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Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

Is probably the best li'l collection of chiptunes I've ever heard. It's making me think math rock if math rock dudes played on NES sound chips and liked to shred way, way more often.

Get it here.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

I listened to this last night and it's really good. I was shocked that Dess didn't know about it yet, as I had just been putting it off a couple days.

I have exposed Dess!
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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

Yeah, I read your facebook entry about it and was instantly intrigued. I'll give it a listen very shortly.
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ApM · Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:36 pm Post subject:

Oh, man! This is frigging excellent.

a_plus · . Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 252 Location: olympia

if you haven't heard the first two fx eps, you must!! i'm pretty excited to download 'n' hear this.

a_plus · . Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 252 Location: olympia

which, bee tee dubz, are here:

fx1

and here:

fx2

ApM · Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 6:15 pm Post subject:

Yes! I had them downloaded before FX3 had even finished playing. Both are solid gold!

What other chiptunes artists would you folks recommend?

Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

Goto80. His Contech was my favorite chiptunes work until I heard this. People make cool videos of his music.

I don't really know much about chiptunes though.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Nullsleep is a good guy, can't say I know his music though.
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-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

JasonMoses · . Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 407

Since FX3 is hosted on 8bitpeoples, you might as well just check out the rest of their releases and see if anything catches your interest. Oh, and check VORC every once in a while.

a_plus · . Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 252 Location: olympia

chibi-tech does some pretty great european-chip-sounding NES stuff. lots of highspeed arpeggios and fakes vocals using different duty cycle settings. (if'n ya need an nsf player, NSFplug for winamp works very well. i think there's a standalone player on that same site, too)

man. i used to be so, so, SO into chiptunes and i've totally been out of the loop for a couple of years now! this has really rekindled my interest in all things chip. www.vorc.org is a good news repository for staying updated.

a_plus · . Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 252 Location: olympia

moigod

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Ok, I don't know how this happen, but I forgot about Bitshifter. He's really good.

Also, I don't know if this counts, but Fuzzy Porcupine is very chip-tune-y
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“The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

a_plus · . Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 252 Location: olympia

oh, one more link.
i'm in the midst of downloading this and if you're at all a fan of virt's nes stuff, listen to it.
last night a 2A03 saved my life

dmauro · . Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 303 Location: Brooklyn

check out anamanaguchi. you can get their release at 8bitpeoples.com or listen to some new stuff at myspace.com/anamanaguchi