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21 Aug 2021
New Featured Artist: Wiklund
New Featured Artist: Wiklund
Retro composer Wiklund climbs on board as our latest Featured Artist!
What began as a kid in his bedroom messing with dusty gameboy sounds has transformed into Swedish producer Wiklund's old-school chiptune music. Taking inspiration from the "demoscene" and 80's synthpop, his songs harken back to a simpler time of distance snap and grid-based mapping. Oh, and 8-bit video games, I guess.
We've snagged 10 classics for mappers to dive into, including everything from Wiklund's nostalgic album Wing Beats — a favourite of mappers from the olden days, and one of osu!'s first album-focused beatmap projects. Check it all out from Wiklund's Featured Artist listing!
Experience some of Wiklund's music for yourself with this 2009 map of Billy Boogie as seen through the display that 100% of osu! players were using a decade ago. Once you're done with that, maybe explore the rest of these previews too:
Billy Boogie
Check out the beatmap from the video above hosted by yeahyeahyeahhh and this other beatmap hosted by IceBeam!
Whip the Blip
Play through another classic beatmap hosted by Ultimate!
Joy of Living
Try out this beatmap by 0_o! People had some interesting usernames 10 years ago.
The Digital Force
Enjoy yet another beatmap by Metroid!
Wing Beats
Have fun with the first ranked Wiklund map hosted by v0xtrot!
Crystal Dimension
Last but not least, check out this beatmap hosted by GladiOol!
Surprising absolutely nobody, even more of Wiklund's music can be found on his Featured Artist listing! Will you be the first person to make a dissonant slider-heavy tech map over retro chiptune music? Nobody's asking for it, but we'll wish you luck anyway.
That's all for this week! Next week we'll be jumping back with a couple Japanese artists with polar opposite genres to showcase. Stay tuned to the @osugame Twitter for updates on that and we'll see you soon!
—pishifat
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