Author: Peter Swimm

  • Final Cartridge: Final Area BGM

    Tiny Catridge is quickly becoming my favorite non chipmusic chip blog. They found a series of tracks from ultra talented musican Bucky.

    from Tiny Cartidge:

    “Final Area BGM” from the Exorcist NES game that never was. The brilliant concept behind this song is that it’s for a never-created game based on the 1973 horror film.

    Chiptune artist Bucky sets the scene:

    “You’ve reached the final stretch and it’s up to you to free Regan from Satan. Just be sure to open that bottle of ‘No Ghost’ BEFORE you open that door in the hallway…”

    Im personally digging the Wicker Man one. Maybe some Werner Herzong next?

  • Fade To Fall Cd Release

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    Birdleaf IV: Birdleaf's Dead

    Last fall’s release gets the loving cd treatment, along with bonus tracks, plus the online release of the tasty winter installment Seasonal Affective. From Hemlock:

    Hemlock Records is now accepting pre-orders for the Fade To Fall CD!  As many of your remember, we released this EP as a free download on our website back in October.  We now have a beautiful handmade, silk-screened CD packaged in eco-friendly materials.  This CD not only has the original 6 tracks in full, uncompressed quality, but it also features 5 bonus tracks and remixes. Take a listen to our bonus track sampler at:
    Also, we are simultaneously releasing the second chapter in our chip music series.  Seasonal Affective is our take on the Winter season and is now available as a free download.  Listen, look, and read more about it here:

  • Pixelh8 is well connected

    colossus01_540x362He gets profiled in New Scientist:

    How did you get into this music?

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    When I realised that you could emulate old machines on a PC and learn what was going on inside them, I went back to the older sounds. I’ve designed instruments for pop stars. I reprogrammed Game Boys for UK artist Damon Albarn, for example, turning them into real musical instruments.

    And a photo spread on cnet.

    While I maintain that he tends to over-arcane the creation of and over-emphasize in importance in “the chiptune scene”, the concert sounds really cool, and I look forward to what music is released from it.

  • Manwe “Aliasing” out on UBIKTUNE

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    Ambient shoegazy stuff from UBIKTUNE done mainly on Nintendo DS’s running the DS-10 software.  Get it here, along with the SAV fle for those with flashcarts to check the songs out. Fun!

  • Wired on: The $12 computer for developing nations project

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    Also just an excuse for me to publish this picture. Article features appearences from starpause and NO CARRIER. Interesting argument in the comments about the role of 8bit computers as a real world tool..