7bit date: robot love by beek to be released on Valentine's Day, teaser included

Posted on February 9th, 2012

Classic tracker composer Chris J. Hampton aka beek has been making music since the mid 90s, and though it appears that he is a new name for Ubiktune, he nevertheless already appeared twice on our releases: the first time as alto-sax player for Around Past by C-jeff & Megus, and also on Wintertunes as ast0r.

Today, we're glad to announce that his new album titled 7bit date: robot love is going to be released right on Valentine's Day! This is what Chris told us about it:

"7bit date: robot love is a collection of chips I began tracking in 2008, with one song reaching as far back as 1998. In 2008, having recently graduated from university, I reexamined my chiptune past and decided to get back in the game. Life carried on, and years later, I remembered my original goal of a new chipdisk release.. Here we are today, 2012!

For 7bit date, I didn't limit myself to traditional chip sounds. I make use of Amiga ST-XX samples in a few tracks — a process which rekindled some of my imagination, as I remembered this or that MOD from back in the day with each Amiga sample I came across. Another characteristic of my chips is to use no external/post-processing effects, just some occasional Schism filters, so the original .IT files will reproduce pretty close to the MP3.

All in all, folks can look forward to a varied collection of chippy goodness: funky, poppy, videogamey, with a splash of reggae and hiphop in a couple tracks".

The album art was made by Jordizzle, who also featured as an artist for TREE OF KNOWLEDGE. Finally, the teaser is available below: