PB: We love a lot of our Chip music brethren – Nullsleep, Starscream, Graffiti Monsters, and Bit Shifter. Outside of that we’re pretty eclectic I guess, we’re into stuff like Juiceboxxx, Wavves (who we just covered), and recently Deastro.

F: Were there any major differences in making and recording Dawn Metropolis and the album prior?

PB: Definitely – I made the first album Power Supply by myself in my basement in high school, which was totally awesome, but the guitars kinda sound like Velcro. Now I definitely see the appeal in Velcro guitars, but I’d always wondered what it would be like to have that Weezer-ish guitar sound I’d always loved on one of our records. We felt like Dawn Metropolis was the right album to do this on. Luckily, Justin Gerrish who worked on Weezer’s latest record met us at a show and offered to mix our new album – so we pretty much scored 100% on that haha.

F: What is the preferred label or genre you guys fit into? 8-bit? Chiptune? Blip? Bleep?

PB: Probably “Mario hosting a rave-core-lofi-tronica… on ACID” or something retarded like that. For real though I think 8-bit sums up the sound pretty nicely. Although to ‘get a little serious’ for a sec – a lot of the artists that use the 8-bit aesthetic, sound totally different from each other. The word genre doesn’t really apply when you’ve got people making 8-bit hip-hop, dance music, or punk music. The 8-bit part is just kind of a piece of the landscape for us.

F: What is 8-bit music? How does it work? (A lot of people don’t understand what it involves)

PB: It basically involves hacking into old video game and computer hardware to get into the sound chip and use it as a synthesizer. To put it more simply, we aren’t just sampling music from video games – we’re making our sounds from scratch using the chip inside the system.

F: Do you ever feel overshadowed by the Nintendo? Does the Nintendo get all of the hot chicks?

PB: We never really feel overshadowed – we like to keep a balance between what we’re playing live on instruments and what the Nintendo is up to. It’s always a problem with electronic music when the majority of it isn’t being performed live. This is also known as “fat guy sweating over a laptop” syndrome. The Nintendo does get all the hot chicks though; he’s a pretty machine.

F: In five years from now, what would be your dream scenario for Anamanaguchi to be in?

PB: Well I saw the trailer for 2012 and it really freaked us out so probably being alive would be a nice thing to settle for

F: In five years from now, where and how do you honestly see Anamanaguchi and 8-bit music in general fitting into the music business?

PB: I think things are becoming more niche and ‘democratized’ with ‘the advent of the internet’ so it’s going to make a lot of sense for weird bands like us to exist I guess. We try to keep up legit communication with our fans and don’t hold ourselves above anyone really. Musically we are definitely gonna expand and try to get more epic without getting cheesier if that’s possible. Stuffs looking up.

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