Category: Releases

  • Jay Tholen – Fruiht Tageur

    Father Gabriel’s contemplative gaze at the twilight sky was violently interrupted by a legion of alien flying machines. Rhythmic chants of “Dauda Fruiht Tageur-De” filled the air as the ships descended further. Gabriel blacked out. He later awoke with implanted memories depicting a species of intelligent fruit-like beings and their beautiful dying planet. These are the folk songs of a lost world.

    1. Papaya Tageur
    2. Poison Berries; Long Live King Kiwi!
    3. The Royal Tangerine and His Faithful Orange
    4. Ancient Pomegranate Prophecy I
    5. Ancient Pomegranate Prophecy II
    6. Plantainia
    7. Mangosteen Tageur

    Featuring:
    John Crayon – Synthesizers, Guitar, Percussion (4, 5)
    Van Hunsberger – Drums (4, 5, 7)
    Travis Woodson – Voice (4, 5)
    Moses Talbot – Bass Guitar (4, 5)
    Christine Tholen – Vocals
    Jay Tholen – Vocals, Ukulele, Everything Else

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  • New 7in of LSDJ music by Mr. Eggz

    About a year ago, I first heard about Mr. Eggz from a press release for a chiptune show at Casperland. Not recognizing the name, but seeing he was from Boston, I asked a few people if they knew him and none of them did. Fast forward to yesterday, and Starpause tells me Eggz is hosted on his server and has a 7″ out. Does anyone know about this guy? More than one person has told me they think it’s Timeheater, but when I asked him he denied writing the music. I can confirm though that Timeheater is at least one of three people who have been representing Mr Eggz at various shows. Aside from the mystique surrounding Mr Eggz, the mp3s are interesting and I’ll be keeping an eye out on his work.

    MR EGGZ, b. 1981, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
    In 1997 Mr Eggz began DJing and performing in the Boston area. By 2000, he had began performing at live events in New England. Since early 2004 he has dabbled in producing using Little Sound DJ on Nintendo Gameboy. Although prolific in his work and extended live sets, he is known for the rarity of his physical releases. The Mr Eggz name has only been used for his post 2005 Gameboy work, the majority of which has not been released.

    Out January 2010:
    Mr Eggz – Histoire d’Ouefz 7″ [edition of 100]
    Recorded Live to stereo 1/2″ Ampex 456
    May 2006, Cambridge, Ma

    Order at PLANET EGGZ.

  • little-scale and Poppi Doser

    A recent project saw little-scale collaborate with electronic music composer and researcher Poppi Doser. Antia – the resultant eight track EP – is best described as ambient and smooth sonic landscapes, interrupted by harsh and rhythmically complex lo-fi beats.

    A work of contradiction, Antia manages to create a convincing merger of various stylistic elements. Poppi provides field recordings, plays piano and sings, and little-scale is on the SEGA Mega Drive and Atari 2600.

    Download

  • Silo 64 OST 2010


    This is the soundtrack to the post nuke C64/128 action game Silo 64! The songs mutate to form a mix of rock guitars, elektro beats, electric bass, analogue synths, chip music, and Industrial drums. As for the game itself, you can play an emulated version free!

    Check out the game & download 2 free mp3’s

    1) Fallout in the Wasteland
    2) Rocktronic Plague
    3) Terraforming Time
    4) Safety Comes First
    5) Mutation (featuring NU-TRA)
    6) Fallout in the Wasteland (8580 remix)
    7) Silo 64 Title Screen (8580)

  • Da Jormas – Hätä (2002/2003)

    Here’s a peculiar demo by Finn demogroup Da Jormas (funnily represented by their penis logotype :P) which was made for various platforms. The original 2002 demo ran happily in Windows and Linux. It is one of the, then few, “multiplatform demos”, something very weird knowing that the demoscene usually took one particular platform and squeezed the most out of it, a task that usually required assembly programming language an therefore would turn demos not easily (or impossibly) portable.

    The demo has a nice design and concept, but otherwise is pretty simple and standard. What makes it stand out? One year later, Da Jormas “ported” (rather, re-built from scratch) this demo to the Amiga 500, no less. Graphics properly color-reduced, music aptly converted, effects transcribed, and you have the demo with its essence almost intact in a low-spec computer.

    I already talked too long so let’s see Hätä in both its original and Amiga 500 incarnations:

    Windows version:

    Amiga 500 version: