The soundtrack for the game was released on Amazon and iTunes by ABKCO Records on August 24, 2010. In 2010, Anamanaguchi were approached by Ubisoft to compose music for the video game adaptation of the Scott Pilgrim graphic novels, Scott Pilgrim vs. On November 26, 2013, Anamanaguchi appeared as guests on the podcast itself. The album was released with an accompanying website that included animated videos for each of the songs, done in collaboration with artists David Mauro and Paris Treantafeles.Ī song from Dawn Metropolis titled 'Jetpack Blues, Sunset Hues' is the theme to Chris Hardwick's The Nerdist Podcast. In 2009, Ary Warnaar and Luke Silas joined the band for the release of their following EP, Dawn Metropolis. Peter Berkman met Ary Warnaar at New York University where they were studying Music Technology. The track 'Helix Nebula' was featured as the theme song of the former GamesRadar podcast TalkRadar. The band first performed on Januat Cake Shop and through events such as Pulsewave NYC they formed a relationship with the netlabel 8bitpeoples and subsequently released their debut the EP Power Supply in August 2006. The band formed in Chappaqua, NY where Peter Berkman & James DeVito were classmates.

(left to right) James DeVito, Peter Berkman and Ary Warnaar in Brooklyn, New York, in 2009 People began calling them the 'Armani-Prada-Gucci boys,' which eventually was elided into 'Anamanaguchi.' On several other occasions, the band has explained that their name came about after the members worked as interns at Armani (Berkman and DeVito), Prada (Warnaar), and Gucci (Silas) while studying fashion at Parsons School of Design (though three of the four majored in Music Technology at New York University). In one interview, Berkman said the name 'Anamanaguchi' came about from a member in one of his former bands pronouncing gibberish in the style of Jabba the Hutt. The origin of the band's name is unclear. As with other chiptune artists, they have created music using video game hardware from the mid- to late 1980s: namely a NES and a Game Boy. Īnamanaguchi combines digital electronic sounds such as those seen in chiptune and bitpop with traditional band instrumentation.

The band has four members: lead songwriters and guitarists Peter Berkman and Ary Warnaar, bassist James DeVito, and drummer Luke Silas. Anamanaguchi is an American chiptune-based pop and rock band from New York City.

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