"Sombre Spring" & "Fissure VIP" Split, by Abe Skerries & Atari Testarossa

"Sombre Spring" & "Fissure VIP" Split

by Abe Skerries & Atari Testarossa

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Also includes an SNDH download of Sombre Spring (as a link in a TXT file, since Bandcamp doesn't allow SNDH files) and a separate version rendered from an Atari ST emulator for people who prefer their chiptunes without the DAC noise and other quirks of the original hardware.

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	1.	Abe Skerries - Sombe Spring 01:19	info
	2.	Atari Testarossa - Fissure 2021 VIP 05:56	info

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One brand new Atari ST chiptune track Sombre Spring and a high-quality re-issue of the synthwave track Fissure.

Sombre Spring produced on an Atari Mega ST2 with the TTrak chiptracker by damo of Reservoir God ( see ttrak2149.com for more info). I'm not sure what genre Sombre Spring is, really, but it's evocative of the feelings I'm experiencing now in the spring of 2021, fighting pandemic fatique, job search anxiety and general uneasiness of the world all the while enjoying spring time and eagerly awaiting the summer.

Fissure originally released on April 8th 2019. All outboard synth sounds (Waldorf Blofeld & Rocket, mostly) have been re-recorded in higher quality with a better pre-amp. The mixing and mastering was also re-done from scratch to better meet what I was orignally going for but couldn't execute at the time.
It's a tune I penned when I wasn't feeling the best, and when I found a lot of solace in the eighties inspired synth sounds, driving basslines and airy harmonies.

All album/track art by me; if you know how to art and want me to have better art, hit me up on Twitter :)

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released May 7, 2021

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shinmai Helsinki, Finland

I'm an enby geek gamedev who dabbles in electronic music and chiptunes.

Atari Testarossa is my nom de plume for synthwavey stuff, Abe Skerries is for most other music and shinmai is what I go by online in general.

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