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Song Of The Day | Bit Shifter - Hexidecimal Genome

So this song, “Hexidecimal Genome” by chiptune (?) artist and 8bitpeoples cheiftan Bit Shifter, is beyond killer. I make no secret of the fact that I have been into video games my whole life, and everything about this takes me all the way back to the days when I would spend hours in front of my tv, playing the hell out of Streets of Rage and the like. My affinity for the sounds and textures of this track probably has a lot to do with the amount of game music I absorbed from the legendary Yamaha YM2612 FM chip inside the console.

There is a huge glut of musicians in this genre, but so much of what they produce fails in the same way a lot of amateur music does; its one note and lacking in originality. What Bit Shifter does so well is to take the limited, quirky tones and textures of a Nintendo Game Boy and meld them into something with a huge amount of forward momentum and energy. Call it chiptune for the rest of us. 

The collection Information Chase is available for free via 8bitpeoples.