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.
By Peter Swimm, on October 22nd, 2009
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.
By Peter Swimm, on September 17th, 2009 
Website
Check out this dope compilation: at TGS and then for the rest of Japan on 10/15, Inti Creates is releasing a collection of Rockman/Mega Man music covered by a bunch of cool chiptune artists like virt, Hally, KPLECRAFT, and USK.There’s a sample at the site, but it sounds like a chunk of every track strung together, and is therefore a mess.
via Tiny Cartridge
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.
By Peter Swimm, on August 15th, 2009
By tctdbot, on May 13th, 2009  [Editors Note: Seems like they have already reached their goal, but have said else where that anyone donating will get a copy of the cd.. so consider this a preorder?]
Excerpt from the man behind the project, Andy Baio: “What would the pioneers of jazz sound like on a Nintendo Entertainment System? Coltrane on a C-64? Mingus on Amiga? For years, I’ve wondered what “chiptune jazz” would sound like, but there are only a tiny handful of jazz covers ever made.
To satisfy my curiosity – and commemorate the 50th anniversary of Miles Davis’s “Kind of Blue” – I’ve asked five brilliant chiptune musicians to collaborate and reinvent
the entire album in the 8-bit sound.
Continue reading Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis
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