May 2010
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Noisewaves Debut EP Now Available On Pterodactyl...
Michigan-based chip/post-rock duo Noisewaves are making a strong first impression with their debut EP, recently released for free on chiptune netlabel Pterodactyl Squad. Combining the NES’s 2A03 sound chip with soaring guitars and ambience, Noisewaves’ sound swells with tender euphoria. Highly recommended to anyone who has ever spent an evening sitting in an empty room listening to...
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Kabul Arcade Is Afghanistan's Videogame Oasis →
Absolutely amazing: A makeshift arcade in Kabul Afghanistan is giving hope to impoverished urban youth.
(via TinyCartridge)
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Lo-Fi And The Lost Art Of The Pixel →
The pixel is the most fundamental building block of the digital image. Without it, it wouldn’t matter how big that sweet HDTV in your living room is: Modern images simply would not exist. But with high definition displays pushing increasingly massive resolutions, the way we perceive pixels nowadays is becoming similar to the way we perceive the billions of cells in the human body; an...
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Eat Your World: More free music from Battle Lava
Montreal’s Battle Lava has released his second EP, Eat Your World. These four tracks of melodic, high-energy VGM-style Game Boy music seriously sound like they could take Hip Tanaka to town. Absolutely exceptional stuff. Battle Lava is definitely a name you should be looking out for in the near future.
The title and cover art are also extremely appropo, considering the recent 30th...
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Interview with Chris Osborn of Gaijin Games →
In Bit.Trip Runner, the latest addition to Gaijin’s ongoing series of retro-inspired rhythm games, Chris Osborn and and the rest of the crew at Gaijin Games have taken one of gaming’s most heavily-trafficked memes — jumping — and put it under a super-stylized microscope to focus on what gamers value most: Fun. There are no complicated rules to learn besides ‘jump over things, slide under other...
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Nobuo Uematsu on Chipmusic →
Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu had a thing or two to say about the chipmusic movement during his Q & A session at Anime Boston. Word of warning: It’s not very optimistic.
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5.10.10 - Zen Albatross + DMDS w/ Adventure Kid &...
My allies from chiptune collective Cheese ‘N Beer have set me up to play another free NYC show, and this one’s going to be super-special for a number of reasons:
1. I’ll be playing with both chip/jazz fusion keyboardist sylcmyk (New York) and low-bit electro popper Adventure Kid (Sweden) They are both incredibly rad.
2. Half my set will be a mostly-unrehearsed collab with...
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Q+A: Audio Alchemist Derek Holzer Turns Light Into...
Night falls on a warm day in late April. Spring has just arrived, and the New York City streets are struggling to retain some of their warmth after the sun’s retreat. In a dimly lit rental performance space in Brooklyn, arms emblazoned with tattoos pierce the darkness, hovering over the surface of an overhead projector, its bright lamp shining through RGB filters onto transparent glass.
The...
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Hypnotizing Electronics: A Recap of Bent Festival...
Last weekend, the 7th Annual Bent Festival in Brooklyn, NY concluded its three days of circuitbending wizardry and wonder. Since this was my first full-fledged Bent Fest (I only caught one of the workshops last year), I made an effort to explore the culture behind circuitbending as deeply as I could. You may have already gotten a glimpse of this from my interview with musical mad scientist...