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Bubblegum Octopus
12+ albums
Nintendocoreexperimentalcybergrind8-bittweegrind
about
Bubblegum Octopus is the New Jersey based "synthpop grindcore rave" solo project of vocalist, composer, sequencer, and instrumentalist Matthew "m@ the c@" Morden. The project began in 2005 after the release of the c@ album copy as an attempt to recreate the synth-punk sound of the late 70s. As writing progressed, the original intention was supplanted by the development of a melodic hybrid of cutesy picopop/shibuya-kei style pop, "extreme" metal and punk, Eurobeat and Bemani type dance music, early 00s style digigrind, and predominantly 90s, 16-bit video game music style electronics with elements of breakcore, noise, IDM, synth-funk, 8-bit, uplifting trance, and electro-punk. Because the project is so often inaccurately pigeonholed into various sub and quasi-genres of electronic music, m@ and his fans have seriocomically adopted the terms spazzpop and tweegrind to describe the project. A number of other, less used terms (cat-wave, picothrash, blackened disco, sugar doom, and pizzacore, for example) have also been used, as well as "fey-pop," coming from an early magazine review of the project. The songs were initially rooted in MIDI sequenced synthesis, vocals, and occasional guitar or electronic noise, but have evolved to incorporate circuit-bent toys, effect pedal chains, hardware sequencers, drum machines, synths, theremin, mandolin, horns, percussion instruments, SNES and Gameboy soundchips, a host of different programs, the manipulation of self-made samples, and a varie
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