The Genesis Machine

The Genesis Machine is out marking the 11th song of our upcoming album, Chipsurf Pipeline. I had an incredibly fun time mixing/mastering this one. It uses all the channels of both the GameBoy and NES, has some awesome guitar work by John, and the song itself I find captivating. I’m …

Phoenix Down

Phoenix Down, the latest song off our latest album, Chipsurf Pipeline is finished! It started as our first attempt at using retriggers with the NES, but rather early turned more into the epic ballad that now defines the song. This is one of those songs we worked on off and …

Cloud People Assassins

Our band just released our latest song off our forthcoming album, Chipsurf Pipeline, called Cloud People Assassins. As the name implies, it is about those cloud people that often…assassinate you in some of the platformers for the NES (and probably other consoles). We specifically were thinking of the one from …

Mr. Transistor

I spent a good while mastering this song but I think it was well worth it. Part of the trouble was getting the guitars just right – not muddled and not grating, but just perfect. I also spent some time working out the overall levels, panning, and the like. I …

Symphony of Vengeance

We (Victim Cache) finally finished Symphony of Vengeance, the latest track off our upcoming album, Chipsurf Pipeline. This one is darker than the other tracks – perhaps even more so than Yakuza (which is, itself, a pretty dark song). The difference is that this one has a driving force behind …

(When In Doubt) Bomb It Out

We just released another song of our forthcoming album, Chipsurf Pipeline, called Bomb It Out. The name is rather self explanatory once you listen to it, I think. This one was also a bit delayed but, this time, it was because my PC crapped out. It wasn’t a hardware problem. …