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I am enjoying this greatly. Busts convention with aplomb & gets gleefully weird without ever getting messy or unfocused. Definitely curious to know what sorts of machines and doohickeys were used on this, some great sounds on here.

Damn — nice release. Great sounds; unique / understated / ominous atmospheres. Good stuff!

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Some pretty amazing experiences this year. Some of my favorite moments personally, in no order —

- The whole Blip Tokyo experience — getting to play on one of the best sound systems I've ever heard (at Koenji High), hanging with everyone involved, having beers with Hip Tanaka, getting to collaborate with apocalypse noisician Luke Chaos, meeting K→, sprinting around Akihabara with Anders / Goto80 & Raquel Meyers to locate power transformers for a European C64, scoring a BSK shirt at a Shibuya record shop, ramen with Jeriaska, seeing NNNNNNNNNN at the pre-party, seeing Minikomi at the afterparty, picking my jaw up off the floor after Chibi-Tech busted out with "Oniichan Dakara Iiyo," whiskey at the 8-Bit Cafe, it just goes on and on. Lazerbeat, Cheapshot, Minikomi, Coova, Hally, and everyone involved in making this happen are eternal heroes.
- Coova at Pulsewave! Plus Chipocrite's amazing Prince set.
- my crazy roommate Mike / Fuckjazzforaminute concocted a fucking bonkers chip-oriented gift for my birthday, involving a lot of chip accomplices. Blew my mind. With luck it'll be made public soon.
- Making a long-standing dream come true & visiting Australia for the first time (huge thanks to the people at Electrofringe, who will probably never see this, but I feel compelled to thank them here anyway) & getting to meet & hang with the amazing people of the AU chip crew. So much fun. Chilling with everyone in Newcastle, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, trying regional beers everywhere I could find a taphandle, getting to play at Mana Bar, breakfast in Sydney's amazing Hyde Park, cTrix's fucking beer theremin in Newcastle, seeing 10K empty a pint of cider in some poor fucker's face in Melbourne, scoring a 10K shirt, kangaroo steak & fancy brews at Chez cTrix, cTrix's heroic blockade-runner skills getting me to the airport despite major traffic snarls — amazing, amazing adventure.
- Getting to do another Blip event in Aalborg Denmark, finally getting to see Videovalvontaa, Cornbeast, Chipzel, Starmelt, Maskinoperatör, & Phlogiston firsthand; double-digit drink tickets each night (fucking hell); the venue Platform4 having wired up an entire nearby empty building as a giant 4-story VU meter for the event; shooting pool with Julian / The C-Men, Edwin & Jonathan; Starmelt's hilarious complete absence of concern at missing his flight home due to a hangover; scoring Videovalvontaa & Chipzel CDs — amazing times, huge thanks to Christian Villum & everyone at Platform4.
- Reformat The Planet's DVD release!
- Getting to hang out in Paris with Random, Otro & Meneo during the Offf Festival
- The moment I opened the e-mail from iLKke with his preliminary artwork for A.M.U's Diamond and literally bursting into overjoyed laughter at how incredible it looked and how perfect it was for the album.
- Hanging out in Fairbanks Alaska with Paul Owens for a Reformat The Planet screening + performance + workshop (even though this meant missing Huoratron crush skulls that same night back home in NYC, FFFFFUUU—)
- Getting to do an artist residency in Florida, amazing experience, got to hang with both familiar faces (Natty & Chipocrite) & meet some awesome new people (sup Nestrogen?). Whole thing was both enormously humbling and enormously validating at the same time.
- Spanning 102° of latitude & 293° of longitude, from Melbourne to Fairbanks over the course of the year (actually, the way the dates fell, it was just over the course of just about a month). WTF.
- Getting to be a part of the Starscream remix EP, couldn't get enough of everybody's remixes on that thing, and was really excited to have been a part of it.

So yeah. 2010 could be a hard one to top.

I feel like Bandcamp could be poised to do great things for online music distribution / sales / etc., if they could just get their approach to metadata sorted out. It's surprisingly clunky. But c'mon, even that aside — Disasterpeace is (obviously!) an upstanding musician and a consummate professional — give the guy a break!

I've missed too many 8static shows, I'm gonna try to get down there for this one.