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How I launched 3 consoles and found true love at Babbage's store no. 9 (2013)

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Re: How I launched 3 consoles and found true love at Babbage's store no. 9 (2013)

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Post by treebeard901 »

quickthrowman wrote: post #29

This might be a very strange question, but did DJ Screw ever shop at your store? I’m a huge fan of chopped and screwed music, just wondering if him or anyone associated with him bought games from you.

I've always wondered who the target audience is for chopped and screwed mixes... What about it is appealing to you?

Re: How I launched 3 consoles and found true love at Babbage's store no. 9 (2013)

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Post by boyanlevchev »

Stevvo wrote: post #23

"In the end, the console wars of the late 1990s were won by Nintendo" The facts/numbers do not match the author's conclusion. Playstation won, even if it did not in the author's memory.

N64 vs PS1 no contest. But I don’t think they misspoke (even if the author didn’t really mention this explicitly in the article)

The Gameboy (plus color and pocket) outsold the PS1, and was more of a phenomenon. Also, the 90s saw the rise of Pokémon, which is the highest grossing media franchise of all time.

Re: How I launched 3 consoles and found true love at Babbage's store no. 9 (2013)

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Post by boyanlevchev »

ginko wrote: post #9

>In the end, the console wars of the late 1990s were won by Nintendo, which built on the momentum of the Nintendo 64 by launching the GameCube in 2001, along with an arsenal of handheld systems Does the author live in a parallel universe where Sony didn't completely dominate gen 5 & gen 6 sales? >The limited amount of storage on the cartridge means that the textures laid over the game’s polygons are blurry and often…

While they don’t mention this, if you include the Gameboy, the author isn’t wrong - Nintendo did “win”

Re: How I launched 3 consoles and found true love at Babbage's store no. 9 (2013)

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Post by lee_ars »

quickthrowman wrote: post #29

This might be a very strange question, but did DJ Screw ever shop at your store? I’m a huge fan of chopped and screwed music, just wondering if him or anyone associated with him bought games from you.

No, but we were way down in Clear Lake, by NASA. DJ Screw would have visited one of the other Babbage's inside the loop!

Re: How I launched 3 consoles and found true love at Babbage's store no. 9 (2013)

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Post by quickthrowman »

treebeard901 wrote: post #31
quickthrowman wrote: post #29

This might be a very strange question, but did DJ Screw ever shop at your store? I’m a huge fan of chopped and screwed music, just wondering if him or anyone associated with him bought games from you.

I've always wondered who the target audience is for chopped and screwed mixes... What about it is appealing to you?

I grew up listening to 90s hip hop, so I’m familiar with some of the songs DJ Screw used in his mixes. There’s something meditative and transcendent about rap slowed down to 60 bpm combined with the repeated phrases and chopping/rewinding to extend the song and emphasize certain parts. He’d play two copies of a song and one would be a beat or two ahead, which lets you cross fade back and forth to make words repeat, he’d rewind certain lines three or four times to emphasize it, he does a decent amount of turntablism/scratching too. All of the manipulation is basically an on the fly remix with a lot of room for creative freedom.

Here’s a chopped and screwed song I like by DJ Screw

https://youtu.be/zykDlxp-hQQ

Vaporwave is basically the same set of techniques applied to 80s pop and elevator music, the song below is vaporwave but it’s more or less a chopped and screwed version of Tar Baby by Sadé

https://youtu.be/ZJrmzPavcDo

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