Wiklund
Wiklund is a solo 18 year old game boy artist from Säter, Dalarna Sweden. His music is best described as "simply catchy" because it's filled with unique new inspiring beats influenced by techno and pop.
Wiklund is a solo 18 year old game boy artist from Säter, Dalarna Sweden. His music is best described as "simply catchy" because it's filled with unique new inspiring beats influenced by techno and pop.
Tom Gilmore, aka Ten Thousand Free Men & Their Families, or '10k', is a chipmusic/chipunk artist from Sydney, Australia. Tom also founded a Game Boy/8-bit Music blog with a friend, fellow artist Dot.AY called Game Boy Australia. The offical 10k website can be found at http://10kfreemen.com.
Hailing from LA's very own Watt's, Dibiase a.k.a Diabolic's productions run the gambit from 8 bit video game classics to seductive soul to raw grungy bangers. This 12 time beat battle champion and runner up of the Los Angeles Red Bull Big Tune Beat Battle has no limitations. No sample is safe.
The Datassette project is a series of electronic music recordings by John M Davies, and as the name would suggest there is a heavy influence of the C64 SID Chip at work here. The Datashat Project is a pseudonym used for dodgy bastard pop remixes and DJ appearances. This description as well as free mp3's can be found at http://www.datassette.net.
Unicorn Kid is Oliver Sabin, a 17 year old artist from Leith, Scotland. He makes chiptune-influenced, electro-pop songs with discarded childrens toys, keyboards and FL Studio. His first release, the five-track 'Sugarfest! EP' came out on April 20th, 2008 and is available to purchase digitally from his MySpace page. His EP 'Lion Hat' was released in January, 2009 on Euphonios Records. Having already attracted the attention of many A&R scouts, things can only continue to improve for the Unicorn Kid.
Math the Band is equal parts Atom and His Package and Andrew WK. Sampled casio sk1 drums, paired with solid square waves and more BPMs than can possibly be considered reasonable. Started by a sixteen year old kid who was kicked out of his high school pop-punk band, Math the Band has been going strong for 8 years, playing well over 600 shows throughout the USA, Mexico and Canada. Math's studio releases are 'Math the Band Banned the Math' (2008) and 'Don't Worry' (2009)
This is Shirobon, an 18 year old producer/musician from London who creates a range of electronic music designed to please the ears.
Started in early 2008 he discovered a tracker type music sequencer for the Nintendo Gameboy called 'LSDJ'. He used this to create music via triggering loops created and placing them together to make bleepy type songs.
A year down the line and Shirobon has now blossomed in his ways of creating music.
:( otherwise known as Colon Open Bracket are a two piece, formerly a four piece, from Aberdeen, Scotland. They consist of Adam - Drums, and Mart - Vocals/Programming. Described as ‘NintendoCore’ (or "8bit") because of similarity between their sound and Mario & Tetris games of old. They have received some press coverage including articles in NME & Rock Sound, before a planned tour collapsed before it began.
CS (Cerebral Scars) is a lo-bit musician/artist from Newcastle UK