Brooklyn based chip/folk/etc artist Mark Denardo has launched his new website, with full lentgh tracks from his current release Graffiti Monsters. I helped worked on some of the rough demos for these tracks, but what they’ve become with his live band and in the studio are really great, and should be checked out.
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Thanks to 8bitweapon who posted this heads up on 8bitcollective, we can bring you some old but fresh news :D
“The First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival was held August 25, 1978 as part of the Personal Computing ’78 show. It was organized by Dick Moberg of the Philadelphia Area Computer Society.
“Several people in the area had been producing music with their computers so I suggested we have a computer music concert.” said Dick Moberg, organizer of the feast. “John OK’d the idea and we went to work calling our friends and urging them to perform.”
“The concert was finally held in one of the larger ballrooms of the Sheraton Hotel. Our borrowed sound system was set up and sound checks made for the recording. We opened the doors to the crowd outside to find several hundred more people than the room could hold. Many sat on the floors of the halls as the music filled the hotel.
Hal Chamberlin had set up an oscilloscope that would project the waveform being played on a screen. The result was a fantastic synchronized light show!”
The First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival was held August 25, 1978 as part of the Personal Computing ’78 show.
You can listen to the music online or download the songs in MP3 format. The navigation sidebar to the right includes the album’s liner notes, which describe the event, the programmers, and the computers that created the music.
Downloads, tracklist and more at the release’s website
Uberhot Boy Model Jellica has posted a C64 DJ mix for a very limited time only! grab it quick:
Jellica DJ mix live 12 november via skype megamotherfuckinglo-fi!!!!!!!!!!!111111!!!
lazy tracklisting:
Martin Galway – Parallax bit (C64)
Glomag/various – 8bit operators pocket calc megamixxxx (various mainly GB?)
peeR – slack (GB)
Paza Rajm – Mindfields (ST)
Ben Daglish – Dark Fusion (sincair beeper thingy)
Strobe – Robophobia III (vic 20)
Linus – Couldron (c64)
CC Ivory – Machine (GB)
Tim Follin – Bionic Commando bit (C64)
Unicorn Dream Attack – The Mustard Seed (GB)
Timbral – Y’m Still Here (ST)
mp3s and stuff from peoples myspaces blah.
there were a couple of others but they wernt properly prepared and meh
7 days or 100 downloads
For the week of 11/03-11/10
Another week goes by, and in the Post Halloween swoon things turn a tad lazy. It feels that everything is building towards the orgasmic explosion that is the the coming Blip Festival, and everyone is quiet and working silently. But not to worry, our crack(ed) staff still found time to troll the pits of the 8BITCollective to shine some light on a few of the gems posted in the last week.
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Chibi-tech writes about the new PS2 Shmup featuring original NES music:
And yes… just like the previous Fantasy Force, the “8-bit” music makes a return once again! My chiptune technique had refined itself ever since, so I vowed to outdo the previous venture — both quality-wise & quantity-wise. With the addition of symphonic passages and much more overdriven rawkouts, hopefully you’ll enjoy the soundtrack’s more intense pace!
He has provided us a nice sample mix of the soundtrack, and a demo video of gameplay is available on the website.
zero3_stg_preview FF:SI MEGAMIXXX