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herr_professor on 07/28/2009 at 09:13AM
Digital Bubblebath
little-scale is one of those infuriating super geniuses that seems to be good at everything he does. He designs and builds hardware synths based on old segas, nintendos and ataris, he organizes compilations and gigs spotlighting an ever-growing talent pool made up of his fellow Australians, and, most importantly, he makes some of the most interesting and challenging music in the international chip community.
What makes his music so interesting is its playfulness and deceptive simplicity.
Poly-rhythms and sound chip bleeps wash across the listener like microscopic bubbles. What you have here is a highly intellectual approach to chip sounds that is completely engaging and unintimidating to the uninitiated.
If anything, little scale is prolific, with dozens of recordings on his website. This week’s featured release is another in his partnership with the II netlabel and continues his experimentation on the two titans of the 8bit cold war: the NES and the Sega Master System. Enjoy these two tracks, and dig deeper into his catalog via his website.
