PROF. SAKAMOTO’S CONCEPT ALBUM TELLS THE TALE OF A DISTANT FUTURE WHO’S INHABITANTS ARE ABLE TO TRANSPLANT SLOTS INTO THE TOP OF THEIR HEADS. INTO THESE SLOTS, GAME CARTRIDGES ARE INSERTED, GIVING THE BEARER SPECIAL ABILITIES. ‘INSERT’ IS THE SOUNDTRACK TO THE BATTLE BETWEEN THOSE WHO CHOOSE TO USE THESE POWERS FOR GOOD; AND WHO MUST SAVE THE WORLD FROM EVIL SCIENTISTS THAT USE THESE ABILITIES IN AN ATTEMPT TO RULE THE WORLD.
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Where “Level” and “NEUTRALITE” march full steam ahead in chiptune bombacity, “Midnight Orphans” floats between calm and chaotic, expected and unexpected. This is a collection of loose ends written over the last few years. The album material is as early as “Until the Sun Rises” and “Quartz” from 2006, and as recent as “Time Removed”, written in 2010..
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Prog rock for a scattershot, disenfranchised, noise-loving modern age. Featuring two members of Yakuza Heart Attack, Giant Claw have made a super rock symphony; a fantasy world described entirely through drums and synthesizers. It’s crackling in-the-red Doom, Tchaikovsky with a distortion pedal and a machine gun, a brooding audio cartoon without any erasers.
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Anomaly is the newest album from Canadian chiptune artist, Norrin_Radd. Four years in the making, Anomaly is a concept album following a mortal traveler exposed to the horrors of infinite time and space. Musically, Anomaly weaves together the genres of technical death metal, prog rock, and thrash into extremely complex and anomalous arrangements. Arrangements created to mirror the confusion of the horrified traveler. Technically, Anomaly is a hand crafted tribute to the style and sound of the Nintendo Entertainment System, following all of the same limitations imposed by the original hardware. Albeit taken to a further level with the addition of growling DPCM vocal tracks and post production. (more…)
WHERE THE LAWS OF ATTRACTION AND THE ETERNAL BATTLE FOR THE TITLE OF YOKOZUNA INTERTWINE.