pretty eight machine - chiptune tribute album by Inverse Phase

[jmtd]

I finally blogged about this - http://jmtd.net/log/p8m/ - sorry for the delay!

[eversonpoe]

spotted in the new bandcamp blog post about their updated embeddable players!

[InversePhase]

This was pretty sweet. Wish they wouldn't have just taken a screenshot so people could click and listen....but I imagine anyone that reads it at all will google it anyhow. Also just plain awesome to get mentioned by jeb.

By the way, might as well mention for anyone wanting to watch the Special Edition come together (or if you happen to be into photography and image manipulation and want to help), I started a thread over here to get some work done on the booklet:
http://www.echoingthesound.org/commu...re-IP-projects

[InversePhase]

Ok, thread bump time....

Anyone that is interested, I need your help. The Special Edition audio is done. I'm a little flustered on how I should arrange the tracks and would like some suggestions. I want to get this out and done. The tracks featured as bonuses P8M SE, my current ordering of them, and their new punny titles are as follows:

- Now I'm Nothing / Terrible Lie: ______________ / InSIDious Lie
- Something I Can Never Have: Something Else You Never Had
- Purest Feeling: ______________
- Maybe Just Once: Maybe Just Ones.... (and zeroes)
- Get Down Make Love: ______________

I had originally joked that Get Down Make Love should be called "Get Done Make Love" but that's not really a nerd pun. If anyone has any ideas for the remaining tracks that'd be sweet, also I'm interested in what you think of this track order. Naturally the entirety of P8M regular edition precedes all of this.

Thanks in advance!

[wizfan]

Now I'm NULLing
Vertice spilling (an actual programming term)
Get Down Make Overtones

[InversePhase]

Hmmm, not bad, not sure if those are what I'm looking for, feel free to keep 'em coming =]

[tony_crisp]

- Now I'm Nothing / Terrible Lie: ______________ / InSIDious Lie
- Something I Can Never Have: Something Else You Never Had
- Purest Feeling: ______________
- Maybe Just Once: Maybe Just Ones.... (and zeroes)
- Get Down Make Love: ______________

Now I'm Nodelist
Variable Lie or Parallel Lie or Peripheral Lie
Shorthand I Can Never Have or Shellscripts I Can Never Have or Substring I Can Never Have
Proxy Feeling or Process Feeling or Prolog Feeling
Get Down Make Code

Maybe?

[sheepdean]

Ok, thread bump time....

Anyone that is interested, I need your help. The Special Edition audio is done. I'm a little flustered on how I should arrange the tracks and would like some suggestions. I want to get this out and done. The tracks featured as bonuses P8M SE, my current ordering of them, and their new punny titles are as follows:

- Now I'm Nothing / Terrible Lie: ______________ / InSIDious Lie
- Something I Can Never Have: Something Else You Never Had
- Purest Feeling: ______________
- Maybe Just Once: Maybe Just Ones.... (and zeroes)
- Get Down Make Love: ______________

"Now I'm 0b0"?

[jessamineny]

Now I'm Null
(oops. Just saw wizfan's. there's two votes for you.)

[InversePhase]

Thanks for all the feedback, and feel free to submit more if you think of them. Still looking for the perfect ones to use.

Also, what do you think of the order?

[BRoswell]

Bit Down Make Love?

No, that's horrible. Don't use that one.

[ManBurning]

Are there plans to make any of the other albums in 8-bit chiptune form? I think Year Zero would work really well and maybe even The Downward Spiral. Would love to hear those in this style.

[BenAkenobi]

Get DOOM Make WOLF3D (with PC-speaker samples from DOS games)

[InversePhase]

Are there plans to make any of the other albums in 8-bit chiptune form? I think Year Zero would work really well and maybe even The Downward Spiral. Would love to hear those in this style.

I'm probably doing Downward Spiral next, though I will be collaborating with some other chiptuners to produce a "rulebreaker chip" version of the Broken EP. No hate on YZ, though, I often listen to it on long trips.

Bit Down Make Love?
No, that's horrible. Don't use that one.

I liked your post just to scare you into thinking I was going to use it.

Get DOOM Make WOLF3D (with PC-speaker samples from DOS games)

Hahaha. Unfortunately, the track is already made (it's NES+Atari 2600)...but that gives me an idea...

What does everyone think of "Get Pong, Breakout"?

[Oblong Cheese]

Sorry I am not nearly creative enough to think of tune titles, but my question is this: when and how can we get the Special Edition?

I bought the first release on CD. Won't mind buying it again to get these extra tracks.

[InversePhase]

That's ok Cheesemaster, the three blanks have now been filled! Thanks to everyone that participated in the brainstorming...that was helpful!

I posted a Kickstarter update on that with a pic of my SE cases (so far): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...a/posts/848228

To answer your question / reiterate from my earlier post, the SE will not be sold physically, it was only available to kickstarter backers; it was the one thing I kept exclusive. That said, you'll still be able to get the entire thing (in MP3 or FLAC) via download, and it will still contain all of the artwork, a PDF booklet, etc. And I'm still considering releasing the SE tracks on their own on some other physical medium, but it really depends on licensing.

Speaking of, one story that has begun but not ended is the even weirder story of "how do I license Now I'm Nothing, Purest Feeling, and Maybe Just Once" since they have never been released by any official/commercial means...once I figure it out, I'll be sharing, but until then I'm in a "contact maze".

I'll try to keep everyone posted in this thread as I make progress.

[Oblong Cheese]

To answer your question / reiterate from my earlier post, the SE will not be sold physically, it was only available to kickstarter backers; it was the one thing I kept exclusive. That said, you'll still be able to get the entire thing (in MP3 or FLAC) via download, and it will still contain all of the artwork, a PDF booklet, etc. And I'm still considering releasing the SE tracks on their own on some other physical medium, but it really depends on licensing.

Thank-you, this is all I needed to hear.

[InversePhase]

rear stickers on their way to me, booklet complete and sent off to a printer, SHIT GETTING DONE

[InversePhase]

If you already have P8M, you can preorder the Special Edition tracks now at bandcamp:
http://inversephase.bandcamp.com/alb...hine-se-tracks

If you do NOT have P8M and want the SE, please follow me here:
ldr.fm/a/3BRu2

If you want a physical copy, the only merch outlet I have is either direct (hit me at a show or something) or bandcamp.

iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, Pandora to follow.

There will be a 20-page digital booklet featuring art from ETS'er @katara with the Bandcamp, Loudr, and iTunes downloads.

[howdidislipinto]

If you already have P8M, you can preorder the Special Edition tracks now at bandcamp:
http://inversephase.bandcamp.com/alb...hine-se-tracks

Actually got the email from Bandcamp before I saw this here. Got all excited to hear the new songs, didn't realize you were making us wait a week. You tricky devil. Still, pre-ordering now, and very excited!

I missed it if it was explained, what's the new version of Something I Can Never Have? Just a different take?

[InversePhase]

Actually got the email from Bandcamp before I saw this here. Got all excited to hear the new songs, didn't realize you were making us wait a week. You tricky devil. Still, pre-ordering now, and very excited!

Argh! Sorry about that. Wait, so do you already have the regular edition then? Because the "complete" version's first 10 tracks are the same as the regular edition, you didn't make any mistake by preordering the SE in that case.

I missed it if it was explained, what's the new version of Something I Can Never Have? Just a different take?

I'm not sure I've explained it. If you listen to Something You Didn't Ever Have, you'll notice there's not really any bass. It's a limitation of the sound chip I did it on. However, there's another sound chip that sounds similar to it that *does* have bass, and also its own set of limitations (for example, there's no separate channel for whitenoise). Anyway, to make a long story short, one of my backers requested that I port the code from the first chip to the second chip, and I'm a sucker for a challenge. It sounds mostly the same, but some people will undoubtedly prefer one over the other.

[Oblong Cheese]

I'm not sure I've explained it. If you listen to Something You Didn't Ever Have, you'll notice there's not really any bass. It's a limitation of the sound chip I did it on. However, there's another sound chip that sounds similar to it that *does* have bass, and also its own set of limitations (for example, there's no separate channel for whitenoise). Anyway, to make a long story short, one of my backers requested that I port the code from the first chip to the second chip, and I'm a sucker for a challenge. It sounds mostly the same, but some people will undoubtedly prefer one over the other.

Thus the difference is made between yourself (a dedicated musician) and someone such as say... anyone who is in a Top40 countdown whose music, lyrics, dance routine, outfit and everything else was designed and created for them by someone else...

Thanks for your dedication!

[InversePhase]

Thus the difference is made between yourself (a dedicated musician) and someone such as say... anyone who is in a Top40 countdown whose music, lyrics, dance routine, outfit and everything else was designed and created for them by someone else...

Thanks for your dedication!

Yes. The difference, in short, is that I am a huge nerd and cannot dance or sing.

That and I should probably get a stage getup and stop doing shows in onesies.

[howdidislipinto]

Argh! Sorry about that. Wait, so do you already have the regular edition then? Because the "complete" version's first 10 tracks are the same as the regular edition, you didn't make any mistake by preordering the SE in that case.

No worries, I got the right one with just the new SE tracks. ...I think.

Thanks for the explanation on SICNH! I'm really, really, REALLY looking forward to Maybe Just Once.

[wizfan]

Yay, one of my title suggestions made it to the album (with an extra T, to boot)!

[InversePhase]

No worries, I got the right one with just the new SE tracks. ...I think. Thanks for the explanation on SICNH! I'm really, really, REALLY looking forward to Maybe Just Once.

Hope I did it justice for you! Maybe Just Once is done on the POKEY, so it's Atari and sounds ever so slightly off. Still, I did some cool tricks in the track. =]

[InversePhase]

Quick update: I've been asked to wait on one last thing until I hit the finalize button on Loudr but you can now listen to the SE on bandcamp, and kickstarter backers can redeem their downloads!

[ManBurning]

Broken chiptune by WK9:

https://pokasaharecords.bandcamp.com/album/br0ken-exe

[InversePhase]

Broken chiptune by WK9:

https://pokasaharecords.bandcamp.com/album/br0ken-exe

Welp, I guess I should stop working on broken.

[Conan The Barbarian]

No, please keep going