This is an all-original album, designed to sound like a video game soundtrack. What started as only music quickly became a full expression of my love for the Pokémon franchise and what it meant to my childhood.
-Ben Briggs
Tag Archives: CHIPTUNE
World 1-2: A Historic Collaboration Between Game Composers and Remixers
We’ve seen a lot of video game remix and tribute projects on this site, but nothing quite like World 1-2. This project is massive, a twenty track album of exceptionally written and produced music. But what really makes this special is the roster, it contains some of the hottest game remixers, and some of the most respected game composers.
With names like Danimal Cannon, Benjamin Briggs and halc next to Manami Matsumae (MegaMan), Keiji Yamagishi (Ninja Gaiden), and grammy-nominated Austin Wintory (Journey), this project is nothing short of epic. World 1-2 is produced and directed by Mohammed Taher of Koopa Soundworks, published by GameChops and licensed by Joypad Records.
World 1-2 is now available! Order on Bandcamp and Loudr!
[ Dimensons ] by Auxcide
I first encountered Auxcide shortly after the initial ChipWIN compilation released last summer (has it really almost been a year already?!?). The chiptune prowess of both his Pxl-Bot compilation submission & debut album “Of Atoms and Stardust” impressed me so much that it garnered one of my earlier Friday Freakout reviews (which I miss the fire out of doing, but no time lately!!). Since then Bryan has continued to further develop and grow his artistry into what I feel is one of the premier voices of modern chipmusic. His latest release [ Dimensions ] also via Pxl-Bot (a stellar team-up imho!) is as strong a proof of this opinion as I could possibly even dream to reference. It is straight-up, no hyperbole whatsoever one of the supernova brightest shining examples of the current chipscene.
Seriously, anyone who listens to this & still honestly thinks chiptune is dead can go f*ck a duck.
Dj CUTMAN Starts an Internet Radio Show: This Week In Chiptune
UPDATE: You can now Subscribe on iTunes to This Week In Chiptune’s Podcast, the full shows downloaded right to iTunes!
It’s not exactly Radio, Dj CUTMAN has been using the streaming DJ site Mixify to host a live show each week highlighting new music in the chiptune world. There’s been two episodes so far, and while a regular day of the week hasn’t been decided on for the show, the future seems bright for this as a series.
Two episodes of This Week In Chiptune are already available on Dj CUTMAN’s Soundcloud, Mixcloud, PodOMatic and Mixify pages. If you like keeping up-to-speed on what’s happening in the chiptune world, or just like hearing new music, consider signing up for a Mixify account to be notified when Cutman will be streaming next (it’s super fast via Facebook Connect.)