Cheapbeats, everyone’s favorite Tokyo-based Chiptune label, recently released an exciting debut EP from Storz: Ambush.
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cTrix’s gAtari – chipmusic project at blip 2011
Artist at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/cTrix/118258328189500
The “gAtari” was my excuse to do something a little silly after I discovered that the Atari 2600 was more limiting than I realized! (31 pitches, minimal waveforms and only 2 channels!) I needed an EQ which could take a high voltage and drop it down to line level (Boss bass EQ) plus a way to hold loops between tracks and parts (Boss delay). So rather than have it “DJ” style config, I thought I make something a little more creative. It uses my atari-x-mod converter software which compiles binary files for Atari. You can find a little video about it here: http://vimeo.com/23589320
Big ups to Celsius / Trash80 / nf / Lazerbeat for the audio recording. Massive thankyou to sebastienvd81 & JDD3J for shooting additional video footage. Thanks to Wing / Celsius / Abrasive for their assistance and filming. Mega-thanks to Paul Slocum for the maco asm code for 2600 that I based my software around interfacing with :-)
Come to Blip Festival Melbourne 2012!
ps. You can download a similar set to the one I played here at http://www.freemusicarchive.org/music/cTrix/Blip_Festival_2011-cTrix/cTrix_-_Live_at_BLIP_NYC_2011
Blip Festival Tokyo invite is a NES ROM
Found this awesome awesome on TrueChipTillDeath, the invite for Blip Festival Tokyo is none other than a NES ROM, programmed by NO CARRIER! You can watch a video of it below or download the rom yourself and play it in an emulator. Full credits on the original post. very, very cool.
Blip Festival Tokyo is September 4th and 5th. More information at tokyo.blipfestival.org