Dj CUTMAN, music producer and the editor of this blog will be taking a hiatus from releasing new content during the startup of GameChops, his video game music record label. New posts from him will resume in March. Our staff writers will continue posting.
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MAGfest may be over, but GameChops is just heating up! This new release is a huge milestone, Overclocked Remixer bLiNd has created TEN remixes based on games from the Nintendo Entertainment System; Final Fantasy, Mario Bros, Castlevania and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to name a few! It’s called NESteryears and you can download it right now!
I’ve been listening to bLiNd’s music for nearly a decade, it is a great honor to have worked with him to release this album. Some of you may remember my bLiNd Trance mix from back in 2010, which showcased my appreciate for bLiNd’s music.
NESteryears is a licensed remix album thanks to a collborative effort between GameChops and Joypad Records.
The time is upon us. The annual Music and Gaming festival ( MAGfest ) is significant for both gamers and artists. For one, it’s where the original inspiration for Dj CUTMAN was conceived. Now, just three years later, my friends are I are gearing up for our largest MAGfest yet!
MAGfest’s opening day and the release of bLiNd’s first full-length remix album NESteryears! From MegaMan to Castlevania, bLiNd has put his nose to the grindstone and produced 11 exclusive remixes with GameChops!The album will be available from GameChops.com and CD versions will be available at MAGfest!
This page will be updated with a link to the album once it has been released!
Get to the main concert hall Friday at 11:30PM (that’s right before midnight!) to catch Benjamin Briggs and bLiNd’s DJ sets!They’ll be spinning their own video game remixes, some tracks from their GameChops releases and some other treats. The first time these two legendary remixers have performed together, so don’t miss it!
For music by bLiNd and Benjamin Briggs, check out music.GameChops.com
Saturday night (and slighting into Sunday morning) at 12:30AM is the final boss battle of MAGfest, none other then a set yours truly!I have the honor of following Yuzo Koshiro (Streets of Rage, ActRaiser, Shinobi), the Japanese musician and DJ. This is his first show in the US, and he is a guest of honor at MAGfest!
I’ll be debuting new remixes,a handful of original tracks and my favorite game and chiptune inspired songs from the past year. I will be joined by a very special guest for the first portion of the set. Be there!
MAGfest is the event I look forward to every year! If you can’t make it, stay tuned to this blog for updates and new music! Let’s get this new year started right!
-C
When you think of Mario, chances are always high that you instantly think of the Super Mario Brothers franchise. If asked to pick other game that our beloved plumber was in, you will almost always say as a second game, Donkey Kong. If you needed to try again, you might say the original Mario Brothers title. A different one? Super Mario World! Wait, that’s not it? You don’t mean Wrecking Crew or Hotel Mario, did you? No? Good. Oh, you mean portable? Super Mario Land! It’s gotta be! No? Okay, I give up. What? “Mario Clash” for Virtual Boy? You’ve got to be kidding! No kidding. This week, we are going to be taking a look at a game that is simple, lots of fun to play, but never got the recognition that it deserved based on format.
Mario Clash was released for the Virtual Boy on October 1, 1995 in the United States, and a few days previously, on September 28, 1995 in Japan. It was the first game in the Mario franchise to be three-dimensional, and was developed by Nintendo R&D1, the same group of people who were responsible for the development of the Virtual Boy console itself. The team made the Virtual Boy system solely because they felt that the public was not ready for the next generation of consoles at the time, with the failures of systems like the CD-i, Jaguar and 3DO formats. Something revolutionary was thought up: A console that created 2D images in a 3D way. The team needed to make some software to show off the new technology, and this game, along with Mario Tennis, were the final outcomes. Chances are however, that even if you have never played Mario Clash, or even if you never owned or touched a Virtual Boy system at all in your lifetime, that you have actually played Mario Clash at some point. See, Mario Clash is nothing more than a port of the original Mario Brothers title from 1983. Of course, there are a lot of differences between the two titles, with the technology side being the culprit this time around.
