Demoscene music / chiptune

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiptune


Anyone heard of this? Here's a sample song:
http://venema.q3k.org/mp3/Dubmood%20-%20Toffelskater%20(dubmood%202007%20remix).mp3


Something a bit more classic:



Something a bit more modern:



Here's a webradio that streams this kind of music 24/7:
http://www.scenemusic.eu/demovibes/
with a direct stream:
http://nectarine.q3k.org:1234/necta192.m3u
or
http://nectarine.q3k.org:1234/necta192

Basically it's a style of music that replicates the sound capabilities and hardware limitations of early computers and gaming consoles. You'd be surprised what can be accomplished with 4 sound channels (voices / instruments), each only able to produce a sine, triangle, square or pulse wave.

If you haven't heard of this before, check it out and tell me what do you think about it. But anyone that hasn't known the C64 / Amiga era will probably hate it.