Thank you so much for helping make 2011 infinitely memorable. I hope to help make 2012 memorable for you.

Back in March, I learned that The C-Men and I would be the last to perform on the Engadget Show as hosted and chiefly edited by Joshua Topolsky at the Times Center. Having performed three times prior, I thought to myself, "oh, that's wack."

So I was happy to greet an email last month from Trent Wolbe of WFMU's DJ Tront fame and video producer, Chad Mumm, asking if I'd be cool with my music being used in videos for The Verge — Joshua and crew's new venture. The Verge went live today and as such you'll hear snippets, trifles and smidgens of my music in video reviews, interviews and whatnot produced for and by the company; via the site and their YouTube channel. For example, at the beginning of an interview with Nokia's Marko Ahtisaari.

Look out for audio clips by Bit Shifter and glomag, too. 8bitpeoples are reppin' hard.

• NORTH! · Danbury, CT
  AR(t)CADE
  with Burnkit2600, Seed A.I. and more
  October 8th
   
• SOUTH! · Baltimore, MD
  Byte Nyte
  with Da Pantz, exileFaker and more
  October 15th
   
• EAST! · New York, NY
  Re:Mix Lab
  with Paris and Eclectic Method
  October 21st
   
• WEST! · Chicago, IL
  GLI.TC/H
  with Mikrosopht, Nullsleep and more
  November 4th
   

It'd been a while since I'd written a new tune. This one's got legs.

We just called it "chiptune" then. I think. I mean, we really didn't have anything else to call it. In 2001, we scoured MicroMusic, Scene.org and Pouet for tracks and source files while over in Europe they were on the third wave of tradition.

Ten years ago, there wasn't a New York scene like there is today. Hell, there was barely a US scene in 2001 - certainly nothing like today's impressive network of musicians covering every imaginable musical style except for, maybe, zydeco and polka. This can't be ruled out, though, which is exactly why moving in loose terms from "chiptune" to "chip music" was not only inevitable, but accurate. There's plenty of diversity within the practice of composing for old computers, video game consoles and with sound chip emulation to demand a change in nomenclature.