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The XOXX Composer

If you’ve ever looked inside a music box, or owned one with exposed mechanics you’ve no doubt seen the cylindrical mechanism that produces the music. Similar to that of a player piano as well, now it has been reimagined into a tool to compose digitally.

A Bill Moggridge design award winning project, XOXX Composer was designed by Axel Bluhme a Swedish interactive designer. XOXX uses much the same principal of the music box’s mechanics, except instead of only being able to play one song ad infinitum, you can compose new tracks in real time.


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Team Banzai – Magic Hag (Legend of Zelda Potion Shop Remix)

Team Banzai from Portland, Oregon has returned once again to collab with GameChops, remixing Magic Hag’s Potion Shop from Zelda Majora’s Mask! Released earlier this month so far the reaction has been overwhelmingly positive. Give this track a listen and if you’re a fan you can find the download links below. You should also hit up our Zelda Playlist.

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Learn something: Treasure Buster tutorial

In it’s initial episode, NorrinRadd22 aka Matt Creamer  will try to teach you about frequency modulation in layman’s terms. Using an oscilloscope and keyboard along with some software, Matt breaks down the information into something anyone can process.

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Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom: A Visual Compendium

Bitmap Books’ ‘Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom: A Visual Compendium’, a coffee table book that focusses on the visual side of the systems and showcases the amazing pixel art, product design and graphic design associated with them. This is the fourth book in a series that also includes Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga, and the ZX Spectrum.

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