Lore
The legendary time-traveling 8-bit sorcerer Rainbowdragoneyes writes music, defies gravity and destroys worlds by circumventing old video game hardware such as the GameBoy, NES and Sega Genesis. Since 2009 he has toured across 3 continents, released 3 studio albums, and created the award-winning OST for video game The Messenger, available on Switch / PC / PS4 / Xbox. RDE enjoys sharing his process and inspiring others in creating authentic Chiptune music.
Once Upon A Time...
2006 - 2009 A.D.
One foggy evening, alone in his lair at the center of the universe, RDE accidentally stumbles upon Chiptune music, while poring over the ancient scrolls of the land of “MySpace,” He is instantly enamored with the nostalgic sounds coming together to form never- before-heard compositions. He reaches out to summon a master of the craft, the ancient bard known as Bit Shifter. His majesty provides RDE with all the knowledge necessary to proceed on his own path, knowing now how to find sotfware, hardware, and a few tutorials paramount to Chipmusic creation. RDE writes his first EP on the Nintendo GameBoy entitled “Super Eurobit Vol. 1.”
It is this EP that landed him a slot at the 2009 Blip Festival, a 2-4 day annual event held in NYC with musicians and visualists from all over the world, celebrating chiptune and it’s related disciplines. This very special event would be Rainbowdragoneyes’ first ever live appearance. “Super Eurobit and The Seventh Enochian Key” was performed in it’s entirety, a re-release of the EP with additional songs, sold on printed CD-Rs.
2010 - 2014 A.D.
Afer the events of Blip Festival, RDE began performing religiously. His idols now his peers, netlabel and founders of Blip Festival 8bitpeoples agree to release his sophomore effort “The Primordial Booze.” In 2012 he embarked on the massive “Primordial Booze Cruise” tour, which took him around the USA for two months solid.
Over The next few years, RDE performed at MAGfest, PAX East, PAX West, E3, 8static festival, Datapop 4.0, TooManyGames, and dozens of legendary music venues in the States and Canada. A few of his songs landed in the arcade rhythm game Pump it Up Infinity, and more were charted for the Rock Band Network, where they were lauded as some of the most challenging songs available.
He continued to push the boundaries of chiptune with his 2014 release “The Secret Mirror,” and was invited by Alestorm to head overseas to be the opening act for the first Piratefest, a 2-week jaunt across the UK and Ireland, with most shows selling out, including several O2 Academy venues and The Electric Ballroom in London.
2015 - 20XX A.D.
"Pieces Ov Eight Bit: The Chiptune Pirate Metal EP" cements RDE's role as the undisputed master of chiptune pirate metal. He continues to tour relentlessly as a solo artist and the full-time drummer for several bands, releasing music and videos on his own at an inconsistent pace. Between all the laps around the country, one fateful evening in 2016 Québec he meets Thierry Boulanger, co-founder of Sabotage Studio, and has a casual discussion about making music for a videogame prototype that would eventually become The Messenger. Now passing the torch to Eric as full-time member of the Sabotage team, he expands his repertoire with Sea Of Stars, working on several personal projects, and occasionally livestreaming music production from his home studio.