One of my two major personal discoveries at Blip Festival this year (the other being cow’p) has given me a good 24 hours of happy now that I’ve finally got around to downloading both of his 8bitpeoples releases.
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.
Just got back from Breakpoint ‘09 in Bingen, where my favourite production of the weekend was Syntax Infinity – an MSX2 demo from Tulou and Traktor. I dunno exactly who worked on it, but they’re both excellent Amiga groups I wasn’t particularly surprised to see that the great music was done by everyone’s favourite Esau, who’s a member of both. Anyway, check it out.
