POSTED BY

Brandon Boyer

AT 2:33 PM
Wednesday February 4, 2009

Music

Listen: Simon Mattison's chiptune dub and Bud Melvin's banjo-bleeps

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Chiptune musician Simon Mattison describes his latest ep, Leaves, in an only partially decipherable poem:

the result of a unique tradition returns to be is a 56k modem. a free impro(bable) session is author's interest in high style groovy arcade planets,

all-in-all, loads of a label.
but very-very deep and quality.
has a young electronic music spectrum
in high style and smooth sound carpets

But what you need to know: it's nicely dub-influenced bleeps, done up on LittleGPTracker, a version of littlesounddj for obscure Korean handheld GP2X.

For other stylistically left-field chip music, try Bud Melvin, particularly the 657,644 album found on his site, who regularly overlays his Game Boy music with live banjo which, for all its anachronism, actually works. See especially Sun Salutation and Gajanana, two tracks written for a never-created Game Boy Color game based on the adventures of Hindu elephant god Ganesha (!).

Leaves by Mattisson [archive.org, via Disquiet]

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Listen: 2D Boy's free World of Goo soundtrack - Offworld
Listen: Pixelmod Records' Merry Pixmas Compilation - Offworld
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3 Comments

Peter Swimm

#1 – 8:24 AM February 5, 2009

Obscure no more, the piggy runs on PSP now

http://littlegptracker.com/download.php

as well as nix, osx, and windows.

Bud Melvin Rules.

jonbro

#2 – 8:37 AM February 5, 2009

I think most of this album is actually LSDJ.. the is definitely one LGPT track on it though, you just need to listen really carefully to hear it.

starpause

#3 – 10:18 AM February 6, 2009

yo! a few corrections: jonbro's right that this ep is both lsdj (runs on gameboy, 4 channels of synthesized sound) & lgpt (sdl so it runs on anything, 8 channels of sample playback). also, while the interfaces are similar (tracker-by-joystick) they are not versions of each other.

and to reward you for reading through my nerdy nit-picking, here's an entirely creative commons /slash/ netaudio DUB MIX featuring 2 tracks off leaves!

http://gorehole.org/cockroaches/cockroaches20090204-netaudio-dubs.mp3



thanks Brandon!

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