Category: Chipmusic

Toons from various consoles.

  • Gamewave Podcast focuses on Blip Festival 2011

    Check out Episode 51 of the Gamewave Podcast featuring music from 4mat, Starscream, minusbaby, Peter Swimm and Henry Homesweet. Subscribe at www.gamewavepodcast.com/rss.xml or download individual episodes at www.gamewavepodcast.com/episodes.html.

    “Episode 51 of the Gamewave Podcast is special for a couple of reasons. First because it’s presented by Chad Williams, creator of The New Adventures of Captain S (something Mike and Joe first talked about on Episode 26), and second because Chad talks about his experience at the Blip Festival 2011, which took place in May. Chad plays some live tracks from the event, and we also hear from cTrix and Inverse Phase who were both present. Check out this great episode, and then take a listen to Chad’s regular podcast, JumpMen Podcast – a show about video games, movies, and everything AWESOME!”

  • Flavor’s NGPC USB Linkmasta + new Flash Cartridge

    Somehow this thing went past unnoticed by me. Which is madness, because the NGPC is probably my favourite handheld console EVER. Too bad I sold mine recently. I wasn’t using it for a long time but before I touched a Gameboy with LSDJ, I used to make some noise in a band with an NGPC loaded with a Soundtool. The sound is similar to the GB but much cleaner and you can do crazy shit with the 16 bit CPU.

    Anyway, Flavor, who is a well known, long time dev for the Neo Geo Pocket, is developing with some others a USB reader/writer and a new flash cart for these lovely machines. Hopefully this will spur a new batch of development for this lovely machine. Seems he is only hand-making these units for developers so if you are interested get in touch with him ASAP.

    The website with all the info and progress is right here, and you can see above a video of a prototype linker in action.

  • TIMEHEATER – Pulsewave 5th Anniversary 04-30-11

    Stream or download:
    [url]http://datathrash.bandcamp.com/album/timeheater-pulsewave-5th-anniversary-04-30-11[/url]

    “After quitting the Game Boy in 2006 (arguably our best lineup!) it seemed the chip world would never hear his unique brand of glitch tech jams, but he has put off retirement for one night to remind you what chipmusic was like before most of you where born.”
    — Peter Swimm (currator of Pulsewave)

    This is the recording of that night. I haven’t tried to put it into words before, but there is a particular sound in my head when I use the word “datathrash.” Now you get to hear it too.
    — egr

    Recorded live at The Tank in NYC on 04/30/2011.

    [url]http://pulsewave.org[/url]

    [url]http://datathrash.tumblr.com[/url]

    m/ m/

    An official Datathrash release. How I was lucky enough to get this I’ll never know.

  • Sonata for a Fictional Microcomputer, by 8tr [56023]

    Eclectic mix from the german multinstrumentalist Bit Trash Riot, 9 tracks filled with electropop melodies, imbued with the spirit of an imagined microcomputer from the early 80s

    http://www.archive.org/details/SonataForAFictionalMicrocomputer

  • kr052 – Droid Song – rain

    A short EP of lonely atmospheric songs about the rain. I can’t that imagine that it rains much in California though. It doesn’t seem to in The O.C. trailers anyway, or any of the west coast rap videos. Yeah, these songs are very mournful.

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