Our good pals Chris, James and Lydia from BOSTON 8-BIT made headlines today in the Boston Globe. Check it.
The three principals of Boston8bit.com are surprised by the immediate enthusiasm they’ve encountered online and, more importantly, at their shows (the last three showcases all sold out). Even more surprising, they say, is the community they’ve helped to create — almost by accident. Mahoney bought the Boston8bit.com domain name as a way of providing a space for chiptune fans to chat; but before long, he says, “it became something completely overwhelming.’’
“A lot of chiptune music came from the video game community initially — video game composers would write their own music using the same hardware they were using to write video game music, and that’s kind of how it started,’’ Therrien says. “There are people who have been making fantastic chiptune music in their basement for, like, 10, 15, 20 years. They just never assumed that people would want to listen to it.’’
