VORC Records

• Official Website (JP)
• YouTube Channel
• Saitone.com (EN)
• Holy 8bit Night + (JP)
• squarewave surfers ~ memory of 8bit (JP)

1. Electric Prophet (K-> Remix)
2. Rainbow Rainbow (K-> Remix)
3. Be Together (K-> Remix)
4. Telephone Line (Tanikugu Remix)
5. Kiss You (K-> Remix)
6. Time Passed Me By (Kyonomori Remix)
7. Rhythm Red Beat Black (Tanikugu Remix)
8. Come On Everybody (K-> Remix)
9. Self Control (K-> Remix)
10. Still Love Her (Kyonomori Remix)
11. bonus. Get Wild (Saitone Remix feat. AsianDynasty)

"Ah, yes, 8-bit chiptune. It's music that is performed and composed by using retro game hardware like the Famicom and the Gameboy as instruments. Love it, great stuff."

Kotaku - Chiptune's 8-Bit Profit

"Japan's finest chiptune label (and accompanying 8-bit news network), VORC, has written in with word of their latest collection, 8-BIT PROPHET: a tribute to Japanese 80's "techno-pop"/new wave band TM Network, with a particular twist: rather than instrumental covers, all vocals on the album have been produced using Yamaha's singing speech-synth Vocaloid."

Offworld - Listen: the chiptune/singing-synth techno-pop tribute, 8-BIT PROPHET

"Independent chiptune label VORC Records announced a new tribute album for TM Network for Japanese "techno-pop unit" TM Network, titled 8-bit Prophet, remixing the group's popular songs as chiptune tracks with vocals dropped in by Yamaha's singing synthesizer software."

GameSetWatch - 8-Bit Prophet Album Combines Vocaloid With Chiptunes

"Now, all three of these great tastes are smooshed together into one awesome collection from VORC Records. Titled 8bit Prophet: TM Network Tribute - Generated by Chiptuine & Vocaloid, the album consists of eleven songs from a wide range of chiptune producers, wrapped into one incredibly beautiful package (illustrated by TOKIYA.) Follow me across the jump for a full review and sound clips! "

Japanator - Japanator review: 8bit Prophet (ZB's A-Z of J-Music)

"Here’s another excellent chiptune/vocaloid joint that you might have already seen at my other gig, this time from VORC Records’ 8-bit Prophet album:"

Tiny Cartridge

"Vorc Records has released several more samples from its tribute to Japanese “techno-pop unit” TM Network, which you can pick up at HearJapan. The second track in the above clip, “Telephone Line”, is way smooth, one that I’d put on while making eyes at my lady."

Tiny Cartridge

"One of the latest new 8-bit music productions is 「8-BIT PROPHET - TM Network Tribute Generated by Chiptune + Vocaloid」a new CD created by Vorc Records that will be on sale from the third of this month in Japan. It is a tribute to TM Network, a important Japanese group from the eighties. It is all chiptune and the voices are all by Hatsune Miku (A Yamaha voice synthesizer). "

Kirainet - 8-bit music

"Chiptune. If you're with it, you'll praise its contemporary composers for their amazing ability to increasingly knock out dazzling originals or faithful recreations with a new twist. But if you don't get it, you'll be quick to dismiss the genre as a bunch of eighties-obsessed geeks freaking out over crude beeps. Honestly this description suits me just fine, as I'll readily admit to being an old-school video game nerd anyday. But unless you're a stinking hypocrite, you just have to applaud the efforts of recently-launched VORC Records, who are working so damn hard to bring chitpune to the next level, with international collaboration albums and a major push for the budding genre to hop onto mainstream distribution channels, certainly to the joy of all artists involved."

denpa no sekai - VORC Records Interview (TM NETWORK chiptune tribute)

"Chiptune, specifically 8-bit chiptune, is music that is performed and composed by using retro game hardware like the NES/Famicom and the Game Boy as instruments to make original music not just play existing video game music."

V G M X

"8-BIT PROPHET is trying to combine Chiptune with Vocaloid. And I have to say, I loved the result."
"I really loved it - it’s amazing. “Self Control” is my personal favorite of all the songs in this album."

Vocaloidism - 8-BIT PROPHET

otakumag.com - blog..

1. Peculiar Orbit
2. Psybus
3. Overlapping Spiral
4. Right Night
5. Je te veux
6. Gigadec
7. Polygrid
8. Circle
9. Lotus
10. Combination - Album Edit

1. Saitone - Christmas Eve (Saitone Remix)
2. COVOX - Koibito ga Santa Claus (Sweden chip mix)
3. Goto80 - All I want for Christmas is you (Goto80’s Super Wail Remix)
4. Far East Recording - Last Christmas (Nitro RJB remix)
5. Bit Shifter - Winter Wonderland (Bit Shifter Remix)
6. Saitone - Sleigh Ride (Saitone Remix)
7. Tanikugu - This Christmas (Tanikugu remix)
8. she - Frosty the Snowman (Frosty RX)
9. suge - Parade of the Wooden Soldiers (Parade%Of%The%Wooden%Soldiers.gb)
10. Xinon - Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (One gameboy remix)
11. K-> - Jin Jin Jingle Bell (NSF Edition)
12. Bud Melvin(w/ Jessica Billey) - White Christmas (White Xs)
13. USK - Jingle Bells (X’mas chipdisko 2008)
14. hally - Xmas Song Megamix(plastic sputnik arcade punk)

1. Tanikugu - 9.8[M/S]
2. Keito Kyonomori - Shojo Kankaku

"Midway through the first listen, it’s clear that the album’s mix of frenetic rhythms and vintage computing/gaming sounds would drive half of the people at the average holiday party batty within minutes, which could be good enough reason to include it in a mix (or as a change of pace from standard holiday fare).

We’ll always have a soft spot in our hearts for the King’s College Choir, but for the converted chiptune or adventurous electronica fan who’s looking for some Christmas cheer, Holy 8bit Night is a must-have."

Wired - Listening Post

"The album continues along these lines of both serious sonic bliss and childlike blip joy. Through it all, the collection manages to inject loads of life and humanity to the otherwise cold and stark sonic pallet. This is a Christmas album after all. For all of those out there who are tired of the old standards and the agony of their schmaltzy smarm and saccharine goodie-two-shoes lryics, then Holy 8-Bit Night + just might be the modern-day update you've been looking for. It's certainly a must-have for retro-wave aficionados who can purchase it without hesitation."

Otaku USA - Omodaka and a Merry 8-Bit Christmas

1. she - Kimi ha tennenshoku (Tennen Shoku RX)
2. K-> - Summertime Blues (Samataiboo GB ~ Shittaka British mix)
3. Chibi-Tech - Natsumatsuri (edo castle crashers mix)
4. hally - Surfin'USA (feat. Surf Robot Quartet)
5. Nullsleep - Let The Waves Guide Us
6. Bud Melvin - Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini (Enhanced Interrogation Adaptation)
7. USK - Tequila (USK loves siraf life remix)
8. gwEm - Summer In The City (Summer In The 'Ditch remix)
9. Bokusatsu Shoujo Koubou - Sugar Baby Love (Baby Sugar Kill Mix)
10. Saitone - Pipeline (Saitone Remix)

1. suge - bndg v.b
2. Tanikugu - Deneb

"Imagine Tron, only stretched out and wrapped around your face, and you might come close to the experience of being at one of two recent shows held in Japan. The sound, provided by 8-bit maestro Saitone. The visuals, provided by VJ REEL of Lightrythm Visuals. The venue, the Synra Dome in Tokyo"

Japanator.com - Saitone brings 8-bit to 3D with Synra Dome shows

• Gizmodo Japan (JP) - Chiptune to listen to in a 3D dome theater feels good with both the brain and the body
  
  
• Engadget Japan (JP) - Live of music and 3D images at the 3D Dome Theater Synra Dome, Science Museum
  
  
• WhiteScreen (JP) - 3D live at the latest planetarium.
  
  
• Manga Navi (JP) - Saitone's 1st album release party "Overlapping Spiral"

"Turns out that the next big thing in live musical performances may not be bigger, better and brighter sound systems and light shows, but in fact quite the opposite.

At a recent event in Japan, a number of 8-bit/chiptune musicians came together to perform a "silent live." They did this right in the streets of Akihabara, the defacto gathering place of all things bleeding-edge in Japanese pop culture. Of course, in a fine bit of irony, these performance visionaries were all making their tunes on decades old game systems and handhelds.

Now here's the hook. In order to hear this free show, the audiences had to bring their own pair of headphones. They could then jack in to the performance, enjoying the lo-fi bleeps and crunches in their very own personal headspace. The beauty of this setup is that no one else is bothered by loud noise and it can all be done right out in public."

Japanator - Whether you want to bring the noise or enjoy the silence, Japan has you covered with the "silent live"