Joey Mariano, a local Philly Chiptune artist better known as Animal Style, created this glorious Gameboy Color Foot Controller, on which he has managed to create some amazing eight bit madrigals. Check out some additional photos of his gear here.

Using the power of the Gameboy sound chip, Mariano’s madrigals blend the body of early role playing and puzzle video games with awesome, powerful electro-dance beats. Since the Gameboy only has three melodic monophonic channels to create melodies to begin with, this helped Mariano stay true to the traditional madrigal form of 2 to 3 voices.

Here’s a video of him in action.

You can download his EP, full of these songs, for free via his net label’s website. Titles of the songs include Gather ‘Round Retrograde, Tokyo Cornfield in Antigravity, and more. If you enjoy the Madrigals, which you will, you can donate some funds to support his music.

For his next release, he’ll be releasing the music on his own Nintendo Cartridge playable via the original NES system, with help from his pals Alex Mauer and No-Carrier.

Check him out at his official website, www.animal-style.com, and add him as your pal on Myspace.