A couple of days ago I got a message from some German trance dude called Nic Ginto on MySpace, saying that he really likes my song Spontaneous Devotion and that he “…felt free to keep up this wonderful melody and make a small Trance-remix”.
Trance is usually not my cup of tea, but I admit that Spontaneous Devotion actually is kind of trancey, so it fits pretty well being remixed as a trance song :)
Ginto’s message also made me remembered that another remix was done of Spontaneous Devotion, back in 2006, by no one else than Spanish chiptune king Sergeeo! It is a NES remix and the second song he ever composed using FamiTracker.
Once again, chip- and micromusicians have been plagiarized. This time it’s Laromlab aka Brandon Harrods who have been ripping off music by artists such as Crazy Q, Dubmood, Lotek Style and Dma-Sc (and released a full album with their songs!), but also Ikuma, Goto80 and myself… My song (Project24) was only used in a really shitty movie review podcast called “Popcast”, but Laromlab clearly claimed in a myspace blog post that it was his composition. Read it here.
He has now posted an official excuse on his myspace page, but the ripped material, including the podcast episodes, are still floating around on the Internet.
we’re still working on ways of separating artists with the same name, for the
mean time there will be no single control of the page by any one artist.
Sorry we can’t help with this, but we do take the issue seriously and are
making progress on it.
Good news I suppose! Let’s just wait and see what happens…
I will be performing at Club Robot’s launching party April 23rd. It’s taking place at a really nice venue called Under The Westway in London, and Intelligentsia and Komputer will also be playing, so make sure not to miss it!
I have uploaded a gigs page as well, which you can find in the Menu, with a boring list of all my previous and upcoming live shows :)
Random is a damn good artist name. Perhaps it’s even too good, since at least six other artists other than me wants to use it. This can be slightly problematic sometimes, for several reasons which you can probably figure out yourself.
Recently there has been a small war going on between me and some other Randoms on Last.fm. It started with my picture being changed to a picture of five hopeless Austrian emopunk wretches sitting in a room looking very serious about life and their hairdos, and a few days later the Random page on Last.fm was pestered with (suprise, surprise!) a bunch of emopunk songs. Not acceptable.
It took a little work and some e-mails to change it back, and for the moment it’s a bit of a compromise with two of my songs and two emopunk songs on the page, but I’m planning to put Operation Ruthless into action soon…
So… there’s a “48h Challenge”-thread going on over at the 8bc forums, where one person at a time gets challenged in to composing a song in 48 hours, following certain rules given by the challenger. Two days ago, wedanced challenged me to make a tune with the following rules:
8-bit theme song for a unicorns and dragons vs. chuck Noris and David bowie (as the the goblin king) battle sequence with lol cats dancing in the background.
He is obviously insane, but I accepted the challenge non the less. The result (which is more of a 10-songs-in-1-megamix than an actual theme song) can be downloaded here or from the original 8bc post. Enjoy the madness.
First of all, once again I have followed Karawapo’s (of Pepino) wise advice and (finally) moved over this blog to be hosted at randomizer.se, instead of wordpress.com’s servers which this URL simply was directing to before. Actually, I didn’t even do it myself, Karawapo did it for me! Thank you very much :)
Second, Chinese label Shanshui Records have started a side label called “Kill Club”. It is run by Sulumi and the first release which soon is to be released is a compilation CD-R with “The amazing chiptunes that belongs to future, and namely, the chiptunes that are purely classic.” – Now, how awesome doesn’t that sound?! When I also tell you that the artists featured on this CD-R includes masters of the art such as Covox, Blasterhead, IKARI, Sulumi, USK, Maru, Aonami and of course Yours truly, I won’t blame you if you just shit yourself of excitement. Anyway, a new post will come as soon as the CD-R is released and available to order!
Third and finally, I just wanted to inform you that I’m nearly finished with my third 8bitpeoples EP, and if everything goes according to plan (though, no guarantees that it will!) it will be released in April.
The guys over at 2PlayerProduction has now uploaded a bunch of nice videos from Blip Festival 2006 (which I played at) and from Blip Festival 2007 (which I didn’t play at). You can find all the 2006 vids here, and all the 2007 vids here. Check them out!
I got a message on Myspace from AnalogMoz, who asked about the closed-for-public modules folder in randomizer.se/tunes. To be honest I didn’t even know there were such a folder in there. Now I have however opened it for public, and uploaded a few old modules of mine. They are from the very beginning of my music career (late 2003/early 2004), when I was just starting out with chipmusic, but still hadn’t found LSDJ and Game Boy-music. So don’t expect anything but charm from these small attempts!
Oh, and, for those who don’t know how to play these modules, go to un4seen.com and download XMPlay if you’re using Windows, or to CocoModX and download the player there if you’re using OSX.
Two upcoming gigs! First off is Bologna, Italy, where I’ll play at Future Film FestivalJanuary 20th, where 8 bit movie, a documentary about art and video games, directed by Marcin Ramocki and Justin Strawhand also will be shown
Second is in Blackpool, UK, where I team up with Flanboy, Nordloef, Sabrepulse and Falco Lombardi for a night of chiptune frenzy at The 8-Bit Ball! February 2nd.
