Laromlab

Laromlab is a chiptune maestro. Chiptunes (also called “micro-music” and a few other cute titles) is music composed in a format whereby all the sounds are synthesized in realtime by a computer or video game console sound chip, instead of using sample-based synthesis. To understand and appreciate what that means, one needs only to have been a video game addict in the days of Commodore 64, Atari or the almighty Nintendo Entertainment System.

Laromlab makes sound the old fashioned way, with an Atari 1040STE, an Atari Falcon 030, & a Commodore 64. It’s only modern sequencing and arranging software that is used to bind all the different chip sounds together into a single track.

I’ve been a fan of Laromlab for a bit, but when he sent us these Daft Punk remixes (or what I’d consider covers), I knew I had to share:


MP3: Daft Punk - Around the World (Laromlab’s 2A03 mix)


MP3: Daft Punk - Aerodynamic (Laromlab’s NES Advantage Mix)

How cool is that? It’s nostalgic, yet fresh!

Laromlab is currently signed to Mushpot Records and he’s got some nice original tracks on his MySpace that you ought to hear. 8-bits is more than enough to get funky.

http://www.missingtoof.com/v2/2007/08/09/laromlab-does-daft-punk-in-chiptune/ - Missingtoof.com

http://palmsout.blogspot.com/2007/08/remix-sunday-74.html - Palmsout Sounds Blog

No trip is ever complete without a traveling anthem. This one I've chosen isn't so much for my project of going to Iceland, but more generally inspired by the overall idea of Spramp[ing] the World. This song is the first one that fits the bill. But first some back-story: I discovered Daft Punk when I first went to London in 1997 on a whim with my friend Cali. It was while I was getting my hair dyed at a funky salon that the peeps in there had "Around the World" playing. The song (and the album Homework) thereafter became a permanent fixture in my CD player. Whenever I hear this song now, I always attach it to that spontaneous trip to London. I'm also totally pleased that peeps are still lovin' it today as much as I do.

I nominate this superb remix of "Around The World" by Laromlab as the theme-song to Spramp the World. It adds a special synth-layer to an already fantastic song! (Makes me want to bust out my Atari!) Check it and enjoy! - http://www.sprampblog.com/2007/08/spramp-world-7-around-world-redux.html#links

O que define um clássico? Quando uma música deixa de ser hype para ser referência de um estilo, de uma época ou de uma geração inteira? O remix de hoje é uma releitura de um clássico, uma música genial que tinha um clipe absurdo de um diretor bestial. Around the World foi o primeiro single do duo francês Daft Punk lançado em 1997. Responsável pela explosão do duo mundialmente e seu debut, Homework, Around the World viciava com sua linha de baixo bem marcada e repetitiva, as 144 repetições da frase robótica around the world e suas batidas disco. Dez anos depois, um Dj americano faz o seu remix da música em um computador Atari de 8 bits e dá uma nova interpretação ao som robótico do Daft Punk. Escute aí embaixo a versão 8 bits do Dj Laromlab e entenda porquê Around the World virou um clássico. - http://www.diabaquatro.com/2007/08/08/quarta-remix-daft-punk/

"Armed with a laptop, 8-bit music software and a sexy interpretive dancer, Laromlab rocks his audiences with a unique brand of electronic music he calls "Crisco Disco." " - Radio Free Chicago

"Dancey, Commodore 64 generated tunes for fans of Nintendo and Beck’s “Gameboy Variations EP” even though Laromlab did it first…" - KURE FM

"Harrod makes music that takes brains and hand-eye coordination. He incorporates Commodore 64, NES, and Gameboys to squish together disparate sounds and make them into dance numbers" - Quad City Times