Someone should add a song to this and turn it into a music video.

I’ve been listening to all the low quality mp3s I could find for a while now but the debut album from N.A.S.A (aka Squeak E. Clean and DJ Zegon) was finally released yesterday. It’s full of crazy collaborations such as ‘Gifted’ with Lykke Li, Santogold and Kanye West. Both the debut single ‘Spacious Thought’ and the video for Money has been all over the internet for a while now, but in case you’ve missed them here they are again.

N.A.S.A. ft David Byrne, Chuck D, Ras Congo, Seu Jorge, & Z-Trip – Money

N.A.S.A. ft Tom Waits & Kool Keith – Spacious Thoughts

N.A.S.A. ft Kanye West, Santogold & Lykke Li – Gifted

N.A.S.A. “Money” feat. David Byrne, Chuck D, Ras Congo, Seu Jorge, & Z-Trip from Paul Griswold on Vimeo.

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Check out the audio app towards the end of the video. I’ve had a lot of fun playing around with the Kaossilator but there would be so many more possibilities with the Siftables.

Update: Video of the music sequencer without the other stuff.

Siftables Music Sequencer from Jeevan Kalanithi on Vimeo.

Christmas and new years is over and I just came back from a crazy week in Sweden with nothing to show for it apart from a three day fever I came down with as soon as I got back to London. Three days in bed means three days wasted if you ask me, but at least I kept my head clear enough to crawl to the laptop, push play on winamp and make it back to bed again. What I’m trying to say is that I’m sorry for the lack of updates and I haven’t given up listening to music!

So, here’s one of my favorite producers, The Bulgarian. He’s got a quite identifiable crazy fidgety house sound, yet every one of his tracks seems so different from each other. Not sure how that works really, you better just listen for yourselves. Disfunktional Caterpillar is an all time favorite and the first of his tracks I heard. The bassline kills it!

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Larry Tee – I Love U (The Bulgarian Remix) [via FuckBadMusic.com]

Urban Monkeys – Disfunktional Caterpillar (The Bulgarian Remix)

the bug – run the place red (KiNK vs the bulgarian rerub)

konflict – messiah (le castle vania remix – the bulgarian 127 re-beat)

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http://myspace.com/thebulgariantracks

http://soundcloud.com/thebulgarian

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]

stu – mYMelody

Check out the buy page on retinascan.de for more stu.