Marciano Sidoni samples Goto80
Ok, this video samples the music from HT Gold – the most complex reverse engineered c64 interactive glitch machinima game thing, with maximum playability! (hello buzz words) Autoboy did the programming and I made the music. It was exhibited in 6 meter format at the main square of Copenhagen, at mikrogalleriet, and at HAIP Festival. And now this guy samples the audio, without permission, without credit. I guess people don’t recognize it as music, and then my remark is a bit naggy-waggy. Indeed, we left some of the sound effects from the original game (ring modulated with the song) but most of the sounds that you can hear come from a song that plays linearly. And the sampled bits in the video are quite loooong. Well, the song is not CC’ed and maybe it’s not even eligable for copyright (as a non-fixed work), so.. yeah. It’s because of things like this that copyright could actually have some kind of practical purpose, somewhere behind the economism…
Link-rot: Lo-tech from Marciano Sidoni on Vimeo.
Live @ Pirate Bay Spectrial Party
On Friday next week in Stockholm, I will play at the opening party for the trial against Pirate Bay. In true pirate style the trial is announced as a theater spectacle – spectrial – and it is definitely something worth following. It is of course not a spectacle for the entertainment industry, European Parliament, and other copyright mongers that are pushing for the death sentence of the Pirate Bay. But for me, it is more like a money-induced theater than something about artist’s rights or computer literate laws. Why, you may ask?
The investigations leading up to the trial are the longest ever in Sweden, according to some. It is probably because linking to copyrighted material is not illegal in Sweden, which has been explained to “the industry” repeatedly, hehe. But to try to prove that it is still wrong anyway, a number of officials from the media industry has been invited to court. And the police man who investigated Pirate Bay. But well, he was also working for Universal and Warner so we’d might aswell call him a part of the entertainment industry. I am guessing there are reasons to why there are no people that actually know something about computers and law?
Eh, yeah well anyway, see you at the party!
V/A: Cheer Up Emo Kid – The Happy Compilation (Calmdown Kidder MP3)
01 Goto80 – Mendelssohn’s Turbo March
Together with the J. Arthur Keenes Band, Steve, MM and a bunch of others here is a bit of cheering up. I made this song for a friend’s wedding, although it was not in turbo mode then. But my friend didn’t come to the wedding ceremony, so then I made it turbo to initiate project scandal rave race body.
Exhibition, Otro & Goto80
Galerie Duplex in Toulouse (France) is running an exhibition with Julien Ducourthial aka Otro. I made the music for an animated Amiga piece called Black Noises. On display until 7th of March.
Live @ Transmediale
Look this, John! Transmediale! Berlin! The crashed space station C-Base (not C*Base). Bleepstreet! Raquel! Pornologic! Kittenrock! Rawk and stroll!
Goto80 + Raquel Meyers Live @ HAIP festival Ljubljana
Two videos of me & Raquel’s gig at HAIP Festival last November, filmed by r00000s. The sound will please the distortion lovers! To get a good look of the visuals, high quality is available: double-click on the video and then click just below the bottom right of the video. It is magically embedded in high-quality, which seems to work on newer browsers atleast. Stay up2date, fuck the past!
New Video >> Raquel Meyers: L-V–SC-LD-RTH-ND–TH
L-V–SC-LD-RTH-ND–TH
Video: Raquel Meyers
Music: Goto80 ( from Wet Pulse)
Summary of Shit
As we all know, 2008 was a shit year. The only good thing that happened was me dressing up as a salad-man and being called the shadow. Oh, and the financial crisis of course. Anyway. Me and my partner in crime didn’t manage to fill up all 365 days at internet2008.se but of course we blame someone else for that. I did however put 182 songs there, although most of it under other names than Goto80. As you might have noted the quality control was not exactly cosmic all the time, but it was good enough for a shit year! Counting other releases (mp3-albums, collaborations, videos, games, compilations, demos) I got about 225 songs out in 2008. Yip yip yip. Years are numbers, and should be summarized in numbers. Here is another number: 59
As for 2009 I will stop aiming for high numbers. This is the dawn of the new beginning, booya. Expect some good ol’ quality releases again. I will also try to do more live shows than last year, so e-mail me when the cables are plugged in and you’re ready to rumble. My name is Goto Eightola. Nice to meet you. I Hope you like it.
Burp
The visualist Raquel Meyers, once a member of Entter, now does her own work. The Basque TV-show Burp did a feature on her that you can check here. A couple of my songs are in there, but the main reason to check it out is raquel’s visual work and the basque language!
V/A: Merry Pixmas (Pixelmod MP3)
05 Goto80 – Dear Santa
Alongside little-scale, 8 Bit Weapon, Shaun Carley, Sandy Cheeks and others here is an 18-track compilation of messy christ songs for Pixelmod Records. My contribution is a fluffy and harsh megamix of christmas stuff: Gläns över sjö och strand, I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa, and When You Wish Upon a Star. And maybe even some more. Let’s continue the christmas spirit and Give links to Commercialism and Cheese (including myself).
Mariah Carey – All I Want For Christmas, covered for VORC’s Holy 8bit Night
Band Aid – Feed The World, highly reworked to fit the times for Christmasasaurus 2
Wham – Last Christmas, for 8bitpeoples’ 8bits of Christmas
…so, do YOU know it’s christmas?