Living in times where a filter/plugin is considered sellout after 1 week, this is of course terribly outdated.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!
Just to confirm: the tour to Russia and neighbouring countries has been cancelled. Eventhough I had an invitation sent over telex (!) for the visa, it did not work out this time. And this is not an april’s fools joke, this is not a drill. Rave on, until next time.
Goto80 - Vilse i Babylon
67 musicians making 28-second songs. Includes 11hzrobot, Flegmatical, Mikrosopht, Paza, Nullsleep, Rico Zerone, and Invisible Public Library (what a name!). My song is a cover of a song by the 1980s powerpop group Nattkräm and the title translates to Lost in Babylon. Get it
I forgot to post this earlier, damnit. Talking 303! Chip music? Bluestam! Barbie? Video by Ilan Katin.
Barb(ie)vu from ilan katin on Vimeo.
A week ago I started working on doing a UK-tour in March, since I got a gig in Newcastle confirmed. A challenging task, and this is how it looks right now. Feel free to help out if you have ideas. Will update this post with more. PS. Getting gigs without a proper Myspace is controversial!
March 15th Makerfaire @ The Other Rooms, Newcastle. w/ Syphus, Firebrand Boy.
March 16th Chipfest 3 @ Korova Basement, Liverpool. w/ Syphus, Fluxxin, SoundMatrix, The Tin Foil Hat Brigade
March 18th Crawdaddy, Dublin (ie)
March 20th The Bunker, Belfast
Soitetuimmat artistit
1. Dingo (24 krt)
2. Goto80 (10 krt)
3. Bruce Springsteen (9 krt)
4. Elvis Presley (8 krt)
5. Eino Grön (8 krt)
What a list! From radio noise.
Ok, this video samples the music from HT Gold - the most complex reverse engineered c64 interactive glitch machinima game thing, with maximum playability! (hello buzz words) Autoboy did the programming and I made the music. It was exhibited in 6 meter format at the main square of Copenhagen, at mikrogalleriet, and at HAIP Festival. And now this guy samples the audio, without permission, without credit. I guess people don’t recognize it as music, and then my remark is a bit naggy-waggy. Indeed, we left some of the sound effects from the original game (ring modulated with the song) but most of the sounds that you can hear come from a song that plays linearly. And the sampled bits in the video are quite loooong. Well, the song is not CC’ed and maybe it’s not even eligable for copyright (as a non-fixed work), so.. yeah. It’s because of things like this that copyright could actually have some kind of practical purpose, somewhere behind the economism…
Lo-tech from Marciano Sidoni on Vimeo.
On Friday next week in Stockholm, I will play at the opening party for the trial against Pirate Bay. In true pirate style the trial is announced as a theater spectacle - spectrial - and it is definitely something worth following. It is of course not a spectacle for the entertainment industry, European Parliament, and other copyright mongers that are pushing for the death sentence of the Pirate Bay. But for me, it is more like a money-induced theater than something about artist’s rights or computer literate laws. Why, you may ask?
The investigations leading up to the trial are the longest ever in Sweden, according to some. It is probably because linking to copyrighted material is not illegal in Sweden, which has been explained to “the industry” repeatedly, hehe. But to try to prove that it is still wrong anyway, a number of officials from the media industry has been invited to court. And the police man who investigated Pirate Bay. But well, he was also working for Universal and Warner so we’d might aswell call him a part of the entertainment industry. I am guessing there are reasons to why there are no people that actually know something about computers and law?
Eh, yeah well anyway, see you at the party!
01 Goto80 - Mendelssohn’s Turbo March
Together with the J. Arthur Keenes Band, Steve, MM and a bunch of others here is a bit of cheering up. I made this song for a friend’s wedding, although it was not in turbo mode then. But my friend didn’t come to the wedding ceremony, so then I made it turbo to initiate project scandal rave race body.
