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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)
New Cassette Coming Up
I'm putting out a new cassette soon and one of the most exciting things about it is actually the art work, hehe. All the illustration and design was made on a typewriter by the new typewriter master, Lord Nikon.
So keep your eyes open for this one. Will be released by Data Airlines.
PETSCII-presentation in Poland
As some of you know, I've written quite a lot about chip music and the demoscene: in books, papers, a master thesis, and so on. For the past years I've been more interested in researching text graphics, and published a paper together with A Bill Miller in 2012.
Now I'm doing a presentation about PETSCII at an academic conference Behind the Scenes in Lódzki, Poland. I did it together with Markku Reunanen (who maintains the demoscene research site) and Tero Heikkinen (who wrote the PETSCII editor together with Markku). Unfortunately I'm not attending in person, but Markku & Tero know how to do it right!
At the same conference Gleb Albert is doing a presentation of his new research on the 1980s cracker scene. It seems to be an in-depth look at this sparsely researched subculture, and especially interesting since it considers ideology. Read more here.
My new musicdisk!
This is my C64 "music disk": four slow, dubby, ambientish songs with reactive PETSCII visuals for each song, made by iLKke and 4-mat. And all of this fits in just 14 kilobytes!
It accompanies my latest album, released on Datadoor. Two of the songs are from that release: Linkan (which I made an installation/performance with) and Steel Egg (featured in the 8-bit Reggae book). One song was featured in the Ferret Show with a jazz band jamming on top of it.
The executable program is only available on Antidote BBS, the longest running C64 BBS in the world. It runs on a real C64 but you can telnet into it over the internetz. So that machine is my distributor!
This is how the disk directory looks when you list the files of the floppy disk. Because alphabetical structures of files is boring, and PETSCII is great.
