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.
LB – You said “Made on the Internet” was “the best thing I’ve made so far“, bearing in mind you had released over 1000 tunes by 2007 how did you pick MOTI as your favorite up until that point?
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