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A monthly chiptune community newsletter where you send us your music and we promote it for you, for free, forever. https://chiptunemonthly.carrd.co/
The VRC6 expansion chip absolutely rips, I'm sure this is gonna be great!
-Adam
Also featured is Celestial Circuit, a charity compilation album by ChipT4T, a release party hosted by our very own @donutshoes.bsky.social is happening TONIGHT over on the @geekbeatradio.bsky.social twitch channel! More info here: bsky.app/profile/aubr...
05.12.2025 16:28 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
December's issue of Chiptune Monthly is LIVE! Featuring works by:
@bitcrushed.bsky.social
@superjetspade.bsky.social
@doublexp.shaycruz.net
@zerojanitor.bsky.social
ZAKU ( @twirlincurtis.bsky.social @scramuel89.bsky.social & co.)
www.patreon.com/posts/chiptu...
TODAY IS THE DAY FOR LISTENING
Album goes live at 7:30pm EST folks
Come party in the live stream on Youtube with @geekbeatradio.bsky.social !! Link in the quoted post!
#chiptune #musiciansky #musicsky
PREORDER: bitcrushed.bandcamp.com/album/chip-f...
Adam and Ethan used to be cohosts on Rob Carballo's geekbeatradio - that station sadly succumbed to some computer issues, but word on the street is geekbeatradio might be back on-air sometime soon, if but briefly. They do of course still have the Twitch stream for live events though!
19.11.2025 21:09 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hey - tell us your favorite chiptune podcasts/internet radio stations/livestreams! It'd be nice to shout out folks who are doing what they can to get music out to folks/talking about the music and the people who make it.
19.11.2025 20:53 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Making a note to check back on this for the Dec issue, but @bitcrushed.bsky.social please feel free to shoot us any promo info you want to for this over at chiptunemonthly.carrd.co!
12.11.2025 20:04 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
November's issue of Chiptune Monthly is live! Featuring releases from:
@amateurlsdj.bsky.social
@sloopygoop.bsky.social
@chipzel.bsky.social
@rei8bit.bsky.social
and 3 huge compliations!
www.patreon.com/posts/chiptu...
Soon we'll be drafting November's issue of Chiptune Monthly! Last call for submissions! If you have a chiptune album you've released recently, or have an upcoming chiptune show, please tell us about it! Link to submission form here: chiptunemonthly.carrd.co
07.11.2025 21:57 β π 9 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0We plugged this in the last newsletter, but now they've got info up on here so it's worth a reskeet.
20.10.2025 07:11 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I (Adam) very explicitly don't want people harassing you at all, I just wanted to cite the thing I was correcting. I would hope the very small number of people who read this newsletter aren't the kind of people who do that.
Re: your other questions - not ignoring them, but do want to think on them
happened afterwards, we had to correct it, and then tell people why.
I hope this brings some kind of clarity on this at least. This project is exclusively meant to be a way to tell people about new & upcoming albums & shows & to promote cool things happening in the community. That's all we want.
-Also, speaking as me (Adam) for a sec - I really agree with Peter on the "don't like it, don't buy it" & the "if I didn't like an album, I didn't promote it" points! If part of this conversation happened before the newsletter went out, these albums wouldn't have even gone in. But since it...
11.10.2025 15:15 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0-I would again like to just point out that rather than saying "THIS EXACT PERSON USED GENAI IN THEIR ALBUM AND FUCKING SUCKS," we just scrubbed it out and gave a reason for it. The only way folks will know who it was at any point in the future would have been if they looked outside the newsletter.
11.10.2025 15:15 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0so that one's on me (Adam). We had some meaningful contributions from folks who have used other flavors of AI in the comment section of that post, and between those and a number of Peter's complaints about how AI and genAI are not the same thing, I agree we need to go back and edit for clarity.
11.10.2025 15:15 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
That update points to this post which we released concurrently, which functionally says that we don't want to promote work made with generative AI. The terms "genAI" and "generated with AI" get used somewhat interchangeably - & you know, it looks like there's a nuance there I wasn't aware of...
11.10.2025 15:15 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
A block of text that reads: GEN AI The original version of this newsletter included two albums that are strongly suspected of being AI generated. The artist in question seems to have withdrawn from the internet for a while now, and most if not all social media or website presences outside of Bandcamp have been abandoned or killed. In light of this, we have taken that music out of this newsletter and have issued a statement about how we feel about AI in this community. If it turns out we were wrong about these albums being made with AI, we'll put them back in there, but at this time all signs point to no.
provided their evidence that these albums were most likely created using genAI. At that point, we made the choice to pull those albums from the newsletter and update it with this statement - which notably does not include the name of the artist.
11.10.2025 15:15 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0-At no point has this newsletter called anyone AI slop. What we did do was after being alerted that some albums were suspected of being created with genAI, we talked about how we felt about promoting content made that way. In the meantime, folks who know more abt spotting this than I (Adam) do...
11.10.2025 15:15 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0-The people who write the newsletters are @iknowadamseats.bsky.social and @donutshoes.bsky.social. We might get tips about upcoming releases from other people, but at this time there are no other and have been no other writers for Chiptune Monthly. Do not attribute this newsletter to anyone else.
11.10.2025 15:15 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0A few corrections on this:
-CM explicitly does not review new albums. We started a thing just this month about telling folks about older releases to check out but calling those reviews might be a stretch. We're not trying to be TCTD, C=W or anything else. Just telling people abt new shows & albums.
Now that we've had some time to get off work & confer & write things down, we've put out a quick statement, removed the albums from the October newsletter, and will be making sure that folks know when they submit their albums (which these were not, btw, we were tagged) that we won't promo AI "art."
07.10.2025 00:18 β π 41 π 8 π¬ 1 π 2
Now that we've had some time to get off work & confer & write things down, we've put out a quick statement, removed the albums from the October newsletter, and will be making sure that folks know when they submit their albums (which these were not, btw, we were tagged) that we won't promo AI "art."
07.10.2025 00:18 β π 41 π 8 π¬ 1 π 2
October issue of Chiptune Monthly is out! Featuring releases by:
@postvoron.bsky.social
@megus.org
@calaveralovesyou.bsky.social
@danimalcannon.com
@shemusic.bsky.social
@surasshu.com
& throwbacks to
@hangongetready.bsky.social
@makeupandvanityset.bsky.social
Later this week we will be compiling our October issue of the Chiptune Monthly newsletter. If you have an album you've recently released and want to have it featured, submit it to us through our submission form! The link to the submission form is on our carrd chiptunemonthly.carrd.co
30.09.2025 17:13 β π 7 π 5 π¬ 0 π 1
Red sun on a checkerboard landscape -- A cropped version of the cover art for HangOnGetReady's AnyYes EP. I'm off Spotify, pls grab me on bandcamp :)
Just removed as much of me as I could from Spotify. Fuck em. Let's celebrate, here are some #bandcamp codes!
Redeem: hangongetready.bandcamp.com/yum
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kvm2-k4yt
k985-6m27
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Reposts encouraged, support appreciated, much <3 to you all
#musiciansky #chiptune #free #freecode
Later this week we will be compiling our October issue of the Chiptune Monthly newsletter. If you have an album you've recently released and want to have it featured, submit it to us through our submission form! The link to the submission form is on our carrd chiptunemonthly.carrd.co
30.09.2025 17:13 β π 7 π 5 π¬ 0 π 1Rest in peace, Kageyama-san. May his memory be a blessing.
Most of us here at CM got to see him perform at MAGFest this year along with many other Brave Wave collaborators - what an absolute legend to see live. (This whole video rules, but this link jumps to his bit.)
youtu.be/Ms6HmMrHBgA?...
I am can write english ok
05.09.2025 19:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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05.09.2025 19:25 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
βITβS BANDCAMP FRIDAYβ the horrible voices scream in unison
a deafening cacophony of spoken URLs follows, instantly reducing your ears to a fine red mist
a single URL sticks in your mind like some kind of weaponized memetic cordyceps
nullsleep.bandcamp.com
you click, and buy everything
