This whole project with Groupees was another collaboration that I’d been waiting to do for quite sometime; turns out, so had they! The whole process was an absolute joy, as was this resultant ‘Bundle of WIN’ compilation. Special thanks to Christian Blunda and the Groupees team. And, of course, as usual round of thanks to the participating artists! Until the next crazy venture, #OnwardAndUpward!

And oh, happy holidays! <3 ^_^ <3

So very much \m|♥|m/, President Hoodie

This 10 track compilation is the centerpoint for our 10+ album debut chiptune bundle with Groupees.com. #EnjoyChiptunes #AWholeLotOfIt ♥^_^ ♥ Mastered by Stemage, stemagemusic.com
All project art by Nate Horsfall, lightningarts.com
Merch by Pixie Maddie, fb.com/pixiedruid Buy hers here: pixiedruid.bandcamp.com
Promo video by Robert Swackhamer of All Star Felons Productions & 8BitX.com.

In his sophomore album “LISTENCORE Vol I”, Ap0c uses Famicom audio to explore the struggle of our inner artists. Waves of crippling self doubt juxtaposed by triumphant victory emanate across all 7 tracks, culminating in a journey across the deep inner subconscious and back to harsh reality of daily life. This sarcastic, biting, and yet hopeful journey strives to put notes to that feeling of “not being good enough”- for others, and for our greatest critic: ourselves.

This EP took an incredible amount of effort to finish and I’m very grateful to a lot of people, especially my wife Jinah, who has probably heard every track at last 50-60 times while I suffered and toiled about every pitch and choice - I love you. A special thanks also to chiptune inspirational friend-types who deal with my constant compla.. I mean.. err… observations: Remy, Paul Weinstein, Josh Cianculli, Brandon Hood, Ricardo Almonte, Sean Callahan, Joey Mariano, Dan Davis, and all you crazy folks at Battle of the Bits; and to my colleagues at Brave Wave- Alex Mauer, Keiji Yamagishi, Masashi Kageyama, Mohammed Taher - thanks for inspiring me to be my best. Also thanks for cool programmers Javed Miah (Brock Crocodile) and Adam Mowery (Curse of the Crescent Isle DX) for their support.

One for my childhood. I remember dreams, moods, and musics. Now you can hear that from my vault ;).

With haunting, emotional lyrics that defy any preconceived limits on the chiptune genre, ‘Diamonds & Glass’ by The Fluorescent is a powerful amalgamation of chip, pop, punk, and electronica that is certain to inspire legions of chip musicians for years to come.

People aren’t perfect. Why then should music, as an expression of our emotions and experiences, need to be perfect?

Arrival is an expression of my experiences living in France for almost two years. It was inspired by the way I changed as a person during my time there and the strange, conflicting emotions of returning to my ‘home’ country. It feels like losing a close friend. In memory, those experiences already seem like they happened in a dream, but I’m sure their imprint and impact will last for the rest of my life.

Before our return, people asked us if we were looking forward to coming back to Australia, and we were afraid to admit that actually we weren’t. Although France had its share of problems, we’d grown very fond of the place, with its amazing beauty, delicious food, relaxed way of life and friendly and helpful people—we miss it very much.

For Astronauts would like to thank our family and friends for their ongoing support, Al Heslop, Melanie Hopkin, Brandon and Erin of Chiptunes=WIN, Nicola Giacomelli (Overcesium) and everyone we have met along the way.

All tracks written and performed by For Astronauts And Satellites. Sample in Track 2 credited to Warner Bros Pictures. Sample in Trac 4 credited to Topps. All Tracks copyrighted to For Astronauts And Satellites.

Originally released by Cheapbeats.net

This is the musical tale of an epic gaming journey, through the dangers and wonders of the unknown, on a mission to save the world before it disappears into nothingness and oblivion. Take your high-energy chiprock nostalgia powered ship through 4 stages of lightspeed parallax harmony, and beat 4 gigantic bosses of melodic bullet hell.

Prime Legacy is the soundtrack to a fictional STG, in the glory of those games, my favorite genre ever. The story it tells is very ambiguous, as one can tell from the song titles, and embeds possible deeper meaning. It is left open to interpretation on purpose. It’s up to you to let your imagination go wild while listening to it !

Thanks to Alex Kelly of Pxl-Bot, Julie Dull (aka braverbeast) for helping to supply the art and inspiration for Silver Planet, and everyone in the chiptune community for continuing to give me a chance to express my music.

The force is strong in this one. Awesomely strong in fact.

In his premiere full-length, Awesome Force takes you on an otherworldy adventure, exploring various genres and emotions through 10 unyielding tracks. From the bleak to the prosperous, this album takes you to the edge of infinity and back!!

Live long and chiptune!

Originally released by Cheapbeats.net

First track on the album, ‘Illjoy‘ sold me as soon as I hit play. This track explodes out of the gate, managing to perfectly intertwine a deep, vibrating bassline with a silky smooth sliding mid line. The melody at this point is so creamy that it seamlessly glides into the forefront of the soundscape. While not loud, they’re certainly proud and given a chance to show up just how expertly their instrumentation is programmed. Even though the bass fades into a supporting role, the way they almost bubble when combined with Vince’s supremely constructed noise snares is to be admired and aspired to.

The track is broken up by a quiet percussion section at roughly the half-way point. It is truly a beautiful interlude, sounding to me like an electronic mix of the essences of wood blocks and beat boxing. The thematic change is just enough to catch one’s attention, but not so dramatic as to break the flow of the track. It leaves you primed for the slow build into an energetic breakdown that begins the final third of the track. This is a well executed stylistic fake out. The drop initially had me prepped for the track to go out guns blazing. Instead, those excellent wood blocks and snares returned to treat me to a chiller roll to the fade out.

Originally released by Cheapbeats.net

Once upon a time there was a peaceful and numb world, it was all so boring… until the invasion began. The Blast Processor may have made some bullet holes, but it also made that world wake up.

This album is my repay for a lot of things and people I met in my life and made my mindset what it is now (a mess of beautiful gamey musicy stuff). Starting from my Genesis console when I was a kid, the games I played then, the people that I met who shared the love for that console and that sound the people that introduced me to the pure YM2612 music creation, the people that made me love and make chiptunes and the people that makes the tools so that we arttists can burst out all that love into music.

Toni~

Credits:

Made with: - Deflemask by Delek (http://www.delek.com.ar/deflemask) - VGM Music Maker by Shiru (https://shiru.untergrund.net/)

Composed, produced and mastered by Toni Leys.

Album art by Julia Carranza aka Cherry (https://www.behance.net/cherrilove9).

Auxcide will record a piano cover of a song from Laniakea based on your votes!

UPDATE The winner was Andromeda II and the song has been added to your account.

Recorded, engineered, mixed and mastered by Al Heslop at Creative Control Studio, April - May 2014.

Jingle Bells sing-a-long cover. Music by Pieces of Eight, vocals by the artists of this bundle!

Get yourself a double gin, some cigars, and relax to the chill sound of these six tracks of FM-infused jazz grooves. credits released April 30, 2015

Music by Vincent Chang Art & Mastering by Jimmy Clark

There is a sand’s golem in my mind. I wrote a musical story about him and his journey around the world. Dreams are the best part of inspiration :) credits released August 18, 2015

Production,Composition, Arrangement: Yoann Turpin. 2015

2 years after the initial release, The Last Dream: Definitive Edition expands and completes the vision of the original EP - further exploring haunting dreams and opening vaults of emotion that have been locked away for too long. The album has been carefully and painstakingly reordered into its full intended format and all the original tracks have received complete overhauls.

At 13 tracks, the remixed “Definitive Edition” of the album also adds many since completed works-in-progress that did not make the cut for the original release - including some that were exclusive only to the physical CD release - in order to create a sobering, somber, and ultimately hopeful LP that truly represents the intended mindset and tone of the artist.

I truly hope you enjoy this definitive release!

Artwork: Joey Mariano / Steve Lakawicz Mastering: Steve Lakawicz Post-Production: Richard Dittmar

I’d like to thank everyone who has helped me on my journey through music over these past couple years, especially Remy, Paul Weinstein, Sean Callahan, Brandon Hood- hell there’s so many of you. Re-mastering this album was a therapeutic experience and I’m excited to be able to show my true vision for the album. Also, special thanks to my wife, Jinah, for not being too upset at me for spending hours and hours reworking this at night haha :)

Thanks again, everyone, and I hope you enjoy this completed version of the album!

recorded live on August 4, 2013 at Al’s Bar as part of BRKfest 2013, made with 2x original game boys and ableton live 7

This took way longer than it ever should have to complete, starting in the winter of 2010 and ending in the summer of 2012. to this day these are my favorites of the songs i play, and i hope you will get as much out of listening to them as i did while writing them.

An acapella rendition of Mario At A Rave By Brandon “President Hoodie” Hood & Grant “Stemage” Henry.

Stem files for Auxcide’s ‘Geneva Drive’ track from the Bundle of WIN compilation.

Auxcide will make a Star Wars themed EP!

ap0c will do a “Power of Love’ (#BTTF style) Genesis chip cover