Labels that highlight the best of the genre balancing innovation and strong technical mastery of the limitations inherent on chip platforms.
Almost 2 full years in the making, the 8-Bit Operators’ “Wanna Hld Yr Handheld, Vol. 1” Beatles tribute focuses on the glorious avant-garde and electronic side of the Fab 4 with over 20 of the biggest international names in 8-bit chip music, all utilizing re-tooled, classic Game Boys, Ataris, Commodore 64s and Nintendo Entertainment Systems.
Track listing after the jump!
A comp from the dudes over at the Shizz forum, lots of heavy hitters on this!
This album is the first installment of a compilation comprised of many talented chiptune artists from the Minibosses Message Forum at The Shizz. Not only is it intended to be a format for Shizz chiptune artists to share their talents, it’s also a new source for an annual fundraiser to help Shizzies get to MAGFest.
Track list after the jump:
01. MetalBishop – Famiclone Beatdown (02:02)
02. M-H – Welcome To… (01:45)
03. Mystic Nova – Fury of the Cyborg (02:30)
04. bucky – The Exorcist (Final Area BGM) (02:55)
05. Disasterphase – Ascend (03:58)
06. temp sound solutions – A New Dawn (03:33)
07. virt – Turbonugget (03:49)
08. Wizwars – Fly Away (03:01)
09. Phlogiston – I Was in the War, Damnit! (02:14)
10. Zio and TEH LOLZ – Soul Snob (02:23)
11. Norrin Radd – A Barrage of Hostile Abstractions (05:21)
12. Alex Mauer – I Guess Your Face Fell Off (00:58)
13. cacomistle – Blue, Brown, Pink, Grey (02:00)
14. Alex Atchley – RUFFTRADE (02:09)
15. Bit_Rat – Sunbeam (02:47)
16. Prizmatic Spray – Desert Dilemma (03:19)
17. temp sound solutions – Psionic Blast (03:58)
18. RushJet1 – Boss9 (01:18)
19. Norrin Radd – Paradoxes Are Unveiled (01:47)
20. Bit_Rat – Gimmick (02:13)
21. Mystic Nova – Aerosaga (02:07)
22. optomon – Hysteria (02:25)
23. Shnabubula – virtigo (01:46)
24. Neil Baldwin – Trapped (03:04)
25. virt – Sorcerors Battle (05:09)
via Concatenation Records – CCN016 – A Chip off the Shizz Block, Volume One.
Packed with uplifting harmonies and topped with shimmering melodies (what on Kittenrock???) Steve effortlessly slings together three tracks of super fresh arcade electro funk and a shimmery disco remix by Rico Zerone
via kittenrock.
In the early summer of 2007, the first demo from I’ll Have You Naked By the End of this ROM, an 8 second loop from Mustard, was played for Nullsleep over tinny DS speakers. Thirty months of discarded demos, obsessive re-writes, and at least three mastering sessions later, one of the true innovators of chipbreak brings you 5 tracks of high speed guilt trips and over joyous ceremony. This is Raw. This Is Saskrotch.
via 8bitpeoples.