Posts Tagged ‘retrowave’

La mesa de trabajo de Mage – Episodio 1: Mezcla dinámica

Posted by Pixel Guy

Artículo original de Dan from Techno Mage. Traducción al español por Pixel Guy.

Bienvenidos a La mesa de trabajo de Mage, una mini serie en la que hablaré de varios temas relacionados con la producción de audio; desde los secuenciadores (o trackers), hasta las DAW —y todo lo que haya en medio—. Mientras que puede ser que el material no siempre pueda ser aplicado directamente por ti, la meta de cada episodio es presentar técnicas de producción en una manera amplia y universalmente aplicable. En resumen: deberá de haber algo para casi cualquiera que trabaje con audio. Para la entrega inaugural, daremos un vistazo a cómo puedes utilizar la automatización para crear una mezcla refinada que evolucione a través del curso de tu canción.

Episodio 1: Mezcla dinámica

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The Mage’s Workbench – Episode 1: Dynamic Mixing

Posted by Dan from Techno Mage

Welcome to The Mage’s Workbench, a mini-series which tackles various audio production topics spanning from trackers to DAWs (and everything in between). While the material may not always apply directly to you, the goal of each episode is to present production techniques in a broad, universally applicable fashion. In short, there should be something here for nearly everyone that works with audio. For the inaugural installation, we’re going to take a look at how you can use automation to craft a polished mix that evolves throughout the course of your song.

Episode 1: Dynamic Mixing

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Rhyphte Reviews ‘PWRNEON’ and Interviews The Mad Lads Behind It

Posted by Rhyphte

What’s up, gamers. If this isn’t the first article of mine you’ve scrolled through, you know I’m a sucker for living examples of collaboration in action. I love seeing different creative directions come together to present a totally new musical idea or experience, and, like many of you, I fucking adore LSDJ chiptune and Famitracker-based synthwave. Basically, it should come as no surprise to anyone that I’m about to unleash a whole article about ‘PWRNEON,’ an absolute banger of a single and cover of toasterpastries’ ‘PWRMEOW’ by Techno Mage, a Seattle-based duo comprised of famitracker musician Dan Butler and guitarist Austin Schuyler. The track premiered last night on Nightride.fm alongside a playlist of recent LSDJ tracks curated by Dan himself. There’s more to be said about Nightride, but first I’d like to kick things off with my own review of ‘PWRNEON.’

Album artwork by Melissa Butler

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Rhyphte Reviews: ‘Scars’ by Watch Out for Snakes

Posted by Rhyphte

Y’all. It has not been easy deciding what to write about. The late autumn/early winter releases have been fucking killer. Right now, I’m sitting on like, two half-finished reviews—which is nuts! But I’ve just decided to take the plunge on this ’cause I’ve gotta honor what Matt has accomplished here. Watch Out For Snakes (hereon referred to as WOFS), is a synthwave project from Matt Baum featuring prominent chiptune elements and is a cornerstone of the Atlanta synthwave scene. When I heard ‘Arms Race’ on Volume 7 of the annual compilation, I knew that something truly remarkable was taking shape in the chiptune scene and I couldn’t be happier to see this fucking stellar release at the forefront of Georgia’s chiptune landscape.

Album art for ‘Scars’ by Andrew Tremblay.

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Chip Bit Sid Takes On: MisfitChris – ‘Illegal Street Racing’

Posted by RicH

After a long hiatus I’m back with ChipWIN writing about some chiptune music, and what better way than beginning with the fantastic album, ‘Illegal Street Racing’ by MisfitChris? This was initially released towards the end of January as solely a digital album. However, it wasn’t until June 24th, when ‘Data Airlines’ produced the cassette release of ‘Illegal Street Racing’, did it come under my radar.

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ChipWIN-tern Spotlight: ‘Driving East’ by Natsukashii

Posted by The ChipWIN-tern

I must be getting old, because these days I’m actively seeking calming music to play me off to dreamland in the evenings. I already shared my go-to sleepytime album a few months back, but while checking out related and recommended albums after last month’s review I stumbled onto a release from a tiny German label called Dead Bison. I was intrigued – they’ve got almost no web presence and just three releases through the last three years, I’m not even sure how they popped up aside from Bandcamp’s recommendation algorithms being very, very good. ‘Driving East’ by Natsukashii is one of these three releases, and by halfway through the first track I had experienced a relaxing calm so pure I knew this had to be what I’ve been looking for.

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