Powered by Pornophonique 8bit-nostalgia: gameboy meets lagerfeuer

If memory do not cheat on me, couple of years ago on last.fm, then still free of charge I came across Pornophonique  for the first time. Since I listen to their music until my brain knows every blip, my ears bleed and begging me to give it a brake.

 So I do, and not listening for their music for a little while, but set "GameOver" as a ringtone, and come back to listening to their touching tracks again. I'm listening to one at this very moment, which hinders my writing, but who cares.

 Yes, this short post will be not about Pornophonique, but my fascination by this band, their music and lyrics. This is because, dear reader can find everything I know and more about them online.

http://pornophonique.de/music.php

One day though, I'm willing to meet creators of these beautiful tracks in person, and hopefully, write about them in a more respectful place. I have some questions to ask these two.  It might turn out that both of the creators of beautiful bewitching sounds are both atrocious fearsome creatures mastering magic.
 It might also happen that they are nice people, but meeting them will render me speechless, so I will never find out more than it is available on the web. Time will show. Apart from the album, there are remixes available, I highly recommend the remix on "Space Invaders" :

http://www.konsolentuning.de/downloads/pornophonique/the_procacci_remixes/02_space_invaders_procacci-rmx.mp3
with a hint of balinese Barong Dance to it.

This post is mainly addressed to those for whom 8bit consoles like at Atari,  or a GameBoy were the early and the most personal introduction to the music. Those days, 8bit music accompanied long evenings spent with friends, magic and amazement of discovering new unseen levels.
 Since then, 8bit subtle pitches are forever connected with beauty, magic, friendship, love and all sorts of embarrassingly sentimental, dear to me memories. My apologies for the certain elitism, I suppose, if you never had an 8bit game console or were born directly into 16bit, you might as well find 8bit music as moving as I find it.
 Rock and pop music, on the other hand, came from older friends or siblings, radio, parents. It was something cool from outside world, replacing lovely but cheesy lullabies, songs from cartoons and kiddies vinyls.

To make a long story short, Pornophonique is a mixture of both, it triggers concealed parts of my soul, and leaves me helplessly daydreaming, missing my pixelised 8bit paradise lost.

 

I wish you're having a nice day.

K