Bit Shifter explores high-energy, low-bit music composed and performed on a Nintendo Game Boy. The result is an unapologetically fun foray into an evocative and distinctive soundset, executed on a console generally misperceived as being technically limited. Made possible by Oliver Wittchow and Johan Kotlinski's respective home-brew Game Boy musicmaking programs Nanoloop and Little Sound DJ, Bit Shifter's music adopts and subverts the playfulness inherent in the familiar Game Boy soundset, repurposing it into the service of novel idioms. Based in New York City, Bit Shifter has performed over one hundred shows worldwide, having recently circumnavigated the planet in a 20-date world tour with fellow chiptune compatriot Nullsleep.
Information Chase (8BP059)
Life's A Bit Shifter
(555 Recordings CD)
8-Bit Operators
(Astralwerks CD) "Pocket Calculator" (Glomag Mega-Mix)" / "The Robots"
(Astralwerks 12") GB
(Intikrec CD) 8BP050
(8bitpeoples 2xCD+MP3) Gully Gotham Grit • Volume 1
(Mirex 12") Maladroit Shares Capslock With Bit Shifter
(Ketacore 12"/MP3) Christmasasaurus Vol. 2
(Candy Mind MP3) Anime Toonz Volume 3 [Lemon Edition]
(Jellybean / Nemesis CD) Anime Toonz Volume 3 [Lime Edition]
(Jellybean / Nemesis CD) Sonic Acts XI - The Anthology Of Computer Art
(Sonic Acts / The Wire DVD) Yard Magazine Issue 2 CD Project
(Yard / SDE CD) Ctrl-N
(Modsquare MP3) Chipolitiks Vol. 1: 1984
(Toilville MP3) Remuzik
(Intikrec CD) Anime Toonz Volume 2
(Jellybean CD) The 8bits of Christmas
(8bitpeoples MP3) Boy Playground
(Relax Beat CD) Lumptronic 6 ...
(Lumpen Media Group 2xCD) 555CD55
(555 Recordings CD)
