Autumntunes, and Interviews
Posted by virt on December 2nd, 2009 filed in GeneralTwo items:
1) My friend C-Jeff, a crazy talented chiptuner, runs a label called Ubiktune which has rocked the chiptune world, with its incredible quarterly seasonal albums, featuring some of the best and brightest in the scene, like Malmen, Lunar, Shnabubula, and Coda. The latest release is Autumntunes, which would be one of my favorite releases of the year even if I hadn’t contributed a track to it.
I wrote a J-rock-ish song about an ancient Japanese Buddhist monk who sojourned in China, following his writings about traveling the autumn months, armed with a chaingun and targeting computer. Features simulations of such instruments as the chinese Erhu violin, the Yangqin hammered dulcimer, and the shakuhachi, a legendary Japanese bamboo flute favored by the Fuke Zen school, and later by Peter Gabriel and that one Revlon commercial.
2) They interviewed me over at Original Sound Version for Red Faction: Guerrilla. Sorry if none of it makes sense, I was pretty amped at the time.
December 2nd, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Good interview, sir. I’ll be downloading said chiptune release shortly, and enjoying it thoroughly.
I had not known of Ubiktune until now. Gonna have to check out the back catalog as well.
December 6th, 2009 at 12:11 am
love the answer to the influences question. :)
December 9th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
oh, California isn’t that diverse in terrain…is it? I’m not sure, so used to it after living here for 25 years, I thought the rest of the planet was bumpy.
December 13th, 2009 at 6:59 am
[...] Next is Shnabubula’s absolutely insane “Use A Rake,” which is a bit like Tim Follin on crack. That’s a good thing, incidentally. Fantastic production and absolutely batshit crazy song. And the last track in the NES middle is virt’s “Mecha-Kukai Travels to Chang’An,” and it is a change of pace–virt’s well known for his progressive NES stuff, and this track fits right in with that, but with a slight Asian tint. What’s wonderful about his stuff is that while it goes all over the place, it never fails to include a catchy melody that you can easily whistle. Lots of guitary leads and arps all over the place, really great stuff. (Oh and if you’re wondering, virt defends the fact that his song is about autumn here). [...]
December 28th, 2009 at 1:26 am
tql-pr0n.zip /guests/virt/
I was listening to this tonight and what did appear but 1999 era VIRT (!)
December 31st, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Awesome!! track,the tracks I listened to were all great,great album. Just wishing you and your family a Happy new year and all the best for the future and with relocating and stuff. Always amazing quality in all you do and produce. Take care man.
January 10th, 2010 at 2:35 pm
Hey Virt, It’s me David, the guy who talked to you at MAGFest about how I used one of your songs like a year or so ago, and how I’m a part of a mod.
I couldn’t find your email anywhere, but hit me up at dejong dot justin at gmail dot com
I’ll give you more info there and not clog up your comments anymore :D
January 27th, 2010 at 1:14 am
Stoked for you, big guy.