Chips and Blips

As many of my generation do, I have a great affinity for the video games of the 80s and 90s. The NES, SNES, Sega, Gameboy, Atari, etc. The chip music scene has become quite large, and I must say, it’s collectively putting out some really great stuff. Recently discovered is Little-Scale, from Adelaide, Australia. One of his songs, Come Back To Me, caught me immediately.

Interestingly, Hélas Techne evolved to what is it now entirely unaware of any chip music scene. While I don’t use consoles, or any hardware for that matter, I do employ a healthy amount of stripped down, lo-fi sounding noises and arrange them, sometimes, in a video gamey fashion.

With all that said, I thought it only fitting that I attend Blip Festival 09 in Brooklyn and make some friends.

BLIP FESTIVAL 2009 from 2 Player Productions on Vimeo.