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Produced with instruments? By people?
Aberrant: Year One (which reprints the article) notes that these chips are "actually domino-sized blocks of computer chips in a sealed plastic box, with a plug at one end", which sounds a lot like a flashdrive except that these are usually ROM rather than RAM. "Only a small label distinguishes a music chip from a video game chip, a program chip or any other sort of data storage chip." (This is a potential story hook, of course.) They can easily hold 100 tracks, which means that (to pick an example close to my shriveled heart) Absolute Garbage could've been the equivalent of a boxed set (with all their albums, all the bonus tracks and B-sides from various album and single releases, and maybe even a video album equivalent to the AG DVD).
Back at the ranch, Petch remembers the last time we went through this, when CDs replaced vinyl and banished
He has a chip player, sure... but he's also kept his CD player, and even his turntable.
May
[Aberrant] Dave Petch's Zine article "Fie on Digital!" laments the replacement of CDs by data chips.
Aberrant: Year One (which reprints the article) notes that these chips are "actually domino-sized blocks of computer chips in a sealed plastic box, with a plug at one end", which sounds a lot like a flashdrive except that these are usually ROM rather than RAM. "Only a small label distinguishes a music chip from a video game chip, a program chip or any other sort of data storage chip." (This is a potential story hook, of course.) They can easily hold 100 tracks, which means that (to pick an example close to my shriveled heart) Absolute Garbage could've been the equivalent of a boxed set (with all their albums, all the bonus tracks and B-sides from various album and single releases, and maybe even a video album equivalent to the AG DVD).
Back at the ranch, Petch remembers the last time we went through this, when CDs replaced vinyl and banished
all the hisses and pops of random noise, any unwanted echoes, the breathing of the musicians...
any hint that a live person had any role in making the "perfect digital sound."
[...]
Now the sinister Illuminati that control the recording industry have conspired with the electronics industry to do it again. [...] Yet I don't recall anyone asking me if I wanted to change technologies, again. I never heard anyone say "Golly gosh, I sure wish I had to buy my favorite music all over again."
He has a chip player, sure... but he's also kept his CD player, and even his turntable.
