08 Goto80 – Volksing

The Japanese label Intikrec – run by Aonami – releases Forms – a CD compilation with rock, punk, chiptunes, electro, etc. My track Volksing is on there. Prelisten at myspace.cum/intikrec and then buy it!

(beedogs)

13 Goto80 – Feed the World

Through the royal likes of Candymind: Peppermint Pony and Bubblegum Octopus presents a very nice twisted micro-style christmas collection with lots of goodies. I especially like the songs by 3PL3T1CF1T, Bit Shifter, Dorothy’s Magic Bag, ipaghost, Unicorn Dream Attack… well, just go get all of the 24 tracks here.

Still not sure about my song – a quick and weird “interpretation” of Band Aids* old song Do They Know It’s Christmas? (check out the covers!). Read the original lyrics here (filed under ethnocentrism).

This site runs a 100% anti-funky General MIDI version of the song, if you’re into those perversions. (which you are, ofcourse)

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(mr.t’s rap song)

07 Goto80 – Spill

Launched at the Blip Festival, 8bitpeoples now releases the massive double CD compilation 8BP050 which should have a tune for most chiptune ears. I contributed with Spill. On the 8BP050-website you can prelisten and download lots of mp3:s!

(beedogs)

Dubmood is down inna Marseille doing some crazy fresh chip music radio shows! I’ve got alot of songs in today’s radio show, eventhough that’s not the only reason to download it! But do it.

Just recently the Norwegian band Fitts For Fight stole chiptunes from Stu, Binärpilot, drx, and others. They added their vocals and got hyped in Norway for their teen trash porn DIY style, and apparently made some money off it. After this scandal though, them and “their” songs got taken off Myspace and Last.fm. People are upset with this, and you can support their quest to find the original authors here. Eventhough stealing things without credit atleast used to be quite normal in the chipmusic scene, this is a bit too much! I can’t help but finding it a bit funny though.

Other examples of commercial rip-offs of chip music:

I can’t think of any more examples. Help me out here. But anyway, the moral of this story is: don’t just take it away!

(tesla downunder)

01 CP/L
02 Datahell
03 Exy
04 Bullcactus
05 Soft Commando
06 Monster
07 Spill
08 Markus
09 Rofon
10 Datahell Beta
(download)

Digi-Dig is a 10-track ogg-release free for download at Da ! Heard It Records. Plays in Winamp. Includes electro, trash, funk, pop, metal, etc. If you hurry up, you can buy your own copy with crazy fresh bonus material!

(new wave country)

13 Goto80 – Julglapp 2

Sudd.org is running a christmas calender with a new song every day until christmas eve. Today my track Julglapp 2 is available. It’s a strange amiga ballad mash up of a couple of different christmas melodies, including JAG SÅG MAMMA KYSSA TOMTEN. So check out the calender.

Previously released in the Amiga intro Dear Santa by Up Rough.

(dogs in cars)

The French video guru Kissdub just put a video online here. The music is my Silly Sex track from the Copyslave EP. The video is a tremendous mashup of Gameboy games!

(cornstarch)

I played at Blip Festival, which is the badest chip music festival to date. 40 musical and visual artists from Europe, USA and Japan rocked for 4 days just next to Wall Street! How about for example Anamanaguchi, Bud Melvin, Mark DeNardo, Hally, Quarta330, Virt, x|k and YMCK with visuals by C-men, Voltage Controlled, noteNdo? Well, too bad if you weren’t there! But there’s 1700 photos and 86 videos for you instead. And here’s x|k’s Goto80-tagged photos. And there’ll be a DVD out aswell, so don’t you worry. Be there next year though…………

(1up shrooms)