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Hello world... It's been awhile, don't worry I'm still alive. No really... Seriously. I'm not kidding...
Live performances in Tokyo Japan this week!
In other news, after 9 years of lurking in the shadows, I finally got trash80.com - For now it links to here (.net) ... I'll be switching around the urls when I get a chance to redo the site a bit. Also incase you actually thought I was dead, remember I'm always posting random bits and pieces of the projects I work on around the web:
- http://flickr.com/photos/trash80
- http://www.youtube.com/user/trash80net
- http://www.facebook.com/trash80
Austin’s Alamo Drafthouse and New York City’s 8bitpeoples, 2 Player productions, and the people behind the Blip Festival have joined forces to create the premiere party, DATAPOP: A Celebration of 8-Bit Music and Culture - March 16th and 17th.
Now in it's third installment, Datapop will be held at Austin's very own Highball - a hybrid entertainment venue that features the best diner this side of 1960, eight lanes of bowling with rental by the hour; seven different themed karaoke rooms; four lanes of skee-ball with ticketed prizes you won’t find anywhere else and a ballroom event space that will be transformed into a unique cultural hot-spot featuring sets by 12 international 8-bit artists on a full concert stage with professional light and sound system.
The schedule for Datapop 3.0 is:
Tuesday, March 16th
Visuals by Jean Y. Kim and Omeros
- 8:00 PM - The Mysterious H
- 8:45 PM - Sievert
- 9:30 PM - Nullsleep
- 10:15 PM - IAYD
- 11:00 PM - Hally
- 11:45 PM - Random
- 12:30 AM - Bit Shifter
- 1:15 AM - nordloef
Wednesday, March 17th
Visuals by Paris & outpt
- 8:00 PM - Talk to Animals
- 8:45 PM - Starscream
- 9:30 PM - Henry Homesweet
- 10:15 PM - 8BK-ok
- 11:00 PM - Sabrepulse vs. Saskrotch
- 11:45 PM - Je Deviens DJ en 3 Jours
- 12:35 AM - Anamanaguchi
- 1:20 AM - Trash80
Admission is free, but be warned, it will get VERY ROWDY AND CROWDED so we recommend getting there early.
RSVP Here.
3 Shows for you all coming up in LA, SF, and Philadelphia.
Saturday 11/07 - Los Angeles - Chop Suey Cafe & Lounge
8PM - 11PM
$5 / FREE for workshop participants.
minusbaby [New York, NY, USA] • http://www.minusbaby.com
Paris Treantafeles [New York, NY, USA] • http://www.parisgraphics.com
Trash80 [Los Angeles, CA, USA] • http://trash80.net
starPause [San Francisco, CA, USA] • http://www.starpause.com
crashfaster [San Francisco, CA, USA] • http://www.crashfaster.com
Daniel Rehn [San Diego, CA, USA] • http://www.danielrehn.com
More info on the Facebook page.
Thursday 11/12 - San Francisco - DNA Lounge
Starts at 7PM
Featuring Minusbaby, Trash80, starPause and crashfaster with Paris, Daniel Rehn, and Fx6Ex6
More info on the myFaceBooksterfacespace
Saturday 11/14 - Philadelphia - 8Static at Studio 34
Starts at 7PM
Trash80 [Los Angeles, CA, USA] • http://trash80.net
Glomag [New York, NY , USA] • http://www.myspace.com/glomaggot
Animal Style [Philadelphia] • http://www.animal-style.com
Enso [Philadelphia] • http://enso.tumblr.com
Dan Winckler [New York, NY , USA] • http://danwinckler.com
More info at 8static.com
Live Performance in Seattle, WA. All Ages, Free. This Saturday May23rd
As much as dates are meaningless to me its nice to sit back and think about all the things that have happened this last year, as well as things to come.
2008 was a busy year for me. It started off with a unexpected chiptune show in San Francisco with old friends and new. It pushed me to write new material which eventually led to the Icarus EP release on 8bitpeoples. Meanwhile I was leaning electronics and micro controller programming with the Arduino- while in SF I had a small discussion with Nullsleep about using the Arduino to create a MIDI sync device for LSDJ. Which led to my Arduino project: Arduinoboy.
Coming home inspired and pumped up from the show I started hanging out in various Internet community sites such as 8bitcollective.com. After a few stressful visits of slow unwilling to load pages I got into a discussion with one of the admins there by the name of Low-Gain. I convinced him and others to give me code access so I could speed up the performance of their site. Since then I've added a few improvements and met countless awesome people involved in this ever expanding scene- which in turn led to more gigs in LA, Portland, and NYC.
After a few gigs I got fed up with lugging around the NES. I decided to start a new development project for the Gameboy dubbed: mGB - A cart that turns the Gameboy into a musical synthesizer with full midi support- linked with Arduinoboy.
Later in the year Nullsleep invited me to help master his new EP: Unconditional Acceleration - which made me realize how much of a nightmare it is to try to master anything let alone Gameboy music. Followed it up by mastering Minusbaby's EP: Saudade for Beginners.
The year wrapped up nicely playing a show in New York City: Blip festival 2008. Wow! What a way to sum up a year. I've met people for the first time in real life whom I've known for years online. Met a couple of fans. Saw quite a few mind blowing acts. As well as accomplishing a decent performance at the end of the event.
I want to thank friends and family, everyone who've given me the opportunity to perform, helped me with my noob electronics questions, downloaded and enjoyed my music, left comments, bought my cd at shows, and who've helped out the scene in general.
What you can see from me this next year: Expect a new release in the next coming months. Updates to mGB & Arduinoboy. Shows in various cities. Hopefully a tour in Japan. (If you know or have info to help me out here email me.) As well as some new hardware projects.
I'll be performing this year at Blip Festival in NYC Dec 4th to 7th.
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Now entering its third year, the Blip Festival remains the largest and most comprehensive event of its kind in the world. Blip Festival 2008 promises to build even further upon the breakaway momentum of its predecessors, bringing together the movement's most visible and talented international names for an explosive event taking place in the epicenter of the creative world.
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I managed to finish a small album dubbed Icarus.
8bitpeoples > trash80 > Icarus: Grab it now!
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Dive onto the dance floor with a hybrid heart of NES bleeps and heavy beats. Trash80 has made his way back from exile with his long over due second EP Icarus- A modern chip-rock-techno-electro dance excursion. Push, climb, bite, crawl your way though the super galactic interstellar network of consciousness to rediscover one of next years hottest releases to date.
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Also look at the blog below, Live in NYC this Saturday! Don't miss it if your in the area.
Not that anyone cares but here are some links related to me. ;)
