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NORDLOEF VS SAROFER ZERTAGA.
The city of Vanersborg finally gets another chip event. With Sarofer Zertaga defending his hometown with Game Boy & Commodore 64 against Nordloef´s dual wielded Game Boy´s fueled with Punk power. Date: 23 July. Doors open at 20.00. Entré costs 40 SEK (swedish crowns).

Chipmusic • Labels • Releases

Reformat – V/A

OK. First of all, I had nothing to do with this.

Last October on my birthday, my roommate Mike Lerman (a.k.a. Fuckjazzforaminute, and the man at the wheel of Austin’s killer Datapop event series) handed me a giftwrapped object of the size and shape typical of what you’d expect from a standard CD jewel case. So far so good. But unwrapping it I realized that there was nothing typical or standard about it, AT ALL. The tracklist on the back of the CD had stuff in there like “Saskrotch: Paper Chase Init_” and “nordloef: Activation Theme” and “IAYD: Reformat The Planet.” OBVIOUS JOKE, right? A well-meant prank. Well Mike put it on to prove to me otherwise, and sure enough he had, in fact, who knows how long ago, hatched a secret plan to be revealed on my birthday, to enlist nearly two dozen people from the chip community, for some unfathomable reason, to cover songs from Information Chase, a saccharine and sophomoric EP I’d put out five years ago. And the tracklisting was like a who’s-who of the chipmusicians I respect and admire the most, like Random, cTrix, Bud Melvin, nordloef, Sievert, Henry Homesweet, little-scale, Saskrotch, and so on and so on. So it took some time for me to wrap my brain around it, but ultimately I came around to accepting that this thing was real. Five months later, I still am no closer to finding the words to express my awed gratitude, or the mixture of emotions I’ve been experiencing ever since. It’s POSSIBLE that when we got to Coova’s track on the comp (“Reformat The Planet”), that I MIGHT have shed a tear. But it was just watery eyes from allergies. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

Tracklisting after the jump

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Chipmusic • Show Listings

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Chip concert at Copenhagen, Denmark. Nordloef, Sarofer Zertaga, Mobb Beep and Octapus.

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Live VJ visuals and music (Game Boy/Commodore 64) + Video game comeptition (Barbarian 2/C64).

Demoscene • Game Boy Classic

Gejmbåj GameBoy Demo

It’s not much, but the old brick gets another short demo in 2010. Download demo:

via Gejmbåj GameBoy Demo on Vimeo.

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TCTD Links for 2010-04-09

  • RT: @bltidm: New blog! Video: nordloef at Datapop 3.0 http://ow.ly/171CTt #
  • Musicians Pay Tribute to Pocky & Rocky Composer Read More http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/04/iwadon/#ixzz0kcrGx3Rx #
  • The new Crystal Castles album sounds like they have moved on to ripping off the Knife: http://www.gamesareevil.com/2010/04/wall-sound-bentley-bear/ #
  • Ok this Pixel Homage thing is getting nuts: #