Author: Peter Swimm

  • Sid Player for the Iphone

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    Im impressed.

  • Open Thread quote of the day/Comment Wars DX 07

    http://www.cokemachineglow.com/record_review/4386/anamanaguchi-dawnmetropolis-2009

    It’s* chiptune—a genre based on elite black t-shirted boffinry—going beyond the highs of nostalgia and pointing to something doubly engaging.

    Have a great weekend kids.

    *The FUCKING RECORD GLOMAG

  • Claps and Leads by Mr. Spastic

    8bp096One of my favorites in the whole “MIDIFY Chip sounds but make the kind of music I want to anyways”  zone of the chip music scene, Mr. Spastic is extremely underrated and hopefully this is the release to get him on the map.  Having had one of the best Blip ’09 sets, he is sure to be killing it at this weekend’s  Dutycyle II show.  With its killer pixel art from UI, this may be hands down one of my favorite e-ep’s so far of 09.

    This is non-optional download. GRAB IT NOW.

    “Claps and Leads” marks Mr. Spastic’s triumphant return to the 8bitpeoples catalogue; five deft exercises in virtuoso programming, balancing intricate technical skill with a warmly organic sound, all delivered in his signature bold-yet-delicate tech-soul style. Jazz, deep funk, disco, R&B, and full-on techno inflections collide and merge into an astonishing stylistic cocktail, all topped off with a shimmering pro-grade production sensibility. Dazzling artwork by Ui completes the package, sealing the deal on a certain future classic.

    via 8bitpeoples.

  • Endless loop: A brief history of chiptunes

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    Chiptune refers to a collection of related music production and performance practices sharing a history with video game soundtracks. The evolution of early chiptune music tells an alternate narrative about the hardware, software, and social practices of personal computing in the 1980s and 1990s. By digging into the interviews, text files, and dispersed ephemera that have made their way to the Web, we identify some of the common folk-historical threads among the commercial, noncommercial, and ambiguously commercial producers of chiptunes with an eye toward the present-day confusion surrounding the term chiptune. Using the language of affordances and constraints, we hope to avoid a technocratic view of the inventive and creative but nevertheless highly technical process of creating music on computer game hardware.

    Full Paper.

    Im sure the Pulpit will raise some objections to the authors conclusions, but it is worth the read.

  • Outside the Box: PS2 as cheapo sampler

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    You could get two decks of pstwos, one running this and one running PS24vJ for some lofi blurry beats. I have a copy of the older mtv generator and it was fun, but kinda slow in composition. Hows the sequal?