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Sabrepulse

Sabrepulse is a 22 year-old Yorkshire born laptop/chip musician currently based in Aberdeen, Scotland while at university. Sabrepulse has recently finished touring the UK as part of the Chiptune Alliance with Anamanaguchi and Firebrand Boy and also has toured in Europe this year. From an early age heavily influenced by the sights and sounds of the 8/16bit videogame era, he came to start sequencing music in late 2001 after deciding to rewrite the soundtracks to seminal Amiga 500 classics, notably 'Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters' (however...

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Datassette

The Datassette project is a series of electronic music recordings by John M Davies, and as the name would suggest there is a heavy influence of the C64 SID Chip at work here. The Datashat Project is a pseudonym used for dodgy bastard pop remixes and DJ appearances. This description as well as free mp3's can be found at http://www.datassette.net.

Datassette on Last.fm.

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KyotoSapian

KyotoSapian is a solo chiptune project started in January 2008 by Joe Norman. Since it's inception, KyotoSapian has seen a steady -- though seemingly rather swift -- increase in technique and overall performance. An example of his quickly acquired ability is the inclusion of one of his early tracks on a chiptune music compilation release alongside, notably, Alec Empire, who is performing under the moniker Nintendo Teenage Robots for the compilation.

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Toys With Knives

Toys With Knives is the collective of music produced by Lewis Flude and Marcus Sullivan. They have had previous success with both low-bit electronic and live experimental music. Lewis makes dubstep, acid, house, electro mashups using synthersizers and drum machines. Marcus Sullivan who adds in his chaotic distorted vocals is the other half of the band. They are a collective colliding their two seperate minds.

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colonopenbracket

:( otherwise known as Colon Open Bracket are a two piece, formerly a four piece, from Aberdeen, Scotland. They consist of Adam - Drums, and Mart - Vocals/Programming. Described as ‘NintendoCore’ (or "8bit") because of similarity between their sound and Mario & Tetris games of old. They have received some press coverage including articles in NME & Rock Sound, before a planned tour collapsed before it began.

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