by atchley
Two years ago, I put together a chiptune show in Fort Worth TX. It was a mild success… people came, they sweated it out to 8 bit music… now we’re going to do it again… this time it’s going to be bigger and badder. Going to be more than just music, this time, kids.
email me at aaaaaalex at gmail dot com - put “BBB2″ in the subject line.
LETS DO THIS
atchley
Like I said in my previous post, 2009 mostly sucked… but there are 2 really amazing albums I totally forgot came out in ‘09. I’ll give you a brief run down of them, in a non-IMAO formatted post.
Zombi – Spirit Animal
If you want to experience a cosmic progressive-rock odyssey, then look no further into Pittsburgh’s Zombi’s Spirit Animal. The first song alone could be its own E.P., clocking in at an epic 14 minutes. Every song is lush with analog synthesis; it will make any synth-fetishist salivate. If you are into instrumental music, italian-horror soundtracks or prog in general, you owe it to yourself to pick up a copy of Spirit Animal.
Cheap Dinosaurs - Self-Titled
The fact that I could forget about my favorite composer releasing his first solo album makes me a complete fucking moron. Dino Lionetti is the brains behind the Cheap Dinosaurs operation, an ex-member of the oft-mentioned (by me) Chromelodeon. His debut solo release is a doozy. Combining masterful Game-Boy compositions with masterful syth-shredding, this album towers above anything “8-bit” or “chiptune,”. It goes beyond amateur LSDJ composers posting “omg first try w/ game boy” tracks on a chiptune message board. It goes beyond sounding like video game music. It goes beyond modern composers in general. I have said this before, and I’ll say it again… Dino Lionetti is a modern day Beethoven. There is not one modern composer I can think of that can match his pure song-writing genius.
Stand out tracks for me are 1, 4 and 6. I don’t know what they’re called. Dino sent me the album with out a track listing. CDs come in individual hand-made covers (made by his wifey Lauren). Hit him up on myspace or go see him play to pick up a copy for yourself and experience this wonderful album.
by atchley
In My Awesome Opinion is a new segment for Hotdogstorm, as a way to get me to write more. What is IMAO? Just reviews on music, movies, books, tv, whatever I feel like reviewing. Now, I’m not going to take time out to review everything that is out there – bUT, if you want to submit something to me to review, just shoot me an email at aaaaaalex@gmail.com with “IMAO” somewhere in the subject line. There are many review-blogs and music blogs out there that can write words gooder than I can, but I’ll give it my best shot. I may even try to get guest reviews at some point… but seeing as I rarely update this site, we’ll see how it goes. Without further bullshit, here’s my review of “Yakuza Heart Attack II” by Yakuza Heart Attack.
by atchley
I submitted an exclusive track, “RUFFTRADE,” to A Chip Off The Shizz Block Vol 1. I recommend that everyone purchase a copy of it (or the digital version). There is a lot of talent packed onto one disc… including veteran game-music composer Neil Baldwin.
by atchley
Today, I would like to inform all 1.67 of you that a great horror/soundtrack mix has been posted over at Darklord Disco. Its all kinds of awesome. Ryan Todd put this bad boy together. I got to see him and his crew about a year ago when I was on a visit to Philly. Ryan now has a gig called Robotique at Kung Fu Necktie, so check them out next time you’re in the city of Bro Love.
There is also a similar mix from last year posted on his site -both are crucial listening for this time of year. I recommend sticking it on at your drunken Halloween party later this month.
by atchley
Sorry about not getting Night Shift to you folks last week, but shit got busy. This week’s show is all music from my cassette collection. I wont lie – its not very good. It is, however, the best sounding episode, mix wise. No guest host – I talk to myself!!! yeaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
playlist:
1. Kurtis Blow – Party Time
2. Temp Sound Solutions – jig
3. Christian Death – Elektra Descending
4. Zurich – Crazy This Year
5. Aswad – Not Guilty (live)
6. MC Lucious – Boom! I Got Your Man *
7. Depeche Mode – Dangerous
8. They Might Be Giants – I Palindrome I
9. The Magnolias – Shirly’s Lookin’ Down
10. The Jesus and Mary Chain – Sowing Seeds
11. Presidents of the United States of America – We’re not going to Make it
12. Siouxsie & The Banshees – Drifter
13. Husker Du – Books About UFO’s
14. Meat Loaf – You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth
by Atchley
Bruce Springsteen turns 60 today. Just thought I’d take this time to salute The Boss.
by atchley
John Cusack in the film "Say Anything"
I am joined once again by Rick Vee, we play and discuss some music
from my favorite decade of music. And yes, there is one New Order
song on there. It was unavoidable.
Some engineering mistakes were ironed out from last week’s episode,
but new ones arose. At least none of the songs were way too quiet this
time.
Download episode here
Download All episodes here
Playlist:
1. Quarterflash – Night Shift
2. Boomtown Rats – She’s So Modern
3. Huey Lewis and the News – Some of these Lies are True
4. The Tubes – Sushi Girl
5. New Order – Ceremony
6. Gary Numan – I Die: You Die
7. Oingo Boingo – Only A Lad
8. Men Without Hats – Unsatisfaction
9. Neil Young – Sample and Hold
10. Devo – The Day my Baby Gave me a Surprise
11. The Smiths – Frankly, Mr Shankly
12. Kate Bush – Hounds of Love
13. They Might Be Giants – I’ve Got a Match
14. Squeeze – Slightly Drunk
15. Buckner & Garcia – Pacman Fever
by atchley
Hey, all. I have a new podcast, called NIGHT SHIFT. It is a series of 15 podcasts/radio shows that I have to complete for school. I don’t know how to make a real podcast, so you’ll have to just download it one episode at a time.
Every episode has a theme of some kind. Some will have guest hosts.
EPISODE 1 – DFW Music w/ Rick Vee
Click here to download episode
Playlist
Big Weed Mountain Revival – The Sneeze
Gleaming the Cubicle – Angry Businessmen
Foreign Lands – Teenage Cool Kids
Denture Adventure – Blonde Girls
??? – Wiccans
Windmill – Death To the Doomriders
Heart String Stranglers – La Sucrerie
Hail – Best Fwends
Ballad Unicron – Battle Unicron
Hopscotch – Blush
Swissex Lover – Fight Bite
Aint Got Nowhere to Go – Jackson 8
Pennies – Retro Spectro
Northwestern Shores – Cadillac Fraf
???? – Sonic Death Monkey
Going Steady – Dooms UK
Sailboat – Sandwich Mafia
note – there are a lot of bad “engineer mistakes” due to my poor monitoring systems at home. I’m too lazy to fix it… for now.
by atchley
the tree tunnel e.p. is 13 minutes of pure melody that is influenced by a variety of musical genres such as: chiptune, synth-pop, shoegaze, and anthemic progressive rock. all music composed by alex atchley using a variety of softwares such as little sound dj, modplug tracker and fruity loops. it includes a passionate and terrifying vocal performance by jane vincent of baltimore’s abiku, on a re-imagining of their tune “good weather”. this e.p. is being released as a free online download as two of these songs have been in circulation in the chiptune community for some time, and as a way to relaunch the naxat project once again after a year of silence. video representations are forthcoming.