{"id":1054,"date":"2013-05-27T09:57:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T16:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2013-06-28T11:47:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T18:47:05","slug":"some-great-tunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/?p=1054","title":{"rendered":"Some Great Tunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While looking around for some cool stuff to rave about today, I came across the fact that on May 28th, it will be the 20th anniversary of the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchyroll.com\/anime-news\/2013\/05\/26\/video-luigi-offers-super-mario-bros-movie-20th-anniversary-message\"> Super Mario Bros Movie<\/a>. So there&#8217;s that&#8230; uh&#8230; influential part of my childhood&#8230; but&#8230; uh&#8230; I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s much to say about that. Pretty much the only cool thing about that was the <a href=\"http:\/\/imretroactive.com\/bomb-ombs-were-apparently-made-by-reebok\/\">product placement<\/a>\u00a0and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_detailpage&amp;v=gYOQUF5IyWw#t=23s\">Joe Satriani inclusion in the soundtrack<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>However, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.satriani.com\/splash\/\">Joe Satriani<\/a> music did put me into a train of thought to share some of the cool chip music out there that I&#8217;ve fallen in love with, that you too should allow into your ears. That leading image is a <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/this-song-argues-that-gif-is-pronounced-jif-509558108\">gif<\/a>\u00a0from <a href=\"http:\/\/anamanaguchi.com\/\">Anamanaguchi<\/a>, who have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/dreamhax\/anamanaguchi-make-endless-fantasy-more-than-album\">kickstarter campaign<\/a> going on right now. If you&#8217;re not familiar with them already, Anamanaguchi is a pretty interesting group. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polygon.com\/features\/2013\/5\/20\/4331048\/anamanaguchi-the-ninja-turtles-of-rock\">Polygon just did a great feature<\/a> on them, but if you don&#8217;t have the time to read that, let&#8217;s put it this way: they&#8217;re an awesome group of musicians that mix instruments with chiptunes \u00a0and were responsible for the music in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/?p=156\">Scott Pilgrim game<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Anamanaguchi -\u300cENDLESS FANTASY\u300d(Official Music Video)\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6fdr-Fiv92c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then of course, there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/chipzelmusic.bandcamp.com\/\">Chipzel<\/a> who did the music for <a href=\"http:\/\/superhexagon.com\/\">the game I was totally addicted to<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chipzel is the alias of Niamh Houston, an independent Northern Irish chip-musician who indulges in the use of Gameboys to create energetic, melodic dance tracks. Through taking the original 8bit sound and manipulating it into something frantically hard-hitting, Chipzel has seen crowds of all ages turn to \u201craving loons\u201d, taken right back to their days of retro gaming.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/?p=983\">may be aware<\/a>, that we are using chiptunes in the music for Super Hematoma. I love the sound of the original Gameboy, and Chipzel does a great job in her music of pushing the envelope with Little Sound DJ. We&#8217;re going to be using LSDJ just for the sound effects in our game, as I don&#8217;t feel that it&#8217;s the right <em>musical<\/em> direction for the game&#8230; but damn&#8230; it&#8217;s nice sounding:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chipzel - When They Come For Us\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zBLnuHdF8Es?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Names like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sabrepulse.com\/\">Sabrepulse<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/skrillex.com\/\/\">Skrillex<\/a> might not be new to you, and if you listen to Anamanaguchi or Chipzel, you might see a bit of a recurring pattern of chiptunes being primarily used in electronica&#8230; but it certainly doesn&#8217;t have to start and end there. I&#8217;ve always been more atuned with metal\/rock, and so I became aware of <a href=\"http:\/\/machinaesupremacy.com\/\">Machinae Supremacy<\/a> and their use of the commodore 64, long before I caught onto the Game Boy scene. If the above artists don&#8217;t do it for you, maybe a little SID Metal will. Chips take a little less of the mainstage in this band, but they&#8217;re used as a great accompanying instrument:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RISE OF A DIGITAL NATION | Machinae Supremacy\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O8CsM96SEtM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And of course, there&#8217;s the opposite of having chiptunes in your music:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mega Man 2 - Dr. Wily Stage Acapella\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iW_Ct49H1ng?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While looking around for some cool stuff to rave about today, I came across the fact that on May 28th, it will be the 20th anniversary of the Super Mario Bros Movie. So there&#8217;s that&#8230; uh&#8230; influential part of my childhood&#8230; but&#8230; uh&#8230; I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s much to say about that. Pretty much the only cool thing about that was the product placement\u00a0and the Joe Satriani inclusion in the soundtrack. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-sound"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1066,"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions\/1066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}