Author: Peter Swimm

  • TCTD Awards 2009: Best Live Performer


    Live performance is a bit of a dirty secret in electronic music, and perhaps more so in chip music where far too many artist are happy pantomiming and summoning, and few have the talent or charisma to pull off a genuinely charismatic live performance. This list is far too short, as there were a number of great performers active this year, and those left off were done by the barest of margins. Here are the nominees for Best Performers of 2009.

    Graffitti Monsters

    Sorry for the older video, but even in it’s current incarnation as a two-piece (soon to be three piece), GM are one of the most energetic and fun chip shows around.

    tRasH cAn maN

    Charisma, CHECK, great tunes CHECK, enigmatic and entertaining crowd seductery? CHECK.

    The J Arthur Keens Band

    Youthful musical genius overcomes the odds to become breakout performer at industry showcase. IT HAPPENED.

    Hally

    The world’s best just got better, forever.

    Bud Melvin

    Last year’s nominee keep it rocking with good times, rad tunes, and live music fade-outs.

  • VegaPlay appeared

    Along with scrollnes, NO CARRIER is creating quite a suite of software tools to take advantage of NES hardware more easily than ever before.

    He writes:

    Back in 2007 I created Vegavox, the first NES music album on a cart, for Alex Mauer. Now you can do the same. VegaPlay is an open source multi-song NSF playback ROM.

    via no-carrier.com.

  • On the FMA: Blip Festival

    Free Music Archive: 2009 Blip Festival on your FMA.

  • TCTD Twitter Posts for 2010-01-18

    • Random reviews "Pamplemousse" – http://short.to/13woy #
    • The real reason people hate Uk Chiptune: http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/article-23796498-crazy-for-cute-the-latest-teenage-craze.do #
    • on chipflip: a pretty comprehensive recounting of the case against 8bc: http://tinyurl.com/ycu6bf3 #
    • RT @PalmSounds Shruti-1 demo video – Thanks to Stephen for pointing me at this video. http://ow.ly/16mIou #
    • RT @cdmblogs More details reveal why the #op-1 will be so cool – including what we *don't* know. http://ow.ly/XSJn #
    • RT @plgDavid Analyse.. don't Destroy (a Casio PV-1000) http://short.to/13ywf #
    • RT @animalstyle Cheap Dinosaurs youtube page has some vids of us @ 8static http://short.to/13ywj #
    • RT @nocarrier scrollNES is out: http://short.to/13zbu #

  • TCTD Twitter Posts for 2010-01-16

    • RT: @micromusic: Meneo preparing the audience for their performance, and it works! http://moby.to/u4frkd #
    • Official Preview of the anamanaguchi set from the PAX09 DVD – http://vimeo.com/channels/pax09dvd -buy it here today: https://store.penny-arcade.com/pad09002100.html #
    • RT: @bltidm: [Chip Music] 1/19 8pm Free at K&M Bar in BK w/ Role Model, 8bitbEtty, Knife City & Tenfold https://web.archive.org/web/20171016043133/http://www.cheesenbeer.info/ #cnbftw #
    • Mr.Bun’s Beer cArry beats” by ROPHON – http://rophon.music.coocan.jp/chiptune.htm #
    • Zen Albatross glomag review: http://www.originalsoundversion.com/?p=6787 #
    • Release 26 of xpmck: http://jiggawatt.org/muzak/xpmck/ #
    • gwEm hearts basshunter: #