4mat – Decades
It’s been 21 years since Matt Simmonds started writing chiptunes. Decades is 4mat’s first proper album release. It is the sound of waves. We’re happy to help Matt by releasing this on Pause with the simultaneous release of his Physical CD.
01 I Hear the Sound of Waves (3:49)
02 1989 (2:11)
03 Paper Dolls (3:11)
04 Decades (4:41)
05 Affectation (2:39)
06 Broken Spirit (1:27)
07 Break Up (1:34)
08 Glory (2:46)
09 Latin Eq (1:39)
10 Only the Beautiful Survive (2:20)
11 Lead Sister (2:31)
12 Virginia (2:03)
13 Galaxies (3:30)
14 Just Enough Everyday Now (6:13)
Copyright 2010 4mat All Rights Reserved.
July 25th, 2010 at 12:30 am
Amazon won’t let me buy it (outside of US) and I don’t want to use iTunes… I hate iTunes…
please put this on bandcamp!
July 25th, 2010 at 12:44 am
4mat has informed us this will be on Bandcamp in a day or so! We will switch the link once it’s up there.
July 26th, 2010 at 1:18 pm
this album is completely incredibly incredible. so much that i had to leave a comment.
July 26th, 2010 at 2:00 pm
Hopefully we won’t have to wait another 21 years for the next album! Amazing stuff!
August 5th, 2010 at 4:36 pm
For my money, this is the top contender for the best chiptune album of 2010 thus far. I love it so much, I purchased both the digital FLAC version and a hard copy of the CD. Both were money well spent; 4mat deserves the support with this outstanding debut. No fan of chiptune/electronica should leave their ears deaf to this beauty.
“Decades” is catchy, mesmerizing, thematic, harmoniously-blended magic from start to finish. A job truly well done, 4mat! I trust we will not have to wait twenty-one more years for you to release another album. The kind of talent on display with this release is stunning and I am stoked to hear more quality material from your musical mind.
August 14th, 2010 at 10:44 am
such a stellar release, it’s lightyears ahead!
August 17th, 2010 at 7:35 am
Paper Dolls is one of the best chiptunes I’ve heard.
August 22nd, 2010 at 6:03 pm
WOW, I’m listening to “Decades” and I’m absolutely amazed by it.. from the 2:00 mark and up. Everything after is just freaking DOPE.
I’ll be keeping my eye and ears on you, 4mat. Keep up the great work! \:D/
// Roth
August 29th, 2010 at 4:59 am
Bought the album, been listening for about a week. I seriously can’t get this entire release out of my head. Incredible tunes here, definitely worth checking out. Great work!
August 30th, 2010 at 4:16 pm
@Steve
He’s actually working on his second album already; you can get a small preview here: http://8bc.org/music/4mat/Chipmusic+is+dead/
October 24th, 2010 at 4:12 am
Freaking awesome. No word to describe it.
November 2nd, 2010 at 9:20 am
Wow, the intro of Decades was on a crack-intro from Slipstream for Lemmings on Amiga if I remember correctly!
November 19th, 2010 at 2:52 am
Holy mother of chip, this is the bomb!
December 8th, 2010 at 11:08 pm
Incidentally I just released a free EP ahead of the second album ‘Surrender’. You can download it here:
http://4mat.bandcamp.com/album/starfields-ep
January 10th, 2011 at 2:34 pm
4-Mat, 4-Mat, 4-Mat, …….
Has it REALY been 21 Years..?
Best regards,
Judge Drokk
February 9th, 2011 at 6:53 pm
10.99 your insane. good music but no thx.
February 13th, 2011 at 6:44 pm
Surrender is out http://4mat.bandcamp.com/album/surrender for £4.99 , there will be no physical release of this album. It comes with 4 bonus tracks and the source files for ‘Decades’.
addam: If I could sell it cheaper I would, notice Surrender costs less than Decades because I’m only releasing through Bandcamp rather than several vendors. However after reviewing several sites Amazon offered the best quality CD packaging for this release and handle the distribution. If I took over the distribution myself I could probably do it cheaper yes, but for the small amount of sales a chipmusic CD gets compared to releasing digitally this is the best way.