cTrix - A for Amiga [Chiptunes/90s]

Inspired to supply musicological discourse once again by the powerful retro force that is A for Amiga. Australian musician and producer cTrix has clearly mastered a long lost art within the fuller spectrum of chiptunes; as opposed to emulating early Nintendo or Atari sounds, cTrix uses that OG desktop computer - the Amiga 500. The 500 was used to digitally process and produce a lot of electronic music during the 90s, and cTrix milked the Amiga for all the nostalgia it had. Not only did he use original Amiga trackers but also ran the audio through several vintage outboard hardware racks, and then dubbed each track on 2" tape, giving the album as heavy a 90s analogue sound as you'll hear in 2014. A for Amiga came out in December of 2013 but cTrix was writing and producing material that eventually became A for Amiga since 1993.

Each track is rich, catchy, jamming, nostalgic, and just plain refreshing - please to be listen!

Audio Bullys - We Don't Care (House/Electronic)

This one is a big blast from the past for me. Audio Bullys is an electronic music duo from London that began in 2003 with their debut album Ego War. They released another popular album in 2010 called Higher than Eiffel, and in 2012 announced that one of the two (Thomas Dinsdale) had left the group. Nonetheless, this particular track has that early 2000s, Fatboy Slim feel, and it was featured on the SSX 3 soundtrack (where I first heard it). It's a pretty good song, and the SSX games all had a pretty killer soundtrack if you feel like checking them out. Here's We Don't Care (there's a music video too, but embedding is disabled by request).