HEXAWE is a netlabel dedicated solely to the ultraportable LITTLEGPTRACKER. Each release comes as either mp3 renders or the actual project files you can download and learn how they made the tracks. The compilation restriction this time is that all the samples must come from the casio line of musical instruments. You can grab the tracks on their webpage. After that you can grab their older compos:
Written the the Scene’s own Nathaniel Adams, Techno and etc music journal xlr8r touches on the recent amount of chip theft that has plagued the perhaps too trusting nature of the scene. The article is a good starting point, but if your curious there are deeper articles on the topic here and here.
Bad News
Temporarily down due to hard drive failure.
Affected sites:
www.c64.org
zyron.c64.org
hokutoforce.c64.org
imr.c64.org
Good News!
Old hard drives have now arrived at c64.org HQ. Will start trying to retreive the data from them.
* hvsc.c64.org has been brought back to life.
* intros.c64.org has been brought back to life.
* composers.c64.org has been brought back to life.
Colourama, The first (of what I hope is many) chipfests was held in Malaysia last weekend. It looks like it was a rad time. More info from their blog:
Bit the Medusa (video-Dimbo Dimbo Lets Go! – thanks a.NAS.t FILLeUNiQuE) : http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=45873463
more photos:
http://picasaweb.google.com/suebahrin08/Colourama08
http://www.flickr.com/photos/afiqr/tags/colourama08/
http://picasaweb.google.com/nikaizu08/Colourama2008
http://picasaweb.google.com/panahpetir/Colourama
http://picasaweb.google.com/munzir86/Colourama
Review & Photo:
http://luieonthemove.blogspot.com/2008/11/photo-colourama-08.html
http://www.gundu.com.my/content/140
http://nik-aizu.blogspot.com/2008/11/chiptune.html
http://seratsehat.wordpress.com/2008/11/05/oleh-oleh-dari-colourama/#more-421
Colourama’08 was a blast!! We have greaaaaaaaaaatt experience in making this event a successfull one! The performers was great, the visual was superb magnificient and the crowd was awesome! Seriously, we are satisfied with what we done!
Chibi-tech writes about the new PS2 Shmup featuring original NES music:
And yes… just like the previous Fantasy Force, the “8-bit” music makes a return once again! My chiptune technique had refined itself ever since, so I vowed to outdo the previous venture — both quality-wise & quantity-wise. With the addition of symphonic passages and much more overdriven rawkouts, hopefully you’ll enjoy the soundtrack’s more intense pace!
He has provided us a nice sample mix of the soundtrack, and a demo video of gameplay is available on the website.
zero3_stg_preview FF:SI MEGAMIXXX