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A good track recommended by @goto80 Nintendo + basslines.

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:25:38 -0400

A good track recommended by @goto80

Nintendo + basslines.

Arduino-based reggae-dub siren.

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:16:56 -0400

Arduino-based reggae-dub siren.

"My favourite soundtracks are definitely The Secret Of Monkey Island One and Two (1990/91). This is a..."

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:07:19 -0400

““My favourite soundtracks are definitely The Secret Of Monkey Island One and Two (1990/91). This is a pirate adventure game set in the Caribbean, so they have an amazing Reggae soundtrack. This was the first Reggae I actually ever heard, we didn’t even know Bob Marley and all that back then.””

- Jan from Jahtari, in an interview at Niceup

"Honestly, this guy turns up, whose name’s Jan, first time I met him was at this show. He gets..."

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:57:56 -0400

““Honestly, this guy turns up, whose name’s Jan, first time I met him was at this show. He gets his laptop out, he sets up his laptop, then he pulls out a PlayStation control and he plugs it in. I’m like “What are you doing? Are you going to play a game?” He’s like “No I use this to control…”. I’d got my nephew with me and I look at my nephew and I’m like “What is this?” And then he’s gone into his bag and he’s like “Solo, look this is the gem!” and he brought out a radio cassette player. You must know them, they were flat, about this [gestures] high, you press Eject and the thing comes up, and they had a handle that falls out like that. I’m like “Oh my…Where did you get that from! I haven’t seen one of them in years! What are you going to do with that?” He said “I’m going to record the show on it.” I’m like “You’re going to record it on that?” and he’s like “I know it’s old but the quality, the quality…” A little part of me, a naive part of me, was thinking that they were backward, no disrespect but they were backward. It was at that point there that I said to myself “You know what? These guys aren’t backward - they’re connoisseurs!” So then, we’re ready to do the show and I see him pull this big screen down from behind the stage and a guy turns up with these metal fly cases and open it up and he’s got an Atari, an original Atari in there! So I’m on stage singing while my man’s controlling, mixing the music with his PlayStation thing and there’s people in the crowd playing Frogger and Space Invaders on the special screen behind me! I was like “What the…???” That was one of the best nights of my life. I realised they were doing their thing and people were loving it.””

- Fascinating interview of Solo Banton in United Reggae

"“if you think about it, Japan is strongly tied into Jamaican and Western music since long...."

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:50:00 -0400

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“if you think about it, Japan is strongly tied into Jamaican and Western music since long. Almost every essential piece of electronic gear used in all styles of music since the 80s has been designed there: Roland and Boss (drum machines), Casio (synths), Akai (samplers), Nintendo (Gameboys), just to name a few. Our visit to Quarta 330 in the 5G vintage synth store in Tokyo (be jealous HERE) confirmed that theory. It is well known that the “Sleng Teng” riddim, Jammy$ biggest hit, is simply the “Rock” preset from the Casiotone MT-40 with an offbeat. So actually credit should not go to Jammy alone but to the Japanese engineer who came up with the most versioned bassline in Reggae of all times - in a Casio lab in Shibuya…

So it’s fair to say that the sounds from Japan and the technology around them left a severe mark in all new styles of music since three decades: what would Reggae be without the Casio synths or the Boss Dr. Riddim? What Hiphop without the TR-808 or the Akai MPC2000? What Techno without the TR-909 and the Juno?”

”

- Jahpan versus Jamaica, in Jahtari magazine.

Definitely close to Basile Zimmermann’s work

Disrupt + Solo Banton. Source: Phlow.de

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:43:00 -0400

Disrupt + Solo Banton.

Source: Phlow.de

Ganja farmer (via Strabic): You are John Parker, fearless rasta...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:32:00 -0400

Ganja farmer (via Strabic):

You are John Parker, fearless rasta soldier, and this is your last stand! The Man has come to destroy your humble herb field and you must stop him! You have mounted a 20mm machine gun atop your 1969 VW microbus and will blow the hell out of anyone or anything, that tries to kill you or your herb. Stand strong against an army of facists with only the rastafarian god Jah at your side. Declare war on the war!!!

Hirokazu “Hip” Tanaka describes how reggae-dub...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:55:00 -0400

Hirokazu “Hip” Tanaka describes how reggae-dub influenced his work:

The use of rhythm in Balloon Fight and Wrecking Crew was an homage to Sly and Robbie. To be honest with you back then I had a lot of reservations about the use of music in games. I was sort of embarrassed by it. The background music would just keep on playing over and over. I thought it was annoying. My feeling was that the audio should be more in line with the sound effects that you had control over as the player, so that there was a more unified sound to the game. I was kind of in love with the idea of a game whose audio was totally composed of sound effectsdes

"“On the other hand Dub and reggae are few on the whole. You will be able to enclose the “dance..."

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:19:39 -0400

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“On the other hand Dub and reggae are few on the whole.
You will be able to enclose the “dance music” them, Today it has been “into dance.”
In the meantime, here it is regarded as a separate stream.
Even in the case of C64, the deliberate development of dub began since the late 1990s finally.
Basically we had to wait for particularly goto80 and Mortimer Twang.
Turning to the machines of the same age of C64, Hirokazu Tanaka a.k.a. Hip Tanaka, a Nintendo sound designer (1980-1999), has been consciously oriented toward reggae from the 80s.
Meanwhile there no C64 musicians like him.
Therefore, there was few possibility that the dub and reggae made with the SID chip were known.
A few experimental cases of C64 Dub Reggae, however, are something more than quirky.
We should be paid more attention to their diversity.

This experimental results are not analyzed at all.
So I bring this compilation out.
More dub for C64 in the future.”

”

- says aka_obi at SID Media Lab

(via) NES/FC videogame Wrecking Crew [1985] – Original...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:14:15 -0400

(via) NES/FC videogame Wrecking Crew [1985] – Original Soundtrack by Hirokazu Tanaka

"in this explosion of incredible diversity, linguistic relations have marked by creations springing..."

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:20:41 -0400

““in this explosion of incredible diversity, linguistic relations have marked by creations springing from the friction between languages, by the give-and-take of sudden innovation (for example, initiatory street languages in southern countries), and by masses of generally accepted notions as well as passive prejudices””

- Edouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 2010, University of Michigan Press.

Natty Droid

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:54:46 -0400

Natty Droid

PAC RIDDIM

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:45:34 -0400

PAC RIDDIM

Yuri Suzuki’s “B-side of Onomatopeic Music”...

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 10:09:13 -0500

Yuri Suzuki’s “B-side of Onomatopeic Music” seems to be an inspiring pointer wrt the #rd8b project:

Is it a bird, is it a book? No, it’s BOOM, a visualisation of Yuri Suzuki’s sonic works. If an image is worth a thousand words, it can probably be worth a soundscape, a song or both, however cacophonic. Contributions by DMX Krew, Simone Grant, Tim Hunkin, Momus, Nobumichi Tosa (Maywa Denki) and Åbäke

Megadrive Riddim - Balkan remix Produced with a GenMDM (music...

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:51:48 -0500

Megadrive Riddim - Balkan remix

Produced with a GenMDM (music interface for your SEGA Genesis or Mega Drive console).

Chipflip 4 Pure gameboy dub.

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 13:54:14 -0500

Chipflip 4

Pure gameboy dub.

Mr. Spastic - LIVE at 8Static (Reggae edition) 081410.

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:25:42 -0500

Mr. Spastic - LIVE at 8Static (Reggae edition) 081410.

Psybeam Riddim: Pokemon chiptune reggae.

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 03:15:51 -0500

Psybeam Riddim: Pokemon chiptune reggae.

"My thesis shows clearly how there is a sort of ‘anti-nostalgia’ among chip-people. “It’s just..."

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 04:33:00 -0500

““My thesis shows clearly how there is a sort of ‘anti-nostalgia’ among chip-people. “It’s just nostalgia” is an insult that we’re trying to avoid. I think it was only Alex Mauer who talked about it an positive sense. It seems to be that way also in other areas, judging from the Retromania book.””

- goto80 in a comment about his post on Retromania. I’m quite interested in this notion that there is not necessarily a fetishization of the retroculture, and that chiptune music can be new and original.

Found in the Casio patent “Electronic musical instrument...

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:21:04 -0500

Found in the Casio patent “Electronic musical instrument with automatic accompaniment function” (1985), US Patent #4,624,170.