Biography
Desert Planet is a group playing an original mix of "electronic dance music" or "computer rock" with influences from video game music, vintage video games, coin operated games, pop, punk and b-class science fiction movies. The music style is often called "bitpop", "game pop" or "micromusic". In this music style usually part of the music is produced with out-of-date computers and vintage game consoles ( from the 80´s or 90´s), like Nintendo Entertainment System, Commodore 64 or Amiga. Some musicians use also Nintendo Gameboy handheld console. Some people call it "8-bit music", "Video game style music" ( Joe Allen and Mike Cook), "Home Computer Music" ( Bodenständig 2000) or "Jump and Run -music" ( Storno). Desert Planet music is not pure 8-bit stuff. it´s more like electronic music inspired by the 8-bit games and gaming culture generally.
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