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Play That Funky Music, GameBoy

Posted by simoniker on from the bleep-bloop-bleep-bloop dept.

Thanks to MSNBC for their article discussing using classic consoles and handhelds to make retro-styled music. The piece explains: "Over the years musicians have since created software that allows them to tap into the sound capabilities of these old game platforms - as well as the newer Nintendo GameBoy", and references GameBoy sound packages such as Nanoloop and LittleSoundDJ , as well as composers like Micromusic.net, 8BitPeoples, and Paul Slocum. As "8-bit music promoter" Ihu Anyanuwu claims: "Right now there's too much fetishization of new technology. This music is all about simplicity."

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  1. Puss by Baines · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There's a swedish group called Puss that does some real nice music gameboy music.

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  2. Small collection of SID tunes by Kris_J · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For those of you without access to a real SID anymore, I've just started slowly recording the better tunes from the "High Voltage SID Collection" using a real SID installed in my Catweasel MK3. I take requests. My current request list includes: Shadow of the Beast, Blood money, The intro from Shaped Up/Shape, Batman/JCH, Theme tune to Ghouls and Ghosts, GRG in Cyberspace, Kurt and doris are in love (puterman).

  3. 8bit peoples by pillohead · · Score: 2, Interesting

    has great music, i really liked the stuff from i, cactus. That micromusic.net site had no way (not that i could find in 3 seconds) to turn off that annoying music, so I couldn't listen to that. Overall it's fun to listen to what people can do with something considered so woefully antiquated.

  4. GameBoy Superstar! by miklernout · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is even a real Nintendo Gameboy superstar: Alec Empire, the lead of the famous Atari Teenage Riot, had a side project called the Nintendo Teenage Robots. One album was made, called 'We Punk Einhezit!' and all of the songs on it were constructed on a Gameboy. It was released in 1999 on Digital Hardcore Recordings.

    Some of the songs are: 'Condom Personality', 'I don't get the printer' and 'Beatles never counted'. I saw the project live this summer and it was the coolest: just one guy, one Gameboy and one hell of sound....

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  5. Fetishization of technology by jmitchel!jmitchel.co · · Score: 2, Funny

    As "8-bit music promoter" Ihu Anyanuwu claims: "Right now there's too much fetishization of new technology.

    And this isn't fetishizing old technology?