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 Herway.

This episode contains explicit language.

In addition to guitars, drums, and bass, the band Anomana 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 1 on Billboard's Heat Seekers Chart when it came out in 2013.

Here's Anomana Gucci on Song Exploder.

And that's when I'm gone too.

Just give me all your love and love.

Yeah, I'm Pete and I'm R.

There's two other boys who could not be here.

Their names are James and Luke and where Anomana Gucci, there's a big community of people who would take Old Nintendo 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 since instead of game consoles.

They'd write software specifically for producing music on them.

We all just kind of met under the umbrella of music technology and formed an event around this kind of fun concepts.

The appeal isn't necessarily using the actual console for me. The appeal is the limitations you get such a shortened language of electronic music.

It really simplifies the idea of how to build the sounds that you want from the simplest building blocks.

It's kind of expanded to using this language of simple digital music but applying it to everything else as well.

So the song idea started, I was really, really down. I had just heard this group capsule.

This guy from Japan, Yasu Takenakata, he put out this album in 2010. It was just some of the most exciting music I'd ever heard.

I was like, shit, I can't write anything like that. I feel like such a noob. I just put my headphones on and wrote the chorus to this song.

It's completely inspired from that.

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