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Continuing the “artist of the week” theme, tonight’s show was dedicated to the music of Czech chiptune artist Factor 6, a member of the excellent AY Riders and YM Digital  bands who also does solo work under the alternative name Akio Tenshi.  Like Yerz, Factor 6 is a talented “multi-instrumentalist”, and this show features AY and SID tunes, Amiga MODs and a 1-bit track.

1. Akio Tenshi – Distant Space Signals
2. Factor 6 – AdraSTea Orbit (from YM Digital Album Spontaneous Compression)
3. Factor 6 – Thirty-One (from 1-bit Wizards album The Journey Begins)
4. Factor 6 – External Turnouts
5. Factor 6 – Funky Symptom
6. Akio Tenshi – On da Moov
7. Akio Tenshi – Lost Friend
8. Akio Tenshi – Summer Memories

Tonight was (already!) the second Yerzmyey night, hot on the heels of last week.   This time I focused on Yerz’s more unconventional or experimental output, featuring a song made on a Raspberry Pi (RPi Zwei), a song made on two synchronised ZX Spectrums, one using an AY sound chip and one using the beeper (Proof of Concept), and a song made on a ZX Spectrum but heavily post-processed using filters, phasers, phlangers, delays, reverbs and more to lend the sound of “Berlin School” electronica (Unknown Radiation Spectrum).  Yerz is certainly not a one-trick pony.

1. Yerzmyey – Ambiental
2. Yerzmyey – Proof of Concept (from album Astral Combat)
3. Yerzmyey – Chouyaku (from album Microsongs)
4. Yerzmyey – Death Squad (from album Deathsquad)
5. Yerzmyey – Weird (from album Freakuencies)
6. Yerzmyey – Industrial Fucking Part 5 (from album Astral Combat)
7. Yerzmyey – RPi Zwei (from album RPi Zwei)
8. Yerzmyey – Mission Highly Improbable Part 1 (from album Mission Highly Improbable)
9. Yerzmyey – Mission Highly Improbable Part 2 (from album Mission Highly Improbable)
10. Yerzmyey – Unknown Radiation Spectrum (from album Strange Light Under My Bed)

Tonight was the first ever Yerz Night (yes, there will be more)!  All tracks are by my favourite chiptune artist Yerzmyey, a talented and innovative dude who has been rocking beeps since 1989, has started two chiptune bands (AY Riders and YM Digital) and has played live at major chiptune events in Japan and the US!

1. Yerzmyey – Where is Love? (from album Ye Olde Square)
2. Yerzmyey – Break Space (from album ZX 81)
3. Yerzmyey – Arcane Zone (from album RetroBeat)
4. Yerzmyey – XL Dance (from album XL Digital)
5. Yerzmyey – Time Machine II (from album aTTraction)
6. Yerzmyey – Trackers Forever! (from album Oldschool MODe)
7. Yerzmyey – 5th Channel (from album Interphase)
8. Yerzmyey – Haunted Mansion (from album Brutal and Aggressive)
9. Yerzmyey – Jigoku no sanba (from album Microsongs – sadly faded out before end!)

I was short of time and a little lazy this week, so most of tonight’s show was one epic 22 minute track from Stig’s amazing album Velocity!  The album only has two tracks, and the other one goes for even longer at 27 minutes!  If you liked what you heard tonight, please consider buying the album to complete the experience.

1. Stig – Velocity, part one
2. Mister Beep – Slowing Down the Chaos
3. Irrlicht Project – Meta-ls

Tonight’s first track was powerfully low-fi 1-bit ZX Spectrum music, to make up for the heresy of last week’s analogue instruments!  The second half of the show features two consecutive tracks from Disasterpeace’s concept album Level, which is “the narrative of an uphill battle, increasingly difficult and complex as it progresses, told through the sounds of the 8-bit electronic medium”.  If you liked levels 3 and 4, buy the album to enjoy the full eight level journey!

1. Irrlicht Project – endciety
2. MIND BODY ALPHA – Ballad of the Undead Gypsy (from 1-bit Wizards album The Journey Begins)
3. Graustrom – Mindcruising
4. Yerzmyey – Purple Galaxy (from album aTTraction)
5. Disasterpeace – Three
6. Disasterpeace – Four
7. cTrix – DX Heaven

Tonight was “real instrument accompaniment” night!

1. aivi & surasshu – Lonely Rolling Star (Missing You)
2. Teleidofusion – Around Past
3. Kplecraft – 5114 (from album L 012)
4. Marshall Art – Papercut You Into Little Pieces
5. Zabutom – Resist-exist
6. Teleidofusion – Fat Cat Wants Tasty Fish

I had some trouble getting my stream switched in tonight, so the first 2.5 minutes or so of the archived recording are aNONradio filler and the final track is cut-off! 🙁  You can download the full show as intended from my SDF webspace here.

Tonight was “long form chiptune” night, with 4 long tracks over 5 minutes!

1. Danimal Cannon and Zef – Rhapsody
2. Shnabubula – Welcome to the Games
3. Jake “virt” Kaufman – Undone
4. Yuzo Koshiro – 4operators (from album FM Sound Module Maniax)
5. C-Jeff – Maroon

Tune in next week where I will play some tracks featuring chips accompanied by strange mechanical devices which produce sound by physically vibrating the ambient atmosphere directly.  How quaint!

To mark the recent change of season, many of last night’s tracks were taken from the Spring-themed albums “Springtunes” by chiptune label Ubiktune!

1. Linde – Galileon (from the album Lander)
2. Factor 6 – Mindtime (from AY Riders album 8 Bits is Enuff)
3. Yerzmyey – Globular Cluster (from album aTTraction)
4. cTrix – Booty Plus Plus
5. MmcM – Spring Day (Springtunes)
6. Factor 6 – Spring Monitor (Springtunes)
7. Riskej — Cupidon’s Spring (Springtunes)
8. MmcM – Dream Day (Springtunes)
9. Blitz Lunar – Sapling (from album Equilibrium)
10. nq\skrju – Waves to Lullaby(from album Equilibrium)

Tune in next week for some long form chiptunes!