces can be bit rot-hop. Or maybe not.)

Posted by Earle Martin at 7:57 PM |