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js71 · Wandering DJ Joined: 22 Nov 2002 Posts: 815

Click the image above to download the EP as a .zip!

Figured I might as well create another little moniker for my chiptune music, now that I'm doing it more regularly-- Bit Rat sounded/looked cool and it's kind of a play on Bit Rate... yeah. :P

The gimmick behind this particular EP is basically that I've written everything with a handful of chip samples and a single channel in Modplug tracker. It's really fun and challenging writing like this since everything has to interrupt everything else to work-- I really recommend it to anyone looking to improve their tracking/chiptune writing skills. The way it works also means that the thing was louder than Death Magnetic the first time I hit normalize. Hahaha.

Oh, and this EP was also created in a single sitting of roughly 12 hours. Gotta stop doin' that...

Tracks list: (Tracks in bold are recommended listening if you don't feel like grabbing the whole thing on a whim)

1. Quince
2. D'Anjou
3. Lemons
4. Breadfruit
5. Lucuma
6. Lychees
7. Durian
8. Sea Grape

I don't know why all the songs are named after fruit. It made sense at the time (and still does, honestly).

~Josiah

BadMrBox · Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 3:26 pm Post subject:

The URL tags aint broken. I noticed that it just dont like space's and () in a url when I checked.

Bit rat? Damn cool name. Me downloads.
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DeveloperX · Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 1:57 am Post subject:

js71 · Wandering DJ Joined: 22 Nov 2002 Posts: 815

Haha, sorry. :) They were named that way in the EP folder, I suppose I should've changed them before uploading. They worked fine on the other forums I posted them on so it didn't really cross my mind. Will fix ASAP.

~Josiah

EDIT: All fixed!

DeveloperX · Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 3:41 am Post subject:

js71 · Wandering DJ Joined: 22 Nov 2002 Posts: 815

Hehe, no worries man. And thanks! By the way, the Bit_Rat site is now up, too:

http://www.josiahtobin.com/bit_rat/index.html

~Josiah

DeveloperX · Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 4:17 am Post subject:

nice site. :)

Lemons and Sea Grape are my fav tunes so far....still listening to the EP.....:D its great man..very inspiring!
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RedSlash · Mage Joined: 12 May 2005 Posts: 331

These sound great! Nice that you have the source code to the tracks, not that I would know what to do with them, but interesting to see how they are created. :)

js71 · Wandering DJ Joined: 22 Nov 2002 Posts: 815

Thanks guys! :) The .IT files are just ordinary mod files, they'll play in stuff like Modplug and Winamp (though playback can be somewhat weird and crippled in the latter).

~Josiah

js71 · Wandering DJ Joined: 22 Nov 2002 Posts: 815

New track from the upcoming full-length: (copy+paste the URL because it makes my post completely blank when I use URL tags... the title of the song on 8bc determines the URL so it wasn't my intent to put brackets in there, kay? :p works fine on every other forum, too)

http://8bitcollective.com/music/Bit_Rat/Bit_Trap+(working+title)/

No channel limitations this time. Some real instrumentation's gonna show up in the final thing, this is just the chip bed though.

~Josiah

AINLEY · Lowly Slime Joined: 16 May 2011 Posts: 1

Yes you are right
good post

js71 · Wandering DJ Joined: 22 Nov 2002 Posts: 815

Hahaha! Well, while we're being bumped by bots here, may as well plug the fact that I've got a few new releases under this name. This EP's pretty old by now.

Check it out!

Nodtveidt · Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 2:42 am Post subject:

I got my eye on said spambot...
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BadMrBox · Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 12:28 pm Post subject:

So much music that I haven't heard yet!
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