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V/A – Handheld Heroes Volume One

Wow. Retirement break for this insane comp.

Digital Album
Immediate download of 41-track album in your choice of MP3 320, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.
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Data DVD Version
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Shipping to US+Canada is included in the price. Add one dollar for int’l orders.
DVD version includes:
– Full compilation in both MP3 and WAV format
– art files by Minusbaby
– Bonus modules / files:
— 2 famitracker files from Baron Knoxburry and Zan- Zan-Zawa-Veia
— 4 nsf files from Alex Mauer, Baron Knoxburry, Heosphoros and MisfitChris
— 1 octamed mod from CCDM
— 1 LSDJ Player ROM, which includes the tracks from BSK, … more

V/A – Handheld Heroes Volume One | Handheld Heroes.

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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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BROOKLN NY [US] JAN 29 2011 – I/O @ Vaudeville Park $5 All Ages

I/O Chip Music/Visual Art
at
Vaudeville Park
Brooklyn, NY

Saturday, Jan 29 2011
All Ages
$5
6-10pm

Musicians:

noteNdo
Natty
Dauragon
DaPantz
Disassembler
Facundo

Visualists:

noteNdo
InvaderBacca
Visualicious
HN_i_C

I/O Chip Music – Visuals
at

Vaudeville Park
26 Bushwick Ave
(corner of Bushwick and Devoe St)
Brooklyn NY 11211

Directions:
L train to Graham Ave

Google Map:
http://brk.to/o9a

I/O is a monthly chip music and visuals show in New York. I/O is free to
play and free or low cost to attend, with the aim of providing exposure and
new audiences for chip musicians and visualists.
http://www.iochipmusic.com

Hosted by Vaudville Park
Vaudville Park was started by Ian Colletti as an event space catering to artists and performance groups in the Williamsburg and Bushwick neighborhoods of Brooklyn. Open to collaborative and cross-disciplinary experimentation, Vaudville Park welcomes proposals for actions that trample on the conventional distinctions between artistic disciplines, styles, between the performer and audience, body and mind, hem and haw, pot and kettle, etc.
https://web.archive.org/web/20110517013211/http://www.vanishingridges.com:80/vaudville/?

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Touchboy / Natty / Sabrepulse / gwEm / Comptroller / Matt Nida live in London

Friday 22nd October sees Public Life in Spitalfields, London host the best chipmusic line-up you’ll see in London this year. Cover charge is £5 and doors open at 8:00 – get there early, you won’t want to miss a minute of this.

Touchboy
Improvised 8bit tech house from Canada

Natty
New York 8bit dandy, kicking off his European tour with Touchboy

Sabrepulse
Nintendo junglestep that needs no introduction

gwEm
Atari rave STj B2B with Counter Reset and special guests

Comptroller
Scotland’s Ultrachip champion

Matt Nida
Twitchy handheld electro/dub

Facebook event and more details here!

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The Grand Tour – Touchboy and Natty

In 2010, Natty and Touchboy set out on their first excursion to Europe.  Releasing this collection is an important part of that tour.
Natty and Touchboy have both given away music for free in the past and will continue to do so in the future, but selling this collection will help them recoup some of the cost of a largely self-funded tour.
The collection features over an hour and a half of brand new tracks, remixes, and live performances. If you’ve ever wanted to buy us each a beer – buy this instead. It’s more value than getting us drunk, trust me.

The Grand Tour