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ALBUMS, CHIPTUNE, GAME MUSIC, MUSIC

Dj CUTMAN’s Summer Sale!

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50% off all Dj CUTMAN albums, this week only! Use Code: SUMMER
Code expires Monday, July 16th 2012

I don’t take vacations often, but this week by some miracle I will be taking a trip to New Hampshire to chill out, write some chiptunes in the comfort of nature, and check out the Classic Arcade Museum. To celebrate a very real chance of me actually relaxing, I want to offer you all a way to chill out in this hot weather with some of my music! So, for this week only all of my albums are 50% off!Just enter code: SUMMER

GameChops Vol. 1
If you’re into Video Game Music, I strongly suggest checking out GameChops Vol. 1, my first studio remix album and the one that started it all. Featuring remixes of Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, Ninja Gaiden and MegaMan, this album has some of my favorite tracks of all time!

 

Chiptune Hero
If you’re more of an 8-bit fan at heart, Chiptune Hero can’t be beat! Featuring covers of Daft Punk, Michael Jackson, Owl City, Coheed and Cambria, all legally cleared and ready for summer! Plus the digital download includes a bonus video game remix!

 

Bagu and the Riverman
Feeling more like a hybrid of EDM and Zelda-inspired Chiptune? The Bagu and the Riverman, my collaborative album with chiptune legend Spamtron is for you! Five progressive bass-blasting tracks are sure to heat your parties up1

 

GameChops Vol. 2
Last on the list but definitly not least is my most recent album GameChops Vol. 2! Released at this years MAGFest,  GameChops Vol. 2 takes everything I’ve learned from producing my previous three albums and creates a louder, prouder, over 20-track video game remix album!

 

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Friday Freakout: New Stern Fucking Zeit = CHIPTASTICALLY BRUTAL \m||m/

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A lot of people tend to think that chiptunes are just a bunch of dancey dancey blipity bleep bloops. And to an extent it’s true (although some damn good dancey dancey blipity bleep bloops!!!). However, I know of at least two particular crazy German chiptuners who would reply to that line of linking with a solid, “F**K OFF!”, and they’d enforce it quite handily with their latest album:

Pathoscillator
by Stern Fucking Zeit

I’ve been a metalhand for at least a decade now,
long before I ever really got into chiptune. There’s something about the energy and the ferocity of metal that appeals to me even today (that and the badass  guitar solos, of course ;). So to discover an album that deftly blends both metal/hardcore/screamo stylings and chiptune (chipcore? chipmetal?) so damn well fills me full of \m||m/. Even if the entirety of it is completely devoid of any metal guitar!!!  :O Although the indescribably brutal LSDj riffage does the trick JUST as well, which is quite the claim, I know! The album itself is a fair mix of both instrumentals and punishingly metal vocally led tracks, all interwoven with the perfect mix of thrash and melodic work to really make it catch. Either way, there is nothing about this album that isn’t METUL AS FUCK; it hits me right in my wheelhouse with the power of 10,000 pixelated Henry Rollins. And man, what I’d give to catch one of SFZ’s undoubtedly extremely high energy live shows; a mosh pit at a chiptune concert just sounds AWESOME. At any rate, all that I’m really trying to say with this meandering write-up (TOO… MUCH… METAL!! CAN… NOT… FOCUS!!), if you dig both metal and chiptunes but haven’t found anything yet that scratches both of those itches at once, THIS ALBUM IS FOR YOU.

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halc – Hydrocity

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Back in April I started a netlabel for my two favorite things, Chiptunes and Video Game music, called GameChops. Since then, it’s grown faster than I imagined, and today I am pleased to announce the release of a new, free album from the one and only halc.

halc is a composer, remixer and Overclocked Remix judge. His album, Hydrocity, seemlessly fuses chiptune, electro, dubstep, FM funk and jazz. Halc writes:

“Inspired by such visionary minds as Joshua Morse, P Villa, and Savant, this album has everything from chiptune-influenced electro and dubstep to ambient beats, FM funk and jazz fusion, delightfully blended and compiled into a 40-minute package. The album also features an arrangement of the ever-popular ‘Hydrocity Zone’ music from Sonic the Hedgehog 3, and guest appearances by fellow OC ReMix legends Level 99 and WillRock.

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Friday Freakout: Auxcide is Awesometastic!!!

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So just the other day  I was listening to the recently released goodness that is the Pxl-Bot compilation “One Year Later”; it has some stellar chipjams on it worth checking out, no doubt about it (just check out Pxl-Bot in general. IT RULES. ). One of the tracks that I kept returning to, however, was the first track, “Impact” by Auxcide. So I did me some googling of this yet unheard of (by me) West Coast chipper to see what else he had available. AND I FOUND THIS:

Of Atoms and Stardust
by Auxcide

I believe it was just last Friday that I mentioned how much I love pleasant surprises, and this definitely qualifies as another one of those!  Seriously, man, some LSDJx2 goodness right here if I’ve ever  heard it! Epic, spacey, chipsteppy, dancey, gloriously melodic goodness FOR. THE. WIN.  I love the flow, the progression, the energy  of the album (the sequencing is done excellently), and the inclusion of a bonus mp3 of the entire album in one track  for gapless playback really  shows that off (very cool little bonus!). Also, did I mention that Of Atoms and Stardust is his debut album (& it JUST released)???  :OOO -head asplodes- INORITE?!? Auxcide is simply another stellar example of some of the up and coming talent that’s bursting forth into the chiptune scene with a fury of a thousand angry comets (I HAVE FURY!!!!!). Again I say, there is no better time to be involved in chiptunes, as an artist and/or a fan, than right now. More and more crazy, awesome goodness to come, of that much I am certain. At any rate, give this awesometastic duder’s chipalbum of WIN a solid listen as soon as you get a chance (and send the dude some money! He deserves it!! ). OR THE ANGRY COMETS WILL COME FOR YOU.  Or not. But you would miss out on some awesome chipmusic and that’s almost as bad.

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