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OutRax – Summer Driving Music inspired by Sega’s OutRun

Outrax-500x500GameChops brings us the ultimate summer driving music,  OutRax. Created by RobKTA, the italian house producer behind Club Needlemouse,  the video game remix album delivers the four classic songs from the original Out Run game, with two tracks from the rare sequels OutRunners and Turbo OutRun.

OutRax features tracks by RobKTA, Dj CUTMAN, James Landino, Kevin Villecco, Pixel8ter and halc. It is an album made for the summer; a mix of tunes that are perfect to drive to. OutRax is now available from Loudr and iTunes.

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New Chiptune Album Plays on Sega CD ( NOTE! – Color Mechanica )

Note! - Color Mechanica Chiptune Album plays on Sega CDYou got to hand it to the innovative nature of chiptune musicians to continue to create new, awesome (and sometimes weird) ways to play  their music.

NOTE! from New York City has created a new chiptune album that will play back on a Sega CD console.  If you’re having trouble locating your old console, you can download Color Mechanica on Bandcamp, and the recordings sound awesome. The truly devoted can pick up the old sega console on ebay for between $50-$100 to get the true chipmusic experience.

Check out the trailer video below of the features included in the Sega CD version. Sweet visuals!

Stream the entire album via Bandcamp, and remember to support your local chipmusician!

RobKTA – Club Needlemouse

Club Needlemouse Album CoverClub Needlemouse is a 9-track remix album paying tribute to Sega’s Sonic the Hedgehog series. Source games include the original Sega Genesis classic, Sonic CD, Sonic 2, Sonic 3, Sonic Unleashed, and even a track from the upcoming title Lost World. The music was written by Italian producer RobKTA, and mastered by GameChops’ own bLiNd and Dj CUTMAN.

From the classic Sonic title theme to level music like Spring Yard Zone and Marble Garden Zone, Club Needlemouse touches on some of the most memorable music from the Sonic series. RobKTA incorporate’s live instrumentation to freshen his remixes, giving an organic sound to each track on the album.

Club Needlemouse is now available, stream below or download on Loudr or iTunes.

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Sega Genesis FM Synthesis Albums

coverThe Sega Genesis has one of the most versatile and powerful chips of the 8-bit/16-bit era. Although tons of chip artists utilize the Genesis or FM synthesis equivalents, there isn’t as much pure Genesis chiptune releases as you might expect. Aside from the recent Flight Away album covered here, here’s a few more excellent Sega chip artists that you have to check out. These are mostly straight-up chip endeavors that really show off the power of the Yamaha YM2612 chip.

 

 

 

Freezedream


What It Sounds Like: The American Dollar, Album Leaf, Mum, Trentmoeller on your Genesis

Favorite Tracks: Origami, The Girl In the Moon

Album: Today

If freezedream’s Today album didn’t actually come on a Sega Genesis cartridge I would never believe it was pure chip.  Instead of pumping up retro-synth sounds to the max, freezedream dials them back to delicate FM bells and gently humming bass lines for a post-rock, ambient chill environment that is the perfect thing to listen to first thing in the morning or to cool down mentally at the end of a long day. You’ve got to love the unexpected but surprisingly smooth key shift in “Realtime Love” too. Quality composing and synth programming make up this release. If the first track seems a little quiet or dull to you, skip ahead to the regae-influenced “See You Next Thursday” or any of the other moody, melodic tracks that compose this fine album.

 

Jredd

 

 

 

What It Sounds Like: Funk, Trance and Post Rock Flavors in 16-bit

Favorite Tracks: Dark Bounce Caverns, Limitless

 

Jredd often collaborates with other artists on his tracks, so they range from smoky lo-fi funky grooves to epic crunchy trance tracks. From what I can tell, he’s strictly a “for fun” artist too, his stuff can be downloaded for free and will definitely work their way into your favorites. Most of his tracks are available over at µCollective.

 

Linde

Sounds Like: Little bits of modern music mixed with funky in-game themes.

Favorite Tracks: Factory Life, Solar Surfing

Album: Stone Soup 

Linde’s music has a lot of different influences. It’s hard to put a label on them. Some tracks sound like old school break-ish stuff while some of the stand out tracks like Factory Life and Solar Surfing sound like something straight out of an old Genesis game. The album closer, Not Reading, is a nice chill way to end out of pretty high-energy and melodic album.

 

Animal Style


Sounds Like: A 90’s arcade shooter soundtrack

Favorite Tracks:  Outer Trace, Lame FAQs

Album: Trenchvent

Animal Style captures that bouncy bass sound that drove every Sonic song into your head for all time. It’s a fun and nostalgic trip that reminds of every 90’s side-scrolling space shooter I ever played. The songs have enough variety to keep you from getting bored too.  Give each song a chance, as there are lots of unexpected bits towards the ends of many of them, like trippy drums that throw you off a bit and other fun changes.

 

Want to make your own? Check out this post we did a while ago on how to start creating some classic Genesis sounds with a tracker or even in a modern DAWS.

 

Screen Shot 2013-05-03 at 2.36.44 PMBeatscribe is a full time indie composer, musician and writer. By day he creates soundtracks for various mobile gaming companies, by night creates megaman-inspired chiptunes, in the afternoons he drinks tea. Check out his latest releases, tutorials and retro ruminations at www.beatscribe.com.