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I just added 3 new products to the shop.
Miniboss T-shirt by SEIBEI — $22
Unicorn Dream Attack - Love Bits — $12
Calvin & Hellen's Bogus Journey Instruction Booklet — $4
The Miniboss t-shirt was designed by David Murray for his t-shirt company, SEIBEI. David is a cool dude, and he's got a lot of talent, so expect more SEIBEI lovin's from Attract Mode in the future.
Love Bits is Unicorn Dream Attack's ode to your heart. It's really good. If you are into chip music, definitely check that one out.
And finally, Calvin & Hellen's Bogus Journey Instruction Booklet is Calvin Wong's ridiculously funny faux instruction booklet for the game he made with Hellen Jo and Derek Yu for Game Over/Continue. It's one of my favorite items in the shop, and it's only $4! Designed, printed, folded and stapled by the loving hands of Calvin himself.
Adam
November 27, 2009
apparel / Calvin and Hellen's Bogus Journey / Calvin Wong / Chiptunes / Unicorn Dream Attack / Derek Yu / Game Over/Continue? / Hellen Jo / indie games / music / products / SEIBEI / shop
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This Saturday, November 7th, in Little Tokyo! DATA BEEZ West Coast Micro Tour show 1 of 4.
This stop includes a chip music workshop at the Japanese American National Museum at 2PM and a live concert next door at the Chop Suey Lounge at 8PM. Both will feature minusbaby, starPause, crashfaster and Trash80 with visuals by Paris and Daniel Rehn.
If you've been waiting to check out Giant Robot's Biennale 2 at JANM, this is the absolute best time to go. Instead of paying the normal $9 museum admission fee, come with flier in hand to get access to the Biennale exhibition, the chip music workshop, AND the concert at Chop Suey all for $5. Learn about chiptunes, play some indie games, enjoy the art and then walk over to Chop Suey for epic chip beatz.
From databeez.com:
Chip music - an avenue of audio and visual exploration for artists choosing to adopt vintage video games as a deliberate, aesthetic choices - has enjoyed enormous success for over a decade on the East coast with world-class events the Blip Festival, Pulsewave and recent newcomer, 8static.
For the first time ever, Data Beez is spreading those same addictive, low-tech sounds across the West. It signals an evolving movement and sets a precedent for the future of chip music on the West Coast.
Directions to DATA BEEZ: LA View Larger Map
The show is this Saturday, so I need your help letting people know about it! Spread the word with the web flier and the print flier. (Don't forget to print out the flier to get $4 off admission!)
Adam
November 02, 2009
Chiptunes / crashfaster / minusbaby / Paris / starpause / trash80 / Daniel Rehn / Giant Robot
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Listening to Goto80 is an essential part of your daily nutritional requirements. Released by Bleepstreet (please tell me a vinyl is coming at some point!), Breakfast contains two edits and three remixes of the title track.
Video by the C-Men.
Via Goto80
Adam
October 16, 2009
Chiptunes / Bleepstreet / Goto80 / the C-Men
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minusbaby kills it with his latest 8bitpeoples release, Left.
There's also a remix album, and another album and video promised for release on October 9th. minusbaby.com has the details.
Adam
September 17, 2009
2 Player Productions / Chiptunes / 8bitpeoples / minusbaby / music
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Alex Bond aka Enso recently designed the cover art for Coova & Bud Melvin’s She’s the DJ, He’s the Rapper. Lucky for us he’s been hard at work creating more impressive pixel art. My favorites are these animated loops of 8bitpeoples veterans NO CARRIER (above), Bit Shifter and Mark DeNardo.
Adam
February 28, 2009
8 bit / animation / Chiptunes / Alex Bond aka Enso / Bit Shifter / Mark DeNardo / No Carrier / pixel art
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Chiptune collective 8bitpeoples released two EPs on Sunday, including an interesting collaboration between Coova and Bud Melvin titled She’s the DJ, He’s the Rapper. According to the description this has been in the works since the first Blip Festival in 2006. That must explain why it's the best album I've heard all year…
I saw Bud Melvin in Reformat the Planet, but never seriously listened to any of his “Hey, you got banjo in my Game Boy!” style of chiptunes before this collab. It stands out from the usual, danceable 8 bit songs (in a good way), and makes for a great combination with Coova's dreamy bleeps.
Listen to my favorite track “Sjutton” below, then head over to 8bitpeoples and grab the entire album.
Via Nullsleep's tweet
Adam
February 15, 2009
8 bit / Chiptunes / 8bitpeoples / Bud Melvin / Coova
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If Danny Elfman, Elliott Smith and Bjork were to collaborate on the soundtrack to Castlevania or Zelda, it would sound like this.
— Leeni, describing her album Labyrinth
Wow, there are so many layers to this thing. It’s an 8 bit rendition of a play about a mole who has a nightmare that he travels to the overworld. With themes of delirium and death (and dancing!), the video is actually a fitting companion for the recent TIGS Commonplace Book Competition.
You can find more info on Labyrinth and Leeni’s self-released 8 Bit Heart at leeni.us, or you can do what the cool kids do and listen to unreleased tracks at 8bitcollective.
Adam
January 17, 2009
8 bit / animation / Chiptunes / Leeni / pixel art
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