Month: November 2008

  • Cave Story Soundtrack Converted to Impulse Tracker

    Fun Looking, but Deadly Difficult
    Fun Looking, but Deadly Difficult

    Random reports on the 8BC forum:

    Coda wrote a program which enabled him to reverse the music from everyones favorite game Cave Story and output .it-files (Impulse Tracker modules)!

    This is very exciting news to me, since I’ve only previously found a soundtrack consisting of about half the tracks in shitty mp3 quality, and since it’s a lovely soundtrack (to a lovely game). It seems the stereo information was lost when converted to .it, but it’s still very enjoyable, and otherwise accurate. Perhaps Coda will figure out how to get the stereo information as well…

    Anyway, here’s the .rar with all songs: http://engramstudio.com/crap/cavestory_it.rar

    PS. And just in case you didn’t already know, .it-files are best played with XMplay if you are using Windows, and CocoModX if you’re using OSX.

    So listen, loop, remix, enjoy!

  • Mark Denardo relaunches Website

    New bodies for old. from flickr
    RRRRRRRARRRR. from flickr

    Brooklyn based chip/folk/etc artist Mark Denardo has launched his new website, with full lentgh tracks from his current release Graffiti Monsters. I helped worked on some of the rough demos for these tracks, but what they’ve become with his live band and in the studio are really great, and should be checked out.

    100percent 100%

  • First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival

    Thanks to 8bitweapon who posted this heads up on 8bitcollective, we can bring you some old but fresh news :D

    First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival
    As true as chip can get?

    “The First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival was held August 25, 1978 as part of the Personal Computing ’78 show. It was organized by Dick Moberg of the Philadelphia Area Computer Society.

    “Several people in the area had been producing music with their computers so I suggested we have a computer music concert.” said Dick Moberg, organizer of the feast. “John OK’d the idea and we went to work calling our friends and urging them to perform.”

    “The concert was finally held in one of the larger ballrooms of the Sheraton Hotel. Our borrowed sound system was set up and sound checks made for the recording. We opened the doors to the crowd outside to find several hundred more people than the room could hold. Many sat on the floors of the halls as the music filled the hotel.

    Hal Chamberlin had set up an oscilloscope that would project the waveform being played on a screen. The result was a fantastic synchronized light show!”

    The First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival was held August 25, 1978 as part of the Personal Computing ’78 show.

    You can listen to the music online or download the songs in MP3 format. The navigation sidebar to the right includes the album’s liner notes, which describe the event, the programmers, and the computers that created the music.

    Downloads, tracklist and more at the release’s website

  • Jellica Live SID Mix – For a Limited time only

    No ears means massive noise.
    No ears means massive noise.

    Uberhot Boy Model Jellica has posted a C64 DJ mix for a very limited time only! grab it quick:

    Jellica DJ mix live 12 november via skype megamotherfuckinglo-fi!!!!!!!!!!!111111!!!

    lazy tracklisting:

    Martin Galway – Parallax bit (C64)
    Glomag/various – 8bit operators pocket calc megamixxxx (various mainly GB?)
    peeR – slack (GB)
    Paza Rajm – Mindfields (ST)
    Ben Daglish – Dark Fusion (sincair beeper thingy)
    Strobe – Robophobia III (vic 20)
    Linus – Couldron (c64)
    CC Ivory – Machine (GB)
    Tim Follin – Bionic Commando bit (C64)
    Unicorn Dream Attack – The Mustard Seed (GB)
    Timbral – Y’m Still Here (ST)

    mp3s and stuff from peoples myspaces blah.

    there were a couple of others but they wernt properly prepared and meh

    7 days or 100 downloads

    https://www.yousendit.com/download/Y2o5 … SnBFQlE9PQ

  • TCTD Secret Weapon

    Chip Verdadeiro até a Morte!
    Chip Verdadeiro até a Morte!

    TCTD loves Google Reader. To stay up to date on tons of disparate mailing lists, blogs and forums online, it is an invaluable tool to monitor the latest developments in the chipscene. The other day, they added the ability to translate blogs on the fly, which allowed me to check out the new Portuguese language blog “Ecos Fantasmas”

    Google Translated Link:

    Kurt, the blog author, just yesterday covered his take on an intro to making chip music. While the topic is hardly new, it is unique what language it is written in, and is a good resource for those who speak it natively. Can anyone suggest other non-english blogs TCTD should keep tabs on?