Datastorm is a new copy party in Göteborg, Sweden organized mostly by my partners in Amiga crime in Up Rough. It features people that drink 100 beers and lose their driver’s license, and people who make MP3-decoders for C64. I made a new C64-song at the party called TECHNO AHA which might be a joke with German minimal techno. Also released an Amiga production with Otro which I was very pleased with (not online yet). Also did two other releases under other names, but you’ll have to figure out what that was yourself. Fake-releases? No, because all my releases are fake.

Some stuff I liked especially (get them here at some point)

Everything by Otro : )
Frantic – Birdburner (C64-music)
Jucke – När jag var liten påg (C64-music)
Judas – Liseberg (PETSCII graphics)
Qwan – Miles to go (Amiga-music)
Bajtek & Manload – Durex is free (Amiga-music)
Mahoney – C64MP3 (C64-demo)

An excerpt of POLYBIUS 2.0 by Raquel Meyers + Goto80
Recorded at fh.meppen, Berlin 100113.
Presented by Visual Berlin

Another cat to 80! The song is a quiet Ajvar Relish played on a strange SID-chip it seems. The stranger the better! Danke. Hello.

Just before Plaza+, we’ll do this show tomorrow in Berlin. 21.00 @ fh.meppen, Schliemannstr. 37.

First shown at Cimatics Festival in November, here it is again in +++ style. Raquel Meyers & Goto80: Polybius at PlazaPlus Festival Eindhoven, 15 January, Eindhoven, Netherlands, Eindhoven.

The Deuce Project presents a christmas mix with my good ol’ cover of Last Christmas, made on Casionova’s C64 in Melbourne a couple of years ago (or maybe it was future_eater’s?). Anyway, this mix is a great combination of odd music and not in that wannabe-eclectic-kind-of-way, but “generally dorky”. Bruce Haack, Señor Tonto, Satanic Puppeteer Orchestra, Gulag Picture Radio, and my old disco favourite Meco. It’s an honour to be in this. Right? Yes/No/Noise.

Get it!

As seen at DVblog, here’s the emergency vacation video Snabbeas by Ilan Katin with illustrations by Tinet Elmgren. Many sounds in the song are text-files (and such) loaded as audio, which gives that full on no-jitter crunchy christmas vibe that only the Amiga can offer! But Ilan took it to a higher level of unconsciousness. Read more about it here.

A quick note that I’m performing with Raquel Meyers in Venice tomorrow and doing a workshop in C64-music during the day (and Raquel does one on pixel-something-animation-break-hardcore-something). Don’t miss out! Gotovenice now! Acid!

www.nweamo.org is down at the moment, but maybe this is helpful:

NWEAMO @ ALTAVOZ HITS VENICE with 8 BIT MUSIC, PIXEL ART VIDEOS AND LIVE ENERGY PERFORMANCES
SNAX+GOTO80+RAQUEL MEYERS
www.nweamo.org
CSO RIVOLTA, Via Fratelli Bandiera 45, Marghera, Mestre, IT

HT Gold @ Pixxelpoint, photos by Rosa Menkman. When the last CRT TV and C64 is gone, this is gone too.

I will make a very short performance during Rosa Menkman’s talk at Media Playgrounds in Amsterdam on Saturday. Media Playgrounds takes place in several European cities, and presents creative ways of dealing with broadcast media by community media practitioners, professional and emergent artists. If you want to attend, you need to reserve a seat by e-mail. Read more about it here.