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Datastorm Releases
Datastorm is a demoparty. That means that you go there, make some stuff, throw competitions, and see who wins. There is no money involved. And no CVs. No big prizes. No academic explanations, and no PR. It's like an oasis of freedom. Although there’s too many middle-aged men with bad taste, it’s an incredible thing.
For this year's Datastorm, me and my Hack n' Trade group members didn't have much prepared. But we managed to get a demo together in just two days, and I finished a ballad (!) for the competition too.
http://youtu.be/7Mb5Of5Fmss
Fist of Trade is a sort of spooky typewriter-style animation that only uses PETSCII text characters. I made the music, Acid T*rroreast animated and Mathman programmed the codez. Features amazing four-directional PETSCII scrolls, stone faces and gabber fists from hell. I think the video is made with an emulator, because the sounds are a bit off.
The Great Ballad of the Storm That Never Ends is a futurist ballad from the past. Probably the most calm compo tune I've done since that Ajvar Relish dub from 2001. Big thanks to 8GB for some excellent progamming help.
Also the hot crew Afrika used my music for their demos Wasting Data (elite glitch) and Kebab Pjuck II (shoe fetish). The songs are not played correctly so they sound very good.
Amiiigggaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Birds on Fire & Other Superiorities
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
L0v3 byt3s
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.
cйbзя tсaя
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
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Live at Piksel Festival in Bergen
Me and Raquel Meyers are performing Mind the Volcano at Piksel Festival in Bergen, Norway on Saturday. We'll use C64 PETSCII and Teletext, among other things. We premiered this at Transmediale earlier this year, and this is the current version of it.
Mind the Volcano is a text-based TV-performance with a typewriter logic. All the visuals consist of text characters, based on words and images from books. The music is arranged and even composed live in a text-based software, shown as a part of the visual story. Words, images and music work closely together.