8-Bit Ninjas
“8-Bit Ninjas started as I expect most bands do, a bedroom project. Andy experimented with chip sounds and trackers and started adding guitars to it. The mission was to bring something to their humble region of the UK to break the cliques and sterile music scene there. Bored of attending gig after gig of cloned and boring beige music, they wanted to inject some primary colours into it. They were massively influenced by Alice in Videoland and Thermostatic in the early days but drawing influences from people like Crystal Castles, Sabrepulse, Fighter X, mixing that with Andy’s background in rock bands and indie rock especially, they aimed to create something danceable, but not alienating the indie crowds they were surrounded with.
8-Bit Ninjas have forsaken melancholy lyrics and slow ballads and aimed straight for your dancing organ. The mission is to make you dance like nobody is watching. They achieve that by taking chiptune sounds from 80s consoles and using them as synths. Chiptune artists are everywhere and they respect them for their purism, what sets them aside is that they’ve dispensed with the pure Gameboy music and combined that with guitar pop and light-hearted lyrics, vocoders aplenty and references to game culture. 8-Bit Ninjas appeal to the nerd in you; a sound that catapults you to your youth, playing Pacman with your dad on a Commodore 64, but at the same time, staying accessible and close with their audience. No over-inflated egos, just hyper-activity and a passion for entertaining.”
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