Blip festival 2008 - Memories

Photo by Elektropionir @ flickr.

No it is not Swedish indiepop sensation I'm From Barcelona, but merely a pile of blip festival 2008 performers. Yesterday (Sunday) was the fourth and last day of Blip festival 2008. By now, around 40 artists (plus/minus) have performed, tons of dancemoves where executed, and a boatload of photos were snapped,..... Yeah, so in order to enhance the envy (and regrets) in all of us who couldnt go, here's some photographic highlights and shortcuts (links) from/to some of the people who took insightful pics from the festival.

Elektropionir took 78 nice pics (amongst them, the top group photo), Check his blip festival set here.


Photo by Arambulo @ flickr.


Arambulo posted great pics of Meneo (top crowd) and Bitshifter (bottom crowd), along 14 other cool blip festival photos. Check his set here.


Rasterbox took a bunch of great photos, amongst them, this pic of the merch area.


X Plastic Neurospasta also took a bunch of photos aswell, check em here.


And to top it off, here's a few videoclips aswell.

Meneo (Spain), Friday night.


Cheap Dinosaurs (Usa), Friday night.


Sulumi (China), Saturday night.


All in all, it looked like the most awesome thing in the world, and agaainnn...... im sooo bummed out that i didnt have the possibility to go. Oh well, atleast i got to sit and surf, post and escape boredom at the same time. One thing is sure though, next time, i'll blog/snap the shit out of the real thing. I promise.

Blip fest relations chapter 4

The Crunchy Records Compilation 2008

Every year Crunchy Co. cough up a free compilation surprise. This year, hard copy CD's (of the 2008 edition) were distributed for free at Blipfest in New York, and other events for a limited time. Though it is also up for grabs by download, so if you feel like getting 27 free bittunes and bliptracks for your music library, click here.



Nine Chip Nails Album.

If youre more into Nine Inch Nails, and curious about how it would sound 8-bit style. Then you should head over to Robotrecords and get yourself a free album of 8-Bit Nine Inch Nails Covers, right here. Robotrecords also hosts 4 other awesome album downloads (just scroll down further on the robotrecords page).

More comin.....

Blip fest relations chapter 2

More more bitmusic............. French Divag blips from Paris doing outrageously nice Gameboy stuff. (some of it released on 8bitpeoples). You can download an entire album of Gameboy Tunes here (18mb zip. file) and another bunch of Gameboy tracks here (30mb zip. file). (rightclick+save as). You can also visit the Divag site for more individual downloads, bit graphics, and even Atari style tracks.

Tokyo based prince of darkness- Gameboy-Bit-dubstep producer/artist Quarta 330 (whom played blipfest 2006), has a 30 minute liveset for free download over at Spannered.

8itpeoples crewmember and blipfest 2008 performer Timothy Lamb aka Trash 80, has a whole page filled with his free downloads right here. His 2 8bitpeoples releases can also be downloaded for free here (Hologram ep) and here (Icarus ep.)

more comin......

Blip festival NYC 2008

Grafitti Monsters (US). Photo by Richard Gin.

Originally i didnt feel like writing about this years Blip festival, mostly because of the fact that its just around the corner, and i cannot go. Have no time, have no money, and no chance in hell of convincing my boss that those days in New York across the planet from little ol' Denmark would be the perfect location for a company christmas get together. Ehhh.... Well, so me writing about it now, is pure therapy. I have to get it out my system someway, somehow. (And if possible i need someone to live it out for me and report back).

Blip festival is doing its 3rd annual run this december, 4 days straight, from the 4th to the 7th of december. It is undeniably the biggest bit-music event in our time, so far. Nearly 40 international musicians and visual artists occupying the sweet low-res cutting edge under the organization of Manhattan art organization THE TANK and legendary NYC artist collective 8BITPEOPLES.

To set the record straight, were talking hundreds of wonderful "geeks" and messed up indviduals performing, playing, modyfying and caressing/beating the living shit out of Nintendos, Gameboys, Amigas, Commodores (gaming consoles in general) or even homemade circuitry (and software), for the sake of creating ugly/cuddly bit tunes and art. Kinda gotta clue, but not quite sure what to think about that? Well, check this cheeky little promo from the documentary "BLIP FESTIVAL: REFORMAT THE PLANET" (Promo featuring Nullsleep. One of my favourite bit-peeps).



Got some money stashed away? Gotta rich pappy? Got the balls to rob a bank or.... Could you really just go? Then you really should. Atleast if you fancy bit-rock, nintendocore, New York and beyond.

I myself still havent come to reconcile with the fact that im not even closely enabled to go, but i will try to make the best of it. So, when Blip festival kicks off. I will to. Every day from the 4th to the 7th of december, i will gather up and post the best of the free Blip-related bit-music downloads my webhotel can muster. Hopefully we will all enjoy it.

In the meanwhile, please go and check out all the fantastic artists and activities blessing this years Blip festival. Furthermore, heres a group of audio excerpts, from festival related artists.