Whilst our long-time companion Vim! is preparing for his second
album on Surgery, upcoming material on Civik, and his appearance on the Machine Drum remix
LP on Merck, he's been doing some sabbatical work on the VERY
cool Nintendo Gameboy music creation software package,'Little
Sound DJ'.
So, exclusively for the benefit of Monotonik types, we have this
megamix-styled Vim! jam, "Time For The Squares", all created just
using an old-style black+white Nintendo Gameboy and LSDJ! Spanning
over 11 minutes, it starts with some serious bassline + drum-roll
callisthenics, before transitioning into arpegiating goodness and
off-beat, pure, sinewave-y melodies, and finishing off, supremely,
with a cover version of Leftfield's "Phat Planet", complete with
robotvoicesampled bliss.
We think the particularly neat thing about this megamix is that it
sounds pretty different from the majority of lo-fi, retro stuff
out there - there's no overdone chords, there's no excessive
saccharin. What there is is surprisingly complex beats and a
harder, cleaner aesthetic that, ultimately, pays off bigtime.
We claim.
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