Music made from computer game sounds

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I am looking for artists, preferably DJs/live performers, that make their music from computer game sounds.

There have been quite a few artists that sample old computer game samples, but wondered if there are any that almost exclusively use gaming sounds? It could be really interesting in a live performance in the way they are controlled/programmed too.

Any ideas? If they were London based that would be cool too.

― rchinn (rchinn), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 20:50 (twenty years ago)

http://boingboing.net

― JW (ex machina), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 20:53 (twenty years ago)

http://www.iam8bit.net/

― that's so taylrr (ken taylrr), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 20:54 (twenty years ago)

6955

http://www.robotandproud.com/6955/

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 20:55 (twenty years ago)

http://www.bitshifter.cc/

― Rokovoko (Rokovoko), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 20:58 (twenty years ago)

This gameboy blip-pop crew sounds cool:
http://feed.proteinos.com/item/2422

― rchinn (rchinn), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 21:10 (twenty years ago)

YMCK!
http://www.ymck.net/j/family_music/01.html

― Eppy (Eppy), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 21:17 (twenty years ago)

YMCK is great!

― schwantz (schwantz), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 21:22 (twenty years ago)

I think I heard about them on some recent ILM thread, but hot damn, that's good stuff!

― Eppy (Eppy), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 21:33 (twenty years ago)

Not computer games, but Wim Mertens made his first album (called "For Amusement Only" , I think) using the sound-producing parts of pinball machines.

― Ricki Belloni (Pangolino 3), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 21:46 (twenty years ago)

Covox.

http://www.covox.net/
http://www.littlesounddj.com/lsd/sounds/covox_-_dubslide.mp3
http://www.covox.net/audio/covox_-_jag_ar_pa_vag.mp3

Role Model.

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Role+Model
http://tigertass.net/~rolemodel/traxx/mp3/role_model_-_kinetiskt_porslin.mp3

Lo-Bat
http://www.lo-bat.be/
http://www.lo-bat.be/White%20Russian.mp3

Njoy

― Richard Owen (dickrich), Thursday, 27 April 2006 01:34 (twenty years ago)

If Lou Reed were a French gal and the rest of VU were Megaman, "Stephanie Says" would sound precisely like...
"Je Rêve Encore De Toi" by Stereo Total

― O-Keigh (O-Keigh), Thursday, 27 April 2006 01:48 (twenty years ago)

wellington, new zealand muzac guru and general great guy luke rowell, aka disasteradio

― chris andrews (fraew), Thursday, 27 April 2006 01:56 (twenty years ago)

Dizzee Rascal and assorted grime artists to thread.

― The Cricklewood Massive (The Cricklewood Massive), Thursday, 27 April 2006 03:26 (twenty years ago)

When I saw Ceephax live, Squarepusher's brother, he finished his set with a load of Commodore 64 tunes. It cleared the dancefloor but I was loving it. He's got a link to loads of C64 tunes from his website which, in itself, is worth checking out.

http://www.ceephax.co.uk/

Joe

― JoseMaria (JoseMaria), Thursday, 27 April 2006 08:26 (twenty years ago)

you may want to look into the mod tracker scene, particularly the chip music stuff. I used a lot of chip music sounds on Succotash Wish which if you are interested in is here

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 27 April 2006 10:06 (twenty years ago)

ha, that 6955 released a couple of tracks on 3.5 floppy disks.

dj scotch egg uses a gameboy for this gabba and things like 'tetris wonderland' are very videogamey. samples here: http://www.juno.co.uk/products/205043-01.htm

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 27 April 2006 10:22 (twenty years ago)

Narcotic Dreams, "Cursed Night", made from the Castlevania 3 sound pallette:

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 27 April 2006 10:36 (twenty years ago)

Ha, I love that some of us are coming round to YMCK now. Also: www.chiptune.net

― BARMS, Thursday, 27 April 2006 11:24 (twenty years ago)

If Lou Reed were a French gal and the rest of VU were Megaman,

SOLD

― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 27 April 2006 11:59 (twenty years ago)

http://www.mono211.com/content/releases/mtkmp36.html

the last five tracks of this netlabel release are made entirely from Commodore 64 sounds..

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Thursday, 27 April 2006 14:04 (twenty years ago)

Why no love for http://micromusic.net? My recommendation: Check out Casioheart's most cutetest "My 8-bit love" and Mr. Osbyte's catchy 8-bit stadium hymn "We've got the time"!

― Herr Fahrstuhl (Herr Fahrstuhl), Thursday, 27 April 2006 17:29 (twenty years ago)

http://www.treewave.com

"We're a Dallas based band that makes shoegazy pop music and video using obsolete 70'd and 80's computer and videogame gear, accompanied by female vocals.The code to drive the music and video is our own, and it's all dirty assembly language."

Not as gimmicky as you'd expect. I think they use old Commodore 64s, which actually could make great sounds. Elektron paid homage to the C64 with the almighty and strange Sidstation synth.

http://www.sidstation.com/

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Thursday, 27 April 2006 17:41 (twenty years ago)

c64-Massive SIDplay Party Mix

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 27 April 2006 17:51 (twenty years ago)

The Super Mario mix of NIN's "Closer" is pretty funny, but only the first time.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 27 April 2006 18:13 (twenty years ago)

For London-area people, try some of the London chapter of Micromusic.net -- http://london-hq.lektrolab.com/

I can't say enough good things about David Sugar, who's one of the members:
http://www.davidsugar.com/

― Josh Anomaly (josh_anomaly), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:33 (twenty years ago)

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