161 Reply by donotrunwithpixels

(88 replies, posted in General Discussion)

+ It really grinds my gears when people post emo teenage angst on internet forums.

+ It really grinds my gears when I KNOW I should just let the thread die a swift death, and yet I comment anyway perpetuating the pointlessness of it all.

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162 Reply by donotrunwithpixels

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Why thank you! and thank you for the facebook plug too.

I might do some cassettes of the release for some gig or another that my people tell me I have in Cardiff in November.

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163 Reply by donotrunwithpixels

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Now on the Pulsewidth Music Youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXyU2L8lBeU

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164 Reply by donotrunwithpixels

(88 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Amazing! Thanks.

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165 Reply by donotrunwithpixels

(88 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Loving this channel.

Just submitted something.

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166 Topic by donotrunwithpixels

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The death of 8bc meant that many indie chip musicians' back catalogues was lost from the public domain.

Inspired by the 5-years-before-it-was-released "Micro Music For Micro People", the best of donotrunwithpixels' tracks from this era of chip culture have now been collected alongside some new noise for you to feed your iPod.

Just enter "0" at the checkout if you'd like this for free.

CLICKY>> http://donotrunwithpixels.bandcamp.com/ … -very-meta

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167 Reply by donotrunwithpixels

(15 replies, posted in Past Events)

Facebook me.

Anyhow, back to the topic at hand: HUB FESTIVAL!!! WOOOOT!!

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168 Reply by donotrunwithpixels

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Also, there was an amazing Boddrick who was known as Bodders at Swansea Uni 2002-5. He instilled a great sense of Bodderosity into Swansea folklore. *dreamy eyes* Ah, Bodders.... *sigh*

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169 Reply by donotrunwithpixels

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Much as I am a fan of the minidisc (my brother in law gave me his massive collection), it's just a little too niche, and also quite pricey for a digital medium release. It's not far down that road before you start releasing on wax cylinder, betamax, DCC, or microcassette.

I do, however, have a nice cassette duplicator and just need an excuse to use it. Cassette releases cost nothing (the MCRP release I did for the monome community was full colour and cost around 70p a cassette for a run of 50 - It was more expensive to post them out than it was to produce them). Analogue is the future.

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170 Reply by donotrunwithpixels

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Bodders! James (ALONE) is now the cornerstone of the welsh chipmusic scene. All he needs to do now is start a cassette label with me (hint, hint) and he'll be the don of bleeps.

So glad that fellow Swansea-massive-sexy-music-manthing Byzanite is playing. That guy is all kinds of brutal on stage.

I'm playing on the Sunday with the Dragon Era crew. Little Eris, Stereoripe and us (Kinetic Monkey; my vocalist Bex and Me) are taking over Four Bars from midnight 'til kickout time. Come along, it'll be immense!

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171 Reply by donotrunwithpixels

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I cannot say how happy this has made me. This is all kinds of awesome sauce. A landmark release. A monument to chip music. A behemoth of electronic grandeur. A miriad of bleepy goodness. A who's who of lo-bit renegades. THE chip music album to own.

Who of the old '08-'09 crowd are missing from this? I would have loved an Uoki-Toki track. Maybe a lovely poppy fakebit Girljoy track. Anyone else missing from the "golden age" of 8bc-organised netlabel comps?

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172 Reply by donotrunwithpixels

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I've been pretty much obsessed with documenting keeping and filing every track I've ever made since I started recording music at around age 14.

The early stuff was, of course, pretty dreadful, because I didn't really have an understanding of what makes good music - I hadn't listened to a lot of electronic music and hiphop, and yet found myself making it. I had no heritage.

Around the year 2001 (when I was 17) the quality of songwriting, melodies, harmonies, etc. really jumped as I started to listen to a lot of different bands, and became an obsessive music consumer. But the quality of my mixes and the quality of sound in the recordings still really sucked for a long time.

Then, at 21 I took a year out to play bass in a pop/rock band, and then other people were doing all of the sound side of things for me. I was just playing. And this made me appreciate how much I needed to work on this aspect, but didn't really know how to.

It wasn't until March 2010 when I started working with Bex on our first EP together (kineticmonkey.bandcamp.com/album/the-beauty-and-the-rage) that I took great care making sure writing, recording, mixing and mastering were all separate processes and great care was taken for each.

So I'd say that I'd stand beside most of the music I've made in the last 10 years or so, but sound-quality wise, only the last 3 years or so.

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173 Reply by donotrunwithpixels

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Did else submit to this? I've had no news back for a number of weeks now.

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174 Reply by donotrunwithpixels

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Sounds fun, I'll take a listen when I get home from work. big_smile

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175 Reply by donotrunwithpixels

(26 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Pimp it out on street corners.

Play live.

Collaborate with other artists.

Have really great art.

Connect with music fans.

Give freebies.

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176 Reply by donotrunwithpixels

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LIKE.

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