#bright primate

Protomen Announce New Album Pre-Orders

  Protomen have welcomed 2015 in with plenty of cool announcements, including the finalization of their new album, The Cover Up. The pre-orders begin tomorrow morning (Saturday) at 9AM CST. You can purchase the album at MAGFest or the band’s merch booth. Below, you’ll find the cover art for The Cover Up.

The track listing will be available tomorrow on the store page. Tomorrow morning, you can…

<a href="http://brightprimate.bandcamp.com/track/hibernate" data-mce-href="http://brightprimate.bandcamp.com/track/hibernate">Hibernate by BRIGHT PRIMATE</a>

BRIGHT PRIMATE - Outside Myself

Gnomoria: Choose Between 8-bit Music or Final Fantasy-Style Music

The indie video game studio, Robotronic Games, is about to introduce a new set of music in the next update of its game: Gnomoria. Indeed, the players will soon be able to choose between an old-style 8-bit music and a more orchestral music.  Both versions were composed by the excellent Bright Primate.

This Dwarf Fortress-style game puts the player at the head of a gnome expedition to explore and establish a new kingdom in terra incognita. The goal of Gnomoria is to survive as long as possible using village management for a deep gameplay; the randomly generated environments and events make the title an infinite sandbox game. The aesthetics and the gameplay of Gnomoria make it a good start for players new to the genre. The development started in July 2011, and since then has not stopped getting better, with frequent updates nearly-to once a week.

Shocked, shocked, I have't written about BRIGHT PRIMATE before. Well he knocks it out of the park with this one. A catchy mix of vocals and chiptunery. Five bucks gets you Night Animals, BRIGHT PRIMATE's latest album.

Holy crap this website has been a wasteland lately, hasn't it?! For shame!

First big announcement, here is what's coming up, and VERY soon!: The PAX EAST 2012 CHIPTUNE EXTRAVAGANZA!!! We have been looking forward to this from the very moment that the 2011 Extravaganza ended, and are pretty psyched now to announce our return to, and plans to occupy, the JAM SPACE at this year's Penny Arcade eXpo East, at the Boston Convention & Exposition Center. If you haven't bought your passes for the convention yet, you're almost out of time... 3-day badges and Saturday passes are gone, and Friday passes are running low-- FRIDAY is the one you'll want to get! Here is the schedule we have planned:

FRIDAY 11AM - 2PM: >NEIL VOSS >MISFITCHRIS >BRIGHT PRIMATE >DISASTERPEACE >DANIMAL CANNON >SADNES SATURDAY 11AM - 2PM: >DJ RADIO SCOTVOID >KRIS KEYSER >ACTIVE KNOWLEDGE >ROBOTSEXMUSIC >CATHODE RAYS >XC3N

All of this will be happening at PAX East's JAM SPACE. On SUNDAY we will not be at the convention but instead we will be having an AFTER-PARTY elsewhere. Details on that to come AS SOON AS I KNOW. That might be invite only I think? This news is so fresh, even I don't know!

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Second kind of big announcement: Boston 8-Bit's Merch site has been launched! It's on Etsy (THE place for handcrafted arts) because almost all our merch is lovingly crafted by our merchgirl Maddy's loving & crafty hands, or in her printshop. Keep an eye on that shop, there will be a lot of new and fun stuff coming and going! Br1ght Pr1mate glow in the dark shirts are coming soon, and so are NEW Boston8Bit shirts with a kind of epic design that we're just going to have to surprise you all with!

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Fuse.tv recently sat down and had a chat with us and our friends while we were having a party in Brooklyn, just TRYING to understand what it is we do! Duck Hunt jokes aside, it was a nice little featurette!

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Here's some of our new releases you might have missed in the time that boston8bit.com has been sleeping and not telling you these important things!

(Jan. 13, 2011) Oxygenstar - Harmony Palace (Apr. 04, 2011) Br1ght Pr1mate - The Reality Chipmusic Love Industry (May 22, 2011) Oxygenstar - Data Bomb (May 29, 2011) Br1ght Pr1mate - Midnight Swedes (Jun. 14, 2011) Seventh Gear - The Amazing Technicolor Nightmare (Aug. 09, 2011) Br1ght Pr1mate - The Reality Chipmusic REMIXES (Nov. 02, 2011) Disasterpeace - Deorbit (Nov. 11, 2011) Doomcloud - Doomcloud (Dec. 12, 2011) Steady C - He Started It (Feb. 12, 2012) Cathode Rays - Verb

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