Photo: Leia Jospe
8-bit beats have been around since, well, video games really. But unless you were a hardcore circuit bender or programmer, it wasn’t until Nintendo let players create their own tracks with Trippy-H and Nanoloop that anyone knew Game Boy’s potential for music. Of course Beck and Malcolm Mclaren brought chip music to a more mainstream eclectic audience and, for a second there, everyone was working some kind of 8-bit sound into their own music. Of course, like Auto-Tune, it seldom finds a nice balance within the rest of the music.
Which is why Graffiti Monsters, guitarist and 8-bit composer Mark DeNardo and drummer Luke Silas, have to be one of the best at creating the most awesomely well crafted songs using 8-bit sounds.
