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(T)he creative commons route can be a bold political statement, but for less widespread artistic voices, it can be the linchpin of their distribution model. This no less true for many in the chip music community. Label mp3Death is perhaps one of the more eclectic in the scene, with various lofo-fi and no-fi electronic recordings, all available with a liberal CC and a spartan easy to use single page design. Even in the chip community, the releases can be considered difficult listening, but through the keen curational style of its curator often impress as much as they challenge.
Ed: Here is Part II of TCTD’s interview with Goto80. You can catch Part I here. Thanks to Billy_R for the photo
LB – Did you have any specific objective in mind when you released Papaya? Were you looking to bring your music to a wider audience, to bring the C64 into clubs?
GT80 – Not really, no. I just thought it was fun to release a 7″. The first idea was to make an album with covers of cheesy 80s music, like my previous cassette release, but I was happy I settled with the Papaya. It’s a cover of a Swedish 80s schlager song, and it haunted me or many years. But yeah, the record received attention from all kinds of directions. I remember that I felt like an unwilling ambassador for C64-music. Lots of talented people remained unknown to most, but now I know that most of those people just don’t want to be famous or play live. Demosceners are a lot like that, it seems.
ModBox is a free universal Tracker Format Player for the iPhone that plays Amiga and PC module music (e.g. Protracker, Fasttracker, Screamtracker). It features a song database with direct-download from various authors, an integrated FTP Server and support for all common module formats (e.g. Protracker, Fastracker, Screamtracker, etc.).
Features:
* Direct internet access to the finest selection of modules from the Modland library with a preselection of over 5.000 freely available songs, over 200 hours of music playtime and access to three decades of computer music. You can easily browse and download your favourite songs from the internet via WiFi, UTMS or EDGE. Using ModBox all your tracked computer music is right away available in your pocket (Modland access requires an active internet connection, internet access fees are not covered by this player). Downloaded songs get stored in the local library for further offline usage or manual management.
* Built-in iPhone/iPod Touch FTP Server so you can manage your own songs or backup your library over WiFi using standard ftp. Additionally you can use your iPhone/iPod Touch as a WiFi FTP USB Stick or provide anonymous access to your module library for friends.
* Support for 669 (Composer 669, Unis 669), AMF (DSMI Advanced Module Format), AMF (ASYLUM Music Format V1.0), APUN (APlayer), DSM (DSIK internal format), FAR (Farandole Composer), GDM (General DigiMusic), IT (Impulse Tracker), IMF (Imago Orpheus), MOD (15 and 31 instruments), MED (OctaMED), MTM (MultiTracker Module editor), OKT (Amiga Oktalyzer), S3M (Scream Tracker 3), STM (Scream Tracker), STX (Scream Tracker Music Interface Kit), ULT (UltraTracker), UNI (MikMod) and XM (FastTracker 2) modules.
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