Here’s the clichรฉ rundown of who I am: Roel, 42 year old clown from the north of The Netherlands.
Demoscener (although not that active) since 2001 and an artisinal chiptune musician since 1999 but got a bit okay around 2003.
Used to do and still do some stuff for demogroups (Northern Dragons , TiTAN, DHS, Effect, and some freelance stuff for Desire for example) and there are also installers/keygens/youtubepoops (love em) that use my tunes.
My hobbies are this and the related hardware (fixing, collecting), beer, listening a lot of genres of music, a bit of photography, cooking, playing games every now & then, reading on history, watching art, complaining, humor.
I wanted to add an “my music is inspired by” or “greetings to” paragraph but I am afraid to forget someone so I’ll just shout out all chipmusicians! Live and/or demoscene related!
Music
I can cook a tune or two on a few platforms like pc trackers, atari st, commodore 64, Amiga 500/600, gameboy & some others. As long as it has a tracker and I am not too lazy.
Around 2005 I met Tom that was into chiptunes, also into the same styles, and wanted to make them as well. So instead just telling him what to do we started doing tunes together.
Really nice way of working since I get stuck with a tune a lot of times and he can pick it up and vice versa.
We registered a account for our coops on 8bc.org and I wanted cexy (CError+XYlo get it?!) but it sounded too daft so we registered as xyce.
Inย 2011 we were asked to do a gig in Groningen by the Eindbaas collective, and although we (read: me) were cynical we said yes and since then we’ve been playing all around the world up to the covid thingie that happened.
We’ve played chiptune sets in Japan, Australia, United States, Russia, England, Scotland, Germany, Belgium, France and so on….
We’re currently on a little hiatus because of well…… life really…
But keep an eye on the xyce site/bandcamp because we got something cooking.
Download a bunch of my stuff in the music section, listen/download/buy a bunch of xyce stuff here and here.
If you want to use it for something , please ask me first. (I will say yes probably but still wanna know)
For commercial use, you really really need toย contact me!
The social media thingie:
@cerreur on discord