By Peter Swimm, on May 20th, 2011
The 2010 True Chip Till Death Awards. In proper award show fashion, MC Bud Melvin and house band SHRIMPS played a medley of all seven Best Song nominees.
• “Paper Dolls” – 4mat
• “It Ain’t Hawaii” – The J. Arthur Keenes Band
• “Fill My Head” – Sadnes
• “Whale” – George and Jonathan
• “Airbrushed” – Anamanaguchi
• “Diamond” – AMU
• “Leaving Home” – 10k
YouTube – TCTD Awards – Best Song Medley.
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By Peter Swimm, on March 27th, 2011
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Pulsewave
By Peter Swimm, on March 24th, 2011
OK. First of all, I had nothing to do with this.
Last October on my birthday, my roommate Mike Lerman (a.k.a. Fuckjazzforaminute, and the man at the wheel of Austin’s killer Datapop event series) handed me a giftwrapped object of the size and shape typical of what you’d expect from a standard CD jewel case. So far so good. But unwrapping it I realized that there was nothing typical or standard about it, AT ALL. The tracklist on the back of the CD had stuff in there like “Saskrotch: Paper Chase Init_” and “nordloef: Activation Theme” and “IAYD: Reformat The Planet.” OBVIOUS JOKE, right? A well-meant prank. Well Mike put it on to prove to me otherwise, and sure enough he had, in fact, who knows how long ago, hatched a secret plan to be revealed on my birthday, to enlist nearly two dozen people from the chip community, for some unfathomable reason, to cover songs from Information Chase, a saccharine and sophomoric EP I’d put out five years ago. And the tracklisting was like a who’s-who of the chipmusicians I respect and admire the most, like Random, cTrix, Bud Melvin, nordloef, Sievert, Henry Homesweet, little-scale, Saskrotch, and so on and so on. So it took some time for me to wrap my brain around it, but ultimately I came around to accepting that this thing was real. Five months later, I still am no closer to finding the words to express my awed gratitude, or the mixture of emotions I’ve been experiencing ever since. It’s POSSIBLE that when we got to Coova’s track on the comp (“Reformat The Planet”), that I MIGHT have shed a tear. But it was just watery eyes from allergies. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Tracklisting after the jump
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By Peter Swimm, on July 15th, 2010
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