Blending cutting-edge 8-bit music with Americana smarts, banjoist/programmer Bud Melvin is an unequivocal original, even among the sonic renegades of the chip music scene. Discovering that the warm, staccato bleeps of a vintage handheld were a perfect match for high, lonesome banjo fingerpicking, the New Mexico based musician invented a new vocabulary for himself and the world. Recalling the subversive spirit of Devo with the irony-drenched baritone of an exotica crooner, Bud Melvin is music for a world that has transcended normality.