Laromlab is a chiptune maestro. Chiptunes (also called “micro-music” and a few other cute titles) is music composed in a format whereby all the sounds are synthesized in realtime by a computer or video game console sound chip, instead of using sample-based synthesis. To understand and appreciate what that means, one needs only to have been a video game addict in the days of Commodore 64, Atari or the almighty Nintendo Entertainment System.
Laromlab makes sound the old fashioned way, with an Atari 1040STE, an Atari Falcon 030, & a Commodore 64. It’s only modern sequencing and arranging software that is used to bind all the different chip sounds together into a single track.
I’ve been a fan of Laromlab for a bit, but when he sent us these Daft Punk remixes (or what I’d consider covers), I knew I had to share:
MP3: Daft Punk - Around the World (Laromlab’s 2A03 Mix)
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MP3: Daft Punk - Aerodynamic (Laromlab’s NES Advantage Mix)
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How cool is that? It’s nostalgic, yet fresh!
Laromlab is currently signed to Mushpot Records and he’s got some nice original tracks on his MySpace that you ought to hear. 8-bits is more than enough to get funky.
