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Inside The Daякcнip Mind of Solid State Disaster
Hey, Frank here with another installment of Inside The Daякcнip Mind. This time I had the opportunity to get hold of an album a few weeks before its release, but, even after that first listening, I...
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Chiptunes = WIN: Volume 4 [Tracks 41-45]
Greetings and salutations, chippies and chappies. Contrary to what Aydan might have you think, I have no radical skateboard moves to teach you. However, I do have a few, as the kids say, “hella dank”...
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Aydan Appreciates & Interviews: ‘Family Dancing’& Yokemura Takeshi of YMCK
YMCK has come to be a name associated with some of the highest quality chipmusic ever produced. Their ‘Family’ albums are by and far a series of the most influential music within the chipscene, and...
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ChipWIN-tern Spotlight: ‘Nexus Genesis’ by Hunty
Imagine, if you will, a world where Cease and Desist orders don’t exist. Independent game developers make their own fan projects, and are able to share these homages to their favorite classic games...
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The MAGClassic Chiptune Mini-Mixtape
Greetings and salutations, all! The world of chiptune had a fairly hectic weekend, what with Superbyte happening in the UK, Freq.Fest.Norcal happening in…well, northern California, and MAGFest Classic...
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Inside The Daякcнip Mind of KOOL SKULL
Frank here with another installment of Inside The Daякcнip Mind. This time around I’ve brought something that’s extremely unique and flows so well that you would think it was just one big song! I...
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ChipWIN-tern Spotlight: ‘LISTENCORE Vol. I’ by ap0c
I realize that at the time I write this, everyone’s still probably in the throes of their Fallout 4 addiction, but assuming you can get your Pip-Boy to pick up the ChipWIN-tern Spotlight, I’ll be your...
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Aydan Appreciates & Interviews: ‘Fragmentation’& Professor Shyguy
Longtime chipmusic veteran Brandt Cooley, aka Professor Shyguy, is a highly revered, R&B influenced artist whose music typically features soulful vocals, powerful guitar solos, and memorable...
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‘Bundle of WIN’ Full Review
Sup y’all? =) President Hoodie here, happy to bring you a track-by-track review of our latest compilation, ‘Bundle of WIN‘! Bundle of WIN by Chiptunes = WIN Chances are, you’ve either nabbed it via our...
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Sladerfluous Reviews: ‘Young’ by Boy Without Batteries
When you pump carefree, passionate, modern punk sensibilities through LSDJ, you get ‘Young’ by Boy Without Batteries. This pop-punk chiptune album released by Play It Loud is boisterous, exuberant, and...
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ChipWIN-tern Presents: An Evening with Carl Peczynski
I’m willing to wager that there is no city as equally saturated with chiptune projects as Meriden, Connecticut. This is, of course, all thanks to the massive output of one man – his name is Carl...
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Aydan Appreciates: The IOUT Open Mixtape 2015
Hey there, ChipWINners! You may remember a review I wrote a few months ago on Imaginary’s ‘Unnatural Flavors’ album. To refresh you folks a little bit, Imaginary is the head of a chipmusic netlabel...
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ChipWIN-tern Spotlight: F1NG3RS, and The Budding Electronic Music Scene of RVA
As some of you might know, I spent my college years in Richmond, Virginia, toiling away organizing VCU’s nerd community and, eventually, becoming this blog’s first intern in my senior year. While there...
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THE 2016 POST-MAG MAG-POST
Another year, another MAGFest. Ho-hum. Just a bunch of nerds together playing videogames in an overpriced hotel, I don’t get what’s so sp- [gunshots] GUYS. I’M SO SORRY. Someone locked me in a basement...
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ChipWIN-tern Spotlight: Battle of the Bits
If there’s one thing all of us at the blog stand for, it’s making sure that the chiptune community stays healthy and happy and continues to grow. And baked goods. We stand for a happy, healthy, growing...
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Aydan Interviews: Crunk Witch
Hey there, ChipWINners! Chances are you’ve probably heard Crunk Witch from one of their previous releases, most notably 2014’s ‘Heartbeats in Hyperspace’, their most recent album. When they’re not busy...
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The Post-PAX PAX-Packed PAX Post: 2016 Edition
After three years away, I finally made it back to PAX East – and in official MAGFest capacity to boot! I had the distinct pleasure of helping run MAGFest’s social media over the weekend as well as...
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Aydan Appreciates: ‘Phantom Beach’ by Here Between You Me
Hey there, ChipWINners! In case you don’t recall their Chiptunes = #SRSBSNS track ‘Forever Alone‘, Here Between You Me is a hype-fueled chiptune/rock/pop group whose releases are generally few and far...
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Sladerfluous Reviews: ‘Atlas’ by FM-84
‘Atlas’ by FM-84 is too spectacular to ignore. This is one of those moments where we at Chiptunes = WIN felt compelled to break open our scope to bring an album to the forefront that orbits our main...
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Aydan Appreciates: ‘Unknown Command’ by Dr. Zilog
I’ll be honest, Dr. Zilog wasn’t a name I was familiar with. In all my years in the chipscene, the Doctor’s work hasn’t once crossed my path, and if it had, I just hadn’t really paid any mind to it....
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