Birds on Fire & Other Superiorities

Jan 15, 2014 | ,

Last year me & my C64-demogroup Hack n’ Trade compiled a C64-floppy full of hot software, to celebrate our 20 year anniversary. FÅGELDISK! It had a bird theme, as you can also see in the main demo on the disk, 20 years is nothing:

So we just spread copies of the floppy around at the BFP copy party, and forgot about it. But now I’ve made it available online. It has some pretty sweet stuff, like the defMON tracker that has been unavailable before, unreleased demos, HT Gold, new demos, and so on. Here’s some of it:

Birds on Fire (2013) is a short demo with, well, birds on fire. Made by Linde, Raquel Meyers and me.

TEVE DEMO (1995). One of the first C64-demos I can remember making. It’s a list of TV-shows, mixed with teenage profanities.

Penguin Huddle (2013) is a double-SID song by Jellica.

Pleasant Evening Bird Disco (2013) is a triple-SID song by Jellica

> Fågeldisk side A
> Fågeldisk side B

L0v3 byt3s

Jan 10, 2014 | ,

L0v3 byt3s (NSFW) is a PETSCII-conversion of the old xxx-movie Love Bites. We made it as an impersonation of Vuk Cosic, famous for his ASCII-conversions of Deep Throat among other things. L0ve byt3s was made for Daniel Temkin’s exhibition Netvvorth, December 2013.

I made the music together with Zabutom and Linde, Johan Kotlinski coded it and Raquel Meyers did everything else.

The music is basically several long jams, pretty much unedited. The first one is me on defMON and Zabutom on some sort of modular synth monster. We recorded it in the Academy of Music and Drama in Göteborg – the perfect place for pr0n-music!

Somewhere in the middle this FM/ST-01 jam starts with Linde, and then more defMON and so on.

> Buy it
> More info

HT Gold Gets Cracked and Hated

Jan 3, 2014 | ,

In 2008 we hacked an old C64-game and turned it an even more fun game, that also looked a lot better: HT Gold. I guess it’s called glitch art. It was exhibited in a number of places, but it wasnt released in the scene. Until now.

It’s a funny coincidence, since I talked about HT Gold a while ago, as a perfect example of something that works in the art world but not in the scene. And it turns out I was right — just read the comments.

> Download the game (C64)

cйbзя tсaя

Dec 19, 2013 |

My new album is here: cйbзя tсaя. That means Cyber Tsar in … no language at all. But anyway – it’s a 61-minute CD put inside a 5.25″ floppy, designed by Raquel Meyers. It features some rare tracks released over the past years and plenty of new material.

You’ll get jazz, pop, electro, drum n’ bass and bass, rock, and breakcore as usual. This time there’s also more gloomy IDM-ambient stuff than usual. I’m actually quite pleased with it. I hope that’s a good sign. Come and get it!

01 Dialekto
02 Animal Romantics (Amiga version)
03 Mongoloid
04 Sombanova
05 Overdrive Scramble
06 Micomonocon
07 Polybius Dodidone
08 Robot Cheese
09 Luxus
10 Acid Booger
11 Dansa In
12 Oso
13 Varkex
14 Jamo Babbo
15 Echidna
16 Wersi Dub
17 Here Come the Swans
18 Gubbdata

SOLD OUT

V/A: Touched (MP3)

Dec 19, 2013 |

This massive compilation features 120 songs from such heroes as 808 State, Future Sound of London, Plaid, Arovane, Brothomstates, Datassette, Mr. Projectile, Plone, Tim Koch, Lackluster… and me.

All proceeds go to Macmillan Cancer Support. So go support this stuff at Bandcamp

Photos from Øredev

Dec 19, 2013 |

A while ago I was at the developer conference Øredev. The theme of the year was art, so there was plenty of demoscene stuff.

First, I made a live performance with a C64 and a guitar pedal. I connected the guitar pedal wrong though, so I ended up not using it. The elite/lamer blend strikes again.

Also made a talk with the theme of “the demoscene vs the art world”. I explained how they are fundmentally different things, and what cultural concepts in the 8-bit demoscene that society could learn from. Let’s sum it up here as: Free distribution of executable files in a DIY infrastructure, and a distributed system for “copyright” sanctions. More at chipflip.wordpress.com.

The Øredev conference was divided into different rooms that was named after a famous demoscene group. And me.

Two Upcoming Releases

Dec 17, 2013 |

First, the new 8-Bit Operators compilation based on Depeche Mode will be out soon. Enjoy the Science features songs from gwEm, Herbert Weixelbaum, Aonami, Frau Holle, Gameboy Music Club, and many more. Listen to the promo mix!

Secondly – Bagarre Les Tous is a 12″ vinyl on Dataglitch that features Computer Truck, Divag, Eat Rabbit, The Cheat Code , Bacalao, Buskerdroid vs Microman, Rachitik Data, and me. The release party is in Paris on December 20, but I won’t attend unfortunately.