Our partnership with Penny-Arcade continues to expand in strange new directions. Behold "Penny-Arcade: The series", a documentary series about the life and times of those who inhabit the Penny-Arcade office.
You can currently find the 2-part pilot episode along with the first regular episode of the series online at www.penny-arcade.com/patv. New episodes should be expected Fridays at a rate of 2 per month, with additional offerings from ourselves and others to fill the gaps.
If your curiosity has brought you here from PATV, i bid you welcome. If you at all enjoy the music featured in each episode of the PA series, click around and explore some of our other video content. We have a rich history with the chip music scene, and it's pairing with the PA series has felt very right. We have a fine selection of products available. Please buy them, and continue to further your education.
For those new to the site, i also highly recommended reading this interview that took place for GameSetWatch. It covers a great deal of our history, and should serve to get you up to speed on our past, present, and future.
If you haven't seen our most recent documentary on the PS3-exclusive title "Infamous," drop by Gametrailers to watch all 3 episodes of Behind The Scenes Goodness at Sucker Punch Studios.
Sweet, we made it to our second post of the year! So we're back in Seattle for this year's Penny Arcade Expo, one of the country's largest gaming conventions open to the general public. Last year, we came to screen one project, Reformat the Planet. This year, we're here to create a new one.
We have to remain fairly tight-lipped about it all at the moment but I can tell you that we'll be trailing PA masterminds, Mike & Jerry, for the entire weekend -- documenting their interactions with the vendors, volunteers, and, most importantly, their fans. We'll also be covering all of this year's musical performances (including our dear friends Anamanaguchi so be on the lookout for some good old fashioned 2PP-style concert footage. We saw the performance area come together today and it looks unspeakably badass. With about 75,000 people expected to attend, we're looking forward to an exciting weekend.
Big ups to everyone at Penny Arcade and all the Expo staff. We've had a great time so far and everyone has been extremely generous and helpful. We're really looking forward to sharing this material with all of you once we figure out what form it's going to take. I have to be up and ready to go at 7am to catch all the kids lining up early at the convention center so I'll stop here for now.
For more regular updates, be sure to Follow us on twitter. We just posted links to two brand new videos so check 'em out.
We're back. We never really went anywhere, we've just been so busy making this incredible live album release, we didn't have time to update the site. That or we forgot how to update the site. Take your pick.
Blip 2008 Live is now available to purchase in physical and digital forms. You can also stream the entire album online for free at bandcamp.
The site is currently in the process of receiving a complete overhaul. Other big things are in the works, including our second year at PAX in September, a cross country move to a new base of operations in Portland, Oregon, and some big new projects that will take us in a new direction.
We'll be back online soon, better then ever. Until then, kick back and enjoy the sounds of Blip 2008 Live, and keep in touch with our twitter feed.
In a move that is sure to split the tight pants off of hipsters everywhere, influential internet outfit Pitchfork Media has finally discovered chip music. To make up for lost time, they've decided to stream the entirety of our Reformat the Planet documentary off their site. The catch: It's only available for one week, so head there now and you can say you knew about chip music before all those hipsters on your block did.
So once again, we managed to miss our weekly video update. While some may think we merely set ourselves up for failure, i can attest that this time we had some really good excuses. A whole bunch. Seriously.
Better late then never, we're rolling out a new mini-series of videos, the "080808". We where lucky enough to show up in time to catch a few performances at the 080808 outdoor show in Philadelphia, hosted by our friend No-Carrier. The first video is more on the abstract side and features the Nullsleep track "Angle of Reflection".
Look out for more videos coming soon in the 080808 series featuring performances by Minus Baby, Animal Style, and 8GB.
West Coast Premier of Reformat the Planet at Penny Arcade Expo
Reformat the Planet will be showing at the 2008 Penny Arcade Expo(PAX) in Seattle, Washington. This will be our west-coast premier, and perhaps the largest venue RTP has had the privilege to play at. With attendance over the years steadily rising to the thirty seven thousand at last years event, PAX has become the ultimate destination for gamers the world over. RTP will be introduced to a new audience that's bigger then ever, and we're all very grateful that the guys at PA liked our movie enough to want to show it to their friends.
We'll be joined in Seattle by our pals Anamanaguchi, who are performing as part of PAX's legendary live concert event. Having previously given new life to video game cover bands and the nerd-core rap movement, PAX will be opening their door for the first time to chip music. Little do they realize the breaching charges placed on the door by the guch', set to blow that fucker to splinters right before they storm in and clear the room.
In theory, you should be able to find us for the duration of the event populating a merch booth packed with all sort of excellent 8bitpeoples swag. What's much more likely to happen is that we'll find an excuse to stick Anamanaguchi in the booth and sneak off to play Mega Man 9 and Bionic Commando. So if you come by to make a purchase in good will and find the station manned by scruffy-looking musician types with colorful t-shirts and tight pants, don't panic. They are in control.
To celebrate our next big screening(and make up for last weeks missing video) we've added three clips of Reformat the Planet to the site to give everyone a better idea of whats in store for them. PAIN!
No, not really. Unless you find pulse pounding live performances and slick 8-bit ascetics painful, then be sure to take your medication before clicking the link.
As of this moment, the time slot for the PAX screening is still TBA. In the meantime, you should be concerned with putting your body through an intense physical and mental training routine in preparation for the three most jam-packed days of awesomeness in human history.
2PP risked life and limb to bring you this brand new, unreleased Nullsleep track, "Shadows in the Sky", performed for the first time live at the May Pulsewave in NYC. The video was filmed entirely by a secret camera hidden discreetly in Asif's giant novelty hat, and then smuggled out of the venue in Paul Owen's digestive track.
This tremendous breach in the Great Sleep's security will most certainly be met with terrible, searing retaliation, but we here at 2PP are committed to bringing you the deepest darkest secrets from the seedy underworld of chip music, whatever the cost. We'll just blame it all on an intern anyway. I mean, that's what their there for, right?
Next week: Secret footage of Glomag's negative energy weapon tests from deep within his vast subterranean fortress. Be there!
Reformat The Planet Official Selection of The Melbourne International Film Festival
Big news this week is "Reformat The Planet" being accepted to screen at the Melbourne International Film Festival in Australia. This will be the overseas premier of RTP, and everyone at 2PP is honored to have the film screen at Australia's largest and most prestigious festival.
Unfortunately, the 2PP crew will not be attending the festival due to the prohibitive cost of international air fair. We however send our collective spirit along with the betaSP transfer, and encourage any native Australians with a taste for big little sounds to check out one of the freshest music documentaries in this or any hemisphere.
"Blip Festival: Reformat The Planet" will be screening 9:30 PM on Monday, July 28th, at the Kino Theater.
The new video this week has been a long time coming, featuring a January 08 Pulsewave performance by Seed AI, brain child of 2PP's own web designer Brett Lefferts. This performance also features Brett's good friend and master of percussion, Dan Gottesman.
This is the first of two video projects developed for Seed AI, the second still in production with a tentative release date of early fall 2008.
This weeks video features LA native chip artist Trash80 live at the May Pulsewave in NYC, performing "Missing You" from his new 8bitpeoples release, "Icarus".
2PP would like to announce the launch of "Chiptunes Unite!", a new video sharing group hosted on Vimeo. Having recognized that we're not the only people in the world making chip videos, we set out to try and gather the scattered resources of the internet into one place for your viewing pleasure. You'll find live shows, music videos, graphic demos, and all sort of bit-craft. Be sure to drop in and see what the wide world of chip music has to offer, or even better, join up, grab a camera, and post some videos of chip shows in your area!
2PP would also like to unveil their latest secret weapon in the fight against over-modulated sound, shiny new audio tech Gabe Liberti. Gabe's utter remorseless domination of sound waves can be experienced first hand in the Blip Festival 2007 Bit Shifter video.
Check back again next Monday for another new video. Which will it be? I don't know, we probably haven't even started it yet!
Every Monday 2PP will be adding a new chip video to the website. Promise!
We're going to be kicking off this new commitment to a crushing workload with a brand new Blip 2007 Video featuring Bit Shifter!
Be sure to stop back every week for new videos from Blip 2007 and the monthly Pulsewave events in NYC, plus whatever else we can slap together.
Plenty more site updates will be coming as well, like expanded content for "Reformat the Planet", updated crew info and blogs, as well as instructions on how you too can become part of the global chip music movement.
WELCOME to the official 2 Player Productions website.
Here you will be able to find the latest info about content being created by 2PP, as well as archives of all our past works.
This site is currently under construction, so expect to see many sections appear as non-functonal as we work out the bugs and make content available over the coming days.
We're all very excited to be going to SXSW, and thankful to everyone thats been there along the way to help us make it possible.
We aim to continue producing interesting and unique content, including the continuation of established projects like the "Blip Festival Video Collections" and PulsewaveNYC coverage.
2PP is honored to have our first feature documentary showcased at such a prestigious festival. We're also very excited to be joined in Austin by many of our friends and collegues in the chip music community who will be performing during the festivals music portion.
This combination of film and performance will mark the strongest push into popular media exposure chip culture has ever experienced.
Prepare for the 8bit invasion of Austin, March 2008.
As hosting duty for the monthly Pulsewave event at the Tank in NYC continues it's rotation, 2PP takes the reigns for a night of firsts at this special Valentines themed show.
8bitbetty promises a triumphant first ever performance at Pulsewave, and equally amazing return performances by Animal Style and Nullsleep are sure to follow.
