Circuitastrophe 2008 – a celebration of circuit bending, robotics, 8-bit music, hacking & electronic music will be held in Cincinatti Sept 4th & 5th, 2008. Reed Ghazala will be in the house. Here are the details:
Heartcode is the name of the latest free music download from net label iimusic. It features 10 8-bit style tracks, including: 01 Temp Sound Solutions – The Menu for Today 02 Alex Mauer – Ikea Shopper Credits 03 Disasterpeace – Ensis 04 Animal Style – Stalactite 05 Phlogiston – Crystal Waves (feat. Shnabubula) 06 Alex… Read More Free Album Download Features 8-Bit Music
Joey Nariano [animal-style] demonstrates his GBC Gameboy Foot Controller.
Tony Amendolare at ElectroKraft has introduced Super Synth Drums – an NES cartridge that runs the machine into a drum synth. Super Synth Drums is a genuine Nintendo NES cartridge that transforms your original NES, or clone system (Yobo, Generation Nex) into an 8 bit percussion instrument. Just plug the cartridge into your Nintendo NES… Read More Turn Your NES Into A Drum Synthesizer
72RK specializes in awesome 8-Bit style mini videos for bands like New Order, Richie Hawtin, Portishead and event The Ramones.
Chiptune site 8BitCollective has released a new free CD, Hello World! Download link Track listing: 01. MM – 8BC Is Cool 02. Swampyboy – Glacial Floe 03. ChipHydra – Anything with Heart 04. Digital Cait Sith – Krazoa 05. Little-Scale – Hello 06. Raptorface – Cherryblossom 07. Sparkyboy – Gloom 08. Nintenboys – Be Alone… Read More Free Music From 8BitCollective
Here’s something out of left field: Shredz64 is a modern day game for the Commodore 64 that makes use of the Playstation guitar controller hooked through the PSX64 interface. Its design is modeled after the popular “Guitar Hero” series, geared toward the ability to play along to your favorite C64 music on the guitar. Correctly… Read More Shredz64 – Guitar Hero For Commodore 64
Boing Boing Gadgets editor Joel Johnson chats about chiptunes with a number of artists who performed at the most recent installment of the 8-bit music event Blipfest: Paza Rahm (pazarahm.com, from Sweden), Rugar (rugarandi.com, Sweden), Sabrepulse (myspace.com/sabrepulse, Scotland) and Akira, aka 8GB (myspace.com/8gb, Argentina).
An updated version of Nanoloop has been announced, version 1.3. Nanoloop is a cartridge for Game Boys that lets them be used for creating sequenced music. Nanoloop 2.0 is available, but “some users miss the unique rough sound of the old Game Boy models and the simplicity of the old nanoloop versions.” To meet the… Read More New Version of Classic Nanoloop Game Boy Sequencer Introduced
