I see my recent subscription to Mike Nowak’s Nerd Music tumblr is already paying dividends, as he brings me Nine Inch Nails by way of Dr. Mario with this 16-bit version of The Perfect Drug.

Dr. Mario: The Perfect Drugs [Nerd Music]

LISTEN: 8BIT FM, AND OTHER RELEVANT NERD MUSIC

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4.25.2009

Brandon Boyer

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Your new unofficial soundtrack for Offworld browsing: Mnemosyne’s 8bit FM, streaming “nerdcore, chiptunes, soundtracks, remixes & more.”

The link comes via Mike Nowak, who’s just launched his own very valuable new tumblr blog dedicated solely to ‘nerd music’, including a few finds previously spotted here.

8bit FM [Mnemosyne, Nerd Music tumblr]

An NES trailer for this month’s upcoming Pulsewave performance at NYC’s The Tank.

Music by Alex Mauer, creator of the previously mentioned Vegavox NES music cart, code by oft-mentioned NES hacker No Carrier, graphics by Enso of the recently hyped pixelstyle tumblr blog.

Pulsewave warns of the gig itself:

This show contains high-energy musics, eye-popping visuals, and what can only be described as wondersexapalooza and is not intended for the boring, loveless, and whiny.

Download the intro as a NES rom here.

March [sic] Pulsewave NES ROM Flier [enso]

LISTEN: DUTYCYCLE’S JENS AND THE JAUNTYJACKALOPE SAMPLER EP

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4.22.2009

Brandon Boyer

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Like their last showcase sampler, the folks at DUTYCYCLE have put together a new free EP to get a taste of the bands about to play at Thursday’s electro DJ party in celebration of the release of Jaunty Jackalope (Ubuntu Linux version 9.04).

The EP features chiptune regulars like STARPAUSE but isn’t exclusively chip music, though my top pick of the EP (next to Harbour’s downtempo and dubby “did you forget”) is Wyatt Gurp’s “The Dark Sword of Chaos”, the theme song for an 8-bit boss battle never made.

The release party itself will take place Thursday April 23, 2009 at 8:00pm at San Francisco’s Caffeine, located at 835 Geary, and will feature “new school electro DJs making music on Linux, Linux robotics demonstrations courtesy of Orb SWARM, free Jackalope CDs, and a fat bearded dork wet Linux t-shirt contest (weather permitting).” (! to the last bit there)

See more info via the event’s Upcoming page, and download the sampler via the DUTYCYCLE blog (direct download the zip here).

Jens and the Jauntyjackalope sampler EP [DUTYCYCLE, Upcoming event page]

Newly uploaded by Reformat the Planet producers 2 Player Productions: extended and gorgeously shot video from BlipFest 2007, including the happy chirps of Virt above, Polytron’s Jason ‘6955’ DeGroot doing an even shoe-gazier deconstructed version of his Fez theme song (below, see the first here), and more from Loud Objects and Huoratron.

2PP has a two-disc DVD of the entire show available for sale via Filmbaby.

Blip Festival 2007: The Videos [Filmbaby]

A few years old but still as fresh and perfect for Tuesday morning listening as the day it was released, Tobiah‘s I Love Your Music is looping, twisted house for lonely computer pen pals.

The clip was animated by E-Rock, the same as behind the previously blogged ‘Bad Cartridge’ video he and Paper Rad did for Beck.

Hear and download more Tobiah via his official site, including I Love Your Music and my other favorite, I Don’t Really Exist, which comes from that same tragically isolated virtual dance house.

tobiah.se [also: 2biah MySpace]

LISTEN: RUTGER MULLER DOMINATES KORG DS-10 WITH CHEAP DIRT

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4.10.2009

Brandon Boyer

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Following the previously blogged LSDJ/LGPT dub ep from Simon Mattison, the latest album from netlabel mp3death is Cheap Dirt from Rutger ‘DS-10 Dominator’ Muller.

As you might expect from his alias, Muller’s album was composed entirely on a single copy of Korg’s DS-10 synthesizer, and, he adds:

No post-processing of the audio has been done. All sounds are synthesized, there’s no sampling involved. Genres covered are: minimal, techno, electro, acid, dubstep, uk garage, drum n bass, ambient, etc.

mp3death add, in their own typical quasi-poetical fashion:

Enchanted with drum & A computer on
and jupiter is cut everything else,
turn the Most synthesizer preset
bass and then boost that notoriously famous

sessions by soundsystems
no midi control so your beat can offer
that paradoxically mix primitivistic
lo-fi and comfortable again.

Listen to the stream below, particularly the standout downtempo track “Sea Son” (skip to track six) or download the entire album via archive.org.

cheap dirt by ds-10 dominator [archive.org, mp3death label, rutgermuller.nl, via disquiet]

As Xbox Live Arcade flagship title Braid makes its PC debut (or mostly, anyway, the Steam release seems to have been delayed to tomorrow, check Impulse, Greenhouse and Gamersgate for the download and demo), artist David Hellman updates to note that an “official” soundtrack has been put together for sale with all of the tracks licensed for the game.

With contributions from Jami Sieber, Shira Kammen, Cheryl Ann Fulton and two remixes by Jon Schatz, the album is being offered for download at a variable rate — set your own price between $5 to $18 — or on CD for an extra $6 on top of that (UK and Euro prices also available).

Sieber, Kammen, Fulton and Schatz – Music from Braid [Magnatune, via David Hellman]

Have they gone too far? I think it’s possible they might’ve gone too far*.

Either way, with pre-orders just opening on “all leading digital download portals worldwide” for Dreamlore/Mezmer’s upcoming PC arcade/ real-time-strategy game Stalin Vs. Martians, the devs have also created a new page for fans with free downloads of a number of the soundtrack selections you’ve seen in previous video teasers.

Included are original teaser trailer composer Ilya Orange’s tracks Chastushki and My Pocket Stalinizer (!), a track from the Jerry-Lenin-headed “legendary Russian glam-rock band” Lady’s Man (says Dreamlore: “You wouldn’t believe, but Lenin is not a pseudonym, it’s a real surname.”), and — of course! — Hong Kong-based twee pop band My Little Airport, with a song title even Dreamlore haven’t bothered to translate from the original Chinese (my favorite of the bunch).

Find all the musical gifts here — the game is due for release on April 20th.

*(Whether or not you agree might have everything to do with your take on Lazytown.)

Stalin vs. Martians home [Dreamlore Games, Mezmer game home]

Today’s most tender chiptune remix: Sebastian ‘Little Scale‘ Tomczak softens Super Panda Blast’s “LSDJ Test” and displays it through a hacked VGA adapter that renders sound as beautiful glitches.

Video for LSDJ Test by Super Panda Blast Remix [little-scale]

Previously:
Offworld: Music Archives
The Bitcrushing Sega Master System – Offworld
Listen: Pixelmod Records' Merry Pixmas Compilation – Offworld