You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs,
and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
This episode contains explicit language.
In addition to guitars, drums, and bass,
the band Anamana Gucci makes their music with the 8-bit sounds that were built into Nintendo video game consoles made in the 1980s.
They use music software called trackers to meticulously sequence and produce those sounds.
Most of their music is instrumental, but in this episode,
they break down one of the first times they've incorporated vocals for the song Prom Night,
which features singer Bianca Raquel.
Prom Night is from their most recent album, Endless Fantasy,
which debuted at number one on Billboard's Heatseekers chart when it came out in 2013.
Here's Anamanaguchi on Song Exploder.
Yeah, I'm Pete.
And I'm Ari.
There's two other boys who could not be here.
Their names are James and Luke, and we're on Monoguchi.
There's a big community of people who would take old Nintendos from 1985 and use them as synthesizers.
People in Sweden, New York, Japan, London,
taking apart these old video game consoles and old home computers and using them as synths instead of game consoles.