Toons from various consoles.
This is the digital download of the first Sycamore Drive 7” record, Chills / Mortimer’s Melody. These songs were the first to be created using samples of the Commodore 64’s sound chip with Renoise, and a bit of delay and reverb.The 7” was hand-lathed on clear vinyl in limited quantities for the Ultrachip 2011 Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Free Music Archive: Sycamore Drive – Chills / Mortimer’s Melody.
released 09 August 2011
Written and recorded by Armando.
Mastered by Jean Luc Arnold.
Artwork by Version Industries.
c. 2011 Soundmachine Records.
All rights reserved.
Gameboy Love EP is the new album by the hyperactive Italian chiptuner Buskerdroid. It comprises 5 tracks made exclusively using the LSDJ software.
This 16th original Da! Heard It Records production is back to the basics : 8bit music!
Buskerdroid offers his listeners some serious energy through his doped-up sounds. Taking no prisoners, he drags his Gameboy into the most unexpected corners by creating hybrid tracks combining 8bit and hardtek.
Gameboy Love EP will leave you breathless, it’s short, clear and concise, leaving the listener in an over-excited, confused and crazed state of mind. The title track 3D(istortion), to mention just one,submerge the listener into an absurd universe thanks to its relentless rythm and throbbing melody.
Gameboy Love EP is meant for connoisseurs of the chiptune movement, but also for fanatics of much more violent electro styles.
The AVR-code is implemented as a bootloader, with the GBA code as the ‘main program’. This may seem weird because the main program is ARM-code to be executed by the GBA and completely unusable by the AVR, but it has the advantage that the main code can now update the ARM code over the MIDI port. Basically, this makes it possible to convert a newer version of the synth code to a .mid-file. When you send this file to the MIDI input, the firmware gets updated.
The GBA code that sits in the rest of the AVRs program memory is the actual synthesizer. It is divided in three parts: a routine that receives MIDI bytes from the AVR, an user interface to display on the GBAs LCD, a tiny sequencer and the routines that actually make the noise. The routines export most of the knobs and settings the original GameBoy hardware has to the user interface and MIDI control channels. It also has a polyphonic DDS-based soft-synth, with modifiable waveforms.
Sprites mods – GameBoy Advance as a MIDI synthesizer – Software.
This album is the third 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].
A special thanks to darmock for all of her help with the artwork!
01. Brian Davis – Thrashed (06:03)
02. FUPA TROOPA – G U (Next Tuesday) (02:30)
03. Gwarth – Dualism (04:07)
04. MetalBishop – Level (02:29)
05. Daemon9623 – We Strike at Midnight (03:17)
06. Prizmatic Spray – Neuromancer (00:49)
07. Zio and TEH LOLZ – Sluggo (02:41)
08. eddyrocku – CrossBeat (03:52)
09. Norrin Radd – Playing with the Boys (NES Kenny Loggins Cover) (01:54)
10. darmock – Stage Select on the Ocean (01:11)
11. Nario – Chips of Gaming (03:24)
12. Jason Vincion – Dance of the Dead (03:00)
13. arise_shine – Dysthymia (05:48)
14. Prizmatic Spray – At Home with Friends (00:56)
15. Marshall Art – Crusade (composed by Edward Artemiev) (04:22)
16. M-H – Meguriai (04:02)
17. cetera – Bruce Willis on Drums (04:07)
18. temp sound solutions – pediaLITE (04:40)
19. Wizwars – Reformat the Planet (Bit Shifter Cover) (Live)
via A Chip off the Shizz Block, Volume Three – CCN032 – Concatenation Records.