Member Since: 28/01/2008
Band Members: I currently use a DMG, a Dell Inspiron 1520, Nanoloop 1.3, Nanoloop 1.5 and Kristal 1.0.1
Influences: Grandad - My Real Hero
Mikey - The Love Of My Life
Robyn - Sleep Well Angel
Sounds Like:
Reviews
A New Band A Day
"To take a Gameboy or a NES as a starting point from which to make music isn't really as unusual as it may seem. Limiting your sonic options in this way is akin to a band picking the same combo of drums, bass and guitar as a million other bands have before. Kezzie Beat starts with her limited palette in an attempt to create something more than the sum of its parts.
It's a success - and here's where she differs from many of her peers in the Chiptune/8-bit/whatever scene: where most songs produced in this way can be admiringly described as "the soundtrack to a videogame you've never played," Kezzie Beat's songs step gingerly away from the obscure-Japanese-videogame-composer template. Her music takes hesitant steps towards life, love and happiness - you know, the big things that don't involve cheat codes, mid-level-checkpoints or CONTINUE Y/N?
In songs like Evaporating An Ocean, she attempts to inject as much life as possible, flailing to get out of the end-of-level boss rut with some satisfyingly tactile, fuzzy grunting sounds, a manically bleepy melody and atypical rhythms. 233 is joyously smart, bright and wide-eyed - almost touching. Not quite - the sheer mechanical nature of the 8-bit computer sounds have a defiantly inhuman sound - but almost."
Kezzie Beat: where the videogame bleep nearly held hands with human emotion. That's close enough."
Releases
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One Year Later
Oogenesis - The Girl Compilation
Videos
Kezzie Beat - And So The Alarm Sounded
Thanks to Gideon
Kezzie Beat live at The Hub, Exeter
Thanks to Nick
kezzie beat at the hub exeter from nick deeprose on Vimeo .
Record Label: Retro-Bot Records
Type of Label: Indie