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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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    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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  • Free Music Archive: Goto80 and Netlabels

    Starting to delve into the world of Netlabels with a spotlight on one of my favorite Goto80 releases, Updown.

    It can be rare when a constantly good label hooks up with a consistently excellent artist. So when young label Dwd Records announced the Release of Goto80’s Updown, it was an announcement to the chip music community that this label was wasn’t another chip upload site and that they would deliver quality releases. To this day, Updown is one of my very favorites.

    via Free Music Archive.

  • Goto80 one-ups the rest

    In a previous news post, Peter linked to a write-up (yes, another one) that tries to sum up the history of “chiptunes” (god I hate saying that, it’s chipmusic, ok??). It seemed pretty well balanced but I didn’t like it from the start (because of the previously mentioned terminology pet peeve).

    Here comes Goto80, which posseses, as I said many time before, what can be considered as the most serious work in progress of “academization” of chipmusic, and analyzes, dissects and corrects the article.

    Rip it a new one, Anders!

  • Goto80 – L-V–SC-LD-RTH-ND–TH

    New track from the chipmusic maestro Goto80, with matching video from the 8-bit visual queen, Raquel Meyers.