Chip.ar

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Album Info

Release Date: 2014-05-15

Label: Lowtoy

Great argentine 8 bit and circuit bending compilation!
This is the first LowToy´s call and double album! A powerful and diverse 8 bit album and another special Circuit Bending album in the same release.
Twenty-nine music projects, thirty-one tracks, most of them inedit, more than two hours of argentine artists´ scattered in and outside the country.

With a colorful styles's variety, created from GAMEBOY, Nintendo NES, sand Commodore 64 (transformed into an Elektron Sidstation) and diverse analog and electronic DIY instruments, like Speak & Spell and home made oscilators and synthesizers, monotron, stylophone, modded toys and keyboards, amongst others.

This is Lautaro's presonal project inside Lowtoy, with the intention to reunite, put forth and boost the actual argentinian music panorama, with the special colaboration of Coleco music and the great help mastering of Two Games One BOy. The whole process has been open and collaborative since its beggining.

Chipar is also a new verb, that aludes a practice that includes the re- appropriation of desused technologies, modification of market's sound artifacts, the construction of instruments, the open code spirit and the development of music programming interfaces (trackers)

Chip.ar - 8bit
Starting on a playful aesthetics, the artists united on this album prove the hidden potential on the limitations of the disused tecnologic artifacts . From the raw analogic sound to the nice armonies of the square waves, through the intrincated cadence, catchy tunes, agressive modulations of saw waves and tracks that beg you to dance.
We believe this aesthetic cornucopia represents the actual picture of argentinian 8bit scene.

Chip.ar - Circuit Bending
Static groves directed to the general stir, little electric mantra articulated in grotesque and chaotic moments. Minimalist passages transformed in an unraveled sound spectrum where electricity itself seems to be about to electrocute us.
Te artists included on this compiled album remember to make us dance, and to use their whole altered-devices arsenal to create beautiful songs.

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