Happy 20th Anniversary (⁉️) to an absolute classic – still sounds as good today as the day it was released.

📆 ON THIS DAY in 2006 • 20 years ago! 😮 @8bitpeoples.bsky.social releases Information Chase, 6 mp3s of chiptune powerpop. It's since come out on CD & vinyl, & I've performed its songs to audiences who have loudly sung along, despite there being no words. What could be more heartwarming than that? 🙏

★ Happy 2nd anniversary to Maladaptive Strategies Vol. 2, part of an ongoing release series collecting wayward non-album tracks. This volume offers abstract Game Boy dancefloor bangers, plus 2 pop covers for kicks. Some of my favorite stuff I've ever done. bit-shifter.bandcamp.com/album/malada...

They kidnapped a five year old child

If you're a fan of Information Chase & have found yourself thinking ”OK but what if it were a metal album,” boy do I have the link for you. A few years ago, sublimely talented guitarist James Lam posted a metal version of the entire EP. I will shamelessly admit that I listen to this all the time.

I’m old enough to remember when winning the FIFA Peace Prize used to mean something.

This was such a fun show. Huge thanks to @bitcrushed.bsky.social for getting video. 🙏

Reminiscing about “Science City Zero” (2003) · My approach to this track was atypical for me: fire up nanoloop with no preconceived idea, play around, see what comes out. The results were fascinating to me because they were so different from anything I’d made in other tools. youtu.be/DX_3BJSkGVY

2026 East Coast Tour dates confirmed so far … 02/28 Pittsburgh 03/01 Philadelphia 03/04 New Haven 03/06 Boston 03/07 NYC looking to add Providence on 03/05 (hmu!) hyped as fuck to see all of you ❤️

still looking to book shows in philly and providence – get at me! rest of the tour is coming together and will be announced soon ✌️

❄️ Happy holidays from all of us here at B.S.H.Q. ⛄🩵 (Get this track, “Winter Wonderland,” and more at Bandcamp: bit-shifter.bandcamp.com/album/malada... )

📆 ON THIS DAY in 2011 • Chaos Royale (@lukechaos.bsky.social ) released You Realize, This Means War, with the Bit Shifter collab track “Nympho Assassin” as the album's closer. Unrelenting Chaos Royale bass & shearing noise, plus raw Z80 tones? Yes, please. chaosmusick.bandcamp.com/track/nympho...

Hard to express how grateful I am to know that this li'l ol' EP still gets spun & played, and even moreso to hear that it motivated people to make music. A musician can't ask for more than that. Thank you sincerely.🙏🩶🤍💙💚🖤

🗓️ ON THIS DAY in 2003 • The legendary 555 Recordings released my regrettably-titled 1st album, Life’s A Bit Shifter. Thanks to all who've tuned in along the way. In celebration of the birthday, everything on my Bandcamp discography is now pay-what-you-want. 🙏 bit-shifter.bandcamp.com

⚠️ Alert: utterly unique chiptune maestro Snoopdroop detected in this sector ⚠️

Reminiscing about the time I had the opportunity to remix one of my favorite bands, late-'70s synthpunk pioneers the Units. Here's my remix of their seminal track “Warm Moving Bodies.”

Happy 7th birthday to my youngest and most mean-spirited son, 2018’s Closed System Blues. You’re a terror but I’m proud of you anyway. 🖤

To the kind folks who recently* ordered merch from my Bandcamp page ( *except not really that recently anymore), I really apologize for the wait. Got sidelined by some moving-target health issues (thankfully not serious and now nearly resolved). Am back in action & intend to get these out this week.

I happened to see the article, I'm just glad he seemed to like it! Played hacky sack with him once in Bologna Italy. I don't do that for just anyone. All hail DJ Scotch Egg. 🤘

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#IncreaseABand Gigadeth

Follow @damage-band.bsky.social , cowards

So I joined a band recently. Not chiptune-related, FYI. Synthesizer punk act called Damage. Originally existed from the early ’80s into the ’90s. They’ve reformed, enlisted me, & we’ve got an LP release show 9/18 in Brooklyn @ Main Drag Music. Here’s “It Just Won’t Pass” from a recent Orlando gig.

NYC ★ THURS. 9/18 at @maindragmusic.bsky.social! • Join us for the release party for the new LP 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥. Get your tickets & spread the word! We'll be joined by Giggle The Ozone (eclectic avant-pop/rock) & Maxx Klaxxon (stark 3D A/V synthpop experience). maindragmusic.com/collections/...

So I joined a band recently. Not chiptune-related, FYI. Synthesizer punk act called Damage. Originally existed from the early ’80s into the ’90s. They’ve reformed, enlisted me, & we’ve got an LP release show 9/18 in Brooklyn @ Main Drag Music. Here’s “It Just Won’t Pass” from a recent Orlando gig.

Bootlicking flag-wavers for authoritarianism want to foster a fundamentally inhumane world. Why? Because they eagerly capitulate to largely made-up fears, and then seek to sublimate their abject cowardice into "action" in the form of bringing harm to others. It's pathetic.

Finally took all my music down from Spotify, or at least all of it that I directly control. As you've heard, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek invested ⅔ of a BILLION dollars into military technology company Helsing SE (of which he is also a chairman) with a focus on AI applications. Yeah, no thanks.

Last Friday (4th of July), I was unshakably depressed by the theme of the holiday, especially in light of the nauseating political developments immediately preceding. ~ 1:30 that afternoon, I decided "fuck this," & credit-carded myself a plane ticket to Stockholm. 3½ hours later, I was on the plane.

Absolute insanity. I feel sick. Nothing is off the table now. Our lives are in the hands of absolutely unhinged, deranged people who suffer from some deeply pathetic, cowardly need to prove something by harming others. Complete detachment from reality.

Please help my friend EMi and her pets, who are in a tight spot. www.gofundme.com/f/help-emi-w...

Also, fuck fascism and the absolutely unhinged American right wing.

PSA: nervouShapes is one of the most interesting and unique chipmusic projects out there. Their brand-new EP 無題１ (mudai ichi) is absolutely worth your attention, densely packed with fascinating moments & unexpected turns. I love it.

When I preordered the fantastic new James Kochalka Superstar (@kochalka.bsky.social) album Ghost Walker, I ① did not know I was one of the first 23 to do so, and ② did not expect to be immortalized as a tiny illustrated James Kochalka creature. Depicted in my true form, no less. So effing cool. 🙏

Can confirm. Recovering from this now. Possibly the most excruciating bout of sickness I've had in my life. You do not want to catch this.

This remix goes so hard, always been a fav www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L9p...

🗓️ ON THIS DAY in 2006 • Got to rock out at Ground Kontrol in Portland OR as part of a DIY world tour that @nullsleep.bsky.social & I somehow pulled off. 15th show out of 20, and it was a welcome shot in the arm of fantastic energy. Support from CapitalSteps, Air Fortress, & Operation Mission.

A teacher in Idaho is being forced to take this down. If this banner is controversial to you, then you are welcome to kiss my black ass.

Help Baseck if you can — he thankfully survived a serious car accident with only minor injuries, but lost most of his musical gear and belongings in the crash. gofund.me/42dc2701

★ My full MAGFest set with @hxlnt.bsky.social is up on YouTube. Such a fun show. Thanks to @emfedex.bsky.social and everyone at MAGFest for making it all happen! #MAGFest · #chipstylemusic · #chipmusic · #chiptune

⚠️🚨 LAST CALL 🚨⚠️ Preorders close in just 4hrs (9pm ET) Pick up a “BORN TO TRACK” t-shirt or brace yourself for regret!!! How else will you let people know that staring at hex numbers to make music is an intrinsic part of your identity???? We are your tribe. nullsleep.bandcamp.com/merch/born-t...

★ My full MAGFest set with @hxlnt.bsky.social is up on YouTube. Such a fun show. Thanks to @emfedex.bsky.social and everyone at MAGFest for making it all happen! #MAGFest · #chipstylemusic · #chipmusic · #chiptune

Help Baseck if you can — he thankfully survived a serious car accident with only minor injuries, but lost most of his musical gear and belongings in the crash. gofund.me/42dc2701

⚠️ LIMITED PREORDER ⚠️ “BORN TO TRACK” T-Shirt Only for the true hardcores! Place your preorder through bandcamp now. A VERY small quantity of these will also be available this weekend at shows in Boston & NYC. nullsleep.bandcamp.com/merch/born-t...

Where is the lie

"Richest man in history fires tax collectors" was absolutely on the 2025 bingo card. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

🎈🎂🥳🎈 Happy 1st birthday* to Maladaptive Strategies Vol. 2. Features tracks made ~’03-’07 using the nanoloop Game Boy music software. Mutant techno + 2 pop covers. Still some of my favorite material out of everything I've done. bit-shifter.bandcamp.com/album/malada... * 3 days late, sorry buddy

Then there were the vocals, @anamanaguchi.bsky.social and @bit.shifter.net jumping in with actual singing was a lovely surprise. It’s something I wish they had both done more of. Yeah, overall, the lineup was just stellar. It felt like the perfect mix of artists and styles.

Sometimes when you put out a comp, people phone it in, but that didn't happen here. Pretty much every track was a banger. Some covers added a fun slant (Videogame Orchestra, Nordloef), while others tapped into the original spirit and ran with it in chip form (PDF Format, Tugboat).

I remember someone telling me we'd hit 10,000 downloads within a few days on just one of those web hosts. Who knows the total number? It was huge. But why did it get so big? Well, for one, 8-bit tributes always do well, but this one stood out because the music was just great.