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An interview with Metin Seven by Anders Carlsson, for his master thesis about the history of chip music, August 2009.

AC: Hi Metin. I’m a tracker musician researching the history of chipmusic for a master thesis. Currently I’m looking the epistemology of the word chipmusic (or chiptune). Since you were involved with SIDmon (the first synthetic Amiga tracker, right?) I wanted to ask if you have any memories of this.

Hi Anders. That’s the coolest master thesis subject I’ve heard of so far.
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