2/16/2023 0 Comments Anomaly 2 demo![]() In 2020, because school went online for the pandemic, he found himself with more free time which he spent playing videogames and making music. “That aesthetic, I couldn’t stop enjoying it.”Īfter high school, he entered college for graphic design. “As I got older, I started getting more into vaporwave and electronic music,” he says. Since a lot of his classmates liked to rap, he started producing trap instrumentals for his friends to rhyme over. He discovered Ableton and started experimenting in order to make music that sounded like Aphex Twin. He discovered vaporwave at age fourteen, after encountering the music video for Yung Lean’s “Hurt,” which copped the genre’s visual aesthetic.Īt 16, Guynes started making music, shortly after a move from Mobile, AL to Tuscaloosa. ![]() Guynes is 20, lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and recalls becoming interested in music through a local classic rock station. The other individual behind Devil Cartridge is Britt Guynes, who produces music under the name Frogmore. I’ll be repressing it in the spring as well, for more copies.” I was nervous to release the vinyl, because I didn’t know if anyone’s going to buy it. I sold out of 50 tapes in about two hours, and then the vinyl sold out in about an hour and a half - a hundred copies. “Bandcamp is where I really seem to do well in terms of tape releases. Months after Nautilus, he put out God’s In His Heaven, All’s Right With The World, a tribute to the video game Neon Genesis Evangelion it, too, attracted many fans and warranted cassette and vinyl versions. Nautilus was a hit on the vaporwave scene that uses Bandcamp as a main outlet, successful enough to warrant a cassette release, a vinyl edition on multi-coloured “splatter” vinyl, and even a limited edition LP that is filled with liquid and glitter. ![]() They’re always ready and willing to check out somebody, even if they’ve never heard of them.” And so that kind of bridged the gap moving into the vaporwave scene, which was a very open scene to newcomers. And I was into experimental music and electronic stuff I’ve always been a fan of Aphex Twin and Xiu Xiu and stuff like that. I was more into videogame music: Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts. But I wasn’t heavily into the scene or the genre. “I was aware of vaporwave, I knew some of the classic albums. Nautilus, like many of Naglak’s recent releases, can be considered vaporwave-adjacent. “I really, really love that one, I love the music in it, and the scenery and the setting,” he tells me, recognizing it is a controversial pick amongst gamers. This resulted in Nautilus, a full game-inspired album that took inspiration from Final Fantasy 13, a divisive game in the FF series. He found himself coming home from work and producing music for hours on end, operating at a song-per-day tack. He had toyed with electronics before this, but this was his first entirely electronic project. That was what kickstarted me - okay, I want to try and make some videogame-inspired music.” It was the recent remake of Final Fantasy 7 that motivated him to merge his passions for gaming and music production. Naglak also has a keen interest in video game soundtracks, something he became more focused on during the pandemic, when he found himself with a lot more time to game. He creates music under the name My Sister’s Fugazi Shirt as implied by that moniker, he grew up listening to indie rock, recording “lo-fi bedroom music” and playing in various bands in high school: a noise-rock band at one point, a ska band “for a long time, which was fun,” he laughs as we chat via Zoom. One of them is 30-year-old Ryan Naglak, a musician and optometrist living in Philadelphia. What is this strange release, and is there any truth to the tale?Īs it turns out, Devil Cartridge is the work of two producers. So reads the back story for Devil Cartridge: Demo Disc, a 6-song EP that purports to be a soundtrack from a Japanese videogame that ended up stuck in development hell. We at Frogazi Studios have unearthed a copy of this lost and fabled game and have compiled its eccentric soundtrack through vigorous restoration for release later this month. The backlash from this, led the restaurant to file bankruptcy in early 2001 and disappear shortly after. To try to drum up business and compete with other national chains, they began offering a free demo disc of an in development Playstation game called ‘Devil Cartridge.’ Little did they know the game would get cancelled, and eventually lost due to rumors of satanic content. In 1999, a small chain of restaurants called Yasai Donburi Vegan Ramen began opening stores in the midwest United States.
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