Indie Game Music Bundle 2 now consist of 19 albums, featuring Alec Holowka, Jim Guthrie, Kan R. Gao & Laura Shigihara, Francisco Cerda, Tomáš Dvořák, Module, A_Rival, virt, Disasterpeace, Flashygoodness, David Saulesco, Romain Gauthier, The Octopus Project, Inverse Phase and C-jeff.

Even better, now the bundle is up to 5 days and includes all the soundtracks from the first bundle for just $5 more! What else do indie videogame music fans need?! Don't miss: gamemusicbundle.com.

The cassette tape version of the album will be available to buy right during the show. The photos are available below:

Finally, The Wave just was opened for pre-orders over at subPixel's Bandcamp page: as digital download just for $3 or more, and as cassette tape version for $5.

Classic tracker composer Chris J. Hampton aka beek has been making music since the mid 90s, and though it appears that he is a new name for Ubiktune, he nevertheless already appeared twice on our releases: the first time as alto-sax player for Around Past by C-jeff & Megus, and also on Wintertunes as ast0r.

Today, we're glad to announce that his new album titled 7bit date: robot love is going to be released right on Valentine's Day! This is what Chris told us about it:

"7bit date: robot love is a collection of chips I began tracking in 2008, with one song reaching as far back as 1998. In 2008, having recently graduated from university, I reexamined my chiptune past and decided to get back in the game. Life carried on, and years later, I remembered my original goal of a new chipdisk release.. Here we are today, 2012!

For 7bit date, I didn't limit myself to traditional chip sounds. I make use of Amiga ST-XX samples in a few tracks — a process which rekindled some of my imagination, as I remembered this or that MOD from back in the day with each Amiga sample I came across. Another characteristic of my chips is to use no external/post-processing effects, just some occasional Schism filters, so the original .IT files will reproduce pretty close to the MP3.

All in all, folks can look forward to a varied collection of chippy goodness: funky, poppy, videogamey, with a splash of reggae and hiphop in a couple tracks".

The album art was made by Jordizzle, who also featured as an artist for TREE OF KNOWLEDGE. Finally, the teaser is available below:

Just about a month ago Shnabubula released his improvised class act Free Play. Now, get prepared for a no-less impressive thing; a new album titled NES Jamz is going to be released in March, consisting of 10 NES/Famicom music covers using only Piano + NES!

The first video teaser of Double Dragon Title Theme is available over on YouTube. So, stay tuned!

This is something we wanted to recommend for a long while, so better late than never. Do a Barrel Roll! — a videogame cover band from Minneapolis, USA, last autumn released their first album titled Thunderous Crash, and believe us, this thing was in heavy rotation among the Ubiktune staff ever since. Themes include TMNT: Turtles in Time, Final Fantasy V, Kirby Super Star, Starfox 64 and Mario Kart 64 arranged for an eight-piece act, played 100% live (including the samples). What else do videogame music fans need?!

Even better, the whole album is absolutely free to download from their Bandcamp page. So, in case you missed these guys, check them out now!

We here at Ubiktune are glad to announce that a new subPixel (aka Matt Ross) album The Wave is going to be released on February 12. Guest musicians include Allan Ross on sax, Amanda Altobelli on arpeggiator, and Rick Birmingham on violin. Mastered by Luke Sullivan. The album was recorded in honor of Matt's uncle, David "The Wave" Calhoun, who passed in 2010.

The Wave is formed as a double EP: a six song suite presented in two versions, one recorded with live instrumentation and one arranged in VRC6 format for the Nintendo Entertainment System / Famicom. So, both halves can be played simultaneously in sync. Based on this, an iOS app will be released later, giving the user the ability to mix each song — channel by channel and on the fly — creating an interactive experience. Imagine turning a dial to transform a live guitar solo into an 8-bit shred-fest, just like on your old NES! The teaser is available below:

The album will be available to download from Bandcamp for $3 (includes all 12 tracks, NSF, and Famitracker source files) or high quality chrome cassette tape for $5 which includes expanded artwork by Samantha Cohen and the digital album with all of the above.

Weeeeee! Ubiktune works were nominated in several categories in the OSTOSVOTY Awards 2011, hosted by Original Sound Version. As follows:

Best Chip Music Release:
Equilibrium (Various Artists)
Roots (Danimal Cannon)
SOUNDSHOCK: FM FUNK MADDNESS!! (Various Artists)
The Octagon (b4kn)

Best “Other” Release:
TREE OF KNOWLEDGE (yogurtbox)

Soundtrack of the Year:
Bloodrayne: Betrayal OST (virt)

Also, congrats to virt for being nominated for Composer of the Year and Best Handheld Soundtrack with Mighty Switch Force OST. And, of course, congrats to Jonathan Baken (b4kn), who made the list for Best Chip Release with Beautiful Lifestyle as a part of fantastic George & Jonathan duo!

Danimal Cannon plays "The Big Crunch", a song from his hit album Roots, live at MAGfest X.