Released just a week ago, “Nice.” is the second album from acoustic pair Super Guitar Bros. This is unbelievably chilled. Steven Poissant and Sam Griffin are the Super Guitar Bros and met back in 2007 at a local coffee shop. They’ve played together ever since and three years on from their eponymous debut, they’re back with “Nice.” As you can tell from their name, they…
Dreams Dreams from the NiGHTS into Dreams OST is our Song For Sunday. When a song knocks you for six the first time, there’s no stopping it the second, third or fiftieth time on repeat. Back in 1996, I got the chance to play one of the most enchanting video games ever. It was NiGHTS into Dreams on the Sega Saturn and although the console…
If you’re on the Pokémon Go hype (hell, who isn’t?), then you might enjoy Akira The Don’s Pokémon Go “peakwave” remix. The latest social craze hitting the streets quite literally is Pokémon Go. I’ve seen plenty of creative offshoots in the form of memes and some raps, courtesy of a contest held by El-P, but now we have a remix from Akira the Don. Due…
Press play and zone out to Mega Ran’s new track “OutRun The Sun”, with production by K-Murdock. Using a sample from the classic game “Outrun” would probably conjure images of cruising in a Ferrari on a Floridan highway but not for Mega Ran and SkyBlew. The pair chose to speak on political unrest and injustice on their latest track OutRun The Sun, with production courtesy…
Potholes’ Javis FauX has some fun with a Super Mario sample on KAIZO, the title track from his upcoming project. A new genre has been invented, it wasn’t intentional and it doesn’t end in -core (although a related genre does bear the sufferable suffix) and we have Javis FauX to thank. Nintendo trap is pretty self explanatory – Nintendo samples and trap drums and rhythms…
Scott Xylo goes all 8-bit with his new Scott Pilgrim EP. It’s only been a month since Scott Xylo was in our ears with his spaced out project Ridley Scott. Now, the UK producer has returned with something entirely different for Mexican-based label PIRA.MD. Scott Pilgrim EP sees Xylo delve into the retro world of 8-bit video game music and sample the hell out of…
Musician Julian Corrie gathers some old consoles together to create “Polybius” in this video set in an empty swimming pool. I was unfortunate to miss the buzz of playing video games at home through the ages 2-7. I had brief moments playing on the SNES, Sega Mega Drive, Sega Saturn and N64 but they were never mine and they were fleeting. With that in mind,…
US producer 2 Mello flips music from SNES RPG Secret Of Mana into a dope beat. Computer game samples are fantastic when executed brilliantly. One such example is 2 Mello’s Spirit Of The Night (Secret Of Mana Remix), where the producer replays the melody on the piano and throws on some sax and a crackling boom bap rhythm. I think this would excel even more…
