Brendan Becker, known by his

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Inverse Phase, is an American

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/ref> and chiptune musician, using Atari,

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, and Nintendo hardware. He also speaks and hosts workshops on video game music, chiptunes, and composing.

Biography

Becker, born in America in 1979, claims to have had a typical childhood where he was obsessed with video games and

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s. While he was enrolled in a piano class at an early age, he did not keep interest due to attention span issues. However, his interest in computers, programming, and music led him to the

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. He soon began composing music with a

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for games written by his

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friends, as well as various remixes and covers. In 2010, Becker received extensive media coverage for his

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parody of

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's single, "

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". A month later, the soundtrack to the video game ''

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'' featured his song "Boss Burger N' Chips", a

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of the first and second level

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themes. In mid-2011, Becker announced that he had gone full-time with his music and was working on multiple game soundtracks. Later that year, he released soundtracks to ''Super Smash Land'' and ''Shuttle Scuttle'', handing out copies of the latter to

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X attendees at a secret show shortly thereafter. In June 2012, he released '' Pretty Eight Machine'', a

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band

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' 1989 debut album ''

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''. Inverse Phase had been able to raise $3,654 for making and promoting the album through the

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website

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, who is associated with Nine Inch Nails,

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about the album shortly after its release. While fulfilling kickstarter rewards for ''Pretty Eight Machine'', Becker released ''Treachery in Beatdown City: Episode 1 EP'', the soundtrack to a game seeking funding on Kickstarter in 2014. The kickstarter names Inverse Phase as the composer for the rest of the game, which was released in 2020. He also plans to tribute U2 as well as more Nine Inch Nails, which he claims to be one of his favorite acts.

Discography

;Video game soundtracks * ''Super Smash Land'' (2011, self-released) * ''Shuttle Scuttle'' (2011, self-released) * ''Treachery in Beatdown City: Episode 1 EP'' (2014, self-released) ;Tribute albums * '' Pretty Eight Machine'' (2012, self-released) * '' Chiplust'' (2014, self-released) * ''The Chipping of Isaac'' (2014, self-released) * ''Save Chiptune'' (2015, self-released) ;Original albums ("Biteration" series) * Biteration I: Genesis of Consequence (2016, self-released)https://chiptuneswin.com/blog/chipwin-tern-spotlight-the-yamaha-ym2612-you/

References

External links

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