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Japanese digital pop group YMCK shaped in Tokyo in 2003 and quickly became flag providers for Japanese chiptune, the digital music subgenre predicated on eight-bit gaming sounds. Comprising vocalist Kurihara Midori, programmer Yokemura Takeshi, and video manufacturer Nakamura Tomoyuki, the group combines the noises of Nintendo video game music with …

Formerly referred to as Cherry, Fresh York’s rock-meets-electronica duo Ratatat feature multi-instrumentalist/programmer Evan Mast and guitarist Mike Stroud. Mast was also the brains behind the fairly laptop computer pop of E*vax, and along with his sibling E*Rock and roll he went the indie digital label Sound Dregs. Stroud also performed, …

Named following a Nintendo controller, the benefit offered their very own brand of specialised rock, playing addresses of a common NES songs. The theory for the benefit started in 1999 in a talent display in Nevada Town, CA, when drummer Spencer Seim noticed a two-person music group perform gaming songs. …