Category: Interviews

  • 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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    Picture : Karl Isakson

    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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  • Meneo Interview

    460_1852079Meneo Interview on a new podcast from Forcefed Fistfuls. Details:

    This week we put our focus on latin America (from Argentina to Mexico) for ‘Mas Fuego, Mas Bajo!’, our special on latin American electronics and street music.

    With focus on a few key artists and record labels pushing different unique sounds – we’re putting our south-of-the-equator sister continent on blast, exposing movements in Reggaeton, Cumbia, Hip Hop, Funk Carioca, Baile Funk and more. Find out what all these genres are if you don’t know already and if you do, enjoy some classic and harder to find gems….

    via An interview with Guatemalan chiptune artist Meneo, live from Barcelona.

  • gwEm interview at bedroom producers

    gwem_swearingOur first robot submission is a doozy, a great interview with gwEm at Bedroom Producers. An excerpt:

    bp: Your music arrangements are quite complex, and yet you’re a solo artist basically. How hard is it to prepare and setup your live act? Do you bring your own equpment everywhere you go?

    gwEm: Good question. I’ve spent a long time refining this. I bring as much equipment as I can, but obviously sometimes its heavy and impractical to bring some things. In the minimum case I have a Steinberger GP guitar, which is a headless design, but still with a cool Flying V look. It fits into a suitcase. For a mixer, I have a Rolls Karaoke Mixer from USA. One problem is electricty – you never know which voltage and plugs will be available, so everything runs off battery. I usually ask for a microphone and stand, but I can bring it in the suitcase. The main parts of my tracks play from a Nintendo DS. I used to use a minidisc, but it was becoming unreliable. Now, in the ‘luxury’ case I take an 8 channel Behringer mixer, an Atari ST, a DS, a proper Flying V, and I bring my drummer and two microphones. He uses a Yamaha drum pad, but his luxury is a real drumkit. Oh, and i forgot my SansAmp pedal – it’s a sort of analogue guitar modeller – it sounds very nice, and its small. Plus there is no latency. I also bring a guitar tuner, and some cables :).

  • 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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