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.
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!
As we all know, 2008 was a shit year. The only good thing that happened was me dressing up as a salad-man and being called the shadow. Oh, and the financial crisis of course. Anyway. Me and my partner in crime didn’t manage to fill up all 365 days at internet2008.se but of course we blame someone else for that. I did however put 182 songs there, although most of it under other names than Goto80. As you might have noted the quality control was not exactly cosmic all the time, but it was good enough for a shit year! Counting other releases (mp3-albums, collaborations, videos, games, compilations, demos) I got about 225 songs out in 2008. Yip yip yip. Years are numbers, and should be summarized in numbers. Here is another number: 59
As for 2009 I will stop aiming for high numbers. This is the dawn of the new beginning, booya. Expect some good ol’ quality releases again. I will also try to do more live shows than last year, so e-mail me when the cables are plugged in and you’re ready to rumble. My name is Goto Eightola. Nice to meet you. I Hope you like it.
I was never really that much part of micromusic.net, I thought. Except for the parties. But since all the idlers (and some more) seems to have stopped hanging out there, my dream has come true. I am the king. And now I have officially made my worst post to this place. The only way is up, baby!
(open your eyes people! the government is putting rainbows in our water supply)
Internet2008.se is the new black! Data action never dies! Since last year was one Goto80 MP3-release every month, I’ve teamed up with a good friend of mine to top it off: ONE SONG EVERY DAY FOR ONE YEAR! There will not be much chip music but rather …. other things. But today there is a little piece of protracker-styled keyboard jazz music for the mentally hungry:
With non-cool running and lots of explaining I managed to get back to Sweden!
When I arrived in Israel a week ago, it took me 5 seconds to get a special greeting from a security person. Hello global safety! The following day my host’s dog was almost lost and run over and her TV got a bit trashed. Interesting coincidence that I was there… The same day I was also woken up by the altesachen guy who rides around Tel Aviv screaming, with horse and a carraige full of old stuff for sales. The host, the excellent babysitter Bikecore, had bombed the streets and the media with these first 8-bit concert in Israel. I was called “naive and cute” in a radio show for example (great promotion!?). The shows were really nice, especially the one by Goto88 and the Sunshine Band. Formed 3 days before the show, we provided a show of bimbo grind gore disco for an unexpecting crowd in a frexxy punky venue. I started that evening with stepping in an unidentified piece of shit-vomit and ended it by stressing to the flight. Anyway:
1. Israel has ASCII-art money! Or Unicode, I guess. They use 2 hebrew letters to build up portraits of politicians and other money-important people.
2. I was nearly arrested for walking against red light.
3. The clouds around Tel Aviv, viewed from above, are really fine combinations of solid fluffz and stormy fadez.
4. There is apparently an israeli proverb that’s very similar to a track name on my new album: I’ve forgotten more than you’ll ever know (dub). Incidently, the title was made up by the illustrator of the album, Ekta.
5. Just before my workshop at Muzik, I was asked to be photographed together with a guy. As it turns out, he’s from fanpictures.com and is only out to have his picture taken of me because I’m a “celebrity”. Uouhuhmm, dirty or delicious? Psycho?
Enjoying my reality vacation in Big Crazy Mölndal Sjukhus, I celebrate with this:
Feddamys
Made in 1997, it was the first C64-song that I released. When you don’t really know what you’re doing sometimes the personal life spam of your baby is a lot longer… I just uploaded this to 8bitcollective.
Chip Screw
The new codeine chip style as presented for Labelable. It’s actually a remix, or rather a premix, of Pappap.
Now go to bed. Daddy has to work.
For me it’s very convenient to label my Goto80-music simply as chip-music. That spares me a lot of work. But I was thinking that maybe it’s time to make some sort of Goto80-Guide. So I started working on this thing, which I’ll dump on the space-thing. If a database-programmer has an hour to spare and feel like laying the ground for a super-mega-database, let me know. Anyway, I got fed up at Z.
ACID HOUSEHEHE: wombatman
BLUES: enkelt (from ximplef)
BOOGIE WOOGIE: barking at the wrong dog
COWBOY POP: microcolorado
DETECTIVE STYLE: decibel detective
DEATH POP: comsten
DRUM’N’BASS: monkeywarning
DUBHOPTRONICA: imun
ELECTRO: rofon, etc
ELECTRONICA: ter4
FUNK: exy (from digi-dig)
GABBER: fulfräs
HOUSE: billy’s boogie beta
ITALO DISCO: italo megamix
JAZZ: happy daze
KALAS POP: välkomstvisan
LAIDBACK BOSSA: semieasy
MONGO FUNK: knark
NOISE: fitting in (from ximplef)
OMPA FUNK: datahell (from digi-dig)
POP: member
PORNOFUNK: porno invaders
RAVE: psilodump – behind the false smile (goto80’s plåtåträ remixsh)
ROCK: killer piller
ROCK METAL: spill (from digi-dig)
SCREW: chip screw
SLACKER FUNK: kingston data traveller 2
TECHNOBREAK: phh
ÃœBER RAGGA: spit
VIDEOGAME POP: nes-mes
XYLOFONOID GAME OVER MUSIC: relax enjoy help
This Labelable thing keeps me from eating and sleeping, but it seems to be worth it with a growing number of new music genres! Today Labelable launches Chip Screw and Italo Gabber! Stay tuned…
Summer is here, which means lots of data action!
Labelable has been launched, and it’s about inventing new music styles, free for download. These are some of the best inventions since trousers! Don’t miss it.
The HT-webpage is up again! HT is me and Greg and doing vocal micropop music, mostly active 1997-2004 but the future is bright! Although we have some international fans aswell, we’ll keep this in Swedish. Anyway, there are some new gems to download aswell, so go and get it.
The Superdöner webpage is also up again. Although not offering too much, it’s still nice to see it again. You need to get our new 7″ jam-packed with 7 songs of stunningly lo-fi catchy data punkrock! We’re in the jungle!
Also I’m probably travelling through Europe in August, doing some shows. If you have any ideas, let me know.
