Showing posts with label chiptune. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chiptune. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Mittwoch Mix - Yule Tunes 2022 - Part One

 

Unknown children, probably carolers, by Louisa Anne (née Stuart), Marchioness of Waterford - manipulated

It's the most wonderful time of the year, the time of #YuleTunes.

Here are the first four mixes of Yule Tunes I've assembled for 2022.

First is an eclectic mix of holiday tunes suitable for all audiences.

# Artist Track
1 Uncle Fido Joy to the World
2 Hazy Sour Cherry Bell of the beginning
2 8-Bit Arcade Linus & Lucy (8-Bit Vince Guaraldi Emulation)
3 Freezepop Merry Gentlemen, Having Recently Rested
4 Grisp Dancing on the north pole
5 Make Like Monkeys Becuz it’s Xmas
6 Alpha Chrome Yayo Kimonos at Christmas
7 Husbands holly jolly donut
8 Unwoman December Will Be Magic Again
9 Les Deuxluxes La Fille du Père Noël
11 Boris Last Christmas
12 Dale Crover Christmas Time Is Here
13 The Nervous Gregorians Greensleeves

Second is the second volume of Gothmas for all the former teenage goths out there who need dark, wry and bleak songs to counter all the holiday cheer.

# Artist Track
1 Pye Corner Audio Satan’s Little Helper
2 Joy to the Wham! Last Christmas Love Tore Us Apart
3 The Devil & The Universe In The Bleak Midwinter (feat. Matt Howden / Sieben)
4 Leaether Strip Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
5 Paulina Fae Madam Mistletoe
6 Tredici Bacci Emmanuelle (feat. JG Thirlwell)
7 Golau Glau Coventry Carol
8 Sue Hutton and Athan Maroulis God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
9 Lemon Demon Aurora Borealis
10 Paulina Cassidy Frosty the Snowman
11 Lycia/The Unquiet Void We Three Kings
12 Pig Happy Xmas (War is Over)
13 Jherek Bischoff Silent Night

Third is another volume of Tubamas, which does as it says on the tin, providing more bass heavy brassy holiday fun.

# Artist Track
1 Jim Self & Hollywood Tuba 12 Let It Snow (In the Jungle)
2 Seattle Tuba Project Little Saint Nick (Live on Air)
3 Daniel Ridder A Holly Jolly Christmas
4 Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble 12 Days of Housetops! (after 12 Days of Christmas)
5 Paul Loucas Deck the Hall Variations (feat. Joshua McClure)
6 Onyx Brass Weinachtshistorie, SWV 435: Herodes
7 Onyx Brass Weinachts Oratorium, BWV 248: Herr, wenn die stolzen Feinde schnauben
8 Seattle Tuba Project Here Comes Santa Claus / Frosty the Snowman (Live on Air)
9 MUSIC for ISOLATION Santa Claus
10 Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
11 Daniel Ridder Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
12 Jim Self & Hollywood Tuba 12 Joy Tuba World
13 Paul Loucas Silent Night (feat. Tuba Urbana)

Fourth, another entry of 8-Bit Xmas music for your nostalgic video game holiday celebration.

# Artist Track
1 LarryInc64 Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
2 8 Bit Weapon Sugarplum
3 Rush Coil Little Drummer Boy
4 RushJet1 We Three Kings
5 Nestrogen Silver Bells
6 Low-Gain Joy to the World
7 Alpha Chrome Yayo Broken Game Boy for Christmas
8 8 Bit Weapon Jingle Bells (One Horse Open Sleigh)
9 RushJet1 Greensleeves
10 Rush Coil O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
11 8-Bit Arcade Last Christmas (8-Bit Wham! Emulation)
12 LarryInc64 Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
13 Tee Lopes Zelda’s Night

Thursday, December 23, 2021

Recommended Discoveries - Yule Tunes 2021

 

If you haven't been able to tell from the eleven Yule Tunes mixes I put together this year (easily found in one spot on the Yule Tunes Page), I picked up a fair bit of holiday music this year.

From that haul, here are some tracks and albums I recommend...

Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Mittwoch Mix - Yule Tunes 2021 - Part Three

 

The inevitable march of the holiday season continues, which means it's time for more Yule Tunes... As a reminder you can find all the previous Yule Tunes entry at the hwæt Yule Tunes Page.

A mix of unusual instrumentation and arrangements to add some spice to your holiday festivities—featuring bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy, dulcimer, sitar, theremin and more...

# Artist Track
1 The Snake Charmer Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Bagpipes
2 GurdyBird God Rest Ye Merry, Wicker Men
3 Sean Thomson Here We Come A-Wassailing
4 Butch Ross Trepak (The Russian Dance)
5 Thor Harris Carol of My Balls
6 Uncle Fido Ding Dong! Merrily on High
7 Said Fantasy Greensleeves
8 Secret Chiefs 3 I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
9 The Cavernous We Wish You a Merry Christmas
10 Earl the Bard Good King Wenceslas
11 Japan Theremin Old School Ave Maria
12 Paddy Finnegan’s Green Machine Auld Lang Syne

A lively mix of songs with instrumentation and arrangements that hearken back to centuries long ago.

# Artist Track
1 Daniel Hart feat. Katinka Vindelev Be Merry, Swete Lorde
2 GreenMatthews Bring Us In Good Ale
3 Rowan : Morrison Corpus Christi Carol
4 Nativity Songs Boar’s Head Carol
5 Earl the Bard Щедрик (Shchedryk)
6 Paddy Finnegan’s Green Machine O Tanenbaum
7 Onyx Brass Wexford Carol
8 The Young Tradition with Shirley and Dolly Collins Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day
9 Rowan : Morrison Als I Lay on Yoolis Night
10 Earl the Bard God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
11 Nativity Songs O Come, O Come Emmanuel
12 GreenMatthews The Coventry Carol

A mix of chiptune covers of Xmas classics for those nostalgic for when SNES cartridges were wrapped under the tree.

# Artist Track
1 LarryInc64 Sleigh Ride
2 Rush Coil O Christmas Tree
3 8 Bit Weapon Nutcracker
4 RushJet1 Oh Come Oh Come Emmanuel
5 8-Bit Arcade I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
6 ovenrake Deck the Halls
7 EvilWezil Carol of the Bells
8 Brett Moots All I Want for Xmas is You
9 LarryInc64 Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
10 8 Bit Weapon God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
11 RushJet1 Silent Night
12 Rush Coil Auld Lang Syne

Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Mittwoch Mix - Come Closer and See


 

As previously mentioned, I am an immense fan of cover songs and have lists of artists that I'm slowly accumulating well-done covers of their songs until I have enough for a mix. Here's the second in that series, COME CLOSER AND SEE, featuring covers of the Cure.

# Artist Track
1 Alvo Noto A Forest
2 Diane Birch & The Phenomenal Handclap Band Primary
3 CALLmeKAT The Lovecats
4 Kate Rusby Friday I’m in Love
5 Nouvelle Vague All Cats Are Grey
6 Alex Reed Just Like Heaven
7 8-Bit Arcade Fascination Street
8 Stabbing Westward Burn
9 Nadja Faith
10 Snake River Conspiracy Love Song
11 Xiu Xiu One Hundred Years
12 Underdark Plainsong
13 Adzes A Forest


Thursday, December 3, 2020

Xmas Sounds Part Three... 2020 Discoveries

2020 has been a hard year for most of us, to say the least, so I am stocking up on a ton of Xmas music to make the Holidays Bright... Here's the Xmas music I'm grabbing this year on the final Bandcamp Friday of 2020... You might say I made a list...