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More about this soon…

As you probably know I recently got more and more involved in the wonderful world of chipmusic. Until now it was mainly something related to my musical activity (as a listener and producer), but recently this has started to involve also my activity as an illustrator and designer. Actually I have been longing more and more to close the gap between these two worlds, creating illustrations for musicians, and making music inspired by illustrations and comics… somehow things are starting to work out!

I’m proud to announce that the album Hexadecimator: Chipmusic in G Minor by PlainFlavored, for which I’ve designed the cover, has finally been released! You can grab it at Calmdownkidder.com or check out the first track of the album right here.

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More about the realease:

Adam Schackart may be PlainFlavored by name, but his music certainly isn’t! Hexadecimator includes five tracks of DMG music influenced by a dream that took place in the summer of 2009, as well as eight years of previously abandoned works. This creates a work that is both somehow fractured and complete at the same time, turning from underclocked churning to high powered energetic music instantaneously.
With cover art by Hannes Pasqualini (click album art for larger image) and vocal and acoustic guitar intro by Andrew Winzenburg.

As you might have noticed I’m back from my vacation. We had a good time, the weather was fine, the sea in Sardinia beautiful as ever, and thanks to a friend of mine, Marco, I now am the proud owner of a Gameboy Camera! Coolest thing ever!

I thought I had been really unproductive at the sea, but now that I browse through the pages I have drawn into my sketchbook I see that it isn’t true, in fact I have been quite productive… I’ll be posting some of these drawing over the next weeks in my “lazy Saturday sketches” series.