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Goto80 interview pt 2

goto80-tpb1Ed: 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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Goto 80 interview pt 1

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Ed: Lazerbeat provides another interview with musican/organizer/chiptheologian Goto80.  Part I talks about Goto80’s background, his setup, and the futurepast of trackersoft.

LB – On your blog you mention your first release was “HARDCORETECHNO3” under the name “Polaxe” for the “Mayday – a Day in May” Demo which you wrote aged 12 on the Amiga. The release is dated on Pouet as 1993. How long had you been writing for at that time?

GT80 – Not for long, maybe a year or so.

LB – Do you recall the tracker you used? Was the Amiga your first machine?

GT80 – Me and my brother bought a Commodore 64 first, for gaming, and then got the Amiga500 and my brother showed me Noisetracker and gone were the days of gaming! Rather soon I moved on to Protracker and had a go with Startrekker and Audiosculpture as well as OctaMed to sequence my brother’s synthesizers. So my start was pretty much about samples and hardcore techno!

LB – Did you have any formal music training before this?

GT80 – Nope!
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Oliver Wittchow Interview pt2

nanoloop This is the second part of our interview with Nanoloop creator Oliver Wittchow. We posted the first part earlier this week, you can find it here.

LB – You started selling the cartridge in 1999, how did you go about producing the hardware?
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DWD Records back with Yerzmyey EP

dwd006-cAbout a month ago, we talked a little about DWD Records and their 2007 Level Up compilation. Now, after an 18 month hiatus they are back with a new URL (http://dwdrecords.org.ua/) and a new release from everyone’s favorite AY wizard, Yerzmyey. The EP is called Interphase and its a 25 minute, 7 track release with a guest tune from Factor6.

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Oliver Wittchow Interview pt1

nanoloopFor our third interview, I was lucky enough to talk to a gentleman who needs no introduction, Oliver Wittchow, developer of the highly respected Nanoloop music software. In the first part, we talk a little about Oliver’s background, the very first performance using Nanoloop and the port that never was. A quick thanks to Peter and Matt who suggested a couple of very interesting topics for questions. This interview was conducted by email over a period of about a month and I would like to thank Oliver for his time and detailed answers.

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