By
Peter Swimm, on February 20th, 2010
1. Austin – Dead Pixels
2. disassembler – falling in and out of step
3. DJ Hollow Life – NanoJa extended
4. environmental sound collapse & Nikaena Vizukae – irradiated soil (excerpt)
5. Flashbob – Zen Medication
6. godinpants – Nana’s Voice
7. infradead – sing a song to make you suffer
8. little-scale – Sunset On The Esplanade
9. Miko – Genesis & Catastrophe
10. nezar – echo
11. Raz1r – Sailing the 8th Sea
12. the mist toggles – roots in mud
via Incomplete without surface noise.
By
Peter Swimm, on January 31st, 2010
Office yoga made easy; hypnosis for the modern age. Music for SEGA Nomad and Atari 2600. Cure yourself with electricity.
Track listing:
1. We Are Eating Our Children
2. Four-Wheel Drive Advertisement
3. Plus One
4. Self Replicating Technology
5. Latitude and Longitude (CD-only track)
6. Microbiology
via little-scale: little-scale: Office Yoga Made Easy.
By
Peter Swimm, on January 27th, 2010
Our final award is somewhat nebulous and warrants a little explaining. It is someone who should be among the foremost names on your list when explaining chip music to outsiders, a person whose skills as a musician and composer are so inspiring that mere words cannot convey their importance to the scene. The following nominations comprise artists from all the relevant categories. I am happy to present the (last!) award of 2009, Artist of the Year:
minusbaby – With a stripped down live approach, quality EPs for 8bitpeoples and rocking pixel work, Minusbaby made numerous TCTD award shortlists. His music becomes more nuanced and engrossing with each release.
Bud Melvin – An amazing performer with an awesome release confirms my gut feeling that any year Bud is active, he is a nominee for this category.
4mat – One of the demoscene greats returns to the fold. Even his WIPs and fragments outstrip many official releases.
Goto80 – Do you like breakfast?
Little-Scale – This insanely prolific inventor and composer was the overwhelming choice of the public in this year’s nominations. He is an innovative songwriter, a great live performer and he knows a thing or two about interfacing with his hardware.
By
Peter Swimm, on December 2nd, 2009
Now out on Handheld Heroes.
Don’t you love the pre-blip release flood?
By
B. Leo, on November 6th, 2009
Compiled by notorious OPL buff , Oxygenstar, this release serves up a healthy dose of frequency modulation synthesis which varies nicely in both style and technique. Get it here.
01. OxygenStar – Welcome (Adlib Tracker II, recorded on a Pro Audio Spectrum16)
02. stijl – Slelett o garderoben (TFM/Reaktor)
03. freezedream – RacerRX (recorded on a YM2612)
04. Monsters – The forest Song (TFM)
05. OxygenStar – I used to love her (Adlib Tracker II, recorded on a Pro Audio Spectrum16)
06. Tiido – Cosmic synthesizer (MD Tracker/TMSE)
07. little-scale – Birthright (recorded on a YM2413)
08. rico z – Lonely gigolo standing in the rain (Milky Tracker, YM2413 samples)
09. sci – Three notes (TFM)
10. Tristendo – The pizza dinosaurs of planet awesome (TFM)
11. µB – Suspicious user (OPL emulation)
12. Alex Luthor – Alone in the Playground (TFM)
13. Lazerbeat – Knock (NL2.3 in FM mode)
