The Infinite Acid Machine
Me and Jacob Remin are teaching the robots to play acid. We recorded this video at Elektronmusikstudion EMS quite a while ago, but now they are about to do their debut show at Pukkelpop in Belgium. More to come! Thanks to Daniel Araya for helping out with this project.
A ChatGPT-demo?!
Yes indeed, check this out! Still 93 by Divine Stylers and Style. It’s a demo made to feel like it’s from the 1990’s, coded by ChatGPT as instructed by dMG who is not a coder. Makes so much sense, right? :)
There is more info at the GitHub page. I made some of the music, Skope did the rest of the music. It came at 10th place at the Evoke demoparty, where I also released an ASCII/ANSI thing.
Pukkelpop in Belgium
Hey, you know Pukkelpop? It’s Belgium’s second biggest festival, I’ve been told? I will be there this year to make some stuff in the E-rena.
Me and Jacob Remin will premiere the new Infinite Acid Machine, which is the robots making acid! That is, they will be controlling a 303 and a drum machine, instead of the boring C-64. We will also do a talk about all this robot-y stuff. Yeeeep.
And with PET.CORP I will perform a live show with me doing my chip rave acid thing whatever, and PET.CORP doing their so super yummy textmode PETSCII visuals. They are amazing, and I’m not bad, so together we are OK++!
See you där!
(uh, we will of course not play on some mega stage like this, but in a cool big tent instead)
New ASCII for PC!
I’ve released a new ASCII-thing in Impure 85! This time I’ve tried to work with code page 437, popular on the IBM PC. It has different characters than the Amiga, such as the useful block gradients: ▓ ▒ ░. The font is designed differently, so for example the / and \ don’t connect to each other. Boooo! I think I wrote a bit about the differences in this paper.
Anyway, this has been added to my MEGA ASCII PAGE where you can go and scroll into the abyss!
Split with Defense Mechanism
Me and Defense Mechanism have made a split tape for No Sides Records. Mister Mechanism does his Gameboy wizardry and I’m on an electro-ish spree.
text-mode.org back in action
The text-mode Tumblr that I started with Raquel Meyers in 2012 has hardly been active in the last years. But I started to do daily posts again a few weeks ago. You can see it both at the Tumblr and the wordpress blog and sometimes they are posted on Twitter as well.
I’ve gone through a lot of the archives, and scheduled some of the best posts to be reblogged daily over the next weeks… months… eh.. In fact, they are scheduled until June next year. And I didn’t even go through all of it yet.
If you don’t want to miss it, check the Tumblr. Sometimes they will be on Twitter, but the reblogs will never be posted on the WordPress since that is more like an archive. On the other hand, it’s a lot of fun to go there for random posts, combine tags, search, etc.
Ok, hasta luego!
The Toilet + Goto80 – Machines don’t picnic remix
Fuk the borders Bangface edition contains The Toilet’s fabulizimous rework of Machines don’t cry. It seems like a pretty great compilation with artists such as Hexadeci, Melt unit, Baseck, Fat frumos, Toecutter, Captain raveman and many others.
New ASCII stuff
I released a new ASCII colly at Revision (the biggest demo party around) and it came in 2nd place in the ASCII/ANSI/PETSCII compo. Watch on asciiarena.se.
Commodore Grooves videos
Data Airlines has just re-issued Commodore Grooves, and that made me think about videos and demos. Here’s a few of them that includes music from the album.
This Triad demo uses Raymond, and was released in 2001.
This video was made by Entter using the cassette-based video camera PXL-2000.
The Fantasy-video was released in 2004, in ye ancient times before video streaming and Youtube was a thing. Entter hosted the video on their servers, but didn’t really anticipate that it would become so popular. It was downloaded about 20,000 times I think, which created so much traffic that they had to pay a huge fee to the providers. In the end it worked out well, though. Funny how the cost of video has changed over the years..
Ull8 was used in one of the parts of the C64-demo 10 Strong Years. It was released to celebrate 10 years of Hack n’ Trade (the demogroup I founded) but it was delayed a few years. Besides, it later turned out that HT was not formed in 1993 as I always thought, but actually in 1994. Anyway.
At that time I worked a lot with Hollowman, first with his Triad-demos and then his demos for Fairlight. Pretending To See The Light uses Slobban.
Finally, this bad boy was featured as a video on the data part of the CD. It was made by Jens Nirme, who I lived with at the time.
Commodore Grooves anniversary edition
My debut album Commodore Grooves is now 18 years old! To celebrate, Data Airlines has made a limited edition anniversary cassette. There are still a few CDs available if you’re after a more modern format. ^__^