Fairlight – In Memory Of
After 7 years of work (!), here’s Hollowman’s new C64-demo with a soundtrack by me. It’s based on the life and words of Paul Panks, an interactive fiction programmer with schizophrenia who often ran into troubles in the retroforums..
Download the C64-file at CSDb.
ASCII-graffiti again
Spraypainted ASCII-graffiti in Varberg, Sweden, 2016. Thanks to Karin Andersson for helping out!
More photos at the text-mode tumblr and more ascii graffiti here.
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Livin la vida Leipzig
On Friday, June 3rd, I’m playing in Leipzig together with Zden on visuals. For many years he has spoiled the demoscene with glitch-industrial imagery, and he’s also developed his very own custom VJ-tool. This is our maiden voyage so come on down to the Distillery! If not for us, then maybe for Karl Marx Stadt and the others?
Ouiedire 133 is out!
Ouiedire 133 – Souvenir des Séquelles put together by Rachitik Data, includes an old song of mine. This is a pretty great mix in that typical all-over-the-place-in-a-French-way .. way.
V/A: DataDoor Sampler
DataDoor’s sampler is out now, with 20 songs from people like Tim Koch, Sense, Ed, Jellica and Boulderdash. You’ll recognize a lot of names (and styles) from late 90’s tracker cultures, netlabels, IDM/electronica and the demoscene.
I get the honour to open the compilation with a super cute acid pop tune made mostly with C64, TR-808 and the 303. Oh yeah, and PETSCII graphics by iLKke who also appears with a drum n’ bass track on the sampler!
“Like Hip Tanaka and Skrillex”
“There’s remnants of a song in there”
“A lot of a technical wizardry”
.. and other comments about my song Datahell in the Impulse Project’s podcast 13, Sledgehammer Glitches. Cheers! :^)
New SID-mix
Akaobi, one of the few active Japanese C64-enthusiasts, has published a new mix where one of my songs is included. The mix has some really good techno/acid/dub-stuff by Mortimer Twang, Jammer, Raveguru, Mindflow, Zabutom & Aegis, TBB, Zyron, Ed, Randall, Jellica, etc.
0407 – more info
Yesterday Data Airlines put out my new album, 0407. It’s a collection of 29 songs from 2004-2007, put out by various netlabels, demoscene groups or by .. me! Check it out here:
> Bandcamp
> Spotify
> Promo-mix
> Videos on YouTube
The songs were previously featured in:
> Copyslave (20kbps rec, 2004)
> Contech (8bitpeoples, 2005)
> Digi-dig (Da ! Heard it, 2006)
> Zyndabox (Candymind, 2007)
> Updown (DWD records, 2007)
> Microdisco vol 4 – crime (2007)
> Barryland (goto80.com, 2007)
> Ximplef (Dramacore, 2007)
> Wet pulse (Ageema music club, 2007)
> _2_4X4 (Audiovisual theorem, 2007)
> Son of music (Dexandthecity, 2008)
> Cherry CD (No label, 2011)
Videos were made for some of the songs, as you can see in this YouTube playlist:
Some of the songs have also appeared on compilations, in art projects, and in the demoscene. Ter4 was made for the Amiga-demo GBG by Up Rough and TBL, and was in fact a remix of a song called 3 that I released under the name Extraboy on Subnatura. Ter4 was also used in the video Pilgrim’s Progress, an art installation by Scott Jon Siegel, another Amiga-demo by Nori K, and some other things.
Decibel Detective was used in the Ferret Show (2012), where it was performed together with Uwe Schenk’s jazz band and Raquel Meyers on live PETSCII visuals. Audio recordings of this was released on Upitup aswell. But it was first released in Microdisco vol 4 – crime (2007).
Back in those days I often won demoscene competitions. Chasing Pop won the Amiga music competition at LCP2005, and Datahell won the C64 music competition at Floppy 2005. Several songs were featured in C64-demos by Fairlight: Emanation Machine in a demo with the same name (#1 at LCP2003), Phh in Drop the Basics (#3 at X’2001), Semieasy in Postcards from Stockholm (#1 at LCP2004).
As you can see, some of the songs were obviously made before 2004. The most clear example is probably Truth, which was part of my C64-drum n’ bass mix Monkeywarning (Monotonik, 2002) but also appeared in Album of the Year, a C64-music disk from 1999. And the song was actually made in 1998.
This is all normal. It can take years to release music. Everything is 2004! Or maybe everything is 2008?
Anyway, get yourself a cassette while they last and prepare for new stuff coming later this year!
0407
My new album is out now on Data Airlines! 0407 is a collection of songs from 2004-2007, many of which are no longer available online due to defunct netlabels. Plenty of frantic pop-core, acidic C64-beats, catchy choruses, broken rhythms, and so on. Olden goldies and forgotten bottoms!
Get the cassette (and downloads) at Bandcamp and if you’re hardcore streampunk you can go for Spotify.
All the design was made with a typewriter by Robert Dörfler. Some of you might now him as the ASCII-artist Lord Nikon, but the future is all typewritten, as you can see. I mean, just check out dat hairdo!
Yeah, and here’s a turbomegamix with snippets of all the 29 songs in 4 minutes and 7 seconds:
Full tracklist:
A:
Killer Piller
Member
Exy
Ter4
Datahell Beta
Chasing Pop
Decibel Detective
Bullcactus
Semieasy
Soft Commando
Love Crime
Välkomstvisan (remix)
Nes Mes
Kingston Data Traveller 2
Alaska
B:
Comsten
La Gare de Mongo
Silly Sex
Rofon
Emanation Machine
Zambie (Remix)
phh
Phracking
Wombatman
Truth
Billy’s Boogie Beta
Spill
Datahell
Killer Piller (Dubmood’s Atari Jihad Remix)