Trash80 is a big deal, having done some really important Gameboy hardware dev, music for games like Darwinia and various other things, but since we obviously move in quite different circles I wasn’t very acquainted with his work before Blip. We hung out quite a bit through the five or so days we were in NYC, but he was the very last artist to play which mean that all the rest of us were chilled, no longer worrying about our own sets, and ready to hit the dancefloor for the grand finale. Well, fucking hell. Excellent stuff: for my money, the perfect application of chipstyle sounds in the fully-sequenced/produced arena. I could learn a thing or two about breaking down some my own entrenched production ‘values’ by listening to this guy.

Oh, he also saved Mia and I from getting unutterably lost in Manhattan at 3am with his GPS skillz. Tim, I salute you.

Shit, I almost forgot: the point of this entry was to send you to 8bitpeoples to download Icarus and Hologram! Do it.

Some phonecam footage of my set, kindly uploaded to youtube by someone who was in the Blip audience. This is almost all of the first song I played (after my intro) – a new one called Returns which will surely find its way to the outside world soon.

The whole four days have been great (I can’t stress this enough), but my choice ‘discoveries’ have been Trash80 (who is fantastic live) and Cow’P (who’s just stupendous, but previously unknown to me). Check that shit out.

More post-mortem will undoubtedly come… Keep a look out for stream recordings (although I think the stream broke down for my set), youtube vids, whatever. Peace.