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“Late to the Party” Releases

Disasterpeace — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 07:10:49 +0000

There has been some discussion within Pause and externally about some of our recent releases which had already been available elsewhere. We wanted to fill you guys in in our own reasoning behind the re-releasing of albums like 4mat’s “Decades”, Zan-zan-zawa-veia’s “N0De-claw” and Peer’s “Dances”. Our primary goal at Pause is to help spread the good word of chipmusic. Over the last three years we hope that we’ve become synonymous with a certain level of quality, and we are very grateful to all of you for your continued support and for helping to make Pause a place where people keep coming back to hear great new stuff.

When we re-release material, we’re hoping to increase the viewership of music we feel is awesome and deserves to be heard by the masses. In most cases the music had prior only been released on a musician’s homepage, and perhaps isn’t receiving as much attention as it could be. We hope to increase the awareness of this great music by using our position of relative popularity for the greater good. We feel it’s a win-win, and hopefully you guys do too.

We’d love to hear how you, the fans, feel about this practice, so feel free to shoot us an e-mail or leave a comment.

4mat – Decades

Disasterpeace — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 06:58:42 +0000

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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)

Disasterpeace – Midnight Orphans

Disasterpeace — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:16:40 +0000

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Where “Level” and “NEUTRALITE” march full steam ahead in chiptune bombacity, “Midnight Orphans” floats between calm and chaotic, expected and unexpected. This is a collection of loose ends written over the last few years. The album material is as early as “Until the Sun Rises” and “Quartz” from 2006, and as recent as “Time Removed”, written in 2010..

01 Movement
02 Found
03 Marathon
04 Until the Sun Rises
05 Time Removed
06 Bird Season
07 St. Valentine
08 Quartz

Artwork by Disasterpeace

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Gamewave Podcast Episode 48

Crystal Labs — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:55:07 +0000

Episode 48 of the Gamewave Podcast is now available, and features Pause artists Animal Style, Peer, and Zan-zan-zawa-veia alongside a ton of other great musicians. Go check it out!

Animalstyle PWM Guitar Pedal

Animalstyle — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 14:35:15 +0000

Norrin Radd’s “Anomaly” Cover Art

Crystal Labs — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:56:55 +0000

Art by Francis Coulombe. Music by Norrin Radd.

Spiny Norman – Across the milky tracks

Phlogiston — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 11:25:07 +0000

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Across the milky tracks is the follow-up to 2007′s Sketches of pain. The songs were made last summer in Milkytracker using samples from a Roland SH-09 analog synthesizer, some samples from a Roland Juno-6 and TR 808 & 909 drums. The result is a joyful chippy warm-sounding melodyfeast for your ears and a screaming green homage to the kings of red for your eyes.

01 2-4-2 Gonna ride the monorail, Baby!
02 Shuttlebug Swarm
03 GOTO WARPspeed
04 Spacehopper for Collin
05 Android Blissout
06 Give us the green light

Artwork by snasen.

Zan-zan-zawa-veia – N0De-claw

Disasterpeace — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:42:03 +0000

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Seven songs to categorize cats – one for the one who attacks your feet, one for she pinned down by the heat, one for he who surveys his domain from your seat, one who wants you only to rub, and repeat… one for the elder one, whose nine lives are almost complete, one for the riddlemaster who knows no defeat and one by the other six, in praise of their forgotten elite.

01 Yarn Ball
02 Puma-pard
03 Sofa Clan
04 Purr Purr
05 Grey Mlkn
06 Ndro-phix
07 Hail Bast

Artwork by Zan-zan-zawa-veia

Giant Claw – Erasers Fantasy

Phlogiston — Tue, 18 May 2010 17:22:26 +0000

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Prog rock for a scattershot, disenfranchised, noise-loving modern age. Featuring two members of Yakuza Heart Attack, Giant Claw have made a super rock symphony; a fantasy world described entirely through drums and synthesizers. It’s crackling in-the-red Doom, Tchaikovsky with a distortion pedal and a machine gun, a brooding audio cartoon without any erasers.

01 Erasers Fantasy Pt. I
02 Erasers Fantasy Pt. II
03 Erasers Fantasy Pt. III
04 Erasers Fantasy Pt. IV
05 Erasers Fantasy Pt. V
06 Erasers Fantasy Pt. VI
07 Erasers Fantasy Pt. VII

Artwork by Deth P Sun

Spelunky XBLA

Phlogiston — Fri, 07 May 2010 12:06:30 +0000

I’m super stoked to finally announce that I’m doing the music and sound effects for Derek Yu’s Spelunky (XBLA)!

There’s a short teaser medley on the Spelunky World website – check it out!