With 2011 now behind us, I can’t help but reflect on all the musical goodness that we enjoyed over the course of that year. Sadly, it saw a pair of my longtime favorite artists say goodbye to their previous projects, but it also introduced listeners like me to many amazing ...

We at GeekDad have been closely following the evolution of UK musician/educator Pixelh8 from renowned chiptune artist to full-fledged musical evangelist over the past year. By crafting performance tools like his Super Chip Tune Samba Band and speaking out against the High Court’s recent decision to ban the import and ...

Let’s talk straight here, people. In gamer circles the term “homebrew” is often used as a code word for piracy. This certainly doesn’t mean that anyone who owns a Game Boy flash cartridge or runs custom firmware on his PSP is a pirate, but sometimes this homebrew argument is invoked ...

We at GeekDad have been paying particularly close attention to Pixelh8’s newest music project, Super Chip Tune Samba Band, for a number of reasons. The most obvious, of course, is that Matthew Applegate (Pixeh8’s moniker IRL) is one of us: both a geek and a dad. Perhaps more importantly, however, ...

Last week I posted about Pixelh8’s newest music education project, the Super Chip Tune Samba Band. Upon recognizing that children were far more interested in experimenting with electronic music on Nintendo DS handheld gaming devices as opposed to more conventional instruments like keyboards, Pixelh8 constructed a system by which multiple ...

Matthew C. Applegate, AKA: Pixelh8, is a groundbreaking chip tune artist, music educator and member of the extended GeekDad family who has just unveiled a project that takes his work in an interesting new direction. On a recent school visit, Matthew noticed that while students were very excited to experiment ...

This year has seen a disproportionate amount of great albums released from across the greater geeky music spectrum. So many, in fact, that it has proven difficult to keep up. Thankfully for you, there’s HipTrax! In this edition we feature songs from a trio of new releases from three of our ...

Though chip music made via handheld gaming devices is nigh synonymous with Nintendo’s Gameboy line, renowned artist/composer/programmer/honorary GeekDad Matthew Applegate – more widely known as Pixelh8 – has just released a brand new module that looks to change this. The Music Tech Master Stroke software is instead designed for Nintendo’s ...