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Chiptunes
ViolentDove:
My name is Przewalski's Horse on 8bitcollective. I post very occasionally about gigs in Australia that no-one goes to. I DJ chiptunes stuff in Sydney. I supported Glomag once, but I didn't get to see him play on account of having to leave for work.
Oh yeah, I usually play with 10Kfreemen a fair bit. I think he posts a bunch on 8bc.
If anyone wants recommendations I could probably list about thirty artists I'm playing the shit out of at the moment.
FireAarro:
I'm really into a lot of the stuff on 8bitpeoples. My favourite recent chip artists are Nullsleep (his Electric Heart Strike is my favourite 8bp release), USK, Saitone, Anamanaguchi (though their demos sounded better than their release IMO), YMCK, Mr. Spastic, Kplecraft...
ViolentDove, is there much of a chip scene in Australia? I live in Melbourne, have LSDJ. I'm interested in the artist recommendations you can give.
ViolentDove:
Locally, there's a few... they quite often travel interstate to play gigs with each other, though. :)
Here you go!
This list was stolen from GameBoy Australia which is run by Tom and Alex. It's pretty much everything on the "scene" in Australia. On the site it's got contact details for most of them I think. I'd just get in touch with some fellow melbournites and start gigging!
Also, 10kFreeMen (aka Tom) is going to melbs on the 17th of October for an 8bit night at the bunker lounge, I'd head down and have a chat to people there. Most of the people are pretty approachable, I think.
The List of Australian Chiptune Artists
THE "PURE" 8-BIT
VIC
* Derris Kharlan (Melbourne) - Another youngster making thick final fantasy style chiptunes.
* Future Eater (Melbourne) - Leader of the Melbourne micromusic HQ.
* Maddest Kings Alive (Melbourne) - 1/2 of perth group Chrism and Fenris, now sculpts a huge range of chunky organic tunes including a heavy spicing of chiptune inspired and created sounds.
* Pandie (Melbourne) - 8-bit club anthems.
* Pritee_Piksuhl (Melbourne) - Missing in action, made some killer tracks and played a few microparties.
* Raptorface (Melbourne) - Young member of the Chiptune newschool makes some amazing FamiTracker songs.
NSW
* Astro Zombies (Way out in Deniliquin) - Awsome young dude writing with Game Boys, ran the (ex) label Chain Chomp Records.
* Benedict (Sydney) - arty micromusic.
* CAG (?) - great pixel art & tunes.
* Divide By Zero (Sydney) - Gameboy Noise.
* It's Hard It's Hard (Sydney) - 8bit/noise duo who have never met each other.
* Przewalskis Horse (Sydney) - event promoter and 8bit muso.
* Ten Thousand Free Men and Their Families (Sydney) - solid gameboy dance co-founder of Game Boy Australia.
* 0xFFender (Dirty-South) - youngster doing game boy tunes, also will make custom kits for LSDJ.
QLD
* Cartridge Cassettes (The Valley) - "MADNESS".
* Dot.AY (Brisbane) - does hardcore gameboy electro and co-founder of Game Boy Australia.
* Joypad Inactive (Hervey Bay) - also runs 'dustin must die' netlabel. I can't really download his music?
* Ubey (Brisbane) - currently in Korea will come back and play gameboy gigs I COMMAND IT!
* VGX (Brisbane) - has one gameboy mainstream dance track that he made after I sold him LSDJ.
* Yaldabouth's Material World (Nth QLD).
SA
* DJ Tr!p (Adelaide) - dj based electro 8bit with a variety of consoles.
* Hidden Village (Adelaide) - duo made up of Little-Scale and Cloud Sparrow amazing technical and musical skills.
* Jacko (Adelaide) - Studies Jazz Saxophone at the Elder Conservatory of Music in Adelaide and rocks out on the Game Boy.
* Little-Scale (Adelaide) - deserves his own listing because he has made so many solo releases. He is also working on midi interfaces for the Sega Mega Drive and Master System.
WA
* Chrism (Perth) - 1 half of the group Chrism and Fenris lots of Gameboy Advance and C64 technical programming.
* Chrism and Fenris (Perth) - C64 duo played many live shows throughout Australia.
NEW ZEALAND
* Don't Eat Dinosaurs (Aukland) - NZ based chip artist.
* 8bit Kidd (?).
INDONESIA
* Arcade Playmate - Jakarta
* ASDW - Jakarta
* Butcher Bachelor
* acat Nada - Yogyakarta
* Curahmelodiamandiri
* Delayed Desire - Surabaya
* Dyztrk - Jakarta
* Godard
* HelloStereo - Semerang
* JW86 - Jakatta
* Local Drug Store - Bandang
* Motoric Mathematics - South Jakarta
* Nintenboys - Jakarta
* Pickney - Jakarta
* Tele8bit - South Jakarta
* Turbo Blip - Bogor
* Vibrick - Jakarta
FRIENDS AND "OTHER" MICRO/CHIP STYLE
VIC
* Casionova (Melbourne) - the ultimate casio man plays mega micromusic on nothing but casios.
* James Earthenware (Melbourne) - great circuit bent music wonders.
* Talkshow Boy (Melbourne) - amazing trash rap-pop with micro bleeps.
* Ultra Violet MC (Melbourne) - female mc raps over video game beats (has done a track with unicorn kid).
NSW
* Emergency! Emergency! (Sydney) - indie rock with added gameboy sounds.
* Mintendo (Sydney) - game inspired synthy goodness.
* Spod (Sydney) - wacky aus-electro legend.
* Toy Death (Sydney) - Australia's all circuit bent band.
NT
* Blastcorp (Darwin) - currently in Japan uses nitrotracker on DS and makes rad beats.
QLD
* Collapsicon (Brisbane) - pretty much only makes electro these days, but has a whole bunch of chip gear.
* Joel Saunders (Brisbane) - messed up pop uses cynthcart on C64.
* Political Escapade (Gold Coast) - currently in France Indie Electro with politically charged vocals and rad bleeps.
* Potato Master (Brisbane) - japanese rapper who has done some gameboy tracks with cow'p.
* Sukaphish P Jones (Brisbane) - micro chip grime and everything else.
FireAarro:
Awesome, thanks! I like the young Victorian guys on the list.. they live pretty far out though!
godinpants:
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One day, i will have enough nanoloop stuff done to make it onto this list...
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