Month: September 2018

The first ever “shaken up” Half Hour of Power was skweee night!  Skwee is a musical genre originating in the Nordic electronica scene, and I’d never heard of it until aNONradio’s own DJ Quintus (aka cev) recommended it to me as “chiptune adjacent” – he was not wrong!  This is the most chip-like music I’ve ever heard which is still clearly not chiptune.  All of tonights track’s come from the first, second or third volume of the delightful named “Skweee Shanties” compilation albums from Tiburoni Records.  At 4 Euro a pop, these albums are a fantastic value introduction to the genre.

1. Ixvo-Exvo – Steel Meet Steelo
2. Ogopogo – Titan Rain
3. Rabbi Bananas – XY Start
4. KOΔƎK – ᵔ ᵕ ℳ▲K▲ℛ☺₦‖ &&&& Ⅽℍ℮ᴲℤΣ ᵔ ᵕ
5. Paolo Zemauno – Funk Ya!
6. Radio Skotvoid – Hot Mess
7. Fengir – Strategic Syrup
8. Ixvo-Exvo – Geeio (truncated)

I hope enjoyed Skweee night!   Tune in next week for assorted pioneering electronic music artists!

(last week, 2018/09/19, was a rebroadcast of episode 5)

Hey chiptune fans,

After 22 episodes (or 11 hours, almost half a day!) of playing nothing but chiptunes,  hunting for high quality new content every week is starting to feel like a bit of a chore, and I can feel the risk of “burn out” closing in.  I don’t want that, and you don’t want that either, so in order to keeps things fresh, I am throwing the Half Hour of Power show into shakeup mode and loosening the reins a little.

Don’t worry, I’m not going to start playing reggae or smooth jazz just to be different.  But in coming weeks you can expect me to branch out into other kinds of music which while not chiptunes, are still near neighbours in music space.  Things you might hear will include more modern kinds of video game music, and video game music remixes; early electronic music with relatively primitive synthesis technology (which some argue inspired the earliest chiptune musicians); and modern electronic music which has a stripped-down / lo-fi sonic palette.  In other words, it’ll be different, but not too different.  I’m aware aNONradio has plenty of other all- or mostly-electronic music shows, and I will try not to play stuff too similar to what you will hear elsewhere.

Please let me know what you think of the new content!  I am usually in COM and on IRC when my show airs, or if you listen from the archives you can send me email @sdf.org, or toot at me on SDF’s Mastodon instance, or write about it in gopherspace.  Once I get an idea of what I like and what you like, I will try to update the show’s official description and stick to it, so it doesn’t just become a “whatever I feel like” deal.

Of course, I will keep playing chiptunes as part of the new mix!

Cheers,
Solderpunk

Sorry, folks, last week life got the better of me and I had to air a repeat of episode 4.  But tonight was a new episode, and here’s the playlist:

1. 505 – Clouds (from YM Rockerz album Wave Upon Wave)
2. Tempest – Papillons Intro (Keygen)
3. Starscream – Kepler’s Star Catalog
4. X-Agon – Ninja Commando (Atari 800 cover of original NES game music by Adam Gilmore, from AY Riders album Atariders)
5. 505 – Arcade (from Relix)
6. Irrlicht Project – Galaxzija 10 (from 1-bit Wizards album The Journey Begins)
7. Game Genie Sokolov – Rêve Zone
8. animal style – Lame FAQs
9. Dya – Ninjutsu Night School
10. coda – 10 Megabits per Second