Tag: Coova

  • Reformat – V/A

    OK. First of all, I had nothing to do with this.

    Last October on my birthday, my roommate Mike Lerman (a.k.a. Fuckjazzforaminute, and the man at the wheel of Austin’s killer Datapop event series) handed me a giftwrapped object of the size and shape typical of what you’d expect from a standard CD jewel case. So far so good. But unwrapping it I realized that there was nothing typical or standard about it, AT ALL. The tracklist on the back of the CD had stuff in there like “Saskrotch: Paper Chase Init_” and “nordloef: Activation Theme” and “IAYD: Reformat The Planet.” OBVIOUS JOKE, right? A well-meant prank. Well Mike put it on to prove to me otherwise, and sure enough he had, in fact, who knows how long ago, hatched a secret plan to be revealed on my birthday, to enlist nearly two dozen people from the chip community, for some unfathomable reason, to cover songs from Information Chase, a saccharine and sophomoric EP I’d put out five years ago. And the tracklisting was like a who’s-who of the chipmusicians I respect and admire the most, like Random, cTrix, Bud Melvin, nordloef, Sievert, Henry Homesweet, little-scale, Saskrotch, and so on and so on. So it took some time for me to wrap my brain around it, but ultimately I came around to accepting that this thing was real. Five months later, I still am no closer to finding the words to express my awed gratitude, or the mixture of emotions I’ve been experiencing ever since. It’s POSSIBLE that when we got to Coova’s track on the comp (“Reformat The Planet”), that I MIGHT have shed a tear. But it was just watery eyes from allergies. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

    Tracklisting after the jump

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  • New episode of the Gamewave Podcast

    Check out a brand new episode of the Gamewave Podcast at www.gamewavepodcast.com or subscribe at www.gamewavepodcast.com/rss.xml.

    Joe and Mike make a triumphant return – it’s like they’ve never been away. Despite being on separate continents the guys have got together and recorded a brand new episode choc-full of blazing VG-inspired music from George & Jonathan, Teleidofusion, Bit_Rat, Norrin_Radd, Cheapshot, Coova and little-scale, Project Dolphin and Machinae Supremacy. Send us some emails and requests to play on the next show. We’re not sure exactly when the next show will be, but tell everyone you know, because the Gamewave Podcast is back!

  • TCTD Links for 2010-09-29

  • TCTD Links for 2010-07-16

    • TV Death Squad stages a comeback: http://ow.ly/2bNln #
    • And overdue new material Cannonball – J. Arthur Keenes http://ow.ly/2bNmz #
    • [Review] Coova and little-scale – 2 Warriors http://ow.ly/2bVmH #
    • GOTO8O » Crackbits Retrospectz http://ow.ly/2c0uu #
    • “The Adventure Begins” from the first stage of Arvoesine http://ow.ly/2c1oz #
    • Scene Banner ads on on 8bc.org PARTY! http://ow.ly/2c4lW #
    • Magic Hammer Profile on the FMA: #
  • Two Warriors – Coova and little-scale

    After having met at Blip Festival 2009, Coova and little-scale signed a treaty to merge their respective battalions and combine their unique combat styles in order to ward off evil enemy forces. Coova’s artillery of choice is the Nintendo Game Boy with the Nanoloop 1.5 ammo cartridge whilst little-scale’s war science research department has developed a weaponised strain of the SEGA Nomad. The result is an armed force to be reckoned with, ready to do battle on any audio playback system at high volumes.

    via 8bitpeoples.