This week I was invited by our good friends at superb alternative/indie music blog Neon Filler to review an 18 track CD they’d been sent of some classic 8-bit chiptunes from the halcyon days of the C64 and its remarkable SID chip. You can read the results below.
Robot Elephant Records’ 18 track compilation serves as a fairly definitive sampler of, and a tribute to, the incredible work of the 8-bit pioneers of the mid-to-late 1980’s.
While the C64’s SID chip was a more powerful and capable piece of technology than that of its rivals (Sinclair Spectrum, Amstrad CPC et al), it was only designed to issue rudimentary bleeps and bloops.
