{"id":19530,"date":"2022-11-17T19:39:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T19:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/17\/pegboard-nerds-alex-odden-launches-kickstarter-for-chiptune-concept-album-edm-com\/"},"modified":"2022-11-17T19:39:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T19:39:04","slug":"pegboard-nerds-alex-odden-launches-kickstarter-for-chiptune-concept-album-edm-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/17\/pegboard-nerds-alex-odden-launches-kickstarter-for-chiptune-concept-album-edm-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Pegboard Nerds&#8217; Alex Odden Launches Kickstarter for Chiptune Concept Album &#8211; EDM.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/edm.com\/.image\/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Ch_1200%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_1200\/MTkzNzk4NjUwNjE3NDA2OTYw\/alexander-odden.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div><!-- tml-version=\"2\" --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edm.com\/tag\/pegboard-nerds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pegboard Nerds<\/a>&#8216; personal Alexander Odden is branching out to develop &#8220;FRIENDCHIPS,&#8221; a ardour challenge on the intersection of music and retro gaming.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;FRIENDCHIPS&#8217; is a longtime ardour challenge of mine that I&#8217;d very a lot like to share with the world,&#8221; Odden tells <em>EDM.com<\/em>. &#8220;In some ways, it&#8217;s interconnected with every thing I&#8217;ve performed in music and graphics these previous 30 years\u2014my complete profession.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;FRIENDCHIPS&#8221; is a fictional pixel artwork recreation soundtracked by an eponymous chiptune idea album. The challenge options 12 songs and breakneck lower scenes, bounce ranges, boss fights and extra.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-b not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<p>&#8220;Each monitor from the start to the top helps inform the story of you\u2014the participant\u2014working your approach by way of the sport,&#8221; reads Odden&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/nerdnation\/friendchips-c64-album-and-pixel-art-by-alex-of-pegboard-nerds\" rel=\"noopener\" onclick=\"return phoenixTrackClickEvent(this, event);\" target=\"_blank\">Kickstarter marketing campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Backers of the marketing campaign also can obtain numerous rewards, relying on which tier they help. These embrace a pixel artwork poster, customized die-cut stickers that includes the Pegboard Nerds graphics and an unique, restricted version pixel artwork e-book.<\/p>\n<p>Check out a preview of &#8220;Chipslinger,&#8221; one of many tracks from the<em>\u00a0<\/em>album, beneath.\u00a0<\/p>\n<section class=\"m-in-content-recommendation m-detail--in-content-recommendation h-isolated-styles mm-component-stack--is-body-item\" style=\"--title_size_a_color:;--title_size_b_color:;--title_size_c_color:;\">\n<p><span>Scroll to Continue<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-c\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-b not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-1\"\/>\n<p>Pegboard Nerds&#8217; sound is <a href=\"https:\/\/edm.com\/music-releases\/pergboard-nerds-sophon-shine-monstercat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">closely impressed by the gaming world<\/a>, particularly the Commodore 64. Classic music on this console serves because the spine of the Nerds&#8217; branding and sound, a definite mix of gritty basses and PWM leads.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Odden and his Pegboard Nerds bandmate, Michael Parsbarg, the overwhelming majority of the duo&#8217;s releases have featured their distinctive pixel artwork aesthetic. Odden has drawn a lot of the artwork himself.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the\u00a0<em>FRIENDCHIPS<\/em>\u00a0album, H0ffman and cTrix have agreed to provide remixes for just a few of the tracks if the challenge receives sufficient funding.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve secured superb stretch targets that includes H0ffman and cTrix, two superb musicians who&#8217;ve graciously chosen to help &#8216;FRIENDCHIPS&#8217; by offering remixes in their very own, distinctive type\u2014ought to this marketing campaign achieve success,&#8221; Odden added. &#8220;I actually hope so, as I imagine all artists needs to be paid for his or her work.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can again Odden&#8217;s marketing campaign and study extra in regards to the challenge\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/nerdnation\/friendchips-c64-album-and-pixel-art-by-alex-of-pegboard-nerds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" onclick=\"return phoenixTrackClickEvent(this, event);\" target=\"_blank\">right here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/template\" id=\"facebookPixel677694192701103\">!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function()\n{n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)}\n;if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n(function(){\n    fbq('init', '677694192701103');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n    var contentId = 'ci02b082d6800025c3';\n    if (contentId !== '') {\n        fbq('track', 'ViewContent', {content_ids: [contentId], content_type: 'product'});\n    }\n})();<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Pegboard Nerds&#8216; personal Alexander Odden is branching out to develop &#8220;FRIENDCHIPS,&#8221; a ardour challenge on the intersection of music and retro gaming. &#8220;&#8216;FRIENDCHIPS&#8217; is a longtime ardour challenge of mine that I&#8217;d very a lot like to share with the world,&#8221; Odden tells EDM.com. &#8220;In some ways, it&#8217;s interconnected with every thing I&#8217;ve performed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}