Category: Music Artists

  • Scrubs Helping Scrubs: Dauragon interviewed for NPR

    haynie_story1Parris Haynie writes Chiptunes music under the pseudonym Dauragon C. Mikado, a name inspired from the main villain in the Playstation 2 game, The Bouncer. In his room, Haynie says, he creates his hip hop infused Chiptunes songs using a program called Nanoloop. He presses the buttons on the clearly aged game boy to form patterns of notes in the program and the small speakers output this.

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    Read the interview here:

    You can also grab his split with E.S.C and big-chip, Bitches, out on kittenrock now.


  • Micromusic March Update

    rockin’ new tunez presented and approved by the QFS:

    Storm                    by Kyotosapian
    SUPER MARIO PSYCHEDELIC  by KODEK
    Sh6w                     by Dr. von Pnok
    Connect.                 by CS
    dr. sleepgood 2          by pocketmaster
    Barefoot Mailman         by stochastc
    Valentine’s Day Acid     by Jellica
    Jj                       by .sylCMYK

    Also a number of events have been added to the list.

  • Final Cartridge: Final Area BGM

    Tiny Catridge is quickly becoming my favorite non chipmusic chip blog. They found a series of tracks from ultra talented musican Bucky.

    from Tiny Cartidge:

    “Final Area BGM” from the Exorcist NES game that never was. The brilliant concept behind this song is that it’s for a never-created game based on the 1973 horror film.

    Chiptune artist Bucky sets the scene:

    “You’ve reached the final stretch and it’s up to you to free Regan from Satan. Just be sure to open that bottle of ‘No Ghost’ BEFORE you open that door in the hallway…”

    Im personally digging the Wicker Man one. Maybe some Werner Herzong next?

  • Fade To Fall Cd Release

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    Birdleaf IV: Birdleaf's Dead

    Last fall’s release gets the loving cd treatment, along with bonus tracks, plus the online release of the tasty winter installment Seasonal Affective. From Hemlock:

    Hemlock Records is now accepting pre-orders for the Fade To Fall CD!  As many of your remember, we released this EP as a free download on our website back in October.  We now have a beautiful handmade, silk-screened CD packaged in eco-friendly materials.  This CD not only has the original 6 tracks in full, uncompressed quality, but it also features 5 bonus tracks and remixes. Take a listen to our bonus track sampler at:
    Also, we are simultaneously releasing the second chapter in our chip music series.  Seasonal Affective is our take on the Winter season and is now available as a free download.  Listen, look, and read more about it here:

  • Pixelh8 is well connected

    colossus01_540x362He gets profiled in New Scientist:

    How did you get into this music?

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    When I realised that you could emulate old machines on a PC and learn what was going on inside them, I went back to the older sounds. I’ve designed instruments for pop stars. I reprogrammed Game Boys for UK artist Damon Albarn, for example, turning them into real musical instruments.

    And a photo spread on cnet.

    While I maintain that he tends to over-arcane the creation of and over-emphasize in importance in “the chiptune scene”, the concert sounds really cool, and I look forward to what music is released from it.