The 2010 TCTD Awards

The True Chip Till Death awards celebrates the best artists and innovators in the world of chip music and its related disciplines.

Our winners are in BOLD ITALICS

Best Label

  • 8bitpeoples
  • Pause
  • Metrodub
  • Bleepstreet
  • Ubiktune

 

Best Release

  • Diamond – AMU
  • Control Me – Jay Tholen
  • Hydrioider – Ralp
  • THE BEST MUSIC – George and Johnathan
  • Antia – little-scale and Poppi Doser
  • Wall You Need is Love – ???
  • Fill My Head – Sadnes

Best Artist

  • 4mat
  • Anamanaguchi
  • George and Jonathan
  • ???
  • Jay Tholen

Best Song

  • Paper Dolls – 4mat
  • It Ain’t Hawaii (Citizenship Enforcement Squad Theme) – The J. Arthur Keenes Band
  • Diamond – AMU
  • Leaving Home – 10k
  • Airbrushed – Anamanaguchi
  • Whale – George & Jonathan
  • Fill My Head – Sadnes

Best Graphics and Motion Visuals

  • m7kenji
  • KeFF
  • Party Time! Hexcellent!
  • iLKke
  • Raquel Myers

Best Hardware

  • sammichSID
  • Hard Soft Synth F
  • HardSID Uplay
  • Everdrive MD
  • Pocket VBLANK

Best Software

  • Neil Baldwin Software Suite
  • KLYSTRACK
  • Chipdisco
  • Beepola
  • Famitracker 3.5

Defender of the Chip

  • Neil Baldwin
  • Coova
  • Game Boy Australia
  • Chipanzee
  • Chiptography

Best Mixed Media Work

  • Scott Pilgrim VS, The World – Anamanaguchi, Paul Robertson, Ubisoft, Et Al
  • Today – Freezedream
  • Teletime – Animal Style
  • Useless Yet Crucial – Raquel Meyers
  • Reformat the Planet DVD – 2PlayerProductions

Best Demoscene Production


One Little Wish – Fairlight
Snapshot – glance pt 1 pt 2
We Come In Peace – Elude
Metropolice – Ghostown & Rave Network Overscan
Black Spark 100% – Black Sun
Talk Talk 2 – The Church Of Excellence in Art – Excellence in Art

TCTD Lifetime Achievement Award

  • 4mat