Category: Chipmusic

Toons from various consoles.

  • Tracker Hero website launched

    trackerheroThe dudes behind this Amiga software are advancing!
    A website is released, and I am working on some music for it.

    Check it out here

  • ‘FIRING SPEED RAINBOWS’ BY STEVE – OUT ON S18/Retinascan

    firingspeedrainbowsfrontFollowing his release for Kittenrock, “this new EP has come out as a (comparatively) luxurious jewel-case 3” mini-CD, and IS NOW AVAILABLE AT RETINASCAN!!!!.

    Tracklisting:
    1. SPC Beatbox
    2. Club For Broken Hearted Robots
    3. Manor De Sex
    4. Paradise
    5. Firing Speed Rainbows

    ”Needless to say this will rock your next party if you decide to own this.” – Store @ Retinascan

    Steve’s second EP and the debut release for S18 Records, ‘Firing Speed Rainbows’ continues from where his debut release for Kittenrock left off – taking the sound of cheap technology from the mid-90s and creating melodic electro with it. ‘SPC Beatbox’ turns drum sounds from the SNES into a body-popping beat, over which FM synths duel for surpremacy, while ‘Manor De Sex’ is a sleazy funk machine. The journey ends with the title track, fuelled by majestic synth strings and packed with soaring solos. Essentially, ‘Firing Speed Rainbows’ is the result of a tantalizing new approach to lo-fi music.

    //////BUY IT HERE!!!!!!\\\\\\

    www.s18records.com”

  • Interview with PSPSEQ Dev Ethan Bordeaux pt1

    pspseq300In order to bring you more in depth coverage on how the tools behind the blips and bleeps are made, we asked musician Lazerbeat to sit down and chat with some of  the innovators and creators of the scene.  Here is part one of his two part interview with PSPSEQ developer Ethan Bordeaux. PSPSEQ is a “a free homebrew application for composing music on the Sony PSP handheld game system. PSPSeq contains both realtime synthesis and sample playback capability, along with multiple FX modules of widely varying types for modifying instruments in countless ways.”

    LB: So, Hello Ethan, thanks very much for doing this.

    ECB: You’re welcome. Happy to get the good word out on PSPSeq.

    LB: Before we get into the details of PSPSeq, tell us a little about your background with programming.

    ECB: Sure no problem… my day job is as an embedded systems programmer. I was hired by a company called Analog Devices where I first started off supporting their DSPs and then later on was transferred to a group where I wrote software algorithms for them, specifically for cell phones. Been doing that for the past 8 years or so. Mostly I work on speech and audio processing algorithms. It’s fun but when you’re doing that kind of work you are only writing a very small piece of the overall system. I wanted to do something where I owned the entire project; audio, UI, documentation, etc etc.

    LB: Did you start programing as a hobby or was it something you learned specifically with a view to a career?
    (more…)

  • Running Steem on OSX

    08022009Handy guide by gwEm on 8BC.

    This will allow you to track on your OSX crippled machine.

  • Select Start Records w/ Rico Zerone

    ssr01_art_imgstevens writes in:

    “A new chipmusic label, Select Start Records, has been founded, and their site is up at www.selectstartrecords.com. Unlike the deluge of horrible netlabels out there, Select Start actually release vinyl (see the discography) too, as well as promising many other projects in the future.

    As if that wasn’t enough, they uploaded a great new release by fantastic electro-funkster Rico Zerone at the weekend, ‘E-Lusion’ (made on Milkytracker), with properly dope artwork by none other than the legendary Otro.”

    Grab It!