SoulEye - "PPPPPP - The VVVVVV Soundtrack"

Earlier this year, SoulEye released his album-length chip soundtrack to the clever retro PC game "VVVVVV", which, incidentally, stands for "Veni, Vidi, Vici" twice. Both game and soundtrack are clever and well-made. For four dollars, you get the album-length soundtrack to the game, including an M3U file and a joke bonus track.

Overall this is a fairly great effort by SoulEye with a lot of effort put into it. Some tracks are marvelous, especially the very high-energy "Pressure Cooker", which begs to be turned up. :)

You can preview the album and purchase it here: http://souleye.madtracker.net/

Brother Android - "Scientific Satellite EP"

From some one calling himself "Brother Android" comes an unusual, spacey chiptune EP called "Scientific Satellite". This music, I'd say, was not created for head-nodding beats or rock-out anthems... rather, this is a short little collection of songs that sets a clearly space-themed mood, with old sci-fi-style malfuctions and quirky themes. It's a nice little atmosphere that Brother Android creates with this.

The entire EP is free: http://brotherandroid.110mb.com/satellite.html

The artist has a promised new album coming soon as well, so stay tuned.

Sievert - "Beyond the Frontier"

Sievert finally released his new GameBoy album entitled "Beyond the Frontier", and the results are incomprehensibly insane, hopelessly crazy, and strange.

Sievert reprises months-old themes that he originally drafted, and also creates inhumanly insane break-down sequences that caused me to smile and shake my head. This is over-the-top chiptune in the fullest sense of the phrase.

I used to listen to Sievert's 8 Bit Collective draft versions of some of the nine included tracks, and this talented young man basically remixed and remastered them for well-though-out, finalized album versions.

The entire MP3 album is free: http://www.archive.org/details/Hhh-07Sievert-BeyondTheFrontier

Comptroller - "Comptroller"

Comptroller is a relatively unknown chip artist who very recently released his self-titled debut album. The result is ten tracks of GameBoy + Commodore 64 combo music that is both unorthodox and enjoyable. It was created last February for something called the RPM challenge. The album itself is not spectacular, but it's worth a listen to hear some of the better tracks. One in particular--called "Monks", of all things--is based around a dirty and awesome chip-beat.

"Comptroller" was released on CD Baby recently for $9.99, but in my opinion it's not worth that much. However, the artist provides the entire MP3 album on BandCamp for free here: http://comptrolleralpha.co.uk/album/comptroller

Chipzel - "Disconnected"

From young Irish chip musician Chipzel comes a new GameBoy-made album called "Disconnected", which attempts to tell an emotional story through ten high-energy chiptunes.

You can buy "Disconnected" at CD Baby (http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/Chipzel) or through iTunes.

Cerror - "Rainbow Parade"

Cerror has whipped up a wonderfully Radix-styled chiptune album entitled "Rainbow Parade", avaliable for name-your-own-price download-and-listen here since November 2009: http://cerror.bandcamp.com/album/rainbow-parade



Since there's no minimum price limit, you can even type in zero and get the thirteen-track chip goodness for absolutely free (gasp, did I just reveal that?!).



"Rainbow Parade" is chock full of thirteen gloriously happy and whimsical module-tracker style chips--it is as if Radix himself decided to suddenly come out with a new chiptune album.



The video above contains track thirteen, "Cheeky girls fast food", in its entirety. Enjoy.

"Beakortolaris" - Cerror

"Beakortolaris" is, in my opinion, Cerror's best chiptune. It's happy, light, whimsical, and has a very strange written comment section within the source file that states thus: "1) a bird 2) made up 3) weird 4) but intriguing 5) cerror@gmail.com". And wow, what a title.

It's an XM file, playable with ModPlug Tracker, etc. Ten samples, twelve channels. The non-chiptune drums work along lightly with the bassline and lead.

It was used in the freeware computer platformer "Purple".





Download it here: http://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=143265