05
Jul

8GB – Red October, now available for digital download purchase

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 :D
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.

That’s all from me now,

05
Jun

Old 8GB @ Boing Boing (Blip Festival 2007)

I was dragged to Boing Boing because they were talking about a software search I have had for around twenty years, when I remembered I had a participation on a chipmusic round table with BB blogger Joel Johnson, my good friend Paza Rahm and Rugar.

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*).

04
May

New sites coming soon

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:

15
Apr

We are not popular!

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.

I love Internet statistics!

10
Apr

8GB Promo Megamix 2010

Well, it seems I forgot to post this one! Enjoy.

8GB – Promo Megamix 2010 by 8gb

Megamix of 8GB songs, containing most of the currently played tunes at shows.

16 minutes of live power!
Enjoy :D

Tracklist:
01 – (00:00) – 8GB – Untitled [Unreleased]
02 – (00:02) – 8GB – Lemon Prize (Tom Woxom’s Commodore Take Remix) [Unreleased]
03 – (01:03) – 8GB – Viking Line [Retinascan]
04 – (02:47) – 8GB – Piolaboy (50hz’s Mandando Cualquiera Remix) [Unreleased]
05 – (04:36) – minusbaby – A Large Part of Your Mind Sliced (8GB’s Maradroga Remix) [Self-release]
06 – (05:52) – 8GB – Dobstekk (Pulsewvin’ Remix) [Unreleased]
07 – (07:58) – 8GB – East 105 st. (50Hz’s Get Ready Remix) [Retinascan]
08 – (09:28) – Retrigger – Yeah! (8GB’s Brega Remix) [Cock Rock Disco]
09 – (11:28) – 8GB – 61B [Retinascan]
10 – (12:21) – 8GB – Same Thing (Touch) [8bitpeoples]
11 – (13:43) – 8GB – Luton Lameport [Retinascan]
12 – (14:13) – 8GB – Los Andes (Beethoven Vet Skit Mix) [8bitpeoples]
13 – (14:58) – 8GB – Kein Pfand [Retinascan]

10
Apr

New website coming soon

So we switched servers and it’s been messy.
Time for a website facelift, coming the next week I hope!

27
Oct

Piñata presenta MENEO(ES)!



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.

\ http://www.meneo.info

- 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… :P
\ http://myspace.com/ak478gb

- 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.

Más info:
http://piniata.tumblr.com

27
Sep

8GB remix for minusbaby released!

Our friend minusbaby from Harlem, New York City, comissioned 8GB with a remix for his “Left” project, an offer we couldn’t refuse :P

We took his signature sound, and melted it into a big mess of baile funk, house, electro and late night mayhem.

The result? you can hear it for yourself here, along with the remixes of other cool artists like 6955

18
Sep

ISA GT from Man Recordings drops Piolaboy on her latest mixtape

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!

27
Aug

8GB remix for Retrigger released on Cock Rock Disco

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.

After many deadline delays, the final product is live and available for download at Cock Rock Disco’s website. My remix is the last track, number 11.

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 :P

Hope you enjoy it!