The influential Tokyo-based game composer Chip Tanaka has published his second full-length album following "Django," which received a vinyl soundtrack pressing from publisher Fangamer in Tucson.

Titled "Domingo," the concept album is available for purchase through Bandcamp and streaming on Spotify. Excerpts of all tracks are streaming on digital music store Ototoy.

The reggae, dub, and techno concept album, evoking images of nighttime, the ocean, outer space, and vintage computers, contains music tracks "Calm Sea," "Hammerhead Shark Song," "Tubeworm Dub," "Moonchild," "Oppama," "Song For Stars," "Guiding Light Dub," "Plasma," "Momongah," "Rad Bat," and "Night Flight."


From the product page:

Three years after delighting music lovers around the world with his debut solo album Django, CHIP TANAKA is back and ready to release his highly anticipated second album: Domingo. Video game fans know him as Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka, the pioneer artist who began spinning chipsounds into videogame music in 1980 while working as a sound engineer at Nintendo. In addition to composing music for legendary games like Metroid, Super Mario Land, and Earthbound, his storied career includes writing and arranging numerous theme songs for the Pokémon animated films and TV series.

Apple Music - Domingo by Chip Tanaka

Domingo by Chip Tanaka on Bandcamp and #Spotify: eleven conceptual pieces that combine disparate imagery of the sea, the night, outer space, and the retro-computer age - https://t.co/jJSoGodoRB |#BandcampFriday pic.twitter.com/3TQpmui80y

— The Ongaku (@TheOngaku) January 6, 2023