Tag: 8-bit
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Simpsons pixel version
Game conversions – so 8-bit so 00’s – but wait til the end…(via Simon Risbridger)
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Happy Birthday Speech Synthesis
Around 40 years ago, Forrest S. Mozer created the first Integrated Circuit speech synthesiser, modelled on his voice, and licensed it to a company creating instruments for blind people. But you’ll more likely recognise it as the voices in Berzerk and later sampled in the Stakker track ‘Humanoid’. Ploque are plugging a new plugin ‘chipspeech’…
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RC 268: 16-bit Show Part 2 – Amiga Dreams
Second part of the 16-bit show and it’s Amiga time, with tunes from various demos, games, tracker tunes new and old, Amiga Remixes and more 8-bit and 16-bit arcade tunes, even taking us to the modern retro-futurist day with music from Legowelt, Actress, and games such as Fez and the Utopia influenced by what came…
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RC 261: May The Bridges You Burn Light The Way (!Summer)
Aka Lang May Yr Lum Reek…the Not Summer edition (well Summer can’t make up it’s mind, so really ±Summer) Dark and cloudy at times, it seems the light from all the burnt bridges might be more reliable? [Image is a burnt out scooter from Ham Lands, a supposedly sunny/cloudy day just when it started raining…]…
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Enjoy the Science – 8-bit Operators tribute to Depeche Mode
It was last year that I first heard Bacalao’s version of Depeche Mode’s But Not Tonight and it’s become one of my favourite covers OF ALL TIME. It’s great, honestly. So I’ve been waiting for the full compilation since then – it was going to be ‘coming soon’, and that seems to have stretched out…
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Electronica on the go – Anton Maskeliade
Got an email from Anton Maskeliade from Russia about his new video for Chabrec (below) shot in an old Zaporozhets car, with live triggered visuals. Not sure why the fencing bit, but love the fact he’s using Leap Motion control, it’s like Theremin for the 10’s (Lev Sergeyevich Termen was also Russian, so it comes…