I'll make this the last post on this, as it might be semi-topic as you mentioned.
First off, if I intimidate you by my behavior, just tell me to back off. I understand your reason and I'll give you that free card to avoid us both getting into pointless arguments. I think I like you in this community, but our visions on most things will be very different (maybe the cultural thing as you mention?).
That said, I'll clarify the chiptunes involvement.
In the UK, you have a whole scene involved with chiptunes. The scene started from the perspective of retro gamers, which are sometimes computer savvy, but not always (some just used to own a nintendo for example). The whole movement got broader, the computer savvy aspect was even more downplayed.
Off to Belgium, a country that is culturally very broad. We have some of the best music festivals in the world in a country the size of my back pocket. We invented new beat. We imported Techno from the USA (simplifying here). We have the European headquarters, were the original founders of European open trade, recently provided the first European president. We are a two hour train drive away from Paris, afternoon trip to London, 2 hour drive from Amsterdam, small trip to major German cities.
Basically, whatever music scene evolves in Europe, it tends to affect our little European hub (ask Helm and he'll say that Greece's location probably does the opposite). We don't have to search for underground music in Belgium, it's all around us. We now have a similar underground scene of chiptune lovers to the UK, with members coming off a second wave of punk and hardcore bands who got into drum & bass onto more eclectic genres (chiptunes, breakcore, etc). Punk kids don't make for the best computer experts usually, so that explains how the ultimate gamer genre was introduced to a new demographic.
As for me and music:
I am a DJ (rave and drum & bass mostly), not a very good one though. Lots of my friends happen to be prominent DJs and producers. I consider myself lucky in that aspect
. I used to organize punk, metal and hardcore shows, which is were a lot of my current audience as a DJ comes from too (as I said, punk/D&B connection).
If you want to listen to what my influences are, check out this mix I made recently:
http://soundcloud.com/djreminisce/reminisce-ravin-001Sorry to xhunterko for derailing his thread.
As a present, I'll give you some obscure chiptunes soon, but I have to research my collection first.
