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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
Filmmuseum Amsterdam has a Celluloid Remix Project for which Rosa Menkman made a video with my Arp2500-music. The first one is in colour (after a while), and the second one is black and white. Two other works by her, recently released in new versions, use music that I made under the name Extraboy aswell: Radio Dada and compress process.
So coders, how do you explain this?
I made a 5 minute gabber tune in Protracker for my Amiga, but when I loaded it today it had turned into this. It freezes just after you press play, and loops the pattern-position it’s on (usually). But the song keeps changing though.
This is 3 videos edited into one (cuts at 1.08 and 1.33) but no other postproduction has been made. FYI, the speech synthesis in the beginning says Protracker Rules, and is there every time I start Protracker. Hot scripting action!
If you like this, you probably break down in happy tears from this.
Following up the previous post, here is a remix of the videostream from Jacob Sikker Remin’s exhibition by Rosa Menkman with another song of mine.
Living in times where a filter/plugin is considered sellout after 1 week, this is of course terribly outdated. But it’s my dear Defmon C64-tracker getting datamoshed by the click of a button. I am so cool that I don’t even need to use the plugin that everybody else uses! Surf’s up! Warning for extreme clicking!
Link-rot: Barb(ie)vu from ilan katin on Vimeo.
I forgot to post this earlier, damnit. Talking 303! Chip music? Bluestam! Barbie? Video by Ilan Katin.
