My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Lô Borges (44), John Coltrane (30) & Sambalanço Trio (23) http://t.co/2qoGTTyv
My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Lô Borges (44), John Coltrane (30) & Sambalanço Trio (23) http://t.co/2qoGTTyv

This newly mixed and mastered release includes an alternate version of “Left”; originally released by 8bitpeoples in 2009 and an extended (by over twelve minutes) version of “Derecha” [2010]; plus a brand new track, "Subimago".
The CD version is a shrink-wrapped Digipak®.
You may stream and purchase "BIAS" at http://minusbaby.bandcamp.com




For a few weeks in 2003 I thought that it would be interesting to write an album with chip music-influenced tracks in stereo and hip-hop-influenced tracks in mono.
I played with this idea for a few years until deciding to ditch it and just release everything together as this ad hoc compilation.



This new release of older material from Richard Alexander Caraballo, aka minusbaby, is, for the most part, not in his usual chiptune style. However, the way “Strong Arctic Winds Take Terns" relates to the chiptune work is instructive to the listener who might be just finding their way into his wildly creative universe.
With chiptune music, there is a forced elementalism, a certain influence imposed by the hardware limitations of making music on a vintage gaming console that pushes the artist to bust out creatively. But when the same artist works in the dizzying world of VST plug-ins and the endless possibilities of laptop music, those without a strong idea of their own sonic identity often flounder and are incapable of forging a distinctive style. minusbaby's work in chiptunes before and after making this music clearly gave him a sense of the need to create limits within which to work — the advantage of forced boundaries. Each track presents a short view into a very defined sonic world in which he explores just long enough to find the interesting permutations on the structure and yet leave the listener wanting more.
While betraying a sensitivity to the integrity of each sound, “Strong Arctic Winds Take Terns" does not come off as a “designer's record" in which one can hear the endless fretting over mix choices while the impact suffers. This release gives the listener a clear image of an artist with a solid, sonic identity; making harmonious, instrumental music.
— Chris "glomag" Burke • New York, New York, USA • May 13th, 2008



"Data Drop: 12 Tracks For Co-Conspirators," is an exclusive collection of previously unreleased tracks by Blip Festival 2009 participants; made available only to the event's supporters and donors.
8bitpeoples, The Tank, and the Blip Festival crew extend our genuine thanks to you for ensuring that Blip Festival 2009 took place, and we hope you enjoy the release.


"For a scene and a subculture not known to put a great emphasis on the physicality of an album or an EP, a scene which thrives and prides itself on the free exchange of digital music, this is the right record to make tangible. Milestones should be marked by monuments, and this is the second time 8bitpeoples have done so: with the 2xCD 8BP50 CD after the first Blip Festival, and now with this; 8BP100 — so you can see just how far it's all come. Now take this artifact in your hands, press play on your system, inspect the pretty parcel it came in until you've unlocked its every secret, then turn up the volume, close your eyes, and picture yourself there."


In 2007, musicians and artists from around the world assembled in New York City to participate in the second annual Blip Festival. Curated and organized by 8bitpeoples and The Tank, this four-day event showcased the untapped potential of low-bit home computer and game consoles used as creative audio and video tools.
2 Player Productions is proud to present this DVD video compilation, featuring one track from each of the festival's 32 performers. Unrestricted camera access positions the viewer directly between a surging crowd and a bracing wall of sound, one built upon familiar technology turned on its ear.

"A strange compilation of electronic music, "Alphabets & Animals" is presented by the Godxiliary Web site as an online music collaboration. Twenty-six artists present songs all with animal names and labeled on the album in alphabetical order. As if that isn’t enough, the CD is gift wrapped in black paper with white writing and odd drawings all over it. Very Edgar Allan Poe or H.P. Lovecraft. But, the idea is supposed to be more of a Crass Records feel, one can assume.
For those looking to broaden their horizons and experience what else is out there besides the usual bland radio friendly pop music, "Alphabets & Animals" offers just that: a seemingly random cacophony of flutes, beats, howling, answering machine messages and backwards tape loops. Perhaps even someone beating on a trash can with a stick.
While this may sound awful, there is quite a bit of interesting stuff on this album.
“Albatross” by Mikrosopht is a danceable techno beat and Invisible Public Library’s accordion on “Colossal Squid” is pretty cool. The experimental '60s-esque sound of Viktoria Lisbet’s “D (a Dead Dog Dream)” sounds a little like the Beatles meets David Bowie. Other outstanding songs include the acoustic “Gopher Bomb” by the Stomach Aches, the funky “Eye for Iguana” by Rob Moore, the heavy reverb-laden “Jerboa” by Random Animal; and the silly “Monkey Song” by John Lasala, the Zesty Burrito and Simian Hu Flung Pu.
For a break from the obvious, the "Alphabets & Animals compilation" releases the most odd yet wonderfully original assemblage of music and noise available. And the cat-shaken- in-a-burlap-sack sound of Track 14 is something to behold."
— Dino Lull

Diversity is Forbidden is meant to be an equal opportunity plan for artists of all kinds. Open up your ears and let the flow of the music indulge on your hearing abilities. And a note to artists out there: KEEP PLAYING MUSIC, KEEP DOING WHAT YOU'RE DOING.
Thanks to all the bands/musicians that contributed and helped make this become reality.
25 Works of art from 25 different artists. Chiptunes, noise, hardcore, punk, electronica, ambient - it's all here.




The first of two 2005 compilation CD's released by the now-defunct Couch Fort Records. Many of the artists featured here went on to become members of the Digital Vomit collective.
Limited copies of this piece of cyberpunk history remain available; please see the "Album Notes."

Between 1999 and 2004, over 40,000 movies were created on 16color website and showcased to the world. From stamp-sized drunken binges to lo-res mini-epics, this collection of 178 masterpieces is a true testament to the powers of pixelated procrastination.
Set to the retro music of The 8bitpeoples, The Best of 16 Color will leave you yearning for the era of blips and bleeps. The 8bitpeoples are a group of artists seeking to push the boundaries of the early videogame aesthetic. Deriving inspiration from and working directly with hardware such as the Nintendo Entertainment System, GameBoy and Commodore 64, they repurpose these machines to write the music of a past that never was. Featuring tunes by Mesu Kasumai, Nullsleep, Sabastian Boaz, Role Model, minusbaby and Twilight Electric, this is the sound of yesterday's future.


Micromusic.net is an underground sound community, a digital lifestyle platform for screen-kidz, joystick-lovers and audioNerds. A web entertainment park for talented & creative sound_trackerz, for all low-tech producers with a high-tech way of living. micro_superstarz2000 is a collection of the most interesting tracks activated online during the first twelve months. It is a re-compilation of the content of Micromusic's website, in itself a concentration of 700 pieces of music submitted in the past year. Micromusic's mission is to define quality in a quantity_producing media_machine.
— 2000

Phone Story is a game for smartphone devices that attempts to provoke a critical reflection on its own technological platform. Under the shiny surface of our electronic gadgets, behind its polished interface, hides the product of a troubling supply chain that stretches across the globe. Phone Story represents this process with four educational games that make the player symbolically complicit in coltan extraction in Congo, outsourced labor in China, e-waste in Pakistan and gadget consumerism in the West.
Keep Phone Story on your device as a reminder of your impact. All of the revenues raised go directly to workers' organizations and other non-profits that are working to stop the horrors represented in the game.

Soaked in sangria and beer at a pre-PAX industry party in Seattle this past August, crashfaster and I were asked by one of its producers to write a cover of the "Halo" theme for a "Halo: Reach" event in two days. Her only rule was for it to include the Monk chant.
It was featured in the Halo Waypoint 343 Sparkast on October 27th, 2010.

BIT.TRIP FATE takes CommanderVideo to a darker place. The rhythms are heavy; the sound unlike anything he's ever heard. Now you too can explore an unfamiliar and hypnotic genre mash-up wherein dubstep and chipmusic flirt with, and intoxicate your senses.
In a fitting guest-appearance, minusbaby lends two of his most sublime tracks to the album, just to get you in the mood.
Discover your own FATE as you continue your BIT.TRIP with this amazing audio companion.

Did you get everyone involved you wanted?
I had the whole thing buttoned up and ready to release. And then minusbaby got back to me three weeks after I emailed him and wanted to remix Clothesline. Obviously, I wanted him involved so I decided to hold off the release. His sudden unexpected inclusion was also when I got the "A New Challenger!" idea. So what was once "Disasterpeace's Dragon Fist Rising Mix" became "Disasterpeace vs. Dragon Punch!" and so on. I wrote the interstitial tracks, which were a ton of fun. Might do an extended mix of Continue, too. And then rebuttoned the album up for release. I'm glad minusbaby was such a late-comer, I think the album concept is much stronger because of it. And his remix is sick.
— From "How Tettix tried to design a T-shirt and ended up with a remix album" (Boing Boing · Friday, July 30, 2010)

Born out of an HTML5 game, KnifeTank (The Albumhole) takes the game's original chiptune score and mixes it with nerdcore hip hop and additional remixes. Turning it into a fantastic stand alone album. Play the original game at www.knifetanks.com
The core music and production for the KnifeTank soundtrack was handled by crashfaster.
Doctor Popular lent an hand with additional composition and contributed the organic sounds (guitar, beatbox, mouthharp, and kazoo) to the KnifeTank songs.
Vocals for "Crimson Dream" were recorded by Unwoman in her studio.
All other remixes and vocals recorded by the artists themselves.