Tag: Shnabubula

  • Kind of Bloop is out!

    backgroundAfter its release to kickstarter contributors earlier this week, Kind of Bloop is finally out. In case you missed it, This latest high profile chip tribute record finds some of the best composers in the scene performing tracks from Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue. While not a fan of this era of Miles Davis myself (Pangea!!), its kinda interesting to see the outsides world perspective to this “new to them” chipmusic phenomena.

    Time.com wrote (!)

    Miles Davis probably never played Nintendo. It’s technically possible; the genre-bending, stereotype-defying jazz legend lived until 1991, six years after the first Nintendo Entertainment System was released in North America. Who knows how the trumpet player spent his free time? He may have seen a video game, or even picked up a controller. But it’s a pretty safe bet that he never stormed Bowser’s castle or paused to appreciate the “piku-piku” sound that Mario made when he went down a tunnel.

    Maybe its years after reading articles that “don’t get it” but I found this article pretty fair and informative. Anything that avoids the character meats genre formula of writing can’t be a bad thing right? Here is looking forward to fresh takes on whats becoming a familiar concept.

  • Odds and Ends from Twitter 2009-08-15

    • RT @4mat_scenemusic Ate Bit at Assembly party – "Transform" 64kb intro. Code by Evilpaul, Music by me. http://bit.ly/1NACd #
    • PsiloduimpLive, via nerd music #
    • Pandora = Portable opl3 Trackers on the go: http://bit.ly/o339I #
    • M$ Goes Pixel Retro on their new logo. http://bit.ly/YCktM #
    • RT: @depreci8onguild: Red Rocks / Colorado / Sept 12 RT The Depreciation Guild just added to #Monolith Festival https://myspace.com/thedepreciationguild in reply to depreci8onguild #
    • In the great chiptune throwdown of 2009 are you a shark or a jet? http://short.to/mbzu #
    • Sunvox As a iPhone live insturment http://bit.ly/SOVMr #
    • Ascher-Weiss Salutes Virt, Universes Explode: http://bit.ly/KLJd4 #
    • Glitter twins http://bit.ly/16BW5t #
    • This needs algobeats #
    • RT: @minusbaby: is still giggling about a video for my tune, "FRIQUIDIQUI, N.1",called "Winnie Friqui Pooh Diqui". See?: http://bit.ly/Jrsjn #
    • RT @freemusicarchiv welcome @creativecommons to the Free Music Archive's ranks! Check out 8bitpeoples, other stuff http://bit.ly/Ndj3h #
    • NME jumps on the chiphate bandwagon with a dressing down of the cheesy frankmusik http://short.to/mieo #
    • In the Onion, the Gooch spin a delicate web of irony and science http://short.to/mhtx #
    • keygen Music Updated http://keygenmusic.net/?page=news #
    • Sorry about that faux post last night. It was the greatest hits. #
    • See the TCTD Social Link on our frontpage? Anyone want to make pixel art versions for each link @ 80px × 15px? #
    • GSW on interesting looking (and sounding) Game Boy-Like Tower of Heaven http://bit.ly/14BHUY #
    • Happy Birthday Sega Genesis: http://bit.ly/MEAbE #
    • TCTD Social Pixel Project done.. Thanks Keff! #
    • Saying I love you, in all the wrong ways #
    • RT: @chipsounds: Paul Slocum's ATARI synthcart beats remixed in chipsounds…http://bit.ly/Lv893 #

  • Odds and Ends from Twitter 2009-08-01

  • STFUAJPGM appeared

    The best I can tell, this is a combination of Mixtape, compilation and literary device.  not sure if they plan to do this every issue, but you had a written narrative, and Shnabubula, NESMETAL, and SoundMatrix each took a crack at making music for it.

    This week’s theme: The Story of a Hero

    Act 1: Hero has awoken from what he thought was a nightmare when he realizes all of his fellow townsfolk are gone. The only thing that remains of them is the lingering scent of burnt flesh in the crisp winter air. Afraid at first, he shivers. He is alone. And at the same time a flame within has been lit. He must avenge the horrendous slaughter of the people he knew and loved. He explores his surroundings and finds a note which simply reads “You’re the only one left. Find me, so that I might finish the job.”

    via STFUAJPGM.

  • Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis

    kindofbloop[Editors Note: Seems like they have already reached their goal, but have said else where that anyone donating will get a copy of the cd.. so consider this a preorder?]

    Excerpt from the man behind the project, Andy Baio: “What would the pioneers of jazz sound like on a Nintendo Entertainment System? Coltrane on a C-64? Mingus on Amiga? For years, I’ve wondered what “chiptune jazz” would sound like, but there are only a tiny handful of jazz covers ever made.

    To satisfy my curiosity – and commemorate the 50th anniversary of Miles Davis’s “Kind of Blue” – I’ve asked five brilliant chiptune musicians to collaborate and reinvent
    the entire album in the 8-bit sound.
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