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knife city – knife city

By Peter Swimm, on March 12th, 2012

Safafa – Jellica

By Peter Swimm, on March 5th, 2012

“This is a pretty serious release,” said Jellica in the email that accompanied my copy of Safafa. Like all great British eccentrics, Jellica is very serious about everything he does, whether he’s giving his tracks utterly unpronounceable titles, penning musical homages to cats or indulging in some of the most expressive free-dance you’re ever likely to see on stage at a chip gig. With Safafa, he’s set his sights even higher: nothing less than an epic counter-factual voyage to the stars, wherein space was conquered in the 80s by an Amiga-fixated generation of British kids. The tempos are slower on Safafa but Jellica’s LSDJ magic is as intricate and textured as ever, reflecting the contradictions of a journey where the enormous speeds achieved are dwarfed by the vast distances yet to be covered. All in a day’s work for Jellica – a serious man, but all the more fun for it.

– Matt Nida

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Ockham’s Chainsaw – exileFaker

By Peter Swimm, on March 5th, 2012

This EP was composed and recorded using a Nintendo Game Boy and Johan Kotlinski’s Little Sound Dj software over a period spanning 2009-2011, in New York City (with the exception of redshift, written on Long Beach Island, NJ). I spent much of this same period studying and teaching philosophy, which has, among other blessings, acquainted me with the limitations of words. Ockham’s Chainsaw is a fanatical application of William of Ockham’s advice to prefer the simplest hypothesis: the very simplest hypothesis is ” “. I believe that music is itself communicative, and I offer this EP as an argument for the conclusion: YES.

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Blip Festival Australia 2012 Rom Flier

By Peter Swimm, on January 20th, 2012

Works on real hardware, try the ROM out in your favorite emulator!
http://australia.blipfestival.org/files/BlipAustralia2012.bin

Note: Switch to 240p to run at the full 60fps.

Code: Batsly Adams (http://www.batslyadams.com)
Gfx: Wazpy
Music: Animal Style (http://www.animal-style.com)

February 17th and 18th marks the first time that the world’s premiere chipmusic festival makes in to the Southern Hemisphere with Blip Festival Australia.

New York’s 8bitpeoples have presented Blip Festivals in the US, Europe and Japan since 2006 and now it’s Melbourne’s turn to experience two days of hard hitting low-tech chip mastery from some of the world’s foremost names in the chipmusic scene. The line up will feature a selection of artists from across Australia and around the world to present an arresting display of Audio-Visual performances that will rock one of Melbourne’s best known live music venues – The Evelyn Hotel.

Blip Festival showcases artists from as far afield as the UK, Germany and US – many of whom are performing in Australia for the first time – as well as superstars of the local scene. There will be launches of new material, a variety of genres and styles to suit everyone’s taste and a whole lot of high energy, lo-fi audiovisual magic, the likes of which Australia has never seen before.

via Blip Festival Australia 2012 – Genesis/Megadrive Flyer – YouTube.

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Lucid – Mr. Spastic

By Peter Swimm, on August 9th, 2011

The third release at 8bitpeoples from Mr. Spastic named Lucid represents an album of works meant to express conscious and unconscious dreams. It is a departure from earlier works in style with the addition of vocal compositions. Rhythmically more downtempo, the release aims to appeal to the pensive dreamer. Sleep well.

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knife city – knife city

Safafa – Jellica

Ockham’s Chainsaw – exileFaker

Blip Festival Australia 2012 Rom Flier

Lucid – Mr. Spastic

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