Make sure to check out the new Chiptune site…
…it is awesome, taking you back to the 80’s ni no time
Speak french, than make sure to see the Chip tune documentary below, well it’s cool even if you don’t understand it, LOL
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=EQjzNMTGFSs]
New album from Thermostatic
After the debut album Joy-Toy the brandnew CD Humanizer is the 2nd album of the swedisch band Thermostatic.
Thermostatic celebrates the 80s home computer sound (Sidstation at work) and combines it with the charismatic voice of singer “Vox”, along with Kraftwerk-like vocoder harmonics and those amazingly catchy melodies – Thermostatic is playful synthpop in sweetest perfection.
Listen to the song The Box and watch the preview video in an endless loop, you’ll either get hooked or get headaches :o)
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=aN_tTzUfBXk]
Super Mario goes techno :-)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIRCzbBB99E]
Found this little crazy video the other day and I must say it is facinating how well the sync goes with the game. I am not sure it is possible to do this kind of automation on NES, but if it does I am sure it will open up doors for many nice chip tunes in the Nintendo world going forward. Enjoy – it is totally whacko and it goes on and on and on
Cheers
Pixel mania
Many of you know that I am agreat fan of manga, anime, tokidoki and similar art stuff and pixel art is no exception. Pixel art gives the same type of pleasure as C64/bitpop music and therefore I just wanted to share one of my favorite pixel sites – which in principal is just one big f-cking image – printed it would certainly cover a very large painting – a smal snap shot from it is pasted below, but be sure to click the image to see the actual one and make sure to surf around in the pixel world.
ARCADE ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM – Reason Refill :-)
New ReFill- AES 001 No, this is not the emulation of Nintendo's nextgen gameconsole. This is AES, our ARCADE ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM ! Start the engine and your music will receive this extra portion of 8 bit flavour. 1200 samples taken straight from the Nintendo NES-001, the most popular game console produced in the 80`s. This essential sample collection is usefull for every producer who likes to give his sound that 80`s arcade character, suitable from old school NES music to modern electro or pop productions. Sound Demo: http://youproduce.net/soundshop_demos/demosong_aes_1_hq.mp3 ReFill Demo: http://youproduce.net/soundshop/demorefills/ASS008_YOUPRODUCE.NET_AES_Demo.zip Product Page: http://youproduce.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1880&Itemid=106
New cool C64 synth from Odo
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Odo has released 38911 Bytes, a synth based on a commodore 64.
Here’s list of features in the company’s own words…
- It has 1 oscillator with 4 different waveforms: Saw,Triangle, Pulse and Pitched noise.
- 3 BPM sequencer with 7 rates and 2 to 8 steps .You can end a sequence or loop it.
- The first sequencer has notes from C to B and octaves from -3 to 4
- In the 2nd (waveform sequencer) you can select saw, triangle, noise, ring saw, ring triangle, ring pulse.
- 3rth sequencer for octaves from -3 to 4
- A filter with envelope from 1 to 8 stages and 13 curves you can select where you want your sustain point.
- Filter types :lowpass,hipass and bandpass.You can activate more than one filter type like on a real c64.
- Cutoff and resonance and a on/off button to save some CPU
- a pitch envelope from 1 to 8 stages and you can select where you want your sustain point.And has a on/off button to save some cpu
- a PW envelope from 1 to 8 stages and you can select where you want your sustain point.And has a on/off button to save some cpu
- Two big LFOs with 19 different waveforms and free speed or 14 bpm speeds
- Ringmodulation with a bitcrusher notes from c to b and octaves from -4 to 4
- a Bitcrusher volume envelope
- 128 presets to start and some simple helpfiles
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GOTO8O
With roots in both catchy and extreme music plus an unhealthy obsession with errors and variation, Goto80 delivers eclectic music based on 8-bit technology. During 15 years he has released hundreds of songs on vinyl, CD’s, cassettes and floppy disks but also for movies, games and art projects. Starting in the demoscene, he gained recognition outside of geek culture in 2001 with the Papaya EP. He’s on a never ending mission to look beyond the video game romantics and explore genres such as ambient, breakcore, country, schlager and jazz, although Goto80 is often recognized for the melodic pop songs. In 2007 he played 40 shows and made 20 releases including the CD-album Made On Internet. More info can be found at http://www.goto80.com/promo
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Super Mario Flash based synth and the EYE4U
So you want to have some fun with Flash based synths, apart from the one I have posted before here are two new ones, enjoy LOL
and of course Super Mario
DATAMASKIN
