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Chip Tanaka — Hirokazu Tanaka, the legendary composer behind the original Mario, Metroid, and EarthBound soundtracks — released this album of chiptune-meets-dub electronic music. Thirteen tracks that bridge Nintendo's 8-bit golden age with modern electronic production.
"Ringing Dub" and "Obirigado Dub" bookend the album with dub-influenced grooves. "Pop Bomb" and "Pulse Ride" bring kinetic energy. "Aurora Swing" and "Drifting" float with ambient beauty. "Rad Moose" and "Beaver" suggest a nature-themed playfulness.
The title track "Django" sits at the center. Tanaka's decades of experience with sound chips gives his electronic music a distinctive texture — there's a specificity to his synthesis that only someone who composed within hardware limitations for years could achieve.
This isn't nostalgia; it's evolution.