Tag: 8bitpeoples

  • TCTD Podcast #002 – Vocal and Acoustic Chip (Pt.1)

    This week’s episode of the TCTD Podcast is about chipmusic which is mixed together with other instruments; vocals, guitars, drums, piano – or full orchestras (sampled or not). This is a big subject to to cover, so please note the “(Pt.1)” in the title. In other words, there will be at least one more episode with this theme in the future. Enjoy!

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    Playlist:
    1. I Fight Dragons – Overture (8bitCollective)
    2. Matt Wilson – Time Travel Is Over Rated (Mindhouse LP)
    3. YMCK – Rain (Family Genesis, Avex)
    4. The Depreciation Guild – Water Window (In Her Gentle Jaws)
    5. gwEm – Space Travel (micromusic.net)
    6. Leeni – Inside Out (Labyrinth, CrunchyCo)
    7. Goto8o – Fantasy (Commodore Grooves, Rebel Pet Set)
    8. David Sugar – Ode to London Transport (Fresh Off The Chip, 8bitpeoples)
    9. Wizwars – Fly Away (8bitCollective)
    10. Virt – Staring at My Spaceship DX EDITION (Big Lion Music)

  • Various Artists – Level Up

    VA - LevelupA little while ago I was looking for tunes by one of my favorite artists, Eat_Rabbit and I found a compilation album I had never heard before. The list of musicians read like a who’s who of European Chipmusic so it was an obvious download. I am no expert, nor do I pretend to be “hip”, “groovy” or “cool” but I do seem to be lucky enough to stumble across quality releases that people don’t mention to regularly. Seems like a reasonable concept for a column?

    Ukrainian netlabel DWD Records released Level Up in November 2007 and from the first track its awesome. Cornbeast, who you might recognize from his recent 8BP EP opens with a nice stompy Gameboy tune. Electrox from Stu of Dropdabomb fame is perhaps a little darker to my mind than some of his other tracks? “Dig You Own Tomb” is weird and wonderful even by Eat_Rabbit standards. If I had a gun to my head I guess the genre would by “Egyptune”? perhaps “Gameboy Cairock”? who knows?  I am sure most of you have heard of Goto80? Good stuff, “Honolulu” is an ace little C64 track in the middle of the album. Uoki-Toki contributes a Game-boy track called Gorilka Dance. If you like it, check out his Myspace, there are 6 or 7 EPs for download. I don’t feel brave enough to guess what Datassette or Paza used for the final two tracks but I like them both and the round out the release well.

    Level up has been in pretty high rotation for me over the past couple of weeks, some of you may have heard it before but if you missed it first time around, its well worth your time. If you like it, drop by DWD Records and send them a nice mail, maybe we could convince them to put out some more releases…

    01 Cornbeast – “Acid Rock” 01 Cornbeast – “Acid Rock”
    02 Stu – “Electrox”
    03 Eat_Rabbit – “Dig your own tomb” 03-eat-rabbit-dig-your-own-tomb
    04 Goto80 – “Honolulu”
    05 Uoki-Toki – “Gorilka Dance”
    06 Paza – “Damnfool”
    07 Datassette – “Where The Hell Am I?”

    DWD Records
    Complete Release – 34mb.zip

  • New 8BP Release: Cornbeast – Chip Hero

    8bp094The 8BP team is back on the release track and put up for us a release from Swedish legend Cornbeast. 

    “Cornbeast delivers Chip Hero, five songs from the soundtrack of an imaginary future video game where players perform along with the chip music hits of tomorrow, using controllers resembling the gaming gear of yesterday. Post-modern musical sensibilities collide with pre-information-age hardware, not so much closing the loop as introducing something unconventional, unexpected, and occasionally upbeat.”

     

    Download it from 8bitpeoples!

  • 8bitpeoples looking for Interns

    8bp
    This will be your actual workstation. Now with Slip/PPP!

    8bitpeoples seeks an intern to assist with day-to-day operations.
    From releasing music both physically and online, to spearheading the Pulsewave event series and the annual Blip Festival, 8bitpeoples’ activites have expanded and we could use another pair of capable hands to assist.

    Tasks include:
    • order fulfillment & shipping
    • communication with customers, vendors, and artists
    • assisting with event planning & logistics, both in NYC and elsewhere
    • website assistance & upkeep

    Past experience preferred but not essential; familiarity with the chipmusic scene and enthusiasm for moving it forward is a must.
    Time commitment: about 10-12 hours weekly, on-site in midtown Manhattan. Starts a.s.a.p.

    Interested parties, please send a brief e-mail to internships[at]8bitpeoples[dot]com detailing why you’d be a good fit. Include resume only if relevant.

    Thanks!

  • Artist of the Year – gwEm

    tctd_best_artist1Many different criteria came into play when considering Artist of the Year. Music was one, but also other aspects of work done within the community also came to factor in the decision. Weighing all these facets equally, this years choice was gwEm. As a musician, developer, and tireless advocate for his own platform, he worked throughout the year producing an brilliant music release on 8bitpeoples, a collab with fellow nominee Bud Melvin, and his work on his maxYMiser tracker for Atari computers.

    gwEm is a great spokesman for his own software taking time to help users in forums and mailing lists, and was a thoughtful voice on the heart and philosophy of the chip music scene world wide. In that respect, he is an artists artist, and all his work is marked by high levels of ass kicking and insight that any of us would loved as our own. Striving to be the best is one of the more admirable trait of the chip music scenes, and few artists set the bar higher than gwEm.