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Genesis-style demo flier for Blip Festival Australia, featuring code from Batsly Adams, graphics by Wazpy, and music by Animal Style.
If you’re anywhere near Australia, you can check out the show on February 17 and 18. If not … this is a pretty cool video, right? Download the file for your favorite emulator here.
Find: Nintendo DS/3DS release dates, discounts, & more
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Preeeeeetty sure I won’t be able to make it out for this one, but if you’re closer to Melbourne than me, you can pick up tickets now for the inaugural Blip Festival Australia, a two-day chiptune event featuring — a fucking great lineup, actually. Bit Shifter, Hally, little-scale, Saitone, Nullsleep, Trash80, and more.
Tickets cost $22 each per day, or $40 for both days. The festival takes place February 17 and 18 at the Evelyn Hotel. I’m hoping for a livestream, and I’m expecting pictures and videos from you guys.
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“Spotless Mind” by Leeni. As far as sharing choice chiptune tracks with you, I did a pretty awful job with that in 2011. This post won’t do much to make up for that, but here’s my song of the year from the scene, a tribute to one of my favorite films, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, from Leeni’s excellent album The Only Now.
And here are a million links to neat chiptune releases/projects I meant to feature throughout the year:
- Decktonic’s Dark Mode, a free EP of music composed in KORG DS10+
- Inverse Phase’s chiptune NIN cover “The Only Time (Gameboy MonoMix)”
- Balun’s beautiful two-track release Beko 84
- Several free album releases from Battle Lava
- Yogurtbox’s Tree of Knowledge, a fantastic OST for a fictional eroge (why didn’t I feature this earlier?!)
- DJ RoboRob’s Of Dubsnestep, remixes of SNES songs
- Dot.AY’s dinosaur concept album Ceratopian Society
- Several awesome songs from UncleBibby
These all deserved individual posts instead of a link dump — terribly sorry about that! Please give them all a listen, and keep them in your ears in 2012.
Hear also: More chiptunes
tags / spotless mind / leeni / chiptunes / gaming / the only now / eternal sunshine of the spotless mindAnamanaguchi and USK (of Portalenz) bringing down the house at Tokyo Blip Fest 2011. This was one of my favorite videos I ever posted to GameSetWatch, which you might have heard is no more. I thought a lot about this performance today, but I don’t know why. I wish I was in that crowd here, that I was a part of this.
I wish I could have come up with some mind-blowing posts to end GameSetWatch’s run with, but instead, if you go there now or anytime in the future, you’ll see a round-up about pinball, some Katsuya Terada art, a funny look at blue and orange video game covers (from the awesome Danny Cowan), and a mock-up of Ponyo for GBC.
I need to make it out to a Blip Fest one of these days.
Buy: Anamanaguchi albums
Hear also: More Anamanaguchi tunes
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Feel like listening to some chiptune reinterpretations of Beatles songs by all your favorite bands? Yes, of course you do. That is the proper way to pass a Tuesday. The second volume of 8 Bit Operators’ “Wanna Hld Yr Handheld” collection was released 11/11/11, and is now available from Bandcamp as a $10 bundle with the first volume.
The 28-track collection features Beatles tunes covered by 8 Bit Weapon with ComputeHer, glomag, minusbaby, the Depreciation Guild, Anamanaguchi, and more. There’s a really cacophonous mechanical cover of Hey Jude by Mikro Orchestra if you want to start your day off with some chiptune industrial Beatles.
See also: More chiptune stuff
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Let It Bleep: Anamanaguchi x Beatles mash-up art by Bryan Lee O’Malley (of Scott Pilgrim fame).
The Brooklyn-based boy band popped up on Last Call with Carson Daly the other night, by the way — watch them pretend to play arcade games and shove dudes here.
Buy: Anamanaguchi albums
Hear also: Some Anamanaguchi tunes
tags / anamanaguchi / bryan lee omalley / chiptunes / gaming / the beatles / let it be / ecI’m not in Tokyo for Blip Festival Tokyo this year — and you’re probably not either :( But! If you’re around the computer this weekend, you can totally listen to a livestream of the performances.
There are both high-quality audio streams (in dedicated regional links) and a video stream (above! or here). You can find a schedule here.
Find: Nintendo DS/3DS release dates, discounts, & more
See also: More Blip Festival stuff, Listen to chiptunes
tags / blip festival / jc / gaming / chiptunes / blip festival tokyo
On September 29 at 8PM Japan time (an inconvenient 7AM Eastern), Square Enix will broadcast live video from its SQ Party LEVEL 1 concert in Tokyo, featuring songs from recent arranged albums including the chip-focused SQ Chips, which Eric tells me is good. I’m going to listen to these samples today…
RE:NDZ, DJ OMKT, and Sexy-Synthesizer, among others, will be performing at the show, so maybe it’s worth getting up early and opening up a tab for some work music.
See also: More chiptune stuff
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tags / square enix / sexy-synthesizer / chiptunes / jc / gaming
Portland, the small Oregonian hamlet made famous by IFC comedy series Portlandia, will host a chiptune show you won’t want to miss if you’re anywhere near the suburb.
Starting around 8 at the Backspace Cafe, DataPort 3 will feature live performances by out-of-towners Bud Melvin (from New Mexico) and Covox (travelling all the way from Sweden!). P-Town native Mechlo will also rock a set.
You can RSVP and find out more info on this Facebook event page. It’s all ages, so you really don’t have an excuse not to go! I mean, come on, it’s Portland. It’s not like there’s going to be anything else going on.
[Update: And if you can’t make it, the show will be livestreamed tomorrow night starting at 8PM PST]
See also: Covox’s wicked performance at DataPop 5.0, “I’m Old Fashioned” By Bud Melvin
tags / chiptunes / dataport / ec / gaming / not sure why im pretending portland isnt a major metropolitan city / portland / 2 player productions / a jumps b shoots
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[Sponsored] “Triumph” from Bit.Trip Runner. Like the other chiptune-inspired tracks from the Bit.Trip series, this takes a minute to pick up but is a gem once it gets going.
This is one of the 18 songs, three from each of the series’ games, featured in the free Soundtrack Sampler CD included with Bit.Trip Saga (3DS) copies preordered online from GameStop, and with every copy of Bit.Trip Complete (Wii) — both ship on September 13.
Bit.Trip Saga/Complete’s Sampler tracklisting:
And just in case you forgot, in addition to the original songs Gaijin Games composed for its Bit.Trip releases, each of the titles collected in the anthology have tunes from chiptune greats like Bit Shifter, Nullsleep, Anamanaguchi, Bubblyfish, and Minusbaby.
It totally blows my mind that there will be a 3DS game with Anamanaguchi and Minusbaby tracks!
Preorder: Bit.Trip Saga (w/ free soundtrack sampler), Bit.Trip Complete (w/ free soundtrack sampler)
See also: More of our Bit.Trip posts
tags / bit.trip / bit.trip runner / gaming / nintendo 3ds / 3ds / music / chiptunes / sponsor / bit trip / bits of bit trip / bit trip saga / bit trip complete“Hietsuki Bushi” by Omodaka, featuring vocals by enka singer Akiko Kanazawa, from the new album Sanosa. Eric linked me to this video this morning and I basically can’t believe how amazing this track is. Who knew traditional Japanese music and chip tracks could go so well together? Who knows how many times I’m going to listen to this today?
The album is available for download from HearJapan. Each of the 20 tracks is ¥100 each, but if you buy the whole album, it’s just ¥1000/$12.85. And then you don’t have to load up YouTube to listen to this song.
See also: More chiptune stuff
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