I "liked" your page on facebook, if that helps at all. Good luck, mate!
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Detroit, MI
DJCactus wrote:
im down, shoot me a pm if your interested.
Thanks! Sent you a message :-D
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Detroit, MI
Moriokun wrote:
I'm off from classes until January 26th so anything before that would be great. During the school semester, I'm free on the weekends since I have Fridays off. My Aunt has a place in Detroit so lodging shouldn't be an issue. With winter break coming up, I'll have a month to work on set for the show.
I don't know about weekly shows, but a monthly or bi-monthly get together seems more doable, you don't wanna wear yourself out.
Nice, long break! I'll try to get into mid Jan since, I also get quite busy at the end of each month...
Also, I'm thinking "weekly meetings" that would be similar to university student organizations to help educate each other with chip/music/production/art knowledge which may lead to improvement of our hosted events. (could be open to fans and not limited just artists)
I'll keep updated here when details come up!
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ui wrote:
there are many ppl in detroit doing "chipmusic". But the best comunity that i can think of from Detroit is www.battleofthebits.org
Is have been dedicated to do big compos and promote the chipmusic/electronic and experimental music for about 6 years, maybe more. So you should take a look and try to see if you can contact them
Thanks! I've seen the site before and wasn't sure how active it seemed...
Looks like a new event just started today!
I'll see what information I can gather/share there. |^3^|b
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SKGB wrote:
I "liked" your page on facebook, if that helps at all. Good luck, mate!
Thank you, thank you!
Please feel free to share any information that could be useful to us!
We're new and are willing to learn anything :-D
- Operation/management of 'chiptune' events.
- Reaching to a wider community through 'chip influenced music'
- Possibilities of production or business behind 'chip cultures'
Some topics we're working on right now...
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New update!
I've found a few local chiptune artists to play for us,
and we have finally came to deal with a local cafe to have our first electronic/chiptune event!!!
Piko@Lab - Electronic/Chiptune Music Event @ Lab Cafe Ann Arbor
Friday January 20th, 2012 7PM-10PM
Planned Performers:
- Pikoboy (DJ/Performer) - Trenton, MI
- Snesei (Mix Chip Performer) - Dearborn, MI
- DJ Cactus (DS-10 Performer) Novi, MI
- Alokin (Chip Performer) Ann Arbor, MI
- Barbeque (Chip Performer) Ferndale, MI
A new year, and Detroit's local chip music community is ready to kick off! :-D
DETAILS ON FACEBOOK!!!
http://www.facebook.com/events/342788712415743/
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It went well! and it was really fun even without the alcohol :-)
The weather was terrible with lots of snow so, many of our friends and one of our performers could not make it out. But, we had really great feedback from our audience and venue! Audience count was about 20~30 on average, most were local college students and random customers of the cafe, and some elders (probably our parents). Overall, very positive vibe so we're hoping to keep improving our music and upgrade our events!
We passed out free demo discs, and now they're on bandcamp! Check us out 
http://pikopikodetroit.bandcamp.com/alb … tion-album
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Didn't get to announce our 2nd Piko@Lab event!
It was last friday and we had a nice turn out with an average 30~50 person audience throughout a free public 3 hour event at Lab Cafe, Ann Arbor!
We had many new performers, and have been meeting great people to help us make our future events awesome.
The Compilation Album is now available on Bandcamp:
http://pikopikodetroit.bandcamp.com/alb … tion-album
Also, we are hosting a bigger electronic/chiptune event in the same area with guests from Canada, Chicago, and Grand Rapids!
This one will be our biggest one so far!
It's in 2 weeks, check us out if you're nearby!
http://www.facebook.com/events/165785230204037/
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hey, great!
i'm in the uk but this seems good-- hope you are all having fun!
keep it up!
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Hey all. Sorry I haven't been updating. Been quite busy with Piko stuff and traveling.
We have been sustaining our monthly event Piko@Lab in Ann Arbor, MI and are moving onto our next Piko@Lab v5.0 in May!
Here are the all previous compilation albums released at the event:
http://pikopikodetroit.bandcamp.com/alb … tion-album
http://pikopikodetroit.bandcamp.com/alb … tion-album
http://pikopikodetroit.bandcamp.com/alb … tion-album
http://pikopikodetroit.bandcamp.com/alb … tion-album
We also had a big one in March, with a 70+ audience on a Sunday night going from 8PM to 2AM!
Few photos from the event: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set … amp;type=3
(event archive: https://www.facebook.com/events/165785230204037/)
This weekend we are participating 2 large events:
Penguicon 2012 - https://www.facebook.com/events/320541801334342/
Woobies - https://www.facebook.com/events/363821213668195/
I am currently spending some time in Taipei, Taiwan and have been doing random shows to reach out to the bit-culture community.
In Taipei, I have organized "Back To The 8-Bit" Electronic/Chiptune DJ/Performance night at a Punk Live-House.
Photos: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set … e2f1042f6e
Archive: https://www.facebook.com/events/353990324653818/
Guests included friends, and friends of friends, but we were also welcomed by many chiptune/anime fans who randomly stumbled across the event page. They claimed that we were the first ever chip event they heard of in Taiwan! DJ/Performers were "Fish The" (pioneer of early electronic music in Taiwan), Physical Chemical Brother (amazing mix of chip/electronic music), Myself and a friend DJ with Chiptune Live & DJ.
Also several smaller events playing Chiptune in public:
https://www.facebook.com/events/396621153695118/
I'll be back in Tokyo in May to host a Piko Piko Detroit and 8-Bit Cafe Collaboration event with several local artists!
https://www.facebook.com/events/311344858931882/
Details coming soon!
Thanks!
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Tulsa, OK
Im from Tulsa, OK.
I just want to say that this is awesome, and I would totally participate if I could 
I would be down for some jit-chip 
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We should definitely talk! I live in Ann Arbor at Metal Frat, we've been looking into booking chip artists for a few months now. Shoot me a PM!
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@Jake Thanks! Hopefully we come to organize a big one that we can contact various domestic artists to have perform! Please join us on facebook if you can where we update most of our information: https://www.facebook.com/pikopikodetroit
@Kokoro We currently have 5+ Chiptune artists and 5+ Fakebit artists who regularly perform with us in the Ann Arbor area! Reading you rmessage now