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Pixelh8


Pixelh8 (pronounced "pixel hate") is the stage name for Matthew Applegate, a British video game music composer and "godfather of the chiptune scene."[1]

Biography

Pixelh8 combines the sounds of video games and electronic toys, often those that have been reverse enginereed to avoid either copyright infringement or plagiarism to form original compositions, usually children's toys like Speak & Spells and Game Boys.[2] Pixelh8 started off relatively unknown on Myspace and was widely discovered after winning a competition to open for Imogen Heap on her UK tour in 2006[3] and performing at Apple's iTunes Office in California.[4] Pixelh8 also won Sound On Sound.[5] Playback Album of the month in March 2008 with his second album "The Boy With The Digital Heart". Pixelh8 continues to release music on the record label [Hidden Youth Records].

Pixelh8 has also designed music software such as Music Tech[6] for the Nintendo Game Boy and the Pro Performer[7] for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS which turn both machines into real time synthesizers and is currently developing software for other machines. Pixelh8 Music Tech software has been mentioned several times by Imogen Heap and is said to be used in an upcoming track called Tidal.[8]

Pixelh8 was the first headliner to the Nerdapalooza 2007 festival in California, and other notable performances have been performing for Huw Stephens on the BBC Introducing show December 2007 as well as Assembly 2008[9] in Helsinki, Finland.

Discography

  • Handheld EP (2006)
  • Fish & Chips EP (2006)
  • Video Games Ruined My Life (2006)
  • The Boy With The Digital Heart (2007)

Connections to other artists

References

See also


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