Experience “The Teaching Machine,” the debut release by Philadelphia chiptune musician an0va. A tale of technology, sentience, and what it means to be human…
…or something like that.
credits
released 10 August 2011
Track 1 composed by George Wilkins; arranged by Daniel Davis
Tracks 2-6 composed and performed by Daniel Davis
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Daniel Davis
Artwork by Katie Dempsey
Cheap Dinosaurs’ self titled album propels chiptune forward with prog-pop cosmic bitscapes.
Cheap Dinosaurs, the live Chiptune supergroup consisting of Philadelphia’s finest chiptune musicians, including Animal Style, Chipocrite, An0va, and other talented musicians who don’t have websites. Cheap Dinosaurs brings precise arrangement and tight performance to their shows and recordings.
Their newly remastered album is available on Bandcamp, including a special Limited Edition Seed Paper Release,
Hand-made seed paper with screen-printed album art that you can plant under a thin layer of soil and blue lobelias will sprout and grow. How cool is that? Released on October 18th 2011 on Data Garden.
The album is available from Data Garden.
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Sometimes our weakness can be an asset. Chipmusician Electric Children has been suffering from sleepless nights as of late, so it should come as no surprise that his latest released is titled Insomniac. It’s a 26 minute 1xLSDj mix. For those not attuned to the chiptuner’s lingo, that means this entire mix was played from a single Nintendo Gameboy.
This is what it means to be a Video Game DJ, in my eyes. For those of you who have seen me live you know I don’t go anywhere without my red macbook pro and kaoss pad. I really admire an artist who can create music like this from limited hardware. After all, that’s the art of the Chiptune, isn’t it?
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On to the mix:
Insomniac by Electric_Children
Get more Electric Children on Bandcamp.
The new Henry Homesweet Essential Chip Mix is out! Released by Bleepstreet Records, this mix will take you through some of the best Chiptune tracks of this year! Listen now, man, we’re waisting time!
Henry Homesweet is a British Chiptune artist who currently uses Nanoloop on two Gameboy Advances. I saw him DESTROY EVERYTHING at this years BlipFestival, including ending his set by pouring FourLoko on his head and tearing the cart out of his gameboy. If this was twitter the only suitable tag would be #badass
You can listen to more Henry Homesweet and Bleepstreet Records on their respective Soundcloud pages, add Henry on MySpace and Facebook to support this radical dude. His website is a trip, and worth checking out if you’re into old hardware induced insanity, babes, and ball-pits [ I mean, who isn’t? ]
Onto the mix! Full tracklist right here.
Henry Homesweet – Essential Chip Mix 2011 by BLEEPSTREET Records
