A bunch of things have happened.
First and foremost, I have invited to perform at the Blip Festival, Tokyo Edition.
It’s my first time in Asia and I am pretty excited about this.
This means the new 8GB A/V set will finally be premiered and I for one can’t think of a better situation than doing it in Tokyo
If you are around, don’t hesitate to come.
I will also be playing in Kyoto at Cafe La Siesta, a classical chipmusic venue. I will make sure nobody wants to sleep a siesta or anything at all, though
I also decided to take Red October, the 8GB EP I released in Late 2008, on an independent digital release spin.
The Retinascan edition is not properly produced (as I bitched about before) and I need as much money as people can help with to fund the new A/V set and the Tokyo trip.
You can peruse the album for a voluntary donation at thew spanking new Bandcamp 8GB page I made. Help a brotehr out.
I have also designed a t-shirt for the 8bitpeoples able from New York. It will be released in these days, more news soon. You will also help me if you buy it.
If you have a bunch of tens of minutes to spare, some interesting things were said back then, and you also get to hear me talk like an idiot with a ridiculous accent (which has since improved *ever so slightly*).
The main website has needed a facelift for ages (actually, 5 years). I will start to work on that soon, and with no CMS in sight, I’m tired of every website looking the same (just a CMS template).
8GB’s website will be updated too because some new stuff needs to be presented, and that means a new way of communication. That will take some more time.
Meanwhile, I try to get energy back to work on new shit, so the day-to-day routine doesn’t keep wasting my neurons. I have updated copiously the work portfolio, which you can find here.
That’s all from me now. We’re still not popular, so nobody will read this shit xD
I’ll show you what software I been trying to get into again as of late:
According to site statistics, kikencorp.com is #13,752,316 on the ranking xD
Also not worth more than 200 dollars.
We live happily somewhere in Leeds, close to the river and around the corner from an Industrial Museum. I can only imagine that we are a pauper in a corner asking for spare change, bro.
Piñata en colaboración con Santera presentan a MENEO, desde España y con mucho sacudón de culo.
- MENEO [España] (FluidOZ Rec.)
Lord Rigo Pex de Meneo visita la Argentina y te pone a menearlo este Viernes en la fiesta Santera. Quien no vió a Meneo en vivo se perdió de mucho, sus sets plagados del ritmo “electropical” que lo caracteriza son una caja de sorpresas, como una Piñata! Generando exposición de piel a cualquier lugar donde ha ido, esperamos lo mismo suceda este Viernes en el Lado B de Niceto.
- AK-47 (8GB / Piñata Sound System / kikencorp)
Acompañando la velada y por parte de la crew de Piñata, AK-47 se hará cargo del warmup, esta vez poniéndose en modo tropicalia-electro-whatever. No sabemos muy bien que puede pasar, con Meneo, esto es un combo peligroso…
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- SANTERA
Por el lado de Santera, tendremos a Campeón, quien nos va a surtir a tracks para no tirar la toalla, Iszen, desplegando su arsenal de ku-bass, y Sucutruli, proyecto nuevo de Catarsys de Fauna, la sorpresa ESTRENO de la noche.
Isa GT, colombian living in UK and recently signed to Man Recordings, Daniel Haaksman’s Berlin-based label, has made a mixtape where she included the track I made with Fauna, Piolaboy.
Thanks for the support, Isa! Download her mix here.
Also featured on XLR8R!
My friend Retrigger, truly a master at music making and commonly passing under the radar (though, all around Europe when I was touring, I met people who mentioned to me his name and work, so the guy has cult status world-wide ;D) has some months ago comissioned a remix to me, something that filled me with pride, since it’s a honour, I’m a huge fan of his work!
The idea was to include it in his new album, “Ornitorrinco Voador”, and never release the original track, only the remix. I was sold already but the fact that he told me that it was to be released on Cock Rock Disco, one of my favourite labels (run by Jason Forrest a.k.a. DJ DOnna Summer), just secured the deal way past how it already was.
Thanks to Retrigger for asking me to do this, it was a huge pleasure working on it!
It was also a damn fine challenge to turn Retrigger’s style into the mass of fidget-90s-housey-chip-nonsense I converted the track into
