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"Vurgon is an assembling of songs I've written in the past year or so that I feel are tied together in apparent and not-so-apparent ways. This makes it something of a fragmented timeline for my own compositional development. It's my first completed album, too. Six years ago, I started making music on a computer as a naive hobby, alongside my education and career as a visual artist. Today, composition is just as personally vital as drawing or painting, if not moreso — although I've preferred to stay quiet about it.

Like any creative work, Vurgon is also an aesthetic statement; but it's a statement that folds back into itself and can't really be written out. It is, in part, this wordlessness — this sensuous "irrationality" — that draws me to pure, instrumental music. What is more mysterious in art than the emotions, narratives, scenes, and everything else these non-denotative tones can invoke? Along such lines, each track title on the album is nonsense that somehow, for me, correlates with the song's character"

— Ario.

Vurgon is dedicated to Rei Harakami, who died July 27, 2011.

1. Vurgon (04:10)
2. Glaustarr (02:26)
3. Fallaloopavan (03:29)
4. Terevigliar (03:11)
5. Tuulu (02:40)
6. Clankendrung (03:57)
7. Mahanambulov (04:12)

Composed and produced by Ario
soundcloud.com/diplocephalus
youtube.com/user/heyguysinternet

Album art by Jason Baum

Mastering by Megus
megus.org

http://ubiktune.bandcamp.com/album/vurgon
http://ubiktune.com/releases/ubi059-ario-vurgon

"Motorway is my first full chiptune album. Instead of mixing formats, or simply putting together a compilation of songs I've already released, I decided to work on a pack of "new" tracks, with a couple of the old "classics" thrown in there.

I chose to write in the .xm format, and decided to use ModPlug tracker to make these songs; this was the first program I used to make music on a computer, and so I felt like my debut release should naturally be made using this program.

A lot of big changes have happened this year, both in my life and in the world. The biggest one for me was leaving home to go to university. In that respect, I feel like "Motorway" is an appropriate title. Heading towards a new destination.

Thank you's go to C-jeff and Ubiktune, for helping me through this process. Megus for mastering. Jordan for the awesome artwork, Truestar, Virt and noise channel, everyone who gave critique on tracks and previews. The many, many chiptune artists and musicians whose music continuously blows my mind, and anyone who takes the time to try listening to my music"

— Fearofdark.

1. 23rd Century Life
2. Suburban Supernatural
3. Zeta Function
4. Rolling Down The Street, In My Katamari
5. Funknitium-99
6. Fast City
7. An Age Of Planetary Pride
8. Surfing On A Sine Wave
9. Polaris
10. Motorway

Music composed by Fearofdark (Stephen Hemstritch-Johnston)
Production by Megus and C-jeff
Artwork by Jordan Chewning

http://ubiktune.org/releases/ubi055-fearofdark-motorway
http://fearofdark.bandcamp.com/album/motorway

"This is a compilation of various tunes I wrote between 2008 and now, most of which used to be on 8bitcollective (RIP). Every track is playable on actual hardware, with minimal post-processing and no external effects.

Tools used: Famitracker for NES, LSDJ for Gameboy, MOD2PSG2 for Sega Master System/Game Gear, Raster Atari Tracker for Atari Pokey, Paul Slocum's Atari 2600 Music Kit, GoatTracker for Commodore 64, FM-Kingtracker for OPL3 and Anvil Studio, Sony Acid Pro 7.0 and Audacity for DX-7 rendering and track layering.

Shoutout to: lunar, jrlepage, heosphoros, rushjet1, an_cat, miau, willow, nys, shnabubula, coda, reduz, \, xaimus, skitch, kattywampus, b00daw for engaging people (like me) in 2600 music, 4mat and zabutom for helping me figure out the C64, mint for being better than he thinks he is, C-jeff for Ubiktune, Rufus for the awesome artwork, Megus for mastering and especially virt for suggesting the idea. Ironchew, Miga, Yustin, Soda, Stabs, Ashurei and the rest of notwlm. This is not Soundchip Salad.

Frothing hatred to: Jose for letting it die, Atari Teenage Riot for Blood In My Eyes"

— Kulor.

1. My First LSDJ (2:13)
2. Butterscotch Drops of Lime (2:15)
3. Boyfriend and Girlfriend (3:27)
4. Tim Follin Tries Curried Eggs (3:32)
5. Thiefarly Slumlabor (2:45)
6. Space Disko (2:26)
7. Pachelbel's Pirate Ship (1:59)
8. Nintendo Entertainment Samba (2:30)
9. Snofer's Infiltration Mission (2:18)
10. Lobbyists (1:40)
11. Electric Starbounce (2:45)
12. Elementary School Supernova (1:48)
13. Random Encounter (3:08)
14. Madness Sky Falling Etc. (2:35)
15. Cruisin' Mah '95 Pimpmobile (2:31)
16. I'm No Cyberhero (2:38)

All music by Kulor (Richard Armijo)
kulor.arnoldascher.com

Artwork by Rufus Blacklock
biplaneblues.blogspot.com

Mastering by Megus
megus.org

The album is available for download from Ubiktune and Kulor's Bandcamp page. Downloads include a special unlisted bonus track and the original source files.

http://ubiktune.com/releases/ubi052-kul … call-kulor
http://kulor.bandcamp.com/album/now-tha … call-kulor

Berlin School is a kind of trance/ambient/experimental electronic music invented in Germany and played by such artists as Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, Klaus Schulze and others. With Strange Light Under My Bed, Yerzmyey — a veteran electronic music composer — has revisited the genre, using the retro-computers.

"I remember my surprise when I found out that those musicians, playing mostly in 70s, were often using rather simple electronic instruments (especially in comparison to modern monster-machines) and 80% of their incredible cosmic sound was... recording studio effects. The most obvious next thought was: if that's the case, then maybe I could re-create those conditions but with... retro-computers?

That's how this album was created. Here you find trance/ambient music composed on several retro platforms, recorded track by track, with a lot of studio-effects added, to create — along with those classic sound-chips — some mysterious cosmic atmosphere. The only instruments (and sequencers) were the retro-computers. All the material has been recorded from real ancient hardware track by track and put through sound-effects. Like, if Jean Michel Jarre or Tangerine Dream would be making music on ZX Spectrum, Atari or Amiga — the final outcome would be still the same as it is now.

P.S. If anybody is interested in original fragments of the tracks, without any FX added, I should have some of them, just for curiosity. Drop me a note: [email protected]"

— Yerzmyey.

Instruments/sequencers:
- ZX Spectrum 128K,
- ZX Spectrum 48K,
- Amiga 500,
- Atari 520 ST,
- Atari Falcon 030.

Retro-software used:
- for Spectrum 128K: SoundTracker 1.1,
- for Spectrum 48K: Orfeus/SpecialFX,
- for Amiga 500: OctaMED 4.0,
- for Atari 520 ST: Music-Mon V2.5e,
- for Atari Falcon 030: ACE Tracker 0.997.

Sound-chips used in individual machines:
- ZX Spectrum 128K: General Instrument AY-3-8912
- ZX Spectrum 48K: Zilog Z80A + Ferranti ULA 6C001E (beeper)
- Amiga 500: Paula 8364
- Atari 520 ST: Yamaha YM2149F
- Atari Falcon 030: Motorola DSP 56001.

Recording studio sound-effects and modern software used:
- Zoom RFX 2000
- Zoom Studio 1201
- Behringer Xenyx 1002 FX
- Behringer FEX 800
- Cool Edit Pro 2.1
- Sony Sound Forge 8.0.

In general — recording-studio effects used:
- track-by-track recording
- filters
- phasers
- choruses
- flangers
- delays
- noise-gates
- echoes
- reverbs
- equalizers
- compressors
- limiters.

1. Noise Reduction (4:28)
2. Unknown Radiation Spectrum (7:30)
3. Enormous Magnitude (10:09)
4. Strange Light Under My Bed (10:52)
5. Starlies (9:20)

All music composed and produced by Yerzmyey
yerzmyey.i-demo.pl

Artwork by 7thSealArts
facebook.com/seventhsealarts

Download for free from Ubiktune:
http://ubiktune.com/releases/ubi051-yer … der-my-bed