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Visual Berlin Festival Promo
Retirementology the Paris+Outpt way
Raquel Meyers is soon releasing a DVD for lightrhythmvisuals where she’ll present her visual works, and have other people remix it. Here is Paris and Outpt‘s remix of the Retirementology video. The song was also recently remixed by Herv for Sonic Intifada. Remix remix remix remix remix… remix remix-mix, mix remix? Remix! Re mix, mix, re re.
Otro+Goto80: New-D (Amiga1200)
Here’s a video recording of what me and Otro competed with at Datastorm a while ago. I am shameless enough to say that this was my favourite at Datastorm! Unfortunately, it does not involve cool programming so the demoscene doesn’t like it. Download the Amiga file here (68020+).
Onion vs Cyber Robot Cat
Another cat to 80! The song is a quiet Ajvar Relish played on a strange SID-chip it seems. The stranger the better! Danke. Hello.
Snabbeas video by Ilan Katin
As seen at DVblog, here’s the emergency vacation video Snabbeas by Ilan Katin with illustrations by Tinet Elmgren. Many sounds in the song are text-files (and such) loaded as audio, which gives that full on no-jitter crunchy christmas vibe that only the Amiga can offer! But Ilan took it to a higher level of unconsciousness.
Electric Kitten and Monster
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.
Retirementology
Video: Raquel Meyers
The song is yet to be released.
Bass Chiptune Mix by Cow’p
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) or buy it (?) here.
And here’s something else:
SID CHAOS PARANOIA
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 Nödik 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.