I seem to fall in love with anything 8-bit retro these days which probably stems from growing up in that era, but I guess one more post about it can’t hurt. Two kids from New York made an album using guitars, drums and a NES. The music isn’t bad in itself but I really like the 8-bit styled videos for each track.
Being of the 8-bit generation I really love the retro chip music sound. I used to make chip tunes when I was still making music on trackers, but my tracks were nothing like the craziness they’re coming up with today. A few years ago I went to a club in Stockholm where they had a guy playing live on gameboys and some other retro 8-bit looking systems. Had a blast just sitting down and watching computer nerds dance next to trendy pop chicks, finding some common ground in the low-fi 8-bit music coming from the speakers. I have to go back next time I’m over there..
Bubblyfish creates her music mainly using gameboys with the nanoloop software, although in some of her tracks she’s adding effects and using a “real” sampler. I have no idea what the track at 08:30 in the video is called but I like it. And check out her sweet dreams remix at 05:15, or on her myspace.
Here’s a short video interview with her. And another interview for Wired from 2007. Get her latest album from retinascan.
[via synthtopia.com]
The only problem with trying to find chip music online without really knowing what to look for is that there’s so much of it! But this is some quality 8-bit madness from Atari-ST music collective dropdabomb. These two are from stu and you really should listen to more of his stuff on his site, his myspace or on the buy page for his Atari Solo album on retinascan. I especially love the those low bitrate samples and the small glitchy bits in chiprape.
stu – chiprape [get this!]
stu – Disco Ver Atari [preview only but a must listen nonetheless]
Check out the buy page on retinascan.de for more stu.