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Pixelord – “Lucid Freaks pt. 1″ (Error Broadcast Netlabel)

Brigitte — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:23:45 +0000

Glitchy Chipfunk Hipedihop Music | OK, let's get down once again with the Error Broadcast Crew. Open the windows of your hipster car and let the sounds cover the streets with a heavy dose of subbass, quirky and glitchy bleeps and funk. Meister Pixelord knows how to build some wonky beats and bass. His debut brings you some chipmusic-inspired hip hop instrumentals Mario would loved to stumble upon while jumping his way through the next level.

Pixelord - "Cartoon Friend" (MP3)
Pixelord - "Quartz Boy" (MP3)
Pixelord - "Cybernator" (MP3)
Pixelord - "Bosworm" (MP3)

The Pixelord is Moscow-based musician Alexey Devyanin. To some he is known as Gultskra Artikler. Under this moniker he produced some freaky experimental music. Now, he tickles the knobs of his synthesizers and mixer to squeeze out some extraordinary and truly funky hip hop I've never listen to before in that kind of combination.

"Lucid Freaks pt. 1" is a perfect cocktail of chip music funk flickering over solid beats, staggering like a drunken monk. It's the G-Funk the Giana Sisters enjoy dancing to and making Dre wetting his panties. Dope!

MP3 HipHop Music Download

Download: Pixelord - "Lucid Freaks pt. 1" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist-Website: www.twitter.com/pixelord
Release: Pixelord - "Lucid Freaks pt. 1"
Netlabel: www.error-broadcast.com

Weezer- “The 8-bit Album” (Pterodactyl)

Bettina Rhymes — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:59:08 +0000

Perfect! | 14 chip tune celebrities interpret songs of college rock legends Weezer ("Buddy Holly"). That makes so much sense I wonder why it took the careful hands of Pterodactyl Squad Netlabel only now to make this album come to life. Great fun if you're a Weezer fan, catchy listen if you're an 8bit addict.

Anamanaguchi - "Holiday" (MP3)
Tugboat - "El Scorcho" (MP3)
Bit Shifter - "The World Has Turned (...)" (MP3)

The element that many chip tune musicians and most Weezer songs have in common is a certain will and addiction to melodies. Catchy melodies. OBSCENE melodies. While Weezer cross their kitschy music by River Cuomo's fragile vocal performance, in case of "Weezer- The 8-bit Album", Nintendo and Atari TV games take the job. Did I mention it works like perfect?

The spectrum ranges from "band" (Anamanaguchi, :(, I Fight Dragons, and - surprise! - Bit Shifter) to oldschool gameboy-only (Tugboat, Nordloef, Arcadecoma). You don't need much more. This is the lovely liner notes Pterodactyl Squad put on:

"Do you remember that dream you had, where the sound chips from the beloved games consoles of your youth all got together and formed a Weezer tribute band? Yeah? No? OK. That dream is about to come true whether you had it or not."

MP3 Pop Music Download

Download: Weezer- The 8-bit Album (ZIP)
Release: V.A. - Weezer- The 8-bit Album
Netlabel: www.ptesquad.com

Cornbeast – “Chip Hero” (8bitpeoples)

Bettina Rhymes — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:27:48 +0000

Gameboy Arena Rock | We haven't had much chip music lately, and I used to check the usual sources of 8bit music less frequent than I did back in the days. "Chip Hero" by Stockholm Gameboy programmer Fredrik Stolpe, however, is one of the more recent releases at 8bitpeoples, and it hit me hard.

Cornbeast - "Megablast" (MP3)
Cornbeast - "Sparks" (MP3)

In a way, Cornbeast suits the recent trends in Discorock and punky Electronica quite well. Catchy melodies, uplifting beats, rough sounds. So far, this is true for a lot of chip music releases. But Cornbeast's "Chip Hero" brings along more than just 20 minutes dancefloor energy. Below his bleepy textures, gameboy Fredrik hides well-written songs with melodies that make stick and do not solely work by making you remember your Nintendo handheld.

This is the case especially for "Megablast", "Chip Hero" and the ballad "Sparks". Soulwax meets Daft Punk in a 8bit outfit? Gameboy Arena Rock? Probably said too much, but you get the idea. Recommended.

MP3 Pop Music Download

Download: "Chip Hero" (ZIP)
Artist-Website: cornbeast.com
Release: Cornbeast - "Chip Hero"
Netlabel: 8bitpeoples.com

The Depreciation Guild – “In Her Gentle Jaws”

Bettina Rhymes — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:10:41 +0000

Affair of the Heart | Music helps you to get nostalgic every now and then. Remembering the good ole days might be a stupid reason to fancy certain songs or bands but sometimes you can't help. Consider New York City Famicom-Rockers The Depreciation Guild - what took these delicious guys to fuse early 90's Shoegaze with tickling 8bit textures? You simple don't have another opportunity than lovin' them!

Three American guys with surprisingly German names, Kurt Feldman with brothers Anton and Christoph Hochheim form a band of two guitars, vocals and a modified Famicom, known as "NES" in Europe (check this nice techtalk article to learn more about their line up).

The Depreciation Guild's first EP "Nautilus" was released over at 8bitpeoples.com (see our Blip feature for a nice live video of the band at the 2007 festival), but their full-length album is online on their website without any label support. This makes sense in a way as their melody-driven Indierock never suited the Peoples that well.

Recorded by Feldman and his companion Akira Hashizume, "In Her Gentle Jaws" (what a title!) features ten energetic and moony Pop tunes with a lot of fuzzy guitars and vocals like recorded in a hall church. The Famicom leads are integral part of their music and not only used as a gimmick. Slightly out of tune, most of their songs don't show up with all of their bliss at first try, but "Sky Ghosts", "Dark Looming" or "Digital Solace" are bittersweet symphonies par excellence.

A light-hearted version of My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Cocteau Twins of course... imagine this bands mixed with the sound of Nintendo's oldest console and you know what The Depreciation Guild sound like. Brillant, end to end.

MP3 Pop Music Download

Download: "In Her Gentle Jaws" ZIP
Artist-Website: www.inhergentlejaws.com

Various – “Heartcode” (Pause Music Netlabel)

MartinWisniowski — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:05:04 +0000

Chiptunes| Not long time ago we told you that the release from Iqtu on Pause-Music (II-music) was the best release so far on II. The label really makes it not easy for me, because now I want to say the same thing about "Heartcode". It is a small, but a very powerful compilation with music from the label staff.

There are minimum two pieces on "Heartcode" that are outstanding and blasting away any doubts about the grown-up abilities of chip-musicians. The masterpiece is "Ensis" from Disasterpeace. He likes to combine crazy things with different speeds, surprising breaks, fine melodies - all put together with extraordinary composational abilities. It is really hard to shine next to such a burner.

Nevertheless... the other tracks on "Heartcode" are pure 1-a finest quality. "Ikea Shopper Credits" from Alex Maurer brings back the Marble Madness vibe, while tracks like "Monstrox" or "Get Pumped" the complexity and the addicitve sound that you maybe missed since the days of Turrican or old games from Konami. Don't let this music get out of your head. Get and download it now. It's free!

MP3 Chip Music Download

Download: Various - "Heartcode" (ZIP-Archive)
Release: Various - "Heartcode"
Netlabel: www.iimusic.net

Mark Denardo – “Lion, Tiger, Bear” (8bitpeoples)

Christian Grasse — Mon, 05 May 2008 06:00:34 +0000

Gameboys & accordions | Mark Denardo managed to connect two of the most contrasting genres in the netlabelscene – chiptunes and singer/songwriter music. On his six-track "Lion, Tiger, Bear" EP, digital 8-bit sounds are being served with analogue instruments like acoustic guitar, piano, accordion, violin and lyrics that come along in a folk and blues-like style. This creative mixture is unique in its style and therefore, Mark Denardo’s music deserves its own label: chip-folk.

Mark Denardo grew up with playing different traditional instruments and at a certain age he rediscovered the gameboy. Since then the New York (Brooklyn)-based musician and composer treats the nostalgic plastic machine as a valuable musical instrument and connects familiar gameboy generated 8-bit sounds with traditional blues and folk music, which is especially transparent on his “Lion, Tiger, Bear” EP (listen to the songs “Grass”, “Fare” and “Muse”).

It is important to him to know how to use a technology to expand his horizons. So, using a gameboy is an evolution in composition to him. The way he creates his music is based on a DIY-attitude and spontaneous ideas that are being put on top of each other until there is something that can be called a song. Another fact that needs to be pointed out is that Mark Denardo joined the biggest chiptune conglomerate you can think of: 8bitpeoples. And that’s the place to be for an 8-bit-gourmet. If you want to know more about him, have a look at this short potrait or see him live and in action right here.

MP3 Chipfolk Music Download

Release Site: Mark Denardo - “Lion, Tiger, Bear”
Netlabel: www.8bitpeoples.com
Artist Website: www.markdenardo.com
Artist Myspace: www.myspace.com/markdenardo

Video: “Sting Operation” for Anamanaguchi

mo. — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:33:39 +0000

Chip Music Video Clip | Anamanaguchi produce Chip Music on the well-known 8bitpeoples Netlabel. Listen to their free album "Power Supply" or have a look on the incredible video-clip by 2 Player Productions. They used graphics from the PSP-game Okami and combined it with the Anamanaguchi-song "Sting Operation" to make a terrific video-clip.

MP3 Chip Music Music Download

Release: Anamanaguchi - "Power Supply"
Netlabel: www.8bitpeoples.com

Random – “Bad Joke EP” (8bitpeoples)

Bettina Rhymes — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:58:03 +0000

Delicious 8bit Cheese | Surfing 8bitpeoples.com is a bit like coming home. Not only the website didn't change for years, it's mainly because of the soothing/ uplifting retrofuture sound of their releases. Every single download brings forth the spirit of the 80's 8bit-consoles like the NES or the (in-) famous Nintendo Gameboy. Random's "Bad Joke EP" is the most advisable in a series of recently published releases.

William Rickman a.k.a. Random is the great white hope of 8bit Pop. He's involved at the Stockholm epicenter of Chip music, Mikrodisko, is personally involved at 8bitpeoples.com, studies composition in London and travels the world for his live performances.

Like 8bit peoples Bit Shifter and David Sugar, Random creates vulgar melodious and catchy Pop music. For great effort, he combines a his talent for melodies with impellent House- and Rock-rhythms, strictly limited to the sound of the good old Gameboy. There's not too much intellectualism necessary to access his recordings, but everybody who has only the slightest sympathy for chip music in particular and Pop in general should hurry and download this precious collection of 8bit chart breakers.

MP3 Chip Music Download

Release-Site: Random - "Bad Joke EP"
Netlabel: www.8bitpeoples.com
Artist Website: www.randomizer.se