When I was making my first steps in VJing, around the early 2000s, I was looking around for information and stumbled upon these two mystic guys who were using Amigas to make their VJing while saying they were “the worst, and getting better at it”, a phrase that certainly denoted the kind of humour handled by them.
As the vintage computer freak I am (and this was soon after I embraced the PC for the first time, still keeping my Amiga), I was interested about them and started to find some info. These guys were hard to get a hold on, and information was scarce! I realized they were playing in almost every show organized by Micromusic.net … certainly at the time the -only- crew dedicated to VJing for what was then emerging as “contemporary chipmusic”. Found 2 or 3 videos and wanted more. Nowhere to be found, and I was living in Argentina! How to catch the shows? Damnit! That was the catch. Kept drooling at those posters coming from the old continent…
With 10 years in the game and no sign of stagnation, our next nominee is definitely the most experienced of the bunch, and the one with the heftiest trajectory. Today existing as a one-man workforce, after performing and lecturing all across the world (from the USA to most all Europe, passing through Russia and even China) and being one of the leaders of the project C64 Orchestra, our eyes are still rocked by this marvelous artist.
Ladies and gentleman, a warm welcome to…
The C-Men
[Enschede, Netherlands]
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The C-Men + Psilodump (Live @ En Festival i 8 Bitar 2008)
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The C-Men + Drop Da Bomb
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The C-Men + Jeroen Tel
Maybe you are thinking… must this guy comment on EVERY visualist… haha but yes, maybe I will…
I must give a big up to Julian (C-MEN) though!
Besides being an awesome guy, Julian inspired me to get into doing visuals in the first place.
Yes, I think it was 2003? I went to my first chip show and was at a crossroads… do I want to continue doing music or do I want to start doing visuals? C-MEN did a presentation on visuals and I was hooked! From that point on I decided to stop torturing myself doing music that I didn’t even like and start doing visuals.
GO C-MEN!!!!
What an EPIC choice ;)