Fie, Zi's second album, stands as an 8-bit monument to Reagan-era pop, infusing traditional rock hooks with addictive melodies, all wrapped in gamer sensibility. As an '8-bit soundtrack for life,' Fie provides inspired songs as listeners speed across highways, round-house bad guys and save President whilst getting the girl.  Fie was created with PPMCK and uses only the original NES chipset. PPMCK is a text-based 8bit compiler that runs in the terminal (mac's linux shell). The program doesn't replicate an 8bit sound, but rather creates it on each compile. Shunning a GUI gave tremendous amount of power and versatility, but was extremely time consuming, with every change having to be saved and then compiled before it could be heard. Using only four channels (two square, a triangle and 'noise'), Fie is a true 8bit album, with no audio manipulation what-so-ever. With all the sound, volume and note effects done using the power of the NES music engine, the average track took two or more weeks to create and just as much time to refine.