Auxcide – of Atoms and Stardust (2012)

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Bandcamp

• Chiptune 
• Alternative dance 
• 8-bit 
• Tracker music 
• Nintendocore 
• Chipbreak 
• Electro pop 
• Bitpop 
• Electronic music

Comment: US-based Auxcide takes journey across chiptune terrains which despite being spiked with hirsute rhythms and melodic roughness and subtle noise levels beneath and aside reveal brighter side coming out from inside. Catchy melodies being spiced up by bittersweet melancholy take the listener over. By listening to some chiptune issue it sounds like a very welcome guest from the past maybe due to nostalgic feels related to game consoles from the 90s though all we are aware of the fact it all started one decade earlier with such programmes as Commodore 64, and with computers like Amiga, and Atari. Although it was the childhood of the computer music it still sounds refreshingly today. It might be because the matrix of it is accustomed to the standards of a nowadays pop song. It might be vice versa as well. It is a nice output by Pxl-Bot.

FuturNari - Another Unlikely Hero II (2011)

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Bandcamp

8.9

/Psychedelic electronica, Nintendocore, Chiptune, Acid, Chipbreak, Tracker, Bitpop, Experimental electronica/

Comment: this 5-track issue is a sequel to the New Zealand-relied FuturNari`s Another Unlikely Hero. It provides an acidic fuel for the hearts of robots, permanently gritty, and at times killingly catchy. It might be a sort of dance club in future, yet, having no idea where the future is supposed to be. In reality the console-drenched sounds are conquering the world. That`s all. Just enjoy it.

Infirm Individual - I`m Not From Here (2011)

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Infirm Individual

9.0

/8-bit, Bitpop, Tracker music, Nintendocore, Crossover, Psychedelic electronica, Chiptune, Chipbreak/

Comment: if to regard for a line of delicate creative tradition in the realm of 8-bit electronica/bitpop/console music we cannot be without listening to the oeuvres by Infirm Individual, a young musician from Germany. Indeed, it is a top output by Evil Cee aka Healy Cee to date. It is highly psychedelic, using acidic patterns (autotuned vocals) and blissful grit to bury the sawtooth-shaped patterns beneath it. On the other side, at times it is highly atmospheric, ambient-alike, more profoundly, using the stylistical element as the ground for grindcore-ish vocal manner and shamanic overthrows. You can compare his deeds with such names as ashbrg, and 8bit bEtty, and Bliss, for instance.