TRUE CHIP TILL DEATH • Shnabubula

TCTD micronews for 2010-01-13

By Peter Swimm, on January 13th, 2010

Chibi-tech! A–nie Rabu Damon. (It’s A–nie Love.) http://8bitcollective.com/music/chibi-tech/A–nie+Rabu+Damon.+(It%27s+A–nie+Love.)/ #
RT: @bit_shifter_: • I got Shnabubula’d! Now I can die a happy man. http://youtu.be/IrfsU5tPX8o #
3 DS-10 +kaosspad jams is excessive: http://tinyurl.com/y8fkmaq #
RT: @Nobuooo: OC Remix’s DCK 2 Album Preview & more on 8bitX Radio Network tonight: http://bit.ly/8z1woC #
NEW 2PP DVD FOR SALE:6 Discs/10hrs of Penny Arcade Expo’09 goodness. Click here for the trailer and store link:http://bit.ly/PAX09DVD #
RT: @WaveTheory: MAGFEST 8 DOCUMENTARY (sort of) through the eyes of A_Rival. Just uploaded here!: http://ping.fm/2QKbi #
Download! 8GB posted 8GB – Lemon Prize (Tom Woxom’s Commodore Take Remix) on #SoundCloud http://bit.ly/5vjsPN

8BC’s Weekly Hot Tracks

By Michael Bartlett, on December 20th, 2009

Couldn’t make it to Blip? That’s a shame, but maybe these ten songs can cheer you up:

Rushjet1 – Light’s Ultimate Solution
Shnabubula – Happy Chanukah (Hine Matov)
RoeTaKa – Nesty Business
C-jeff – Around Past
taxicab – Girth Quake
Ultrasyd – 1488 Morons
Cerror – Sea Side Blues
µB – Misty Island
dkstr – Comeback
miau – Shrooms On My Sandals

This post was submitted by Michael Bartlett.

Chipmusic • Releases

V.A. - Autumtunes released on Ubiktune

By Akira||8GB, on December 1st, 2009

Another BRILLIANT compilation released on C-Jeff’s Ubiktunes, featuring a lot of new names for me that I was happy to discover, and a bunch of the good ones, showing their autumn-inspired tunes.

Catchy pop-ish tunes that will make this week a better one. Quality release, of the type we don’t see much anymore.

Download this because you will not regret it.

Chipmusic • Labels • Releases

A Chip off the Shizz Block, Volume One

By Peter Swimm, on October 6th, 2009

A comp from the dudes over at the Shizz forum, lots of heavy hitters on this!

This album is the first installment of a compilation comprised of many talented chiptune artists from the Minibosses Message Forum at The Shizz. Not only is it intended to be a format for Shizz chiptune artists to share their talents, it’s also a new source for an annual fundraiser to help Shizzies get to MAGFest.

Track list after the jump:
01. MetalBishop – Famiclone Beatdown (02:02)
02. M-H – Welcome To… (01:45)
03. Mystic Nova – Fury of the Cyborg (02:30)
04. bucky – The Exorcist (Final Area BGM) (02:55)
05. Disasterphase – Ascend (03:58)
06. temp sound solutions – A New Dawn (03:33)
07. virt – Turbonugget (03:49)
08. Wizwars – Fly Away (03:01)
09. Phlogiston – I Was in the War, Damnit! (02:14)
10. Zio and TEH LOLZ – Soul Snob (02:23)
11. Norrin Radd – A Barrage of Hostile Abstractions (05:21)
12. Alex Mauer – I Guess Your Face Fell Off (00:58)
13. cacomistle – Blue, Brown, Pink, Grey (02:00)
14. Alex Atchley – RUFFTRADE (02:09)
15. Bit_Rat – Sunbeam (02:47)
16. Prizmatic Spray – Desert Dilemma (03:19)
17. temp sound solutions – Psionic Blast (03:58)
18. RushJet1 – Boss9 (01:18)
19. Norrin Radd – Paradoxes Are Unveiled (01:47)
20. Bit_Rat – Gimmick (02:13)
21. Mystic Nova – Aerosaga (02:07)
22. optomon – Hysteria (02:25)
23. Shnabubula – virtigo (01:46)
24. Neil Baldwin – Trapped (03:04)
25. virt – Sorcerors Battle (05:09)

via Concatenation Records – CCN016 – A Chip off the Shizz Block, Volume One.

Chipmusic • Labels • Releases

'Summertunes' out on UBIKTUNE

By Random, on August 26th, 2009

After spring comes summer…

Another top notch compilation from Ubiktune, with 11 tracks by 12 different artists (yes, one collaborative track) made with various platforms.

C-jeff writes:

In the end of summer Ubiktune’s forces have gathered together to play the last summer songs of this year.

via http://ubiktune.org/release/010/

In the News

TCTD tweets from 2009-08-21

By Peter Swimm, on August 21st, 2009

Covox US Tour tour starts TOMORROW http://www.covox.net/?gigs #
RT: @nocarrier: Lickshot (NES sampler software) test version is here: http://bit.ly/ybfTc #
John Coltrane feat. Shnabubula on Nintendo with Konami VRC6 http://bit.ly/138kvd #
Jazz Guy Loves Kind of Bloop.. http://bit.ly/4Y8UG #

Chipmusic • In the News • Releases

Kind of Bloop is out!

By Peter Swimm, on August 20th, 2009

After its release to kickstarter contributors earlier this week, Kind of Bloop is finally out. In case you missed it, This latest high profile chip tribute record finds some of the best composers in the scene performing tracks from Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue. While not a fan of this era of Miles Davis myself (Pangea!!), its kinda interesting to see the outsides world perspective to this “new to them” chipmusic phenomena.

Time.com wrote (!)

Miles Davis probably never played Nintendo. It’s technically possible; the genre-bending, stereotype-defying jazz legend lived until 1991, six years after the first Nintendo Entertainment System was released in North America. Who knows how the trumpet player spent his free time? He may have seen a video game, or even picked up a controller. But it’s a pretty safe bet that he never stormed Bowser’s castle or paused to appreciate the “piku-piku” sound that Mario made when he went down a tunnel.

Maybe its years after reading articles that “don’t get it” but I found this article pretty fair and informative. Anything that avoids the character meats genre formula of writing can’t be a bad thing right? Here is looking forward to fresh takes on whats becoming a familiar concept.