Adam Schackart may be Plain Flavored by name, but his music certainly isn’t! Hexadecimator includes six tracks of DMG music influenced by a dream that took place in the summer of 2009, as well as eight years of previously abandoned works. This creates a work that is both somehow fractured and complete at the same time, turning from underclocked churning to high powered energetic music instantaneously.
With cover art by Hannes Pasqualini and vocal and acoustic guitar intro by Andrew Winzenburg.
Category: Labels
Labels that highlight the best of the genre balancing innovation and strong technical mastery of the limitations inherent on chip platforms.
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PlainFlavored – Hexadecimator: Chip Music In G Minor
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Two Warriors – Coova and little-scale
After having met at Blip Festival 2009, Coova and little-scale signed a treaty to merge their respective battalions and combine their unique combat styles in order to ward off evil enemy forces. Coova’s artillery of choice is the Nintendo Game Boy with the Nanoloop 1.5 ammo cartridge whilst little-scale’s war science research department has developed a weaponised strain of the SEGA Nomad. The result is an armed force to be reckoned with, ready to do battle on any audio playback system at high volumes.
via 8bitpeoples.
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Desmos – Jellica
Lost in orbit around the third planet from the star Canopus, the second brightest star in the night-time sky, the GSV Desmos drifts forgotten through outer space. The original crew have been dead for decades and their descendants are forced to scavenge in the huge craft’s shadowy maze of decaying rooms and corridors. Kept alive by the ship’s few remaining atmosphere systems, this is the soundtrack to the remaining survivors lonely voyage through the cosmos. Written using a Game Boy and some junkshop FM and GM keyboards, Desmos is a journey that invokes as much of the spirit of Oldfield as Jellica can possibly bring himself to summon and attempts to show off the DMG-01’s synthesis capabilities to their fullest using a long squiggly line of wobbly electro.
via 8bitpeoples.
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“ANOTHER” BY TEN THOUSAND FREE MEN & THEIR FAMILIES
After spending months writing, recording and producing MKE OR BRK, Sydney’s Ten Thousand Free Men & Their Families (aka 10k aka 10kfreemen) has pushed out a second group of songs which he has creatively titled Another. This EP pushes further into what 10k calls “chipunk” – the art of screaming over a Nintendo Game Boy backing track. This time around the emphasis was put on getting it recorded quickly, having a great time and getting it out, rather than the continuous pursuit of perfection. Some would say Another is like the older brother or sister to MKE OR BRK, it is a little older, a little wiser and it doesn’t care as much at all. Another is raw, punk, chip and funny as hell and it is all laced with the “fuck off” attitude you love to hate – even the cover art is left of centre (literally). Get it now, while it is cool to do so. Hate it later.
Making of video coming soon.
via ChipMusic.org.
