I was at Little Computer People 2009 – the largest 8-bit demoparty in Scandinavia for 15 years, with about 150 people.

I was happy to win first prize with Automatas in the C64-music competition. I spent the week before at the countryside, composing a song specifically to win the compo according to my algorithm. But after a while I gave up to make a good song instead. So obviously my algorithm was wrong. It is an 8x-speed song made in Defmon, meaning that it accesses the SID-chip 8 times faster than usual. This gives you a higher resolution of all the tables, faster slides and LFOs, etc.

In the Amiga music compo, I came second last with my song Konkurs Data. The sounds used are mostly textfiles, pictures, executables, etc – sweet data that Protracker eats perfectly. It is not the recipe for winning demoscene competitions.

Some of the releases I enjoyed especially was the Amiga songs by Yonx and Qwan (mp3s), Zabutom’s Space Fish, Mortimer Twang’s Seved Skweeeeeeeee, Jucke’s Where is Dino?, LFT’s Power Ninja Action Challenge (custom hardware, mp3 here), and many more! Get all the releases and photos

090814: Goto80 @ Hacking At Random, nl
090806: Goto80 @ Assembly, Helsinki, fi
090805: Goto80 @ Turku, fi TBA
090731: Goto80+Raquel Meyers @ Norbergfestival, Norberg, se

edit: eh, apparently someone already posted about this in this blog. that is enchanting indeed. atleast this post has a flyer. edit1: and the right finnish city.

The Australian super group Monster Zoku Onsomb are doing a remix project of their last album, Earth Eaters. My remix is a rather straight forward C64 rock-rave kind of song, and was published a few weeks ago. Listen and download it here: Frankin’Stein (Goto80 C64 Remax). Some other remix gems in there aswell, so check …. this … out!

I have made a rather abstract C64+Gameboy-remix of a song by the IDM-experimental duo Icarus. It was released a week ago, and you can listen to and buy it at Boomkat. (note that the beep every 30 second is a Boomkat feature to interrupt the prelisten, but I thought it worked rather niceley – consider it a remix). Other artists included on the CD are for example Karsten Pflum, Badun, Frank Bretschneider, and Xela.

“There are more abstract pathways to be explored here, too. Swedish 8-bit artist Goto80′s radical reworking of Second inf(E)Rænce chops it into microscopic bursts and stutters of atonal sound on which he eventually lays down some beautiful descending bass tones.” / BBC

“insects burrowing underground, Goto80′s “Second First Inf(E)Rænce” mix is as obsessive in its approach as an Icarus original but ultimately of minor interest” textura

Another better-late-than-never post: Random made a TCTD-podcast with Happy Chiptune MODs, including my song Midi vs Imperial. There are some “chiptune” heroes in here, like Mel o’Dee, Chavez, Radix, Nuke, and Maktone. Check it out for that ultimate arbitrary happiness! : )

Happy Chiptune MODs

Already a month ago actually, Psilodump released his new album: The Nya Albumet. It’s a double CD with the typical sound of Psilodump, which means eclectic-fragmented, harmonically floaty, and fonkey! I appear on the song Phonebook – rapping! So watch out for that. I represent the Swedish fetus.

> Goto80-interview by Lazerbeat for TCTD (part II) here

> Little Computer People, the best event of the year! A few spots left! Become a warrior! Compete with the elite! Fight for world peace!

> Future gigs – updates here
090724: Blip Festival Europe, Ålborg, dk
090731: Norbergfestival, Norberg, se
090806: Assembly, Helsinki, fi
090827: Goto80 @ Sheffield TBA
090828: Goto80 @ Bristol TBA