Superdöner, the mega data rock bröt band I’m in, will have a release party for our new 7″ single In The Jungle on the 8th of June in Gothenburg. As usual, Superdöner will top our previous gigs along with music from Astroburger, drawings by Robert Nilsson, cheap booze and the usual dirty döner style. I will also do a gig in Jörlanda at Compusphere the same night, so if anybody is driving a car, then send me a fax and just maybe this will work out!

Goto80+Entter live in Bilbao times two this weekend! Bilborock and the at Stazionmeteo so watch out for the noises.

Mapping Festival is a VJ-festival in Geneva, Switzerland this weekend where I’m backing up Entter with some data musikk. And here’s some other plans:

May 03: GotoDJ @ Community64, Haket, Gothenburg, Sweden
May 24: Goto80+Entter @ Bilborock, Bilbao, Spain
May 25: Goto80+Entter live in Bilbao
July 7: Goto80 @ Backslash, Västerås, Sweden (TBC)
July 13: Goto80 @ Formanova Festival, Fredricia, Denmark (TBC)
July 21: Goto80+Entter @ Euskal, Bilbao, Spain
Aug 04: Goto80 in Varberg (TBC)

Updates at mydamnspace!

Oh, and someone please fix this EU copyright madness, please? Thanks.

I had a gig in Utrecht for the C-men’s VJ Launch Party at Ekko, together with lots of elite headz. It was really good to hear Lo-bat‘s tight Gameboy drum’n'rock again, and to get some of Jeroen Tel’s good ol’ melodic C64 funk. Gijs Gieskes showed some new weird thingies with Sega and Gameboy and all of that – extremely good as usual – and Otro provided some of his magical pixels. And DJ DMDN again. The C-men is Da Groovy Selekta! Photos from Utrecht by Bart here.

Photo by Rosa Menkman

After the gig I missed the train and the morning after I missed another train, but in the evening I magically found myself in Paris nevertheless, to do a show at Fuck You I’m Furious at La Java Club. In Utrecht I destroyed two C64s and in Paris I destroyed a third one, so this was a nice jackpot for me. I stayed with Sidabitball and had a quick peek on his amazing projects which are yet to be revealed, maybe. We went to do some very hot undercover data sightseeing at the mo5. In Paris I was also fined, burned, crepped, mugged, stripped and buried. Hello, here are my photos.

Ok, three shows in Holland in January, the week after Belgium. When arriving in Holland my suitcase was even more broke than before, and when soundchecking for the first show I noticed my laptop-screen had 1% light in it. So I had to use a tightly operated lamp to see the screen for the rest of the tour. Error flow! The first night was at Studio80, Amsterdam with DMG Plantlife, DJ Monza and the C-men. Good shit, and I especially liked the Gameboying my mister DMG. Very nice slow but pumpy experimental beats, live jammed and just very far from your standard Gameboy music. In Amsterdam I also went to see the Bodies exhibition, which was amazingly interesting! It was especially funny that they saved bellybottoms and asses. What wasn’t so funny, was that all the bodies were actually Chinese…

DMG Plantlife + Goto80 + C-men. Photos: Rosa Menkman

Rotterdam next! Poing and gabber and Clone! The venue, Worm, was a really nicely decorated place and the building went back hundreds of years and harbour hardcore massive commerce blabla. Also playing were DMG Plantlife, Jeroen Tel, Pornologic, dmdn and C-men. I also made a TV-interview this night. The DJ-set of dmdn was really great, doing one of the best 8-bittish hardcore sets I’ve heard live.

me playing live. note the laptop-lamp! Photos: Rosa Menkman

Worm machine. Photos: Rosa Menkman

Next day it was off to Tilburg and 013, a huge venue where you could easily get lost and locked out and god knows what. I enjoyed the dancehall party next door, which was like stepping into another universe. Living on MTV!?

Photo: Rosa Menkman

(spirit of truth)

Ait, so first up was Brussels on January 19th. The day before I bought a new suitcase to stop the airport people from destroying my gear in my crappy backpack, and I also got a new anti-funky haircut. Yes! I arrived at Mediaruimte to discover that the SID-chip in my C-64 was broken, again. So was the suitcase. So I did some LSDJ-improvisations instead, which was good enough I guess. M-.-n also played a nice set with LSDJ and his own GP32-tracker LittleGPTracker. Yeah, and I just missed the Touch exhibition by Lab[au], where you can pixel-animate a skyscraper. Check out the videos!

photo by psi36, more of his goto80-photos here.

The day after I had a rally drive to Verviers and the Bubble’s Skate Park! It’s a small place but the two local acts were really fucking fresh. Lovely gameboy beats by Qwertypak and his MC’s (video) and crazy experimental didgeridoo + 2xC64 set by JMX. I also enjoyed the breakcore set by Adrenalien!

As part of the Rump & Rumraket night I’m doing a show at Global in Copenhagen next Saturday. Also playing is Taxi Taxi! – two Swedish 17 year old indie poppers – and one of my favourites: Karsten Pflum! The same night Je Mappelle Mads & Bounty Niller will offer one of their mindexploding shows together with the sweet electronica-act Band Ane at Rust. So go to Copenhagen, ok?

Live-shows coming up!

Rumours has it that Copenhagen and Örebro are next in line, ey ey, etc.

Yesterday I had a gig in a toilet. Dubmood too. It was great!

(hawaiian hairless)