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Music Nov 14, 2017

The music you didn't realize you grew up with: Chip Tanaka's 8-bit revolution

by James Hadfield

If you grew up during the 1980s or 1990s, there's a good chance that you spent more time listening to the music of Hirokazu Tanaka than to many of your favorite pop songs. Such was the reach of the work that the Kyoto native ...

Music Jan 29, 2017

Quarta330 rewires his sound on 'Pixelated'

by Patrick ST. Michel

Unlike a lot of kids growing up in the 1990s, Toru Koda didn't have much hands-on experience with video games. "My big brother always hogged the system," the 32-year-old, who records electronic music as Quarta330, says with a chuckle at a cafe in Tokyo's Shinjuku ...