Archive for the 'glomag' Category

04
December
2008
tags: Mr. Spastic, minusbaby, Role Model, USK, Stu, Anamanaguchi, Blip Festival, Animal Style, 8bitpeoples, Nullsleep, Bit Shifter, glomag, trash80, Mp3.

Blip Fest 2008 Mega Post!

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Normally Trixie brings you all the hot chiptunes jams, but since she’s off being important, I figured I’d step up to plate this time.

Maybe you’ve noticed the banner added to the top of our site about a month ago? Well that’s Blip Festival, and it starts…. TONIGHT!

It’s international mayhem of the chiptunes variety; taking Game Boys (DMGS), Ataris, Nintendos, 8-bit emulator VSTs, Commodore 64s, Nintendo DS’s (and just about anything else you can think of), our stalwart adventurers hack, slash and tweak the hardware in ways mere mortals thought impossible, creating the most epic music you’ve heard in a long long time (or at least since you beat Metroid for that first time).

It starts tonight with full on mayhem, and continues for 4 days until the final level Showdown on Sunday. The Brooklyn half of Res is heavily involved in the chiptunes scene, and let me just tell you that the past two nights of non-official events have already been insane beyond belief. Tickets can be purchased here!

This year the journey takes place @ The Bell House in Park Slope
The Bell House
149 7th Street
Brooklyn NY 11215 US (map)

And now.. the MEGA POST (there’s echo on that, fyi)

Nullsleep | New York, NY, USA | Performs: Saturday night at 11:20 PM

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Nullsleep - “Supernova Kiss”
LINKS: 8BP Profile | nullsleep.com

USK | Fukuoka, Japan | Performs: Sunday night at 10:00 PM

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USK - “Shanghai Moon”
LINKS: USK on 8bp | usk.cc

minusbaby | New York, NY, USA | Performs: Friday night at 12:00 AM

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minusbaby - “Minha Caipirinha É Ótima (Very, Very)”
LINKS: minusbaby on 8BP | minusbaby.com

Glomag | New York, NY, USA | Performs: Friday night at 11:20 PM

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glomag - “4shame (8bc 48 hour challenge)”
LINKS: glomag.com

Trash80 | Los Angeles, California, USA | Performs: Sunday night at 10:40 PM

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Trash80 - “At Teh Disko”
LINKS: Trash80 on 8bp | trash80.net

Bit Shifter | New York, NY, USA | Performs: Friday night at 11:20 PM

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Bit Shifter - “Hexadecimal Genome”
LINKS: Bitshifter on 8bp | bit.shifter.net

Animal Style | Philadelphia, PA, USA | Performs: Friday night at 8pm

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Animal Style - “Bit Scrape”
LINKS: Animal Style on 8bp | MySpace

Mr. Spastic | New York, NY, USA | Performs: Saturday night at 8:40 PM

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Mr. Spastic - “Ichi Ni San Cuatro”
LINKS: Mr. Spastic on 8bp | mrspastic

Role Model | Stockholm, Sweden | Performs: Friday night at 10:00 PM

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Role Model - “Boy Afraid”
LINKS: Role Model on 8bp | Website

Anamanaguchi | New York, NY, USA | Performs: Sunday night at 9:20 PM

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Anamanaguchi - “Fast Turtle”
LINKS: Anamanaguchi on 8bp | MySpace

Stu | Basel, Switzerland | Performs: Saturday night at 12:00 AM

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Stu - “AUCR”
LINKS: Stu on 8bp | Website

Not enough? Check out 8bitpeoples for over 89 quality creative commons releases! RSVP on Going or Facebook and then purchase tickets here. Blip Fest is also brought to you by The Tank, so swing by and check out what other events those crazy kids have going on.

Ok… lets dance!


Blip Festival 2008: The Promo from Richard Alexander Caraballo on Vimeo.

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20
August
2008
tags: The Depreciation Guild, Reformat the Planet, Random, Chiptunes, 8bitpeoples, glomag, Mp3.

Reformat the Planet– The Movie Available Online at Pitchfork

So, it’s not often that we actually have anything positive to say about Pitchdork here at Res, but since we were hot and bothered for this back when SXSW happened and the guys over at that other website were too busy taking pictures of freak folk acts and fresh up-and-comers like Michael Stipe, we’ll let their bandwidth get sucked and brag on ourselves for once again knowing what was cool WAY before they did.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the definitive (ok, and only) documentary on the New York chiptunes scene and The Blip Festival (so far) can be watched, in its entirety, here.

Congratulations to 2 Player Productions and we’re looking forward to that demo scene doc at which you’ve hinted!

A few of my favorite tracks from artists featured in the film:

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Spontaneous Devotion — Random from “Bad Joke EP”* (if you are still wondering what this whole “chiptunes” thing is about, this is the answer– this recording is a gorgeous piece of electronic music, whether you think you like lo-bit music or not.)

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Disorder (Joy Division Cover) — Glomag (this song is one of my favorite things ever to listen to on a sunny morning after some hardcore rain– it has that cinematic, end of movie hopefulness and the lyrics take on a whole different meaning in this version than the original.)

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Nautilus — The Depreciation Guild from their album In Her Gentle Jaws (the Catherine Wheel of chipmusic– beautiful washes of guitars, dreamy rock songs, and… game systems? Definitely worth a listen and cued up in anticipation of sweater weather in my Autumn play list.)

*All 8bitpeoples releases are released under this Creative Commons License.

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07
February
2008
tags: Bit Shifter, Bubblyfish, glomag, 8bitpeoples, Nullsleep, Shows, videos, Mp3.

Reformat the Planet– The Movie

So… It’s getting to be that time of year again, where the Res kids tell you about all the cool shit to check out at SxSW because, well, we’re not going.* This year is a great year at the old Austin festival because it’s going to be chiptunes madness.

That’s right– not only are the lovely 8bitpeoples going to be hosting a showcase, but the movie (yes, MOVIE!) about the Blip Festival is going to be playing at the film festival. Featuring all of my favorite chiptunes artists, Bit Shifter, Nullsleep, glomag, Bubblyfish and loads of other musically brilliant nerds, it is going to be THE must-see movie of the festival… What I’m saying is take a break from dancing your ass off and GO SEE THE DAMNED MOVIE.

As if you needed more convincing, here is the trailer for Blip Festival: Reformat the Planet:


BLIP FESTIVAL: REFORMAT THE PLANET trailer from 2 Player Productions on Vimeo.

And in case you just need full length choons to carry ’round with you, here’s the namesake track of the movie by NYC-based Bit Shifter:

Reformat The Planet — Bit Shifter

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Yes, that track’s great… But my favorite, and I think SORELY underappreciated of the Shifter’s tracks is the self-titled off of the “Information Chase” EP.** The symphonic hold breakdown is enough to make college girls the world over have Garden State-like make-out moments… Well, provided that they’re cool enough to dig on Gameboy music.

The Information Chase — Bit Shifter

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*Res doesn’t go to SxSW because we are too damned old to be drunk and sleepless for a week. Just ask Shaun about his old Winter Music Conference days. But while YOU are down there, make sure and get your chiptunes on AND check out our darling Loren Hynde’s party over at the Planetary Group bbq– we hear there is soy meat and hardcore (the guitar kind, not the electronic kind).

**All 8bitpeoples releases are released under this Creative Commons License.

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