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Musician Ditches Polished Sound for Raw 8-Bit Bass Pop

Original: Welcome to my post-DATASET era! Making noice sounding choons is passe, time to make some 8-bit PCM monophonic # BASS pop

An electronic musician announced a deliberate move away from polished, noise-heavy productions toward stripped-down 8-bit PCM monophonic bass pop, aimed at phone speakers rather than studio monitors. The tracks were made using Ardour, Vitalium, CHOW Tape Model and Linux Studio Plugins on Linux, and the work is framed as human-made, raw and free of AI-generated content.

Why now: The explicit 'no slop' anti-AI framing and lo-fi retro aesthetic are resonating with current debates about machine-generated music.

ArdourVitaliumCHOW Tape ModelLinux Studio Plugins

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• Welcome to my post-DATASET era! Making noice sounding choons is passe, time to make some 8-bit PCM monophonic # BASS pop those phone speakers of yours! Made with # Ardour , # Vitalium , # CHOW Tape Model and # LinuxStudioPlugins Limiter. # music # noslop # raw · unfa · 2

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