Author: GameChops

  • VGM Collective

    VGM Collective is a New York jazz group led by trumpeter Max Boiko, with Jasper Dutz on saxophone and flute, Sungtaek Choo on piano, Bob Bruya on bass, and Gary Kerkezou on drums. Their debut, Live From Pallet Town, is a Pokémon record cut to tape at Red Convertible Recording in Queens, with arrangements that stay loose and largely improvised. The set pulls fan favorites from Red & Blue through Black & White 2, plus a few deeper cuts from Mystery Dungeon and Stadium 2, and plays them like a quiet late set at a club.

  • Super Lofi 64

    Canaan and Nathaniel are two brothers who grew up playing music together. After exploring solo piano music as Super Piano 64, the duo joined GameChops to produce chill beats under the moniker Super Lofi 64.

  • Curly

    UK-based producer and arranger Curly makes calming video game music for GameChops, from his solo-piano album Piano & Sleep: Mario Galaxy to his Minecraft chillwave tribute Vibecraft.

  • Rifti Beats

    Rifti Beats is a beat-maker who flips anime and video game themes into lofi hip-hop, and his calling card on GameChops is the Final Fantasy series. Chocobo & Chill was his first solo album for the label and the seventh entry in its “& Chill” line, taking 15 of Nobuo Uematsu’s compositions from Final Fantasy VI through X and reworking them into something you can nod along to. It did well enough to earn a sequel, Chocobo & Chill II, and the original later landed on vinyl.

  • Button Masher

    Button Masher is Jake Silverman, a pianist and arranger who figured out how to make a chip sound swing. He took home a Grammy in 2021 for his arrangement of “Meta Knight’s Revenge,” cut with Charlie Rosen and The 8-Bit Big Band, and his solo work runs the same trick in reverse: real jazz harmony and reharmonization poured over 8-bit and 16-bit textures. On GameChops he teamed with Dj Cutman for “Jubilife Village,” a piano-and-chiptune read of the Pokémon Legends: Arceus theme that stays loose where the original sits still.

  • Hotline Sehwani

    Hotline Sehwani makes lofi and chillhop that puts the groove first, with covers of music from Sonic the Hedgehog, Minecraft, and Super Mario to his name. His biggest GameChops project is Mario & Chill 3, where he handled production and pulled in a roster of collaborators to spread the album across Super Mario Galaxy, Odyssey, Wonder, and more. It is the kind of record built to sit in the background while you work, without ever going flat.

  • Blauu

    Blauu is a producer from Spain, now based in Germany, whose GameChops album Poké Tape 5 turns Pokémon themes into laid-back, jazzy-funk lofi built on real keys and warm woodwinds.

That's all, folks!

That's all, folks!