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8bitpeoples
8bitpeoples is an artist collective and netlabel centered in New York City that focuses on chiptune aesthetics, which is heavily influenced by vintage videogames. 8bitpeoples was founded in 1999 by Jeremiah "Nullsleep" Johnson and Mike "Tangible" Hanlon. It is run by Johnson and Joshua " Bit Shifter" Davis. Many artists who have appeared on 8bitpeoples have also appeared on compilations on other labels, most notably Astralwerks' 8 Bit Operators compilation, a collection of Kraftwerk songs done in the 8-bit style. 8bitpeoples is also involved in the organization of the Blip Festival, which features 8-bit musicians, often including those on the 8bitpeoples roster. They provide the vast majority of their releases for free via their website, including printable covers and inserts so that anyone can manufacture a hard copy of their releases. Current members * Bit Shifter * minusbaby * No Carrier * Nullsleep * openBack * Otro * Random * Trash80 * Twilight Electric * x, k Guest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nullsleep
Nullsleep (born Jeremiah Johnson October 7, 1980) is an American electronic musician and computer artist currently residing in New York City. In 1999 he co-founded the low-bit art collective 8bitpeoples, and has served as its lead director since its inception. He is best known for his high-energy Game Boy pop songs. Johnson graduated from the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University in 2003, where he studied computer science and music. He uses Game Boys and NES consoles to create music. Biography 1980 to 1998: Formative Experiences Born on a United States Air Force base, March AFB in Riverside, California, Johnson's family relocated to New York upon his father's honorable discharge from the USAF shortly after his birth. Most of his childhood was spent on suburban Long Island, where he attended Islip High School and lived with his mother and brother until he was 18 years old. Johnson has cited the film Electric Dreams as an influential f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psilodump
Psilodump (born Simon Rahm on 15 December 1980) is a Swedish people, Swedish musician, DJ, and music producer, producer based in Stockholm, Sweden, Stockholm. He has also released work under his real name and as Psilodumputer, Pushiro, and J.Panic. Biography Rahm began making music at the age of 11 on an Amiga 500 computer and later an Amiga 1200 before moving to a IBM PC compatible, PC, synthesizers, and other musical equipment. His first live gigs were at local community events, which he described as an inappropriate context for his energetic performances. In the late 1990s he became involved in the rave scene, playing both illegal and legal events. The "psilocybin, psilo-" prefix of his stage name comes from rave drug culture. Before becoming a music professional Rahm worked as a computer service technician. In addition to Psilodump, Rahm released the 2001 ''Full of SID/Microcompo Remixes'' EP, a tribute to the SID Commodore 64 sound chip, under the name Psilodumputer, and whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trash80
Trash80 is a micromusic/bitpop project from Timothy Lamb (born on March 5, 1979), a pioneer of independent Game Boy music. He has published several songs online under a Creative Commons license ( BY-NC-ND) under the Trash80 and Tresk banners. Whereas many Trash80 songs are ambient soundscapes featuring the use of Game Boy sounds, Tresk songs feature simple piano lines. Most prominently, Lamb's music has been featured on the soundtrack of the real-time strategy game ''Darwinia''. The name "Trash80" is a reference to a slang term for the Tandy / Radio Shack computer model (now defunct) TRS-80 (model 1/2/3/4/4p). In 2003 the EP ''Hologram'' was released. and in May 2008 the EP ''Icarus'' was released. In the Fall of 2008, Trash80 unveiled the ArduinoBoy, a relatively cheap and easy-to-assemble device that allows MIDI synchronization with a Game Boy running the proper software. As the name implies, it is based on the Arduino Arduino () is an open-source hardware and softwar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
She (band)
she is a musical project formed in 2003 by the Polish artist, producer and musician Lain Volta Trzaska, and is sometimes credited as ''shemusic'', ''Lain Volta''. As its main producer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Lain is the only official member, but he brings in vocalists to perform. Lain is known to have multiple different musical projects, including those such as Imagery by Sound, D7VON, 4ikai, and Spillexo. History Lain Volta Trzaska was born on 20 June 1983, in Kraków, Poland. He moved to Sweden at the age of 5, where he learned to play the piano and violin at an early age. Despite his early introduction to the world of music, he hadn't garnered an interest for it until much later. His passions at a young age were centered around drawing and writing comics. In 1997, Lain began creating music using FastTracker for computer games he had created. It was around this time that young Trzaska and his friends held competitions to see who could create the "coolest" soundin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firebrand Boy
Philip Cunningham is a chiptune and electropop producer based in Glasgow, Scotland. He is part of the new wave of chiptune musicians who were born after the rise of the demoscene. He has releases on several online netlabels, including: CrunchyCo, Toilville, 8bitpeoples, mp3death, Pale Fox Records, Intikrec and PixelPOP! Records. Discography LPs *'' popNaive'' (2008) EPs and Singles *'' Game Boy Princess'' (2004) Toilville *'' An Unknown Army'' (2005) mp3death *'' Chipz!'' (2006) CrunchyCo *''Orange'' (2006) Pale Fox Records *'' Songs for Cake'' (2008) 8bitpeoples *'' Oh Deer'' (2008) PixelPOP! Records *'' The Split'' (2008) CrunchyCo *''Glasgow Glasgow ( ; sco, Glesca or ; gd, Glaschu ) is the most populous city in Scotland and the fourth-most populous city in the United Kingdom, as well as being the 27th largest city by population in Europe. In 2020, it had an estimated popul ...'' (2010) Self-released Compilations *''"Famous" on Lowbitfever'' (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anamanaguchi
Anamanaguchi is an American chiptune-based pop and rock band from New York City. The band has four members: lead songwriters and guitarists Peter Berkman and Ary Warnaar, bassist James DeVito, and drummer Luke Silas. Anamanaguchi combines digital electronic sounds such as those seen in chiptune and bitpop with traditional band instrumentation. As with other chiptune artists, they have created music using video game hardware from the mid- to late 1980s: namely a NES and a Game Boy. The origin of the band's name is unclear. In one interview, Berkman said the name "Anamanaguchi" came about from a member in one of his former bands pronouncing gibberish in the style of Jabba the Hutt. On several other occasions, the band has explained that their name came about after the members worked as interns at Armani (Berkman and DeVito), Prada (Warnaar), and Gucci (Silas) while studying fashion at Parsons School of Design (though three of the four majored in Music Technology at New York Univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Depreciation Guild
The Depreciation Guild was an American dream pop and shoegazing band from Brooklyn, New York, United States. The group was formed in 2005 by Kurt Feldman and Adrian Hashizume. Before disbanding, their lineup included Kurt Feldman and Christoph Hochheim (who later became the drummer and touring guitarist, respectively, for indie pop band the Pains of Being Pure at Heart), joined for live performances by Anton Hochheim on percussion and Raphael Radna on bass guitar. Their debut, digital-only EP ''Nautilus'' was released by chiptune label 8bitpeoples in 2006, and their debut album ''In Her Gentle Jaws'' followed as a self-released free download in 2007. Kanine Records picked the band up in 2009 and reissued their debut album with some remastering. A second full-length, ''Spirit Youth'', followed in mid-2010. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blip Festival
The Blip Festival was a festival that celebrated chiptune music with musical performances, workshops, and screenings of movies. It was held annually starting in 2006 in New York City. In recent years, there have been international versions of Blip Festival held in Europe, Asia, and Australia. The festival is curated and organized by 8bitpeoples, one of the foremost labels in the chiptune scene, as well as local arts organization The Tank. The New York festival (referred to simply as Blip Festival) has switched venues several times, beginning in 2006 at 15 Nassau Street in Manhattan, then moving to Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in 2007, and then being held in Brooklyn at The Bell House in 2008 and 2009. It went back to Eyebeam in 2011 and then the Gramercy Theatre in 2012. The festival was the subject of a 2008 documentary film, ''Reformat the Planet'', made by 2 Player Productions. The documentary was an official selection of the 2008 South by Southwest Film Festival, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goto80
Goto80 (born Anders Carlsson, 9 February 1981) is a Swedish music artist and researcher. He has been described as one of the key players between glitch and chipmusic, as well as an active demoscener. At the turn of the millennium he was one of the first to bring chipmusic to a wider audience, and was also an early adopter of live Game Boy music. He has an extensive back catalogue of free music – often open source – with a wide span of musical influences. He currently focuses on research and art, and maintains a number of blogs and labels such as Chipflip and the text-mode tumblr. Career Music Goto80 released his first music in the demoscene in 1993, at the age of 12. He founded the group ''Hack n' Trade'' and released his music for free in demos and on BBSs. The style seems to have been predominantly rave and electronica. His first live performances was with the pop group HT in 1998. The first formal Goto80-release was the cassette ''Lo Fi Mono Festival'' in 2000 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jake Kaufman
Jake Kaufman (born 1981; also known as virt or virtjk) is an American video game music composer. After starting out creating arrangements and remixes of video game soundtracks, he began his commercial composing career in 2000 with the score to the Game Boy Color port of ''Q*bert''. He continued to compose music for games for the next couple of years, working primarily with handheld video games. In 2002, he set up the website VGMix, which hosts video game music remixes, and continues to administrate it. His career began to take off over the next few years, resulting in him transitioning jobs into a full-time freelance composer by 2005. Since then he has worked on several big-name projects such as the ''Shantae'' series, ''Contra 4'', '' Red Faction: Guerrilla,'' '' DuckTales: Remastered'', ''Shovel Knight'', and ''Crypt of the Necrodancer''. Biography Kaufman dropped out of high school with what he describes as "a total lack of work ethic and no concept of timeliness or organ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabrepulse
Ashley Charles, better known as his pseudonym, Sabrepulse, is an English chiptune musician from Kingston upon Hull, England. He is often cited as being one of the pioneers of the genre known as chipbreak, a fusion of 8-bit music and breakcore. He founded Sabrepulse in late 2001 to release his remixes of retro game music Video game music (or VGM) is the soundtrack that accompanies video games. Early video game music was once limited to sounds of early sound chips, such as programmable sound generators (PSG) or FM synthesis chips. These limitations have led to .... Discography Albums * ''Says Hello'' (2004) * ''Famicom Connection'' (2005) * ''Chipbreak Wars'' (2006) * ''Verão'' (2007) * ''Turbo City'' (2008) * ''Untitled'' (2009) * ''Blood Eagle'' (2015) * ''Paragon'' (2015) * ''Exile'' (2018) EPs * ''Terra EP'' (2005) * ''Titan EP'' (2006) * ''Nintendokore EP'' (2006) * ''First Crush EP'' (2011) * ''Bit Pilot OST'' (2011) * ''Ender'' (2022) Singles * "Close To Me" (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bitpop
Bitpop is a type of electronic music and subgenre of chiptune music, where at least part of the music is made using the sound chips of old History of video game consoles (third generation), 8-bit (or History of video game consoles (fourth generation), 16-bit) computers and video game consoles. Characteristics Among systems used include the Atari 8-bit family, Atari 8-bit computer, Commodore 64, Nintendo Entertainment System and Amiga. The sounds produced from these systems can be combined to any degree with traditional Musical instrument, instruments, such as guitar and Drum kit, drums, modern synthesizers and drum machines, or vocals and sound effects. History Bitpop uses a mixture of old and new equipment often resulting a sound which is unlike Chiptune although containing 8-bit sourced sounds. For example, a bitpop production may be composed almost entirely of 8-bit sounds but with a live vocal, or overlaid live guitars. Conversely, a bitpop production may be composed a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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