Category: Labels

Labels that highlight the best of the genre balancing innovation and strong technical mastery of the limitations inherent on chip platforms.

  • Steady C – He Started It

    Steady C – He Started It

    CDKr is no stranger to hip hop, with the Chip Hop and Urban Bits compilations being notable examples – but here is the debut effort from rap icon Steady C! Straight outta Meriden, Conneticut, Steady C has been creating rhymes and breaking hearts since he was but a small child. This collection of tracks contains some oldies, and some new crackers for yer earholes as well.

    Recommended Usage: stick it on a cassette tape, pop it in your car and cruise your local neighbourhood.

    via [CDK 056] Steady C – He Started It | CalmDownKidder Records.

  • Kulor — Alter Ego OST

    Kulor — Alter Ego OST

    “Once upon a time Denis Grachev made a game for the ZX Spectrum. The game was called Alter Ego and it was pretty sweet, so Shiru decided to do an NES port. Since the ZX Spectrum couldn’t really handle playing music while running a game at the same time, the original version of the game had no music. That’s where I came in! Using Famitracker to interface with Shiru’s NES music engine, I created a soundtrack which would fit in the <9 KBs available. Shiru’s engine gave me 31 instruments to work with, no possibility of changing duty cycle outside of at the very start of an instrument, no effects and no volume column…so the results were fairly limited. Those are the “classic” tunes.But then Denis Grachev got ahold of me directly and asked if he could use the tracks for a Windows Phone 7 port of the game that he wanted to make. I decided that instead of taking the lazy way out and saying “sure go ahead”, I would remaster the tracks and make enhanced versions using the full capabilities of Famitracker. So here it is, my first full game soundtrack and my first album release on Ubiktune! Hope you enjoy!Special thanks to Denis Grachev for making an awesome game, and special thanks to Shiru for putting together an amazing NES version! Also a special shout-out to the #ancat crew: lunardave and miau and heos and rushjet et al”— Kulor.

    via Ubiktune: [UBI032] Kulor — Alter Ego OST.

  • Ralp – Fuldatax

    Ralp – Fuldatax

    Fuldatax has been created only with one Game Boy DMG and the LSDJ program, and recorded directly into computer with a Pro Sound modification in the Game Boy, without any extra effects, editions or postproduction stages.Tracklist:1. Oxuria Memoth2. Brubarb3. Fosforor4. Extrudrall5. Trillotaux6. Urreah7. Potain8. Pinacles

    via Ralp – Fuldatax.

  • Danimal Cannon — Roots

    Danimal Cannon — Roots

    “Roots is my debut chiptune album, I decided to “go big or go home” and make it ~70 minutes. I’ve been laboring over this album for over a year now and I’ve learned a lot along the way. It seems like with every new track I would discover a new way of making chiptunes, or another artist would inspire me to head in a different direction.

    The album makes its way through a load of genres and moods, and that’s because I love a lot of different kinds of music. The gameboy has such a distinctive sound, so that even though I traverse through so many genres the album retains a cohesiveness, glued together by the bonds of chiptune.

    This album would not be possible without the sharing of information, tricks, and ideas. I still find myself learning things in LSDJ (someone showed me a new trick THIS WEEK). For this reason I’ve decided to include the .sav files in my album. Go ahead, learn, remix, be curious. There’s no reason to have trade secrets in chiptune composing. I am extremely proud of what I’ve been able to accomplish with this album but it would not have happened without people showing me things first.” — Danimal Cannon.

    via Ubiktune: [UBI031] Danimal Cannon — Roots.

  • AndaruGO- MegaDoomer

    Taking the place of the third artist from the expanding Cincinnati scene to be featured on Pxl-Bot, AndaruGO delves into the world of trance and dirt for his debut release, ‘Megadoomer’.

    Starting with the title track, a dirty and gritty convulsion, AndaruGo then goes on to start as he’ll continue throughout the rest of the release on ‘Hokutou’, fist-pumping grime-inducing trance-esque chip sonnets. Featuring as many truly jaw-dropping moments as you can possibly fit into six tracks, from the pure trance breakdown into the schizophrenic melodies on the climax of ‘Shark War’ to the slow downed swagger moments of ‘Zawarudo’, this release showcases the exact reasons why the developing chiptune scene in Cincinnati is such an exciting one; it creates dance-floorable tunes with a mission statement of “defy the conventions”.

    Rolling through the epic ‘Ur Heart A-splode’ it’s difficult to not imagine it in a live setting, with its pumping bass and drums leading you by hand through the debris it creates. This release is definitely a flare signal to all that AndaruGO means business, though whilst most debuts sound exactly like that, this debut sounds like the transition into something greater released through and through.

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