Labels that highlight the best of the genre balancing innovation and strong technical mastery of the limitations inherent on chip platforms.
Pokey Love is a compilation of 505?s chiptunes created on Atari XL/XE. The tunes were composed between the years 2002 and 2011 – whenever a wave of Atari 8-Bit attraction striked again. While the Pokey sound is certainly not the technically most brilliant, it has a clean, sweet and uniquely limited sound – taking you back to a 1980s childhood escorted by the little Atari.
Centuries before the Obsidian Fleet emerges from the deepest pockets of space, humanity remains planetbound, challenged by its own stubborn empiricism, but ever dreaming towards the greater fold.
Another one of those pesky artists who use zany capitalisation. This is some straight up droney glitch outta space Game Boy stuff. There is also a rap. Everyone should have a rap.
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Optimus Chad is back, and even dirtier than ever. Pxl-Bot proudly bring you your dose of the brutal to aid your festivities.
Starting with a healthy portion of sampling and noise, all hell is shortly unleashed within the second track, ‘Feedback Warrior’, a rolling exercise in tension/release with some truly crushing sounds holding the dirt together. ‘Optimus Chad’ has really come immeasurably far since his hard hitting debut; he now hits twice as hard, twice as gritty whilst dousing subtle groove and even more aggression over his work, meanwhile experimenting left right and through the centre’s face with his melodies and drum work.
Pxl-Bot celebrate their 50th release with a returning appearance from one of the very first artists who ever graced the Pxl-Bot roster, Ville Wannabe.
The experimental sample-based style explored in his previous EP, ‘Future’ still holds a great amount of influence as seen from the opening number, ‘Inhale’, a vocal sample with guitar overdub. However, the new, heavily dance and the gorgeously soft sounds that dominate this release show themselves from the very start of ‘Vox Stimuli’. Ville weaves his melodies with a fragile and beautiful touch, dousing the cascading chords with a playful atmosphere with heaps of character intersected with more up-tempo, sometimes guitar driven, moments throughout to add some variety to the mix.
The sounds vary greatly through this small but eclectic EP, from the driving bass at the beginning and throughout of ‘Yes Offensive’ to the almost entirely guitar focused ‘Camomile’, all doused with the occasional but very signature sample work. ‘Vox Stimuli’ really does sound like an artist who has found a unique style and finally perfected it to a tee. This is one spectacular coming-of-age.