If you have the fortitude to follow me on Twitter, you might know I'm big into music, particularly stuff local to me here in New York. That's why it was particularly fun for me to write this month's Kotaku feature about Anamanaguchi, a great band and all around good bunch of guys who play 8-bit music. I'm a big fan of theirs.
The difference between these guys and the chiptunes you might already be familiar with is that they've got much more of a rock sound -- their focus is equally on guitar, bass, drums and overall rocking out as it is on the sound chip music (they use an NES soundchip). There's some cool overlap, then, between the local rock scene and the chiptune scene -- which overlaps in places, if not totally, with the video game scene. Cross-culture, yay!
Anyway, check out the article and give some of their music a listen. You'll see that I think they're kind of breakthrough artists for a number of reasons, and I'm not the only one who thinks so.
Friday, May 29, 2009
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Okay, wow, I wouldn't be ashamed of listening to that in public. Perhaps I should start paying attention to your music-related tweets.
I think the addition of other instruments really helps, ie it makes their music musical.
Great recommendation Leigh, that was AWESOME. Picked up their albums on Amazon.
I've been following these guys for a few months now and I have to admit that their new album isn't as good as the original. Maybe it'll grow on me.
Also after the first album I concocted the Anamanaguchi Theory which states that it is impossible to be sad or angry while listening to Anamanaguchi. Joy just wells up inside you as soon as they start.
Cool
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