Bass Chiptune Mix by Cow’p
Ah! One of the the very top people in the dub/ragga/reggae corner of the chiptune square-room is the Japanese Cow’p. He just released a dj set with bleepy reggae/ragga/dub stuff, including my C64-song Ajvar Relish. Also includes for example Bitmuch, Big-chip, Cow’p, Zabutom, Meneo, Dubmood, Unicorn Kid, etc. Get the mix and tracklist here. (via 8bc) or buy it (?) here.
And here’s something else:
V/A: Chiptuned Rockman (Inti Creates CD)
03 Special Stage (Handy Remax by Goto80)
I forgot to mention this when it was released October 15. It’s a compilation of chip-versions of the game series Rockman (aka Megaman). It’s an official Capcom CD, released by Inti Create. It features demosceners, videogame composers, Eastern and Western composers, purism and non-purism with the following artists: Chibi-Tech, Virt, Rushjet1, K->, naruto, Ippo Yamada, Saskrotch, Manami Matsumae, Akari Kaida, Hiroki Isogai, Manabu Namiki, Saitone, Zinger, Ryo Kawakami, Nobuyuki Shioda, KPLECRAFT, Dong, and USK. And my remix, made in Protracker on Amiga. Read about it at Gamasutra,
SID CHAOS PARANOIA
I have destroyed way too many SID-chips (the soundchips of the C64) over the years. I developed a severe paranoia where I thought that my body had been intoxicated by electro chaos at a club in Göteborg, when the sound technician killed my C64 by plugging it into a dimmer plug. But then I tried a stun gun (the illegal kind) and the rate of destroyed SID-chips decreased, and about a year ago I started to beta-test this SID-chip protection that Mogwai is building. You put it inbetween the SID and the C64 motherboard, and it stabilizes currents and does other magic. I’ve put it through datahell, and it has worked great so far.
But when I returned home from a few gigs in the UK a couple of months ago, the SID was suddenly very quiet. This is a typical near-death experience. During that tour I also destroyed my disk drive. I thought that my trash-skills had once again won the fight against engineering. At the Nödik Impakt festival last weekend, I brought another C64, which also had a broken SID-chip when I came home. Paranoia. Electro chaos. Datahell.
Enter the troubleshoot. I took the old C64 and removed the SID protection, and connected the SID straight to the motherboard. No sound at all. I opened the other C64 and gave the SID-chip some sweetness. Still no sound. Doctor Matsumoto suggested to change the power supply because there are rumours about bad behaviour of on the right. Doctors never lie, and neither did this one. Indeedio, it worked. Both SIDs were now back to life, back to reality.
SID says: Bad power supplies can make you think that we are dead, but Mogwai SID protection can make you think we are alive anyway.
V/A: Short Attention Span (Methodist Leisure MP3)
01 Goto80 – Hey! Hey! Hey!
Yipee, a refreshing compilation of not-so-digital-at-all music. Methodist Leisure releases a compilation of 51 mini-songs in mostly punk/lofi/rock flavour from e.g. Gay Beast, Japanther, Koji Kondo (!)C:, Best Fwends, Barf Bag, the Death Set, Mutators, the Sneezes. Free download
Goto80: Breakfast (Bleepstreet MP3)
01 Breakfast (Radio Edit)
02 Breakfast (Beta Edit)
03 Breakfast (Terminal11 Remix)
04 Breakfast (Liquid Stranger Remix)
05 Breakfast (Neckbreaka Remix)
Out now on Bleepstreet. This is pure breakfast euphoria, mediated through funky breakdance disco speech synthesis, with remixes by Liquid Stranger, Terminal 11, and Neckbreaka. Cover art by Raquel Meyers. Mastering by Martin Stääf. (iTunes, Beatport, and many other MP3-shops)
Also check the video by the C-Men, celebrating 10 years of Amiga VJ:ing this year! The video is also available for high-quality download (25mb wmv), just save this link: here. And if you prefer, the Youtube-video here
GOTO80 – BREAKFAST (VIDEO BY THE C-MEN) from THE C-MEN on Vimeo.
Upcoming Life
091023: Goto80 @ Nördik Impakt @ Caen, fr. With Paza Rahm, Computer Truck, Meneo, and Dubmood + Howie B, The Herbaliser, Kevin Saunderson.
091114-25: HT Gold installation in Malmö, TBA.
091118: Goto80 @ Malmö, TBA. Doing live soundtracking to an old Godzilla movie. Should probably not be missed.
091126: Goto80 + Raquel Meyers @ Cimatics, Brussels, be. World premiere for our Polybius project with visuals and music that wants to put you in an unknown state of mind.
Breakfast coming soon
Video by C-men and maximum-single on Bleepstreet coming soon, jam-packed with funky breakfast-breakdance, singing eggs, and chip cereals. Remixes by Liquid Stranger, Terminal11, and Neckbreaka.
Rapping 4 Psilodump, again
Somehow Psilodump turned me into an MC; just like on his album, I’m rapping on his new single The Return of the Snabelnauts. Well, it’s the same thing again, to be honest…
V/A: Wanna Hld Yr Handheld, volume 1 (8 Bit Operators MP3)
Wanna Hld Yr Handheld is a compilatoin of Beatles covers – the second release from 8 Bit Operators, after the Kraftwerk success a while back. This is volume 1 with 20 big-chip-names including Bacalao, Saskrotch, minusbaby, Anamanaguchi, Psilodump, and Bubblyfish. I covered Come Together, to which there’s also a video.
Oct29-EDIT: Now up for download at 8bitops.com
Come Together, video by Erik Nilsson
Tomorrow the 8 Bit Operators Beatles Tribute is out, and here is the video to my contribution for it. It was made by Erik Nilsson, who recently made a mechnical orchestra. He animated this video on a Commodore 64 BBS (popular before the Internet), where the text gets written on the screen slowly enough for you to work with different animation techniques. Petscii and Skweee, how sweet life can beee. And thanks for the expert help, Rosaroos.