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Ockham’s Chainsaw – exileFaker

This EP was composed and recorded using a Nintendo Game Boy and Johan Kotlinski’s Little Sound Dj software over a period spanning 2009-2011, in New York City (with the exception of redshift, written on Long Beach Island, NJ). I spent much of this same period studying and teaching philosophy, which has, among other blessings, acquainted me with the limitations of words. Ockham’s Chainsaw is a fanatical application of William of Ockham’s advice to prefer the simplest hypothesis: the very simplest hypothesis is ” “. I believe that music is itself communicative, and I offer this EP as an argument for the conclusion: YES.

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TOY COMPANY FESTIVAL, FEBRUARY 10-11, MONTREAL

 

Toy Company is really proud to start 2012 with this Big Chipmusic Festival !
Prepare yourself for 2 days of intense chipmusic, partying and drinking !!!

Friday February 10th & Saturday February 11th 21:00 – 3:00

Jackie & Judy
6512 avenue du Parc
Montreal, QC

15$ for 1 day but only 20$ for
2 days !!!
This is what we call a great deal ! :D (Tickets Coming soon !)

LINEUP :
??? [Montreal]
Aliceffekt [Montreal]
Battle Lava [Montreal]
Br1ght Pr1mate [Boston]
? ? ? [ CIRCLE TRIANGLE SQUARE ] [Montreal]
Das Mörtal [Montreal]
DEADBEATBLAST [Ontario]
DJ Pie [Paris]
ExileFaker [New York]
Pocaille [Montreal]
Rhinostrich [New York]
Shrimps [New York]
STARPAUSE [San Francisco]
XC3N [Montreal]
Xyno [Joliette]

VJ Albiréo [Montreal]
VJ DEADBEATBLAST [Ontario]
VJ Invader Bacca [New York]
VJ XC3N [Montreal]

Also featured: Exclusive installations from the Mount Royal Game Society!

More details + precise schedule to come !
All the infos on the Facebook event :

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Chip In: Japan! The Push to $7500!

 

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Reformat – V/A

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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