The tracks featured here are mastered but have gain drops, that - of course - will not appear on the official release.


"I live in the arcades. Reality was never an option!"

The 85-year-old video game queen and film composer pdqb (born on November 14, 1939) delivers a beautiful love letter to your boomer childhood, a wild ride through the golden age of video gaming. Hear how she dodges bullets, jumps over cosmic chasms, beats bosses, reaches bonus stages, uses cheat codes and even her last continue...just to stay in a world of pixels and vectors forever. pdqb will bring you back all those fond memories of unburdened joy that you might have lost while growing up. She could be your savior.

Synaptic Cliffs is filled with otherworldly pride to present these 14 timeless masterpieces to its beloved listeners.

Written and produced by Sascha Dornhöfer, analog mastering, digital finalizing and lacquer cut by Mike Grinser (Manmade Mastering, Berlin), stamper by Stamper Discs, Sheffield and pressed by Intakt, Berlin... the vinyl... has a pretty cool locked groove on side b and 2 uplifting messages inscribed into the dead wax...artworks by Sascha Dornhöfer and Alexandra Rothert.

8 1/2 Bit, Album, 12" Colored Vinyl, 33 rpm, 140g · 2024 - SC003

pdqbs favorite console used the HuC6280 chip for music and sound effects. It contains six programmable wave channels, similar to the Namco WSG and sounds supercool, far better than the MOS Technology SID. However, it was not used for this track...unfortunately. 

Lygöphobiä

Chipppps

Der Schaftdurchmesser ist kleiner als der Kerndurchmesser.

Flossbite

Kagemasa KOzuki, Yoshinobu NAkama, Hiro Matsuda, und Shokichi Ishihara...

...LeftRightBA

Like his legendary father, PDQB, pdqb has become a versatile style-art master. While you read this he is preparing a powerful foray into the realms of sonic equivalents to the mysteries in oil paintings...one that will be heard of soon.

Maurodius-Papeda

pdqb's creations continue to surprise us. His great inventions are very innovative and successful combinations of frequencies... Like the DFAM and the HR-16 flavoured with aromatic Acid V, Synergy and a hint of MK8.

Sergio Dondoli

Dondoli (the NPC)

Press and hold down the “P” button while on the fastest speed, then wait for 5 seconds while continuing to hold “D,Q and B”

Music Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEDukp_J1rw

Laserzimmer 1, Raum 3.16

pdqb. Something about the name...brings a warm tingle...of premonition.

Sixfold Radianz

Actually...the story pdqb tells here...is more than just a story within a story. It's a story within a story within a story within a tiny  story within in giant story within a totally different story.

Bogeygirl

pdqb proudly presents the first song that fits in your palm and weights less than a pound!

Boktay

樫尾忠雄; 樫尾俊雄; 樫尾和雄; 樫尾幸雄

Exosphear

At level 1 pdqb moves quickly and is fairly easy to beat. At level 8,
he may think or "compute" for as long as 20 minutes before making
its move and is very difficult to beat.

4d-TögTägTüu

pdqb has a multifunctional personality that does various jobs, depending upon the level of programming.

Binäry Gatoraders On Acid

DodgedoG

Was born. Now has to live with it.


Semantic Cliffs Records releases premium limited physical editions (Vinyl/Tape/CD)

Exclusive worldwide distributor (physical/digital): wordandsound

Here on Soundcloud you will find demos of (yet) unreleased stuff, fragments of the mastered stuff (gain drops) and full mastered versions of official distributed and monetized tracks.