“Blip Festival” (Used 7 times)

FMA favorite The Blip Festival comes to Tokyo this weekend, and to celebrate we have posted a mix of some of the FMA performers who will be at the festival.

The Full lineup includes:
Bit Shifter [US] , Cheapshot [UK], The C-Men [NL], cTrix [AU], Hizimi [JP], Je Deviens DJ En 3 Jours [FR], Kplecraft [JP], Manabn [JP], M7Kenji [JP], NO CARRIER [US], Nordloef [SE], noteNdo [US], Nullsleep [US], Omodaka[JP], Role Model [SE], Sexy Synthesizer [JP], Virt [US], Xinon [JP]

You can find more music from these artists here.

If you cannot make it out to Tokyo this week, I've been told that there will be a full stream on their website, so check it out, and come back here next week for some spooky Halloween bleeps.

Long time no talk muchachos, been gone a while, but I haven't a moment to spare. TCTD has been busily preparing for the awesome onslaught that is the 2011 Blip Festival and our own True Chip Till Death Awards. With the awesome news of the WFMU Stream, I thought it would be nice to go back and make a nice mix of both the 2009 stream archives on the FMA, and some of the FMA artists playing the 2011 version.

So enjoy the mix, catch the stream, and see you soon for a lot more chip music on the FMA!

With France on the precipice of elimination from the very same world cup that but a few short years ago they sat atop, ruling with a near iron fist, I wanted to send a message to the players sitting this very moment in the stadiums tunnel. And the best way to send a message is via an example, an example set to music and provided by one of their french countrymen. Da! Heard It Record's own, Eat Rabbit.

His music has been mentioned here before, but the FMA has recently uploaded his senses shattering set from the 2009 Blip Festival. Full of grotesque sample mangling, screaming arpeggios and an disturbing lagomorphic front-man, the performance was a testament to an ideal this french football squadron has seemed to have forgotten, with a never say die attitude and a never give up assault on the audience. Good Luck, men of the 2010 French Football Team, you have one last chance to live up tot he example of heroic countrymen such as Eat Rabbit. You can do it (or not.. not like I care.. VIVA MEXICO), and Ill see you in seven.

This week we are looking at a musician who has recently come back to chip music thanks to an invite to Blip Festival. More well known to electronic music fans as Khonner, he also released a chip music release for 8bitpeoples under the pseudonym I, Cactus. Owing as much to bands like Boards of Canada as lo-fi chip burbles, the release shows Khonners tracking prowess with easy going and precious beats, still holding up nearly 8 years after its initial release. Finally asked to play the 2009 Blip Festival has seemed to energize Khonner's involvement in the chip music scene, with a recent flurry of uploads to Chipmusic.org, produced on a Playstation Portable using the simple sample tracker littlegptracker.

Khonner is incredibly prolific, so you can stuff your pods with the tunes found here, or start crawling his discography. Until next time, enjoy Ruby Cactus, and see you in seven.