97 Reply by Bit Shifter

(46 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Any Lissajou release title

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98 Reply by Bit Shifter

(2 replies, posted in Past Events)

Sick.

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99 Reply by Bit Shifter

(2 replies, posted in Past Events)

[thread bumping intensifies]

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100 Reply by Bit Shifter

(8 replies, posted in Past Events)

Sweet.

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101 Topic by Bit Shifter

(2 replies, posted in Past Events)

From the Facebook event listing:
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Pulsewave ((┘￣ω￣)┘ 04.25.2015

WE'RE BACK! Going to try to keep this streak going!

This month we're back at the excellent Babycastles on 14th St. in Manhattan (off of the A, C, E, F, M, L, 1, 2, 3 trains, the N, Q, R aren't far either!).

Admission is $10-15, proceeds from the door help us put on more shows by bringing in artists from out of town and pay the artists more every show! This is an all ages show! Open mic is 5 minutes, "plug and play" encouraged.

This event is NOT BYOB

THIS MONTH'S LINEUP:

AZURIA SKY http://azuria-sky.net/
A girl who fell in love with a robot.
Operating a DMG-01, Azuria Sky paints heart-wrenching melodies framed with unrelenting lo-fi bass.

JANX https://janxattixxxlovesyou.bandcamp.com/
Rock, pop, & chiptune fusion, Janx does it all and then some. Boasting a wide variety of different musical styles, Janx incorporates her love for genre fusion into her sets in every way possible. Janx parties it up with her cats on a regular basis in Morgantown, WV. If you have a cat then you and Janx will probably be friends.

BIT SHIFTER http://bit.shifter.net/
Bit Shifter explores high-impact, low-res music produced using primitive synthesis as a deliberate aesthetic choice. In a distillation of the less-is-more philosophy, Bit Shifter operates with a standard Nintendo Game Boy as a means of exploring the aesthetics of economy, pushing minimal hardware to its maximum.

He is also in it for the lolz.

visuals this month are by Miles Joyner! http://cooleyoutofcontext.tumblr.com/
Miles Joyner is a visual artist hailing from New Jersey who makes glitch art with video compression and errors in common computer programs. His style is chaotic, bit-crushed, and delirious, using everyday imagery and found footage in abrasive abstract ways to trick you into seeing something that isn't there.

If you have an interest in learning about booking and have spare hours every week to help out the crew, you can email us: [email protected]

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102 Reply by Bit Shifter

(13 replies, posted in Past Events)

Sick sick sick.

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103 Reply by Bit Shifter

(3 replies, posted in Releases)

This is so good.

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104 Reply by Bit Shifter

(13 replies, posted in Past Events)

Whoa shiiiiit

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105 Reply by Bit Shifter

(10 replies, posted in Releases)

Well this is awesome

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106 Reply by Bit Shifter

(13 replies, posted in Past Events)

Killer.

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107 Reply by Bit Shifter

(9 replies, posted in Past Events)

So psyched 4 this

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108 Topic by Bit Shifter

(3 replies, posted in Trading Post)

After a small run last fall, the new Bit Shifter skull-and-electrical-bolts tee design has been reprinted in (slightly) larger quantities, and is available through my Bandcamp store. Design is printed in white on high-quality black men's & women's Gildan Extra Cotton t-shirts.

Size ranges:
· women's XS - XL
· men's S through 3XL

Some quantities are already dwindling or unfortunately temporarily out — hope to restock soon!

$15.00 each + shipping.
Ships from Brooklyn New York.

★ Here is where you click to be whisked swiftly to them



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109 Reply by Bit Shifter

(15 replies, posted in Past Events)

Just got a new run of t-shirts in men's & women's sizes made; I/O attendees get first dibs.

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110 Reply by Bit Shifter

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111 Reply by Bit Shifter

(41 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I have a feeling — and I haven't even heard the track so I'm speaking in general terms — that this kind of thing hits a nerve because it's an instance of a musical idiom being treated as worthy of examination only when person X with pedigree Y does it, and not otherwise. In cases where the material in question is perhaps less sophisticated than other music that might've been been a better example of the form, had it had the same benefit of an esteemed pedigree — well that only exacerbates the bad taste in peoples' mouths.

This is all a knowing oversimplification; I know Pitchfork has touched on chipmusic from time to time in the past. But it's hard to escape the sense that there's some lazy journalism at work when the form is presented so selectively. "Member of Known Quantity Band X wrote his EP on a Gameboy, Wow" is in some ways the new "Mario at a rave."

Or maybe it's just sour grapes! I don't know.

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112 Reply by Bit Shifter

(29 replies, posted in General Discussion)

sandneil wrote:

i want to know what happened to the nice system where i could download the mp3 files by clicking on links to them without pretending i was paying for them and signing up for email confirmation!

We moved to a new back-end system and CMS, one that would give us the option to make one version of each release available for purchase, and another for free. The tradeoff was that both options would need to share the same checkout process. We recognize this isn't terribly convenient but hope it's not a massive dealbreaker.

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