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Parody powerhouse Palette-Swap Ninja is the work of just two geeks. Jude Kelley is a chemistry professor with a keytar fetish, but he used to be a rocket scientist. Dan Amrich is a magazine editor with too many guitars, but he used to be a cartoon character. After a few years playing together in an 80s cover band, they wanted to indulge their lifelong love of videogames with a sillier side project. In 2007, Palette-Swap Ninja materialized from the shadows.

Everything you hear is their fault, because they insist on recording all the instrumentation from scratch -- everything is recorded fresh in their respective home studios, then the individual tracks are sent over the interwebs and mixed into one final project. Jude handles the keyboard and electronic drum parts and Dan tackles the guitars, bass, and vocals. Lyrics are a collaboration: Best joke wins.

Palette Swap Ninja Sound Bites

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Halo (All I Play-Oh)

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The Viva Piñata Song

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Three Red Lights

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Padding Your Gamerscore

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Wii Christmastime

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Palette-Swap Ninja - Learn to Spell

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The Comedy of Errors
Thu. Oct 29, 2009
Bet you’re wondering why you haven’t heard any new songs from us in several months. I think it’s time I told you the truth: Palette-Swap Ninja is…not breaking up. It’s true. We love working together... Read More
Interview at NERDSociety.com
Wed. Sep 09, 2009
We are nerds — proud nerds, even — so we were proud and honored when NERDSociety.com contacted us for an interview. Liking attention, we answered all their questions. The interview includes some photos you... Read More
Dan’s new job
Thu. Aug 20, 2009
Dan just went public with his new job title, editor in chief of World of Warcraft: The Magazine. Hopefully this explains why an otherwise mellow summer has been more chaotic, and why the next songs are sitting... Read More
PSN on NXE?!
Sat. Aug 01, 2009
Yes…DIY. Aeshir was nice enough to create a version of the our wallpaper for use on your Xbox 360 dashboard. Just put it on a USB flash drive (or if your 360 can see your PC, put the image in your shared... Read More
One reason for the delay
Mon. Jul 27, 2009
We know we’ve said we’re switching recording apps, but there’s another reason for the scattered work done on the next song: Dan’s switching jobs. That won’t affect anything on the PSwap side; the... Read More
This Xbox Life
Thu. Jul 23, 2009
Hey, we got used as music on this week’s episode of This Xbox Life. We appreciate the love! (and in unrelated news, Jude is getting close to final drums, so Dan is putting a move-on for lyrics and then will... Read More
Not dead
Fri. Jul 10, 2009
Just busy. Jude’s currently working on the foundations of the next track. Dan’s been busy as hell at work (100th issue of OXM and all that). Next song’s going to be a bit of a personal passion project... Read More
Recording stuff
Thu. Jun 18, 2009
We are probably going to try our hand at Logic Express for the next song, upgrading from GarageBand. If that doesn’t work, it’s back to GB. Logic Express can import GB files but boy is it a different... Read More
Next time…on Palette-Swap Ninja
Mon. Jun 15, 2009
So, now that we’ve taken the obligatory week off after a song release, it’s time to start thinking about what’s next. I am here to tell you, officially, that something is next. Right now Jude and I are... Read More
We got Digged
Sun. Jun 07, 2009
Friday was…awesome. When a friend sent a note on Twitter to let me know that the Entertonement page for “Learn to Spell” was climbing the charts on Digg, I was kinda floored. It was at about 740 when I... Read More