So, er… what is this?

Svetlovska

Sometimes, I feel like I’m 180 years old.

But, you know? I kind of like it…

NeuM

Sounds like an epileptic fit multiplied by a large ingestion of speed. I don’t like it.

dendy

I like it :-) It's like speedcore but less dark, more happy ...

try this

Svetlovska

@NeuM : You say ‘tomahto’ I say ‘tomayto’… No, I was just curious. Is this an example of a genre? There’s a chart for it? I was just hoping someone younger than me could explain it to me. I find it bizarre enough that some people seriously go for 8 bit video game soundtracks as a thing, thought it might be some kind of extrapolation of that…

Svetlovska

@dendy : Wow,This track has tens of thousands (!) of plays, and loads of approving comments. I’m obviously not doing it right. Going back to the one I posted after that makes my one sound like lightweight pop by comparison. Love to see what kinds of dancing people do to either of these.

dendy

@Svetlovska said:
@dendy : Wow,This track has tens of thousands (!) of plays, and loads of approving comments. I’m obviously not doing it right. Going back to the one I posted after that makes my one sound like lightweight pop by comparison. Love to see what kinds of dancing people do to either of these.

hardcore / speedcore is quite popular especially in Netherlands .. there are big events every year visited by tons of people…

also hardcore community is quite special when compared to other edm styles - they sre pretty much agains drugs and very explicitly are agains facsism (at least they were 10-15 years ago when i was active in this community - “United Hardcore Agains Facsism and Racism” was like official community anthem.

Blipsford_Baubie

That’s a great question @Svetlovska .
I don’t know, but if I had to guess, I’d side with Dendy. It sounds like it has influences or natural evolutions from speed core, gabber n stuff.

Adding to your chip tune comment, i have made a couple statements in the past here regarding my disdain for it, UNTIL I began picking up on small elements of it in some early nineties hardcore/jungle tracks that I’ve discovered and fell in love with over the summer, which really make it an awesome listening experience for me. Although I still don’t listen to full on 8 bit tracks, I have much more respect for them now.

Svetlovska

@dendy: Huh. Good to know. (Especially the no drugs/no fascists bit ).

@Blipsford_Baubie : no disdain toward 8 bit meant, btw. I just don’t get it. I grew up with those soundtracks on the actual games, and for me, the first time it started getting exciting as a thing in itself was when It’s a Megablast came out on the Bitmap Bros Xenon 2 Megablast game on the Amiga, as previously lauded on the forum, and the whole tracker thing took off. I was never into the game soundtracks as standalone music prior to that.

I guess if you didn’t grow up with that sound, except in an ironic, ‘retro’ nostalgia kind of way, it might be easier to feel a genuine affection for it.

knewspeak

@Svetlovska said:
@dendy: Huh. Good to know. (Especially the no drugs/no fascists bit ).

@Blipsford_Baubie : no disdain toward 8 bit meant, btw. I just don’t get it. I grew up with those soundtracks on the actual games, and for me, the first time it started getting exciting as a thing in itself was when It’s a Megablast came out on the Bitmap Bros Xenon 2 Megablast game on the Amiga, as previously lauded on the forum, and the whole tracker thing took off. I was never into the game soundtracks as standalone music prior to that.

I guess if you didn’t grow up with that sound, except in an ironic, ‘retro’ nostalgia kind of way, it might be easier to feel a genuine affection for it.

They wouldn’t know a fascist if one turned up, just like Canadian parliamentarians

Telefunky

Daft Punk on Belladonna I guess...

bygjohn

TBH I initially thought of the Pearl&Dean cinema ad music at the start. Drat, I feel old!

Tarekith

Sounds like old school Happy Hardcore to me. It was a pretty big scene in the midwest US back in my rave days.

HotStrange

Wow I actually really enjoyed that so thanks I suppose 😛😂 certainly an acquired taste though. Seems to have some hyperpop influence as well as the others mentioned here.

Svetlovska

Aha… more context obtained. ‘ADOFAI’ is ‘A Dance Of Fire And Ice’ which in addition to being a GOT pun, is also an indie one button rhythm game on Steam:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/977950/A_Dance_of_Fire_and_Ice/

It has a large user level community, apparently, who can presumably make levels for whatever music they like, so this vid is an example level made by someone using the track in question, Katamari, by an artist called femtanyl , and ranked in this YouTubers own chart.

https://femtanyl.bandcamp.com/track/katamari

Though why YouTube pushed it my way is something known only to the algorithm. Still, I’m going to buy the track. I’m finding it a real ear worm. Maybe the algo knows me better than I do. Slightly disturbing thought.

Whatever, I’m pretty certain the game is one I am too slow to play… I’m still having flashbacks to the various online shooters I ventured , briefly, onto over the past decade, only to be instantaneously slotted by some twitch-fingered potty mouthed juvenile from Butthole, Indiana, hopped up on Skittles and Red Bull, who apparently knows my mother rather well…

To reiterate: sometimes, I feel 180 years old.

AudioGus

@Tarekith said:
Sounds like old school Happy Hardcore to me. It was a pretty big scene in the midwest US back in my rave days.

Yah but with that gen z anti-humour humour blown out lofi digital screamy thing. I like!

dendy

@knewspeak said:

@Svetlovska said:
@dendy: Huh. Good to know. (Especially the no drugs/no fascists bit ).

@Blipsford_Baubie : no disdain toward 8 bit meant, btw. I just don’t get it. I grew up with those soundtracks on the actual games, and for me, the first time it started getting exciting as a thing in itself was when It’s a Megablast came out on the Bitmap Bros Xenon 2 Megablast game on the Amiga, as previously lauded on the forum, and the whole tracker thing took off. I was never into the game soundtracks as standalone music prior to that.

I guess if you didn’t grow up with that sound, except in an ironic, ‘retro’ nostalgia kind of way, it might be easier to feel a genuine affection for it.

They wouldn’t know a fascist if one turned up, just like Canadian parliamentarians

Be sure you cannot be more wrong here. I was active in HC community back in 90's and early 00's, i even played on some parties (i was doing such music back then - this was one of my main projects lol https://www.discogs.com/artist/199374-Hardcore-Freax ) - those people were very serious with their anti-facsism and anti-neonacism movement (and local nazzis were aware of that , often provokimg some conflicts)

few more extreme members i that comunitxity were actually after party actively searching for some neonazis, skinheads to beat shit out of them :-)))

of course most of people on party were more peaceful and expressed their opinion just verbally or wearing various form of this logo: https://www.hard-wear.nl/de/cenobite-records-t-shirt-united-hardcore-against-racism-fascism.html

but i knew few dudes who vere really mad :-)) they were like facsists just again facsists and nazzies 😂

i was also only kind of rave parties back then where i probably never met anybody taking any drugs.. i felt like on alien planet there, wehn compared to other partie, where everyit was exact opposite 😂😂

wim

Wooof. Not doin’ that again any time soon, but that was way cooler than I expected.

Is this what Squirrels on crack would listen to if they had raves??
Do they? I kinda picture they would.

Svetlovska

shinyisshiny

this to me is hyper pop / glitch core / sort of nightcore speedcore. more below

OnfraySin

More musicality, effort and technique than 99% posts of creations in this forum

Svetlovska

Oh, you are a wag!

knewspeak

@dendy I respectfully disagree,

By taking on the attributes of that which you oppose makes you ever more increasingly like them, until you possibly become indistinguishable from them. Resorting to violence that they the Nazi’s and Fascists have always revelled in, history of the 1930’s reminds us of this, should bring to you the realisation that those ‘ideals’ are not founded on ethics, morals or intellectual integrity. We shouldn’t reduce ourselves to that level, their level.

Edward_Alexander

…

Svetlovska

Well, nice to see that a light little thing about a music genre and a rhythm game is rapidly heading into the Nazi undergrowth.

Sigh.

Next: Thomas the Tank Engine, agent of the military industrial complex? Discuss.

tahiche

@Svetlovska said:
Sometimes, I feel like I’m 180 years old.

But, you know? I kind of like it…

I like it too!. Very spontaneous and fun.
What are they using for the video?. I love how the shape follows the rhythm!. I want it.

Svetlovska

It’s an indie rhythm game. See my link to it in my earlier post, above.

shinyisshiny

@dendy said:

@knewspeak said:

@Svetlovska said:
@dendy: Huh. Good to know. (Especially the no drugs/no fascists bit ).

@Blipsford_Baubie : no disdain toward 8 bit meant, btw. I just don’t get it. I grew up with those soundtracks on the actual games, and for me, the first time it started getting exciting as a thing in itself was when It’s a Megablast came out on the Bitmap Bros Xenon 2 Megablast game on the Amiga, as previously lauded on the forum, and the whole tracker thing took off. I was never into the game soundtracks as standalone music prior to that.

I guess if you didn’t grow up with that sound, except in an ironic, ‘retro’ nostalgia kind of way, it might be easier to feel a genuine affection for it.

They wouldn’t know a fascist if one turned up, just like Canadian parliamentarians

Be sure you cannot be more wrong here. I was active in HC community back in 90's and early 00's, i even played on some parties (i was doing such music back then - this was one of my main projects lol https://www.discogs.com/artist/199374-Hardcore-Freax ) - those people were very serious with their anti-facsism and anti-neonacism movement (and local nazzis were aware of that , often provokimg some conflicts)

few more extreme members i that comunitxity were actually after party actively searching for some neonazis, skinheads to beat shit out of them :-)))

of course most of people on party were more peaceful and expressed their opinion just verbally or wearing various form of this logo: https://www.hard-wear.nl/de/cenobite-records-t-shirt-united-hardcore-against-racism-fascism.html

but i knew few dudes who vere really mad :-)) they were like facsists just again facsists and nazzies 😂

i was also only kind of rave parties back then where i probably never met anybody taking any drugs.. i felt like on alien planet there, wehn compared to other partie, where everyit was exact opposite 😂😂

100%. gabber heads were very anti fascist. i was in the scene same time as you. my first rave was a dj tron rave (220bpm deathcore gabber) at 14 lol. good times.

shinyisshiny

@Svetlovska this overall sound is huge with the kids / underground right now. At least in LA, theres hyper pop / breakcore raves and parties happening multiple nights a week somewhere in the city.

Svetlovska

@shinyisshiny : Bu…bu…but. I’m down with da kidz! I even wear my baseball cap backwards. (That’s still a thing, right?) How come I didn’t get the memo?

As I say… 180 years old.

audiblevideo

@Svetlovska said:
@shinyisshiny : Bu…bu…but. I’m down with da kidz! I even wear my baseball cap backwards. (That’s still a thing, right?) How come I didn’t get the memo?

As I say… 180 years old.

pedro

@Svetlovska said:
Sometimes, I feel like I’m 180 years old.

But, you know? I kind of like it…

You kinda like it, I kinda love it! Really, it has inspired me to try some slowcore version of it.
Videos posted by @shinyisshiny also inspiring, but @dendy, sorry mate yours give me epileptic seizures and headaches. Good cardio, though!