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Shnabubula's Starbound — The Arena (Midi Visualization)

Posted on December 27th, 2012

A song from original "Starbound" album by Shnabubula.

Goodies: Fearofdark, Maxo

Posted on December 26th, 2012

Today in Ubiktune Goodies we would like to share a couple of amazing albums that have been recently released.

It's been about 1,5 months since the successful debut release of Fearofdark's "Motorway". As the title "The Early Attempts" implies, Stephen has collected songs he wrote from 2009 to early 2010, before "Motorway" was even started.

"It's a Greatest Hits album from that era... A little work has been done on them to smooth out some of the bugs and spelling errors, and to make them slightly more listenable. Nevertheless, you can now enjoy all of the dodgy production choices and questionable lead samples (I don't know what I was thinking for some of these tracks) in your choice of mp3 or lossless formats... As all of the tracks and their source files are already available, I'm naturally charging £0 for this album" — FearofDark.

Download "The Early Attempts" from http://fearofdark.bandcamp.com/album/the-early-attempts.

Maxo has released another two parts of his ambitious "Level Music" project. As usual, they consist of 5 songs each, using sounds from Super Nintendo games. This time, Level C is puzzle oriented, while Level P is dedicated to sports.

Both albums are available as "pay-what-you-want" download from http://levelmusicmaxo.bandcamp.com/album/level-music-c and http://levelmusicmaxo.bandcamp.com/album/level-music-p accordingly.

UBI056 PROTODOME — BLUESHIFT

Posted on December 24th, 2012

BLUESHIFT is out now! The album consists of 13 tracks, written, performed and produced by PROTODOME, includes a special bonus song and features guest vocal performances by Alissa and Marianne Thompsons.

For the next 24 hours 48 hours, BLUESHIFT will be available for download as "pay-what-you-want" right from PROTODOME's bandcamp. Go and get it now: protodome.bandcamp.com/album/blueshift!

PROTODOME to release BLUESHIFT on December 25

Posted on December 22nd, 2012

BLUESHIFT is the last part of BLUE trilogy (featuring previously released BLUENOISE and BLUESCREEN accordingly). The album consists of 13 tracks, written, performed and produced by PROTODOME, includes a special bonus song and features guest vocal performances by Alissa and Marianne Thompsons. The artwork illustration is drawn by Marianne "Mayan" Thompson, and PROTODOME, handling artwork format and design.

BLUESHIFT will be available as a digital download for £1 (or more) on December 25, exactly a year after BLUESCREEN was out.

We look into the gates of uncertainty... closer

Posted on December 19th, 2012

Indie Royale: Yoann Turpin's Rhythm'n'Bits

Posted on December 18th, 2012

As a part of partnership campaign with Indie Royale, you can find our album Rhythm'n'Bits by Yoann Turpin in the latest Indie Royale's "the XMAS BUNDLE 2.0"!

Yoann Turpin plays an improvisation on Nord Lead 2X

Posted on December 16th, 2012

While we're working on preparations for Yoann Turpin's new album to be released, he has recorded a new chiptune improvisation with the Nord Lead 2X, which is absolutely adorable.

It is almost time for Christmas, so get ready, because Ubiktune will bring the joy and make you rock harder than ever. Stay tuned and tell you friends!

Worldwide Chiptune Webshow: C-jeff & Megus live

Posted on December 15th, 2012

Worldwide Chiptune Webshow

Posted on December 14th, 2012

World Wide Chiptune Webshow is an online music festival which features artists who use retro videogame consoles to play old and new original tracks. Four days, from Thursday (December 13) to Sunday (December 16) over 40 musicians, featuring Alex Ogre, DJ CUTMAN, Smiletron, Figher X, Chipzel, Stress_TN, Tristendo, Balloonbear and many more, will stream directly from their personal music space to the world. This event is organized by the united forces of Chip-Con International, NoiseChannel, Chiptunes = Win & 56kbps Records.

Visit the event website over at chipcon.org or play the stream directly via chipcon.org/stage1 and chipcon.org/stage2. Also, visit chipcon.org/schedule for detailed information with exact time stamps for time zones.

On behalf of Ubiktune, C-jeff & Megus and our new musician Zef will appear on the event during the days two and three respectively. C-jeff & Megus will play a few songs from their Around Past album, as well as some stuff from new upcoming project. Meanwhile, Zef will present a couple of songs from his co-op release with Danimal Cannon (of which the details will be announced soon), also as his own catchy jams.

Watch the chipcon.org/schedule not to miss the moment!

Square Enix Music Online’s Annual Game Music Awards 2012

Posted on December 10th, 2012

We are proud to announce, that a number of our releases appeared in Square Enix Music Online’s Annual Game Music Awards! Virt's FX4, C-jeff's Preschtale, Danimal Cannon's Roots, Yoann Turpin's Rhythm'n'Bits and our team album SOUNDSHOCK 2: FM FUNK TERRROR!! have been nominated in the Best Album – Chiptune category, among the works of Brother Android, xyce, 4mat, Kurt James Werner and bubu.

At the same time, Jake Kaufman has appeared in Outstanding Achievement – Western Composer nomination for his works on Mighty Switch Force! and Double Dragon: Neon.

For a complete list of the nomineers and additional information, check out the post over at Square Enix Music Online. The winners will be announced during the final week of 2012.