#8BitMusic

[8bitbearalbum]

NIN - The Downward Spiral

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[gremlingirlsmell]

i completely missed bandcamp friday again it was last week D: anyways here's my bandcamp, i make chiptune & chiptune adjacent music :3

[mingos-commodoreblog]

HVSC (High Voltage SID Collection) #82 released

[claustrophonic]

Album: Achievement - PilotRedSun (2016)

If you were on the strange side of YouTube often between 2013-2020, chances are you've seen a PilotRedSun animation. The multi-media project is Michael Epler's.

Achievement is one of those albums that will stick in my head forever. PilotRedSun has a way of stringing chords and melodies together that gives each track the astonishing ability to embed itself within the crevices of the mind. It is entirely instrumental, the sound design is transportive and immersive -- a hundred worlds live in this album.

To me, a child of 2002, this album feels like a vague memory. A sense of something imaginary, something distant, something simultaneously less-than and greater-than reality. It is very digital-age, early internet, niche internet, MS Paint. The 8-bit and reverby drum elements are reminiscent of the 80s/arcade video games. It also feels jungle-gym-esque, though I can't make a concise argument for that.

This album was the reason I enrolled in AP music theory in high school. I didn't actually get to go to in-person school that year, so I have not yet been able to identify the exact elements that make PilotRedSun's songs so fucking interesting and deeply painful, but I'm going to someday.

Personal Highlights:

funny animals

fat cat

8-train

thanks

[vanvoxy]

[8-bit] St. Mystere (Professor Layton)

[vinneo3041]

idk probably just anotehr silly and happy song

[8bitbearmusic]

8-Bit version of Undone (The Sweater Song), great song from Weezer

[cta2v]

Valley

[motema413]

I always felt like there was something missing in this song but idk what

[squidhominid]

I can only hope Pokemon TCG Pocket has a soundtrack even half as good as the Pokemon TCG game for the Game Boy Color.

They shoved an entire Japanese jazz fusion ensemble into the Game Boy Color sound chip. Fucking demon pact wizard magic, I swear to god.

[8bitbearalbum]

Nirvana - Incesticide

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[harutofun]

This is my favorite song from my game (　・３・)

And this is NOT a test to see how the sharing-song-thing works on Tumblr ( ・∇・)👍 you can trust this beaver-> 🦫 he told me all I said is absolutely and most likely the truth (91%)

[mingos-commodoreblog]

Commodore 64 - Quantum Soundtracker

[vanvoxy]

[8-bit] Gym battle (Terastal) Theme (Pokémon Scarlet and Violet)