About - Wed, Feb 23, 2022
What's Tobokegao?
In the summer of 2014, they started composing music using "Gameboy" as a method of musical expression that they arrived at through their band activities.
They have released many songs using "LSDj (Little Sound Dj)", a composition software for chiptune artists, and gained recognition.
In 2017, they performed at the world's largest chiptune festival "Square Sounds Tokyo" as their past achievements were evaluated.
In 2019, they started to operate "TBKgao", an independent label focusing on chiptune music.
In 2020, they provided bgm for the new MSX2 game "Caravan Boomer" by a gorgeous composition team.
In 2022, they became deeply immersed in the M8 Tracker, a palm-sized hardware synthesizer inspired by LSDj. Along with that, they released their third album, TOBOX, which featured sounds from a Game Boy, guitar, and their own vocals pitched up.
In 2024, they contributed the song “Nouveau Monde” to YARS RISING, a Nintendo Switch game developed by ATARI and WayForward. They were responsible for the vocals, main melody composition, and lyrics.
Currently, they are working on music that focuses on VOCALOID, OTO-MADs, and Pure MIDI.
writer by Yasuyuki Hirata & Tobokegao
Tobokegao is a veteran of the chiptune scene who I've followed for a long time, and the quality of their work has stayed consistent: highly melodic, very energetic, often happy and upbeat, constantly pushing boundaries.
— Decon Theed (@DT_TR909) February 4, 2022
i cannot remember who said it, but before an online live show, someone said "tobokegao is someone who everyone in the chiptune scene has shared at least one exchange with". that introduction was very memorable because it is 100% true
— hardmint (@hardmint) February 22, 2022
Pursue your intellectual curiosity, digest it and sublimate it.
— sdhizumi / S.Kudo (@sdhizumi) February 23, 2022
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— Rei8bit (@Rei8bit) February 24, 2022
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continuously changing
— Nishioka Diddley (@diddley_sin) February 23, 2022
nothingness
— タマネギ炒め (@tamanegi_itame) February 22, 2022
concept
— K-> (@K_fcm) February 21, 2022