Tag: chiptune
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New Epic Beard Men single
Five Hearts [Single] by Epic Beard Men First single from upcoming Epic Beard Men album ‘Season One’ it’s a 8-bit Big Boss beatdown, with playable game over at epicbeardmen.com(not working for me at the moment?) but the track is on the streets and fighting hard. SHOOORYUUUKEN!! Epic Beard Men are of course Sage Francis and…
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Anna Meredith – R-Type & Honeyed Words
It seems to be a waiting game with Anna Meredith, two years on from when I was raving about her Nautilus, we have an album – in March of next year! Can’t totally blame her though, she has been doing the classical day job at the Proms with tracks such as Smatter Haul and schools…
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Venga Room
If you’re one of the three people that hasn’t seen Venga Room, the response to Boiler Room pulling the 90’s Boiler Room and a dig about Grimes infamous Venga Boys set, then you’re in for a treat! The idea is taking the most pretentious or po-faced Boiler Room sets and adding some Venga magic to…
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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 248: 8-Bit Music Machine
In the 1980′ and 90’s I like most of my friends spent many hours programming, creating rudimentary digital pictures (I had a mouse for my Spectrum!), playing games and trying to get something vaguely musical from said microcomputers. So in honour of my 8-bit and 16-bit music days, here is a 8-bit/16-bit music special of…
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Reality Engine – TX 2 Bits and Bloops
I’ve collected a whole load more original musical digital cruft that was clogging up my hard drives and put it on Bandcamp and called it Transmission 2: Bits and Bloops…8-bit chiptunes, 16 bit Amiga (Octa)MED tracker songs, sound collages and live processing, funny songs, tape edits, video game music, rave, breakbeat/post-dubstep & acid house experiments,…