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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 03/10/2026

you made the print edition too!

Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 02/10/2026

I’ve gotta say, it’s so fucking surreal to me that the audio on this record was recorded in my basement, from a broken NES console that my brother bought second hand from some guy in my hometown.

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 02/10/2026

One of my favorite quirks with putting NES music on vinyl - one of the most commonly used NES tempos happens to line up nicely with 33 1/3 rpm, so you naturally just get these cool refractive patterns.

$Refractive patterns on a vinyl record, caused by the music on the vinyl lining up with the rotation speed of the record.$

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 02/10/2026

It’s here! 36 pounds of Castlevania on vinyl.

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 13/09/2026

hey who put that mike stand there?

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 17/08/2026

High point of the weekend for me, in more ways than one. I got this warning during the first song of the set. 😂

Apple health “noise notification” warning. Warning reads “Sound levels hit 100 decibels.
Even a few minutes at this level can cause temporary hearing loss.”

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 08/04/2026

We're honored to have been nominated for a 2026 Game Music Remix Award for best album! Congrats to our fellow nominees @summitsoundcollective.com @splitscreenvgm.bsky.social @harpsibored.bsky.social and Alexander Brandon! Links to each album in the replies.

Game Music Remix Awards
VGM CON

2026 Nominees for Best Album:

The Madeline Mixtape:
A Charity Arrangement Album
by Summit Sound Collective Cayenneta, TheBeastlyPichu, PsychLantern,
ThePhreshPhrog, livvy94, Sebb, Izzyience,
Rom M, Orelover, Chango, MetaMusic,
Monochrome, Nuchuu, fusoxide
Live at Super MAGFest 2025
by Marshall Art

Local Area Network
by Split Screen

Final Fantasy VIII Harp Collections, Vol. 1 by Harpsibored

Tournament Rematch:
Unreal Tournament Remixed by Alexander Brandon, Michiel Van Den Bos,
Andrew Sega, Peter Hajba, Dan Gardopée

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 18/03/2026

Important Moments In VGM History

Nobuo Uematsu toasting the MAGFest audience with a beer.

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 06/03/2026

I like our strategy too, but it might not be the best for visibility. Our view counts are abysmal. 😂

Screenshot of Marshall Art YouTube playlist. View counts are mostly in the double digits - ranging from 14-52, with one video at 284.

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 31/01/2026

I wrote up an account of that story for this year’s @magfest.org Power magazine, featured alongside other Kageyama MAGFest stories from members of @superstrikersband.bsky.social @steelsamurai.bsky.social, and @emfedex.bsky.social. Digital copy of the magazine: super.magfest.org/magfestpower...

Screenshot of a page of the 2026 MAGFest Power magazine.

“Masashi Kageyama’s MAGFest story began
in January 2012 on a small side stage set up at
MAGFest X. Autoscroll - an alter ego of Philadelphia
chiptune band Cheap Dinosaurs devoted to covering VGM tunes - played a set that might have set a MAGFest record for most VGM deep cuts in a single performance.
In the middle of the set was Just Friends, from
Gimmick! for the Famicom (NES). At the front of the
crowd armed with an iPhone was emfedex, dutifully
documenting the performance as she had done
with many chiptune shows before. This video was
Kageyama-san’s first exposure to MAGFest. From
what I understand, his first reaction upon finding the video was confusion: who was this band? Why were they playing a song he had written decades ago from a game that was never released in their country?
Were they trying to pass off his composition as their
own? Emily explained the situation - the band was
paying tribute to his music. With that understanding
a friendship was born that opened a whole new world to Kageyama!
The MAGFest crowd was fully aware of the song’s
origins - the band had handed out printed copies of
their setlist to the audience, complete with game
and composer credits. After this clarification, he
was genuinely appreciative: Kage-san’s impression
was that Gimmick! and his soundtrack was not well
received. He has stated that part of the reason why
he stopped composing for games “probably had to
do with the fact that there was almost no response
whatsoever to the work I created.” Yet here there was- a band who had discovered his work, performing it to an audience of enthusiastic VGM fans. What followed was a flurry of Facebook friend requests from Kageyama - starting mostly with the band members but extending to the broader western chiptune and VGM scene. He had found a community of folks
making music using video game hardware, and at the same time a pocket of foreigners who were ardent fans of his music.”

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 18/01/2026

I know the last thing I needed to do was start another collection of large spinning discs, but here we are.

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 01/01/2026

Next, it’s The Arkadian! @jononealmusic.bsky.social and co are playing a set of vgm and originals that sound like they came off your old 80’s heavy metal tapes. They’ll be backed by a collaborative visual set by @lightningarts.bsky.social, @gtx.bsky.social, and jmr. Saturday! 5:40pm! Main Stage!

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 01/01/2026

Jeff collaborated with @lightningarts.bsky.social and @gtx.bsky.social on visuals for back to back main stage sets. First up it’s @caseyleewilliams.bsky.social at 4:10pm on Saturday!

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 01/01/2026

Kev and @roninopf.bsky.social are Exceptional Goblins! @neoncowell.bsky.social’s set at MAGFest 2024 was one of those rare life-affirming concert experiences and I’ll treasure my memories of that set for all my days. Go see them on the XP Stage on Saturday at 2:30pm.

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 01/01/2026

Friday night at midnight, in panels 6: the annual @dwellingofduels.bsky.social listening party! This has been a tradition since MAGFest 3, and the community is thriving more than ever. Come learn about one of the longest running online music competitions and listen to some shitpost-y vgm covers!

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 01/01/2026

Triforce Quartet will be returning to the main stage on Thursday, 6:40pm, and this time they’re bringing friends! Jeff designed the backing visuals for this performance. Facebook event: www.facebook.com/share/1BnxtF...

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 01/01/2026

First up: Thursday at 2:00pm on the XP Stage, it’s Close to Good making their long deserved MAGFest debut. Kev’s on drums, and Jeff contributed to their backing visuals.

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 27/12/2025

I stand by my comment and I am eagerly awaiting an apology for the way you patently ignored the NES-101’s lack of a CIC. … In all seriousness I really appreciated the vid. I learned quite a bit! Pretty sure the YouTube comment section is one of the nine circles of hell masquerading as a website. 🤣

YouTube screenshot showing a frame of the Video Game History Foundation’s video about NES’s us launch, highlighting the Nintendo CIC lockout chip - a rectangular black IC. A comment from Marshall Art reads “In "every official NES console"? This is toploader erasure and I will not stand for it. 🤣”.

The comment is intended to be tongue in cheek.

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 23/12/2025

Gave me an excuse to use this little guy for the first time in a while. 💙

Back of a a silver tin, marked “In Loving Memory of Sean “Pixelseed” Smith. MAGFest ‘24”.

Front of a silver tin, with three RCA jacks and a single knob.

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 23/12/2025

I’m not going to magfest and somehow I’ve made more visuals this year than the past two years combined. 😅 Pretty stoked about collaborating with @lightningarts.bsky.social for the first time! I designed a handful of elements and did multiple analog video & vhs passes. Some spoiler-free screenshots:

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 20/12/2025

Tonight’s satisfying accomplishment: I wanted decent looking footage of the Ocarina of Time title screen without the logo, so I worked out enough about 3DS game modding to make it myself. It crashes soon as the sequence is finished but I DON’T CARE IT WORKS!

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 17/12/2025

People are discovering my 11 year old YouTube upload of BGM1 from Jimmy White’s Cueball thanks to some instagram reel.

YouTube stats page showing a Manfred Liznzer’s BGM 1 from Jimmy White’s Cueball receiving a boosted view count, going from 0 to 748 views in the last 48 hours.

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 13/12/2025

Making some visuals using a thrift store vcr and some analog video fuckery

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 06/12/2025

I love my janky live visuals setup too much to ever stop using it, but sometimes I wonder if I’d have an easier time if I wasn’t so stubbornly tied to tools from 2006. CHIPTUNE!

A Mac OS force quit applications window. VMware fusion is reportedly using 163.02gb of memory

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 04/12/2025

I bought a second hand laserdisc player today. It had this Chinese karaoke disc inside… and I kinda dig it.

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 15/11/2025

Good to know! Seems I have to get up to speed on the latest capabilities. My deck apparently has the needed signals available on a pretty convenient header, so at least that aspect will be easy!

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 13/11/2025

workin' on something pretty epic 🟢 ⭐

screenshot of a fl studio mixer window, showing many channels in use.

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 13/10/2025

Fucking flea dodge was harder than any boss. 😬

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 13/10/2025

Man you’re making me feel old. I remember grabbing this off of 8bc… and somehow it was 20 years ago?! fuck.

Screenshot of the internet archive wayback machine version of 8bitcollective.

“You Gave Your Love to Me Softly has been rated 10 times, receiving an average rating of 3.6/5. It was submitted on June 20th 2005, 07:25 PM.”

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 06/10/2025

Eerily appropriate MTG cards came with the meal.

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 06/10/2025

My brother took me to a D&D themed restaurant/bar and I rolled for my dinner.

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 01/10/2025

Organizing some old files and found an early setlist mockup for our MAGFest 2020 performance. I forgot I had suggested Space Harrier and Smurfs Nightmare that long ago - we did those 5 years later! I still really want to play @coryjohnsonvgm.bsky.social’s Sanctuary someday. Next time…

Early proposed setlist for Marshall Art’s MAGFest 2020 set. Songs are “See You Space Harrier”, “Goodbye Oil Age”, “Marshall Art Part 5 (“More Input”)”, “Asteroid Driller”, “Sanctuary”, “Smurfs Nightmare - Another World”, “Never Say Die”, “June 4 2004”.

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 24/09/2025

Congrats to @steelsamurai.bsky.social on the 10th anniversary of their first release! It’s been a real treat to watch this band take shape and evolve over the past decade. Keep the deep cuts coming! Photos of Steel Samurai’s first lineup in 2014. Maybe even their first show? I forget. 😃

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 08/09/2025

We're the lucky ones - it was an incredible honor to perform for (and with) you. We'll cherish these strange memories forever.

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 08/09/2025

but in case you needed extra proof: earlier this summer, Kageyama-san told me that every day of MAGFest was "like a dream". In his words: "I am a lucky person. I can't tell you how happy and motivated I was to see so many friends. I felt like I was fully part of your community. I am so grateful".

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 08/09/2025

Rest well, Kageyama-san. It's not often that you can call one of your favorite classic video game composers a friend, but Masashi Kageyama was a special case.

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 17/08/2025

New tape deck! It needed a tiny speed boost and a head azimuth adjustment, but otherwise sounds great. Worthwhile improvement over my previous pioneer deck.

Internals of Harmon Kardon TD 4200 tape deck

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 14/08/2025

I did a double take at this Cows Ice Cream sticker. Strange Memories… @steelsamurai.bsky.social

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 11/08/2025

there is a tiny sailor mercury sticker on the bathroom mirror at my in-laws’ cottage

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 14/07/2025

Spotted this sign while driving to work this morning. Wario is one of the few Nintendo characters I remember ever seeing depicted as drunk, so Wario & Cider seems like a pretty good match. 😂

A grocery store sign that has been vandalized by re-arranging letters. It now reads “Colio Estate Wines Wario & Cider” with the letters “I N E” pushed to one side.

A screen shot of Wario Land 2 (Japanese versions depicting a penguin holding a golden mug, and a disheveled drunken looking Wario.

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 31/05/2025

Together at last. Proud to have contributed to both of these vinyl releases!

Two vinyl records: Gimmick! original soundtrack, and Gimmick! Official Arranged Soundtrack

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 05/05/2025

“Mario! Stay Alert!” was one of the first vgm arrangements I remember finding on Napster back in the day. Still holds up! Kinda surreal to me that Warner Japan reissued this on vinyl after all these years.

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 27/04/2025

I see your Rubber Ducky 7” single and raise you my Sesame Street disco concept album.

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 10/04/2025

We’re not at this year’s @vgmcon.bsky.social but @jeremiahroque.com, @laurentheflute.bsky.social, Kev, and @erichwk.bsky.social will be performing… a lot! Here’s what they’ll be up to this weekend.

FRIDAY
4:30 DavidPiano and Company (with Jer!)
6:30 lan Cowell & Exceptional Goblins (with Kev!)
9:30 WASD (with Lauren!)

SATURDAY
12:30 Windy Harper (with Lauren!)
3: 00 LaurenTheFlute (with Jer and Kev!)
4:00 Name That Tune (with Jer!)
5:00 The Adventure Guild (with Lauren!)
6: 00 VGM For Everyone's Souls (with Jer!)
6:30 The OneUps (with Jer!)
9:30 Kirby's Dream Band (with Erich and Lauren!)
11:00 The Returners (with Lauren!)

SUNDAY
2:00 Vic Viper (with Erich!)

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 05/04/2025

I don’t know if anyone ever noticed this, there’s a significant difference (error?) with versions BoF True Ending theme that circulate online. The first 15 seconds are from the circulating SPC rip, the last 15 seconds are from my in-game hardware recording. Pay attention to the stereo panning!

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Marshall Art @marshallart.band · 03/04/2025

If you see this, quote a title screen that’s iconic to you:

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