DEMOSCENE

Some kind of Tour

Jul 29, 2007 | ,

Hm, this tour thing started off pretty retarded. After spending a whole day watching regional weather reports and sitcom re-runs, I had to repair a broken live-set, fix tickets, commit fruit fly genocide and pack my bags in the first morning of this 2,5 week “tour”. I was going to the Formanova Festival in Denmark by train. To cut a long story short, I missed 2 trains, managed to get a ticket sales person to say “There is no way to complain. There are no names here. It’s all your fault, for using Internet.” and arrive 20 hours late to the festival. Totale Friday the 13th stylee! But me, Korvex and Cris got to the festival in time to see Duracell and Karsten Pflum do their thing! Other highlights of the festival included Isan, Rumpistol and the mysteriously wasted Dan – normally spotted passed out at microparties in Malmö. Here is a 10 minute video of most concerts of the festival.

Ok, pause in Malmö with falafel slacking and looking for scales to see if my luggage fit that damn Ryan Air 15 kilo limit. My friend Kim came to the rescue, and then we went on a Varberg-esque frenzy around Malmö, featuring projectile goose-shit catapult fountains and intoxication. Later that evening we lost the scales and got our first hardcore gay harassment in the toilet at Debaser! Ajaj! Next day I managed to find the airport and flight, and arrived in Madrid almost 2 hours late to find Rubeck who’d been watching a passed out stoner teen being harassed by security people at Nuevos Ministeros. Got to Bilbao the next day for a few days of hard data labour with Entter. We remixed C64 audio and visuals with RAM-hacking and worked on the forthcoming data karaoke. We also played a concert at Euskal Encounter – a huge demo/lan-party which was surprisingly silent and tidy. First time I got to sign an autograph on a laptop!

I found my way back to Sweden in time for the pre-pre-BFP-party with the cream of the 8-bit underground elite squadz. Non stop hard data action, until going to the pre-BFP party in Fabriken, Helsingborg. The following day the party started, and I was conveniently trashed but kept on computing and in the end I had at least 5 songs in the competitions, under various pseudonyms. Me and Autoboy also did a dual-C64 tracker jam concert! I can recommend all the amiga music, Cool Ska Cool by Up Rough (youtube), Appetizer by Durex, Goa Brudbilder 2 by Hack n’ Trade (text art), Deep Throat by Durex (cassette art), and so on. Watch photos and download everything here

oh yeah

My photos from this whole ordeal is here.

Sharp and Fuzzy

Jul 9, 2007 |

fairlight, fairlight - looking for a fight!

Fairlight, the notorious cracker/demo-group, had their 20th anniversary this weekend at Backslash. The screenshot is from the C64-demo Sharp by Fairlight+Instinct, and I’d say it’s definitely one of the more eerie and fresh C64-demos in a while – with my song putting a nice psychotic flavour to the whole thing. Download VICE (the binary), set true drive emulation to on, download the demo and drop it into the emulator. Voila!

I also made a quick and dirty 4k MOD-song together with Dubmood and Zabutom which might be available somewhere sometime.

Demoscene updates

Apr 17, 2007 |

The demoscene is a bunch of teenagers making audiovisual computer productions. Since the mid 1980’s it’s been an international network of modem-linked people, sharing their work for free. Here you can find many roots to creative low-tech programming, free sharing of music and so forth. It’s always been surprisingly underground, although today alot of demosceners can be seen in the fields of music releases, multimedia, art, vj:ing, webdesign, etc. The wikipedia entry gives you an idea to the modern demoscene, but the oldschool demoscenes are really what gets me going anyway. The thing is that it’s not about animations. Everything is generated in real-time by the computer, through clever programming skills that makes the computer do things it’s not supposed to be doing.

Anyway, I’ve now updated this blog with info and downloads of most demoscene releases I’ve been doing 1993-2006. So feel free to check it out. Now, it’s really not that complicated to view these things with emulators (though sometimes things look, sound and feel really shitty in emulators). If you’re interested in gaining insight into one of the most interesting underground computer movements, you need to check this. Let me help you.

Commodore 64: Go here, scroll down and download the VICE binary distributions for your operating system. Install it. In a the options pull-down menu, set it to True Drive Emulation, and then you can just download demos and drag and drop them into the emulator. Some suggestions: Hello:Friend, Goa Brudbilder, Megademo 3…

Gameboy: Go here and download KiGB. Download some Gameboy-demo – Demotronic is the best one – and run the KiGB program and load the file. Voila!

Amiga: use UAE but you have to wait for the hot Up Rough hack for it so it becomes easy to use. It’s horrible at the moment.

Okay, now get some proper hardware and do this for real. Some C64-demoscene stuff you need to search CSDB for in your quest for the best: Kjell Nordbo, Panoramic Designs, Wrath Designs, Plush, Booze Design. I’ll be back about this….

Up Rough Radio Shows The Shit

Apr 16, 2007 | ,

up rough got damnit

The freshest Amiga demoscene crew known to mankind, Up Rough, is building a webradio with music from our releases. It was just updated with new tracks, so check out the wonders of Qwan, Yoki, Skope, Spot, Goto80, Dino, everybody’s favourite Mortimer Twang, and the rest. There’s one chip radio with the bleepy stuff, and then the MOD-radio which shows what you can really achieve with 4 channels and 8-bit samples. Booombastiko fresh drum n’ bass dub electro techno evil sweetness! For the Goto80-freax, there’s alot of tracks not available anywhere else. So listen up! got damnit!

Big Floppy People 2007

Apr 12, 2007 |

Maybe the best computer party in the world, Big Floppy People, has just been announced. Once again it will be an old milk factory full of 8-bit data people, emitting mad smells and good vibes. Go to the south of Sweden in July, because this is not to be missed. More info and the invite intro with my music here.

bobby
Petscii graphics by Dino

Demoscene 2006

Dec 17, 2006 |

  • 10 Years HVSC (C64-musicdisk 2006). “I almost pissed my pants from laughing! :DDD That sounds like a wannabe jazzy schoolband doing rehearsal in the backyard, just brilliant!!!” / Steppe in the HVSC-crew.
  • Fulfräs by Goto80 (C64-music, #? @ Amiga Summer Party 2006). I made this gabber song when I was really tired and it made me feel funny. Funny!
  • Diskmachine by Goto80 (C64-music, #2 @ Big Floppy People 2006). Another one of those songs I made at a demoparty. Thanks to Iopop/Triad for retrieving this from the floppy disk when I accidently deleted the song!
  • Vafalls! by Goto80 (Amiga-music, #3 @ Big Floppy People 2006).
  • Grandmaster Skrub by Skrub (Amiga-music, #? @ Backslash 2006). This is a song I made in 1995.
  • Acidroos by Goto80 (C64-music, #3 @ Backslash 2006). Yes, made at the party. 6581 weirdness.
  • Flax-91 by Goto80. Amiga-music. #1 @ Up Rough Drunken 15 minute ST-01 Compo.
  • Köttlars by Goto80 (C64-music, #1 @ St Lars Meeting 2006). Weird C64-beats, made at the party.

    • Goto80 + Jossystem sizzling summer action

    Aug 20, 2006 | , ,

    As a warm up for the summer, me and Dan from Jossystem were (supposed to have been) working on our audiovisual propaganda in May. And we did a gig at the wonderful Oro Gallery in Gothenburg.

    In July we did a gig at Backslash (Robots + Naked Chicks + Lasers) and then hung around in the Jossystem HQ in King’s Ear for a week, doing some heavy data work. That’s when I got into Myspace. :) We finished off our data psychosis with a gig at Arvikafestivalen. We didn’t play as a part of the festival really, but in the tent of Galago/Vertigo/Ordfront by the entrance. Chaos ruled the gig, and afterwards I found my C64-disks in the dirt, stomped on by the mad crowd! Woops. I spent the night in the tent of Bromander and Amaurot, but I managed to keep my clothes on. Well, I had to because it was freezing and I didn’t have any sleeping gear. I got up early next morning and took the train to Gothenburg to play at the internet headphone apartment festival (!?) Totogo. I was sort of trashed when I got there, and I tried my best to clean my C64-disks so they would work. Some of them did, but I lost some of newest acid-tracks. Error! Error! Brrrrrr!

    We also made a mini tour in August: 8-bit festival 2 (Tampere), Assembly (Helsinki) and Pirat-fest (Stockholm). Finally I got to go on one of the ferries between Sweden and Finland. They’re famous for being trashy, tacky, lo-fi, alcoholic, sleezy, etc. It was great! The photos and videos we took during our trip (and nothing more) were used to make the Volksing-video. Here’s three of them: (shot by Björn Bengtsson)

    yea
    SWÄG organised the 8-bit festival. (check their mp3-downloads!)

    mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
    nice socks, nice crowd

    si si
    swingin’ an a filmin’

    And there’s a video of my gig at the 8-bit festival.

    The party in Stockholm was arranged by the big and beautiful Piratbyrån, and it was a good ending to another mini tour. Rickard Falkvinge was there to see the massive release of Jossystem’s Jag heter Rickard Falkvinge. Björn Bengtsson and Psilodump took photos, and here are the absolute worst ones. (unhealthy insomniac ferry style)

    as bad as it gets

    We also made more shows this summer together with Entter, but that’s a different story!

    Data Jam

    May 6, 2006 | , ,

    Audiovisual datajam at gallery Big Love (rip) on Hisingen Island. It was me, Dino, Yoki, Booger, Mortimer Twang and Optiroc = top notch Hack n’ Trade Up Rough data elite. So we did assembler programming, PETSCII-stuff, Deluxe Paint animations, Protracking, LSDJing, JCHing, etc. Maybe we’ll get videos online some day, here’s two photos while you’re waiting. Oh, and yes – we destroyed so much that evening. It was beautiful.

    Demoscene Datatrash Stlars

    Feb 20, 2006 | ,

    I was in a basement in the south of Sweden last night, where the Commodore 64 demo scene elite d00ds gathered in some sort of oldschool worker-revolutionary book café …. thing. St Lars Meeting!. Nice sweaty crammed data action battlez by the Swedish (and other) C64-elite. I made a song at the party which was called Köttlars. (Play with VICE) It got first place in the competition, after settling it in a joystick shake-until-they-break Tour De France session with Zzap64. My song and visuals are in the finest of data trash traditions, and everytime the song is looped it’s slightly “remixed”. (Thanks to Mäts for coding the visuals.)

    jucke packing it daaauuunnn

    Talking about demoscene data trash… Check out the C64-demo Industrial Breakdown by Booze Design, the Vic-20 demo Robotic Liberation (youtube) by PWP, and the modern demoscene datatrash-stuff by the Slovakian Zden. Check out his demo PC-demo Metamorf for example.