Beepy shit.
Two weeks ago at this very minute I was downtown in the financial district listening to chiptunes at the Blip Festival. It was four days of what my friend Ashley would call “beepy shit.” And let me tell you… it was glorious. The Tank puts on quite a show. Tons of musicians, awesome visuals, workshops, a showing of both the Super Mario Movie (not the Jon Legusamo version), and the 8 Bit movie.
The music was really what it was all about, though. All of the artists were 8bitpeoples are awesome. Check out their site to get an idea of what they do. They have a bunch of albums up free for download with the Creative Commons license if you want to peruse their discography. I highly recommend Bit Shifter and Random. And if you’re feeling particularly festive, you could even download the 8 Bits of Christmas. Tis the season to, uh, listen to 8-bit Game Boy music?
Anyway, to give you a better impression of what the show was like, here’s a video of Covox performing at the Saturday night show. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but a video, well, I can’t even do the math on that one.
Beepy, no? And if you’re super interested, Matt Hawkins has a very thorough Blip Fest review covering all the other artists. Awesome.
Goodnight New York!
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