S T A L L O
S T A L L O is a 110-minute album with hazy, slow, eerie and dreamy music, mostly jammed out on Commodore 64. You can see how that jamming happens in the video below for Bilin.
A few shout outs to the people involved: Akai Selzer who spent 2 days jamming with me in Frankfurt, Jacob Remin who helped the robot to do a new live version of Synkex, which opens S T A L L O (and was also used in Korridoren, made with Björn Bengtsson), Paul Cousins who did the remix of Stures Bröd, Bob Nimbe for the VR goat video and Dubmood who did the layout.
If you like this kind of stuff, there’s good news. This album is actually the first in a series that’s coming out on Data Airlines soon. They’ll all be in a somewhat similar vein. If you don’t want to miss out just subscribe to the RSS-feed of this blog. Lol, I know, only freax like me subscribe to RSS. Uh, so, either follow my newsletter or my Bandcamp account. Everything else is a scam.
> Listen and get the cassette at Bandcamp
2G1B Remix
2G1B’s new release Musica De Computadora includes a remix by yours truly. Slow and fast, wobbly and spikey. Just the way you like it!
Bountiful Data
Ireti Olowe has published a PhD-thesis called Bountiful Data: Leveraging Multitrack Audio and Content-based Features for Audiovisual Performance where a Protracker song of mine is used as material, as well as an Impulse tracker song by Ilkae. It’s available as a pdf for free download, so leech it!
Live Stream Recording
How can I do do live ASCII and music at the same time? It’s a mystery!
So, this set starts off very ambient with some soon-to-be-released things, but then turns into acidic informer italo gabber. As usual. The “visuals” are just me bumming around in Moebius with as little brain power used as possible.
Made for Shadow Party.
aSCIIaRENA #1
aSCIIaRENA is a great site for Amiga scene ASCII art with comments and votings and walls and charts and so on – kind of like the BBS-world.
The site now supports ANSI as well, so my super mega long ASCII/ANSI-thing Goto20 is there too, receiving some pretty great feedback. So with a few people giving this a top vote it means that that both me and my colly are currently ranked as #1 on the whole site! Wat ze fokk…
It won’t last long of course. Let’s cherish this silly moment while it lasts.
New Article: The archive and the scene
I wrote an article together with Jörgen Rahm-Skågeby a few years ago about the C64 scene archive CSDb, and it was just published by New Media & Society. You can read more about it in my Chipflip post or you can read the whole thing here: The archive and the scene: On the cultural techniques of retrocomputing databases.
My Set at Lovebyte
Here’s the live set I streamed at Lovebyte last week, a demoparty fully focused on coding things as small as possible (like, just a few bytes in some cases). They received more entries for the competitions than any demoparty has since Assembly 94 I think it was. Hooray! More is less?!
In the spirit of minimizing resources I did a downtempo set to avoid any overloads of the senses. Hehe, yeah right.
V/A: aux4427 (mindcolormusic)
Aux4427 is a compilation from mindcolormusic out on double vinyl and MP3 soon! You can pre-order on their Bandcamp and listen to excerpts here or in the Zöundkloud box below. It includes artists like Tysk raider, The courier, Human behind pluto, Porbulation gold, Cassilda and the carcosa, The circumverse, Sibirsky snickers, Drøn, Ambicumber, Aderacid, CDR, The greenwasher, Johnny jitters, Suso flores, Ctlg and … me!
Chekk dis out!
Live @ Lovebyte 14 March
There is a party this weekend about making as much as you can with as little as you have. Lovebyte is an online event with competitions such as pixel art in 256 pixels, intros in 256 bytes, or how about an intro in 8 bytes, or something else. If you think that can’t amount to much, have a look at the examples below.
There’s also seminars, talks and other things like DJs and live music. I will play an hour’s set on Sunday at 17 (UTC+1) using Renoise, defMON and Protracker. I’m trying to relate to the theme by using more randomization and less data in order to minimize resources. Let’s see. I’m pretty sure it’s not going to sound the way you expect (unless I changed your expectations just right by saying that?).
All this is streaming on le Tweetch. Find the link on their website.
Finally, here’s an old YouTube playlist I did with some examples of these almost empty computer files. Gotta love the irony of streaming it as video….
808642 (On Tape)
A while back, on 808-day, I released 808642 and now the tape version is out! It includes a new song as well as remixes by Mesak, Dubmood and Abe Sangin. Just like 80864 it uses primarily TR-808 and Commodore 64, but also other things. A lot of the songs are based on jams, and the last song is actually a 15 minute jam that I didn’t have time to finish properly, but I included it anyway.
Pst – if you already bought the digital release and didn’t get an email with a discount code for the tape version, get in touch.