{"id":3803,"date":"2012-08-24T10:30:42","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T14:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.videogamedj.com\/?p=3803"},"modified":"2012-08-24T01:17:51","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T05:17:51","slug":"friday-freakout-new-ep-by-the-j-arthur-keenes-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/friday-freakout-new-ep-by-the-j-arthur-keenes-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Freakout: New EP by The J Arthur Keenes Band!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Vocally lead chiptune is\u00a0<strong>kicking<\/strong><strong> ass\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em>lately<\/em>. Obviously you&#8217;ve got<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brightprimate.tk\/\">\u00a0Br1ght Pr1mate<\/a>\u00a0with their stellar release\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.videogamedj.com\/friday-freakout-new-full-album-by-br1ght-pr1mate-released\/\">Night Animals<\/a>\u00a0just the other day; that album in of itself is enough for me to confidently make that claim. And now, you&#8217;ve also got<em>\u00a0THIS<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3823\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/friday-freakout-new-ep-by-the-j-arthur-keenes-band\/keenes\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/keenes.jpg?fit=350%2C350&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"350,350\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"keenes\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/keenes.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/keenes.jpg?fit=350%2C350&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3823\" title=\"Sad violin is sad.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.videogamedj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/keenes-300x300.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/keenes.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/keenes.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/keenes.jpg?w=350&amp;ssl=1 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The World&#8217;s Smallest Violin<br \/>\nby The J Arthur Keenes Band<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This EP comes at you with 5 extraordinarily solid tracks of powerfully lush, excellently composed eargasms. The fantastic mix of lead and harmony vox drive this release along quite wonderfully, but it doesn&#8217;t hurt that there&#8217;s a wildly varied assortment of different instruments throughout it; various and variously effected guitars and stringed instruments, brass, keys, accordion, drums &amp; percussion toys, and, of course, a fair amount of chippy goodness. Honestly, this album is a great example of chiptune as an instrument, as that&#8217;s simply what it is here! Albeit a fantastically used instrument, of course. ;)<\/p>\n<p>The wonderful atmosphere, energy, and just all around vibe created by the <em>STELLAR<\/em> mix is worth writing about as well. Wanna know how to mix a winning chipalbum? <em>ASK THIS GUY.<\/em>\u00a0Seriously, just put on a good set of cans, hit play, close your eyes <em>AND LISTEN TO THE SONIC JOY.\u00a0<\/em>This EP has very quickly become one of my favorite chip EPs of the year if not<em>\u00a0all time<\/em>. There&#8217;s a special sort of magic, energy, <em>FUN<\/em>\u00a0on this album that I can&#8217;t quite capture in words. And I&#8217;m damn rare to point out a particular song on an album and\/or pick a favorite, but\u00a0<em>HOLY FURKIN ZOMBOCON BOTH &#8220;MONSTERS&#8221; AND &#8220;OKAY&#8221; ARE GETTING POINTED THE BEEJEEBUS RIGHT OUT~!!!\u00a0<\/em>The entire thing is great, but those first two snag me\u00a0<em>something fierce.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em>In summation, if you can&#8217;t enjoy this album, well&#8230;<em> FUCK YOU. &lt;3\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\\m|<a href=\"http:\/\/i.minus.com\/il1jaw.gif\">\u2665<\/a>|m\/<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: relative; display: block; width: 300px; height: 355px;\" src=\"http:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/v=2\/album=1772895380\/size=grande2\/bgcol=FFFFFF\/linkcol=e6000e\/transparent=true\/\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"300\" height=\"355\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vocally lead chiptune is\u00a0kicking ass\u00a0lately. Obviously you&#8217;ve got\u00a0Br1ght Pr1mate\u00a0with their stellar release\u00a0Night Animals\u00a0just the other day; that album in of itself is enough for me to confidently make that claim. And now, you&#8217;ve also got\u00a0THIS: The World&#8217;s Smallest Violin by The J Arthur Keenes Band This EP comes at you with 5 extraordinarily solid tracks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/friday-freakout-new-ep-by-the-j-arthur-keenes-band\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday Freakout: New EP by The J Arthur Keenes Band!!!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":3823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1582,10,1506,77,55],"tags":[2057,1984,2142,2143,3,57,609,1968,79,101,2299,2115,2119,1272,8,2267,2121,2122,2272,2274,2136,2137,9,2193,2194,2134,1857,1243,2266,1952,1950,2271,2273,2135,2138,35,1953,1951,1961,679,11,588,1930,2364,2363,2055,106,896,739,170,1989,1064,2192,2189,2298,1323,2476,2474,2475,2116,2118,4292,1970,1971,2111,173,2397,1411,2478,682,1969,655,1923,2477,1858,169,1988,468],"class_list":{"0":"post-3803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-albums","8":"category-chiptune-music","9":"category-events","10":"category-gaming","11":"category-music","12":"tag-m","13":"tag-mm","15":"tag-2143","16":"tag-8-bit","17":"tag-8bit","18":"tag-album","19":"tag-albums-2","20":"tag-art","21":"tag-awesome","22":"tag-awesometastic","23":"tag-badass","24":"tag-badassery","25":"tag-bandcamp","26":"tag-chip","27":"tag-chip-art","28":"tag-chip-artist","29":"tag-chip-artists","30":"tag-chip-band","31":"tag-chip-bands","32":"tag-chip-group","33":"tag-chip-groups","34":"tag-chip-music","35":"tag-chip-musician","36":"tag-chip-musicians","37":"tag-chip-musics","38":"tag-chip-tune","39":"tag-chip-tunes","40":"tag-chipart","41":"tag-chipartist","42":"tag-chipartists","43":"tag-chipband","44":"tag-chipbands","45":"tag-chipgroup","46":"tag-chipgroups","47":"tag-chipmusic","48":"tag-chipmusician","49":"tag-chipmusicians-2","50":"tag-chipmusics","51":"tag-chips","52":"tag-chiptune","53":"tag-chiptunes","54":"tag-chiptunes-win","55":"tag-chiptunes-win-mm","56":"tag-chiptunes-are-win","57":"tag-chipwin","58":"tag-electronic","59":"tag-ep","60":"tag-experimental","61":"tag-facebook","62":"tag-ftw","63":"tag-geek","64":"tag-geekery","65":"tag-geeky","66":"tag-google","67":"tag-instrument","68":"tag-instruments","69":"tag-j-arthur-keenes","70":"tag-j-arthur-keenes-band","71":"tag-kickass","72":"tag-kickassery","73":"tag-music","74":"tag-musics","75":"tag-muzak","76":"tag-muzaks","77":"tag-nerd","78":"tag-nerdery-album","79":"tag-nerdy","80":"tag-oakville","81":"tag-release","82":"tag-releases","83":"tag-soundcloud","84":"tag-the-j-arthur-keenes-band","85":"tag-the-worlds-smallest-violin","86":"tag-tumblr","87":"tag-twitter","88":"tag-win","89":"tag-youtube"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/keenes.jpg?fit=350%2C350&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3803"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3840,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803\/revisions\/3840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}