Have you heard of 8BITches? Well neither have I.
Hailing from Maine, they send our way a brilliant array of flashback-filled Game Boy beats, complete with masterful rhymes: sometimes chill, sometimes harsh; always excellent.
Add to that amazing lo-fi scratches, VL-Tone licks, and all you have to do left is listen to the music already!
This has been out since 2008?
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Should you decide to buy the 5.99$/10 Tracks Album
Handmade while wandering the earth. Laid back, squelchy and raw DS-10 goodness.
Behold! One of our most epic releases to date! 11 brand new songs accompanied by 7 alternate takes of songs you may have already listened to before. 18 ridiculous tracks varying in style are sure to bring you tears of confusion, happiness, and rage. That’s right, TEARS OF RAGE. Be sure to check this out if you liked what you heard on the previous DIF release, as these are all originals. Not your generic chiptunes – lots of punk and metal influences with ridiculous amounts of melodies! STOP READING THIS, JUST LISTEN TO IT ALREADY YOU GOONS!
4mat is releasing his first chip music album at the end of June. Called ‘Decades’, it features all new tracks building on his experimental releases as The Amber Room and marie2, together with his more popular synth styles under the 4mat handle. The first (of three) teaser videos has just been released, each one will showcase a track from the album.
Teaser video:
The other videos and release announcement will be posted on his facebook page:
For extra trippyness you can wear red/cyan 3d glasses to really get into the starfield.
Sky Burial is a work of personal combat against the internal engine that pushes me away from dreams. There is a place between floating aimlessly with your head in the clouds and just scraping by in the mud-realm of men and commerce. Every song has an adventure behind it. Every adventure begins with a question. Sky Burial is what it sounds like when I come out on top against the menial indignities that the scared, frustrated, and weak-of-heart work to impose upon us each day. Sky Burial is my quest to find a place that feels like Home.
Sky Burial is 10 songs made without automation or external effects in a tracker using common Nintendo Entertainment System sample loops that I cleaned up and fine-tuned a few cents here and there, with special thanks to bucky for Snare #25 from his DPCM pack and maktone for the kick drum, which I lifted from a mod called “Dogfight.” “Brionic Commando” is a song by my friend Brion Kennedy that I ruined. Fully analog mastering by Joel Hatstat, who completed the realization of a childhood dream by launching things to the In-Your-Face layer of the stratosphere.
Album art (an absolutely perfect realization of my most inward vision) by Adam Pinney.