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Skrow043: Zan-Zan-Zawa-Veia - Meep Peep

Zan-Zan-Zawa-Veia - Meep Peep

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This day brings us the mighty Skrow! debut of a giant of the progressive chiptune scene, Zan-Zan-Zawa-Veia (hereinafter abbreviated as ZZZV or Zanzan out of my own sheer incorrigible laziness).  With 26 tracks at just under half an hour, this album functions as a sort of cross between an imaginary retro game soundtrack and a collection of 8bit library music.  For example, #082 brings you the Neo Kobe weather report, #075 is the commercial jingle for Mr. Saturn-Os breakfast cereal, #087 is the theme song to the short-lived sitcom I Was a Teenage Robo, #074 takes you to your Mute City Nightly News traffic report… I’ll just leave off there, yeah?  Point being: this is a rapidfire collection of at times catchy, at times elusive, highly image-invoking, always interesting, all around good shit, capped off by an almost-8-minute epic slice of proggy, mathy Zanzan supremeness.  You have nothing to lose but your pants.

Download for free and rock out to your heart’s content, and/or buy the CD using the paypal button above/below to support the artist and all that happy stuff.  Yay.

Tracklisting:

1. Meep #071 (0:06)
2. Posr Chik (4:25)
3. Meep #079 (0:54)
4. Meep #073 (0:13)
5. Meep #069 (1:59)
6. Meep #082 (0:31)
7. Meep #077 (0:05)
8. Meep #086 (0:49)
9. Meep #065 (1:53)
10. Meep #075 (0:38)
11. Meep #080 (0:17)
12. Meep #087 (0:35)
13. Meep #068 (0:05)
14. Meep #074 (0:48)
15. Meep #084 (1:07)
16. Meep #078 (0:32)
17. Meep #072 (0:58)
18. Meep #070 (0:22)
19. Meep #066 (0:24)
20. Meep #083 (1:08)
21. Meep #067 (1:02)
22. Meep #085 (0:41)
23. Meep #064 (0:33)
24. Meep #076 (0:41)
25. Meep #081 (1:25)
26. Meep Keep (7:53)

Tags: 1.19.2012, 8bit, baby, buy the cd, chip, chiptune, epic, famitracker, math, meep, prince albert, prog, progressive, sunglasses, UK, zan-zan-zawa-veia, zanzan, zzzv

Skrow036: The Sticky Situation - Grimst

The Sticky Situation - Grimst

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grimst

[grImst]

noun, verb, adjective, grimst’d, grimsting

–noun
1.  an exceptional form of synthetic sonority both dissonant and consonant, necessarily containing basslines that fill one’s heart with WUB right down to the cockles; musical bodies which present a certain quantity of modern dance floor death sexplosion as well as exuding a vibe that implies several video game systems of varying age seeping into, and perhaps out of, its pores; dubstep’s bizarro twin.
1A. a recording by The Sticky Situation which contains all of the above factors in addition to a cover art which features a rotund and at least slightly creepy clown man thing.

–verb
2.  to gyrate uncontrollably at the sound of that which is grimst; to beset another with such so as to cause gyrations.  e.g., “dude, I totally grimst’d you.”

-adjective
3. containing or pervaded by grimst (see 1.)
4. a suggestion that one should employ a blastbeat in an electronic song.  e.g., “holy moly, maaan, you should grimst all over that track.”

Origin:
circa 660-2310 CE; Neu Olde German grïmschtt; sidereal analogue of Dewey-Danish schwømp; to compel dangerous motion, herky jerky groove wonk hellyeah jive turkey

-Related forms
grrrrrrrrrrəîmʃtt, interjection

Tracklisting:

1. Die Gronge (4:00)
2. Holy Moly (3:46)
3. More Dread (3:43)
4. Scheißzeit (3:34)
5. You All Right (4:07)

Tags: 3.22.11, california, chip, clown, dubstep, electronic, grimst, grimst as fuuuuuuu, grimst'd, grimsting, idm, librarians, oakdale, release blurb dictionary gimmick, the sticky situation, wub, you will move