Chip tune is a style of music that emerged in the 1980s, originally performed on home computers, and heavily influenced by game music, although it rapidly broke out beyond that hardware to represent a musical style or philosophy that used those types of sound, either in hardware or software. Think of the game soundtracks heard on the original Nintendo Game Boy – that’s 8-bit music (YouTube is full of examples, if you’re not sure what we mean). And then think of the Commodore 64 computer, and the sounds created by the onboard MOS6581 chip. We’re talking low-res sounds, limited polyphony and effects, and tedious-but-productive sequencing workflows. In the 21st century, we’ve seen hardware chip tune machines, some featuring remaining stocks of those original chips, one example being Elektron’s legendary Sidstation.