Lesnik - Ninety Degrees

Cool demoscene .mod .xm what-have-you track. Simple, clean, and catchy! Just my style.



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Accentalpulse - Bruised-Bit

Hardcore thrasher breakbeat Game Boy music. I think that really says it all! A bit different from my usual blend, but variety is a good thing!



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Mathgrant - Undertakings of Roflo

A song I discovered in a very roundabout way, you'll notice that this track was uploaded to 8bc about 2 months ago, had no likes (until I found it) and under 25 listens. It scares me that 8bc.org is so chock full of tracks like this. People who spend their time making music, music that sounds great like this track, and then it just sits there for the rest of time. Well, I'm going to show this song to people!

I've sort of been yammering on about the point of this site lately, haven't I? Well anyway, I hope you enjoy this super-catchy melody by Mathgrant!



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2PLAYER - STRT_WALKN

Go back and look at the first post ever made here. It's the same artist as today! The whole reason I made 8-Bit Daily was because I had all these songs (the earliest bunch were my stockpile, but I knew there would be more) that I loved and thought people would really like if they heard them, but due to the small-time nature of many a chiptune artist and the large number of people producing music like this, they might not get proper notice. So I decided to start keeping a log of songs every day that deserve a listen from anyone interested in some good music.

I ran a similar site in high school, hosted on my home computer and shared with my friends, only it could be any kind of song whatsoever! I've always enjoyed sharing the music I like. A recurring daydream of mine is one in which giant speakers appear in the air, in the ground, in buildings' walls, in parks and on boats and mine shafts and forests and everywhere with anyone near it, and they are all playing the song I happen to be listening to. Blaring it, so everyone knows that THIS SONG IS IMPORTANT.

This site is the closest thing I've got to that!



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I Fight Dragons - Heads Up, Hearts Down

I really don't know if I Fight Dragons was headlining the show I went to (they played last) or not (Anamanaguchi and Starscream are the bands that are touring), but they played a great set and finished the concert out excellently. Despite the popularity of the band, Brian (lead singer and guitarist) knew who I was from our internet correspondences and knows about 8BD (Hi, Brian!). Actually, that's not just true of IFD; Starscream and Anamanaguchi both seemed to be familiar with this site as well. I think that's awesome!

So here we are at the end of the gigantic six-part update of how my weekend went. I hope you enjoyed the large amount of music I just dumped on your plate, and give these guys a listen! Tomorrow, it's back to normal!

My apologies to members of 8bitcollective.com that uploaded stuff while I was away. I will probably never hear most of that stuff. Sorry. If you don't want to miss your chance, email me about it! norock at gmail dot com.



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Anamanaguchi - Video Challenge

Off their first album, Power Supply, Video Challenge is a great upbeat tune that was awesome at their show. They played a new track, one that's not on any albums, which I would have loved to feature but it doesn't really exist anywhere yet. Except their laptop. Pete said if someone came up with a name, he'd give them twenty bucks, but quickly rethought his offer. Good to hear Anamanaguchi is working on new stuff, though! I can never get enough of those guys.



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Starscream - Kepler's Star Catalog

The fact that two 18 year olds were playing to a bar crowd, and moreover that the venue had apparently never hosted musicians younger than 21 (since if they had, they would have known that it is totally messed up to make your musicians stand outside when they're not on stage) before really tells you that these guys are a couple of chiptune prodigies. Damon on Game Boys and George on drums, it got really rockin' and of course blew my show the previous night out of the water. Damon said they're working on a new EP, and all I can say is that that is excellent news. I'll be waiting!



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