Info
- Artist:: Roberto Maldoror Manfredini
- Album:: The Last Nintendo Party for Neurology Department
- Year:: 2007
- Label:: Dramacore
- Catalog:: 020
Track Ratings
| # | Title | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where The Children Grow Too Fast | |
| 2 | Joystick Phytobezoars | |
| 3 | Gli 8 Bit Dell’Audacia | |
| 4 | Dada Nintendo | |
| 5 | Wheelchair Rally | |
| 6 | Nintendo Teen Age Riot | |
| 7 | Come And Play With Us, Danny (We Miss The Worm) | |
| 8 | Gizmo Battles The Pink Robots | |
| 9 | 20 Years Later, Same Match | |
| 10 | Crocodile Dundee Vs The Serpent God | |
| 11 | Propergol Lambada | |
| 12 | Terror Bit | |
| 13 | Cooperativa Del Gioco Educativo Pomeridiano | |
| 14 | Mea Cartridge In Tua Vulva | |
| 15 | Mellonta Tauta | |
| 16 | The Snes Before I Die (Street Fighter Gotterdammerung) |
Log
2025-03-21 art
kimochiwarui.
like, this might be one of the most uncomfortable listens i’ve had in a while, though why is that? is it the bootleg-esque nature of it? is it the experience of having these nice, friendly sounds deformed? is it the experience of viewing my memories through a deformed lens?
but then, once the shock wears off, you realize that there’s not much more to it.
if anything, this only makes me realize just how well the songs it’s distorting were composed, and i think this album’s power (whatever power this album might have) is stolen from them.
perhaps an unintentional side-effect of the distortion is that it acts as a natural compressor, flattening out the transients and making the songs sound goopier overall. and since hard distortion squares out what it’s applied to, applying it to actual squarewaves doesn’t change the character of the sound a whole lot. this might be why roberto added so much textural noise around the songs too; they don’t have enough information in them to make compelling noise naturally…
but then, like, that song from gradius comes in and i remember just how much i do love chipmusic… it stirs something deep within me – it’s something that’s always been there for me. and i’ve always been fascinated with different sound chips and how they work… i think i have at least a couple datasheets saved on my computer which i have used for reference… i have a lot of feelings about soundchips and the amount of feelings keeps growing.
i really should just give myself over to this medium… or at the very least finish those couple songs i sketched out and then never completed. and then maybe after that i can write a new song!
or just remake pure heart vision.1
again.
again.
Footnotes
-
why is this song my default? i’m not sure if i’d put it in the top 10 songs that i’ve composed, but it could be one that i see a potential in that i’ve yet to fully bring out. it’s a murky song that builds to a glittering chorus, but i don’t know the best way to write the murkiness, and i always feel like i could produce the chorus to be even more glittery. but for as much as i return to it, it’s hardly a tower of babel, or a great wave off kanagawa: it’s just a petite slice of common beauty. ↩