{"id":6266,"date":"2013-10-04T11:01:33","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T15:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.videogamedj.com\/?p=6266"},"modified":"2013-10-15T12:29:38","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T16:29:38","slug":"gamechops-announces-club-needlemouse-sonic-tribute-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/gamechops-announces-club-needlemouse-sonic-tribute-album\/","title":{"rendered":"GameChops announces &#8220;Club Needlemouse&#8221; Sonic Tribute Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6268\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6268\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.videogamedj.com\/gamechops-announces-club-needlemouse-sonic-tribute-album\/10-13-13_-copy\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6268\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6268\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/gamechops-announces-club-needlemouse-sonic-tribute-album\/10-13-13_-copy\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/10-13-13_-copy.jpg?fit=581%2C540&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"581,540\" 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=\"Club Needlemouse Promo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Club Needlemouse, a 9 track Sonic the Hedgehog tribute is due out on October 13th&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/10-13-13_-copy.jpg?fit=300%2C278&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/10-13-13_-copy.jpg?fit=474%2C441&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6268\" alt=\"Club Needlemouse, a 9 track Sonic the Hedgehog tribute is due out on October 13th\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.videogamedj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/10-13-13_-copy-300x278.jpg?resize=300%2C278\" width=\"300\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/10-13-13_-copy.jpg?resize=300%2C278&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/10-13-13_-copy.jpg?w=581&amp;ssl=1 581w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Club Needlemouse, a 9 track Sonic the Hedgehog tribute is due out on October 13th<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;m very excited to announce the upcoming release of the latest album from my label\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamechops.com\">GameChops<\/a>, <strong>Club Needlemouse<\/strong>. Titled after the code-name for Sonic the Hedgehog back in his early development ( <a href=\"http:\/\/info.sonicretro.org\/Mr._Needlemouse\">Mr. Needlemouse<\/a> ), this album takes inspiration from games throughout the Sonic series. It&#8217;s created by italian producer RobKTA (Pronouced Rob kay-tee-aee), and it features live instrumentation alongside dance music production.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s extra exciting about this album is that it&#8217;s done in the style of 90s club and house music. Very different from some of the other\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamechops.com\">GameChops<\/a>\u00a0releases, that have gained popularity from a modern EDM sound, like <a title=\"The TRIFORCE of BASS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.videogamedj.com\/the-triforce-of-bass\/\">Triforce of Bass<\/a>\u00a0and <a title=\"Ben Briggs \u2013 Aquarium Park\" href=\"http:\/\/www.videogamedj.com\/ben-briggs-aquarium-park\/\">Trash FM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think this departure to a different style of dance music is a welcome one, and a sound I personally enjoy. I could listen to this album on repeat for days&#8230; it&#8217;s being mastered by bLiNd and myself. The mixes feel exciting and fresh while keeping with a more classic aesthetic. I&#8217;m particularly happy to hear some tunes from the early Sega Genesis Sonic games re-done in the electronic style of that time. Very cool.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a youtube trailer I put together featuring a mashup \u00a0I did of one song and the classic vocal line from Stardust&#8217;s &#8220;Music Sounds Better With You&#8221; Just goes to show you how true these mixes are to the classic house sound. Club Needlemouse is out on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamechops.com\">GameChops<\/a>\u00a0on October 13th 2013.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wJVUCOzKw4s?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very excited to announce the upcoming release of the latest album from my label\u00a0GameChops, Club Needlemouse. Titled after the code-name for Sonic the Hedgehog back in his early development ( Mr. Needlemouse ), this album takes inspiration from games throughout the Sonic series. It&#8217;s created by italian producer RobKTA (Pronouced Rob kay-tee-aee), and it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/gamechops-announces-club-needlemouse-sonic-tribute-album\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GameChops announces &#8220;Club Needlemouse&#8221; Sonic Tribute Album<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6267,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3177,33,55],"tags":[259,609,199,270,69,3388,53,16,1567,106,107,4234,1002,51,3389,24,1468,3391,3390,26,188],"class_list":["post-6266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dance-music","category-game-music-vgm","category-music","tag-90s","tag-album","tag-blind","tag-classic","tag-club","tag-club-needlemouse","tag-dance","tag-dj-cutman","tag-edm","tag-electronic","tag-electronica","tag-game-music-vgm","tag-gamechops","tag-house","tag-needlemouse","tag-remix","tag-remixing","tag-rob-kta","tag-robkta","tag-sonic","tag-vgm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-clubneedlemouse-promo.jpg?fit=960%2C368&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\/6266","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6266"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6273,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6266\/revisions\/6273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}