Boogerlab, who surprised the world with this video, s/he/it has done it again! This time it is a kitten being datamoshed with another song of mine.

The new media festival Pixxelpoint is showing HT Gold December 4-11 in Nova Gorica, Slovenia/Italy. Other artists participating include Vuk Čosić, Ian Bogost, Oliver Larić, Rosa Menkman, Florian Cramer, UBERMORGEN.COM, Tonylight, Olia Lialina, Michael Bell Smith, and many more.

Video: Raquel Meyers
The song is yet to be released.

Anders Aalderen has released something silly++ at internet2008: check it out.

I think I am making chicken sound, because this is here. Additionally, this is here.

Ah! One of the the very top people in the dub/ragga/reggae corner of the chiptune square-room is the Japanese Cow’p. He just released a dj set with bleepy reggae/ragga/dub stuff, including my C64-song Ajvar Relish. Also includes for example Bitmuch, Big-chip, Cow’p, Zabutom, Meneo/Dubmood, Unicorn Kid, etc. Get the mix and tracklist here. (via 8bc)

And here’s something else:

03 Special Stage (Handy Remax by Goto80)

I forgot to mention this when it was released October 15. It’s a compilation of chip-versions of the game series Rockman (aka Megaman). It’s an official Capcom CD, released by Inti Create. It features demosceners, videogame composers, Eastern and Western composers, purism and non-purism with the following artists: Chibi-Tech, Virt, Rushjet1, K->, naruto, Ippo Yamada, Saskrotch, Manami Matsumae, Akari Kaida, Hiroki Isogai, Manabu Namiki, Saitone, Zinger, Ryo Kawakami, Nobuyuki Shioda, KPLECRAFT, Dong, and USK. And my remix, made in Protracker on Amiga. Read about it at Gamasutra,

I have destroyed way too many SID-chips (the soundchips of the C64) over the years. I developed a severe paranoia where I thought that my body had been intoxicated by electro chaos at a club in Göteborg, when the sound technician killed my C64 by plugging it into a dimmer plug. But then I tried a stun gun (the illegal kind) and the rate of destroyed SID-chips decreased, and about a year ago I started to beta-test this SID-chip protection that Mogwai is building. You put it inbetween the SID and the C64 motherboard, and it stabilizes currents and does other magic. I’ve put it through datahell, and it has worked great so far.

But when I returned home from a few gigs in the UK a couple of months ago, the SID was suddenly very quiet. This is a typical near-death experience. During that tour I also destroyed my disk drive. I thought that my trash-skills had once again won the fight against engineering. At the Nördik Impakt festival last weekend, I brought another C64, which also had a broken SID-chip when I came home. Paranoia. Electro chaos. Datahell.

Enter the troubleshoot. I took the old C64 and removed the SID protection, and connected the SID straight to the motherboard. No sound at all. I opened the other C64 and gave the SID-chip some sweetness. Still no sound. Doctor Matsumoto suggested to change the power supply because there are rumours about bad behaviour of on the right. Doctors never lie, and neither did this one. Indeedio, it worked. Both SIDs were now back to life, back to reality.

SID says: Bad power supplies can make you think that we are dead, but Mogwai SID protection can make you think we are alive anyway.

01 Goto80 – Hey! Hey! Hey!

Yipee, a refreshing compilation of not-so-digital-at-all music. Methodist Leisure releases a compilation of 51 mini-songs in mostly punk/lofi/rock flavour from e.g. Gay Beast, Japanther, Koji Kondo (!)C:, Best Fwends, Barf Bag, the Death Set, Mutators, the Sneezes. Free download