Week In Review

8BC’s Weekly Hot Tracks

Merry Christmas everybody, and a happy new year too. Some festive tracks, some not-so-festive tracks, whatever… Enjoy them!

Obbe – For Unto Us A Child Is Born
Albino Ghost Monkey – Last Chance
µB – Plucking Anenomies
Seablue – Panther
Misfitchris – Saving The Shy Librarian
Forest World – Soughlumoor
Coda – Spoon
Random – Alane Remix Set
tssf – Fighting Of The Spirit
gwEm – Little Drummer Boy

Week In Review

8BC’s Weekly Hot Tracks

8bcCouldn’t make it to Blip? That’s a shame, but maybe these ten songs can cheer you up:

Rushjet1 – Light’s Ultimate Solution
Shnabubula – Happy Chanukah (Hine Matov)
RoeTaKa – Nesty Business
C-jeff – Around Past
taxicab – Girth Quake
Ultrasyd – 1488 Morons
Cerror – Sea Side Blues
µB – Misty Island
dkstr – Comeback
miau – Shrooms On My Sandals

Chipmusic

FM is for the PEOPLE - VOL. 1

FM4ZPPL

Compiled by notorious OPL buff , Oxygenstar, this release serves up a healthy dose of frequency modulation synthesis which varies nicely in both style and technique.  Get it here.

01.   OxygenStar – Welcome (Adlib Tracker II, recorded on a Pro Audio Spectrum16)
02.   stijl – Slelett o garderoben (TFM/Reaktor)
03.   freezedream – RacerRX (recorded on a YM2612)
04.   Monsters – The forest Song (TFM)
05.   OxygenStar – I used to love her (Adlib Tracker II, recorded on a Pro Audio Spectrum16)
06.   Tiido – Cosmic synthesizer (MD Tracker/TMSE)
07.   little-scale – Birthright (recorded on a YM2413)
08.   rico z – Lonely gigolo standing in the rain (Milky Tracker, YM2413 samples)
09.   sci – Three notes (TFM)
10.  Tristendo – The pizza dinosaurs of planet awesome (TFM)
11.   µB – Suspicious user (OPL emulation)
12.  Alex Luthor – Alone in the Playground (TFM)
13.  Lazerbeat – Knock (NL2.3 in FM mode)

Compos • software

Bad Snake Hair Day and Medusa VSTi appeared

Bad Snake Hair Dayy.jpgµB created a fancy square wave VSTi called Medusa. BotB then hosted a competition where BotBrs were only allowed to use that as a sound source in their favorite software. The use of effects were encouraged but sampling was discouraged.

There are 10 entries.
Check them out and vote to help decide the winner.

Two days ago Medusa got reskinned by iLKke. Read more here