CR39 – Various Artists

This compilation was released at the Seattle 8-bit Showcase on 8/30 to celebrate Crunchy Records’ 10th Anniversary. Yep, it’s been 10 years since the start of Seattle chip artists Fighter X and KGHB, can you believe it? Album art (by Scott Klep) is a throwback to the Crunchy 2007 compilation.

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~TRACKLIST~
01 Fighter X – Chip Pressure
02 KGHB – BLUEBALLS (feat The J. Arthur Keenes Band)
03 USK – Cheep Boddika
04 Trey Frey – Show Me
05 g l o o m s – Lyfestyles
06 Orbital Strike – Journey’s End
07 Stenobot – Faithful Stranger
08 Boaconstructor – What it Look Like
09 Nordloef – Running Wild
10 Ovenrake – Still Drippin’
11 Firedrill – Summer Nites Remix
12 Graz – Ghost Safari
13 g l o o m s – Geosynchronous Dub
14 Live Animals – Lychee
15 KGHB – BLUEBALLS (jpop remix)

Seattle 8-bit Showcase #4

Sunday August 30th 7:00 PM
@The Vera Project
Warren & Republican, Seattle WA 98109

USK ~ TREY FREY ~ FIGHTER X ~ KGHB ~ GLOOMS

ALL AGES • $10 • TICKETS ON SALE NOW
http://www.strangertickets.com/events/26934836

~~~RSVP at our event page here~~~~
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Here are some pics from last week’s Chiptune Showcase. Seems like I was mesmerized by Glooms fiddling with the analogue visuals. Someone needs to make a GIF of the CRT screen changing!

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It’s that time of year where things start to heat up, chiptuners come out of their Gloomy caves, and we all gather to get freaky like Fighter X! Here are the hottest shows for the month of May:

Chipmusic Showcase

May 8 @ 8:00 PM – 10:30 PM
Stone Way Café
3510 Stone Way N
Seattle, Washington 98103
~~RSVP~~

~~~~FREE EVENT – ALL AGES – BAR W/ ID~~~~

KipJaw [MI] (https://soundcloud.com/kipjaw)~~
~First there were Commodore 64, Gameboy, and NES consoles used to make chiptune/8-bit music – but then, powerful computers and new age music production software emerged. Equipped with his favorite music tracker, KipJaw blends elements from both of these technological worlds into a unique atmosphere of nostalgia~

Glooms [SEA] (https://soundcloud.com/glooms)~~
~Using a wide arsenel of retro hardware, from Gameboys to the Sega Genesis, and killer software, from Ableton Live to Nanoloop and Piggy Tracker, Glooms delivers tunes that can only be described as dark, deep, cave, shiny mineral chiptune.~

Nikola Whallon [SEA] (https://soundcloud.com/nikola-whallon)~~
~In the year 199x, Nikola was born of two dragons into the age of the SNES. His love of SNES, N64, and Gameboy music would have such a great impact on the child’s life that when he came of age, these feelings of love and nostalgia would fuse and give birth to music that has the power to bring out the child in anyone.~

~{headlining}~ Graz [SEA](https://soundcloud.com/grazcore)~~
~Rapid-Fire-Amen-Infused-Mashcore Federally Certified to Crush Any Party, Graz is here to take you to Bootleg Babylon. His glitched out high-speed rave renditions of radio’s yesteryear are the perfect blend to get any crowd bobbing. Prepare for the true sounds of the plunderground..~

w/ analogue & digital visual collaboration by: g l o o m s & y o u r s t r u e l y

Pink Gorilla 10th Anniversary Party

May 16 @ 7:00 PM
University Bar
4524 University Way NE
Seattle WA 98105
~~RSVP~~

~~~~FREE EVENT – ALL AGES – BAR W/ ID~~~~ Come join the party to celebrate Pink Gorilla‘s 10th Year Anniversary with fun and games for all ages! Live music, video games, trivia, prizes, and drink specials!

Fighter X [SEA] (http://soundcloud.com/fighterx) ~~

The Icarus Kid [SEA] (http://theicaruskid.com/) ~~

Death*Star [SEA] (http://deathstarhiphop.com/) ~~

Local Seattle indie film and game studio, Imagos Softworks, has put together one of the most insanely cool Kickstarter projects I’ve seen in awhile: Starr Mazer. Seriously, you gotta check this out!!

Starr Mazer blends two classic genres, the Point-and-Click Adventure and Classic-style Shoot ‘Em Up, into a retro-sexy sci-fi epic with modern design sensibilities, open-middled gameplay and RPG elements.

The game will feature a collection of talented chiptune artists from around the internet, including Alex Mauer, C-Jeff, Cheap Dinosaurs, Ctrix, Fighter X, Nickelpunk, Phlogiston, Sabrepulse, Virt, and more! If you thought this couldn’t get any better… all supports within the first 72 hours of the campaign will receive the “Zero Day backer poster with gold lettering and fancy boarders”.

Starr Mazer Zero Day backer poster

The project ends on Feb 21st and is asking for $160,000. For $30, you will get the game, digital art book, and digital soundtrack (limited $10 savings). Hurry up and become a backer!