A_Art joins the lineup for SoundBytes11

For the last several soundbytes we've been trying to get a particular kiwi expat on one of our lineups.

Plans have changed, the planets have aligned and we're very excited to add A art to the SoundBytes lineup. You may have seen him at one of his many gigs around town, either with his chip stuff or with his band ScotDrakula and we know that you're going to love what he does.

Only a couple more weeks to go til the show - make sure you're sharing with your mates!

SoundBytes 11 Announcement

That’s right, SoundBytes is back for our first post-Blip show, with a new night and a new venue and some new names who are lighting up the chipmusic scene.

First up for his first SoundBytes we have Slato, who was a regular at Mana Bar Brisbane’s “Pocket Music” nights. You may have seen his awesome performance at the recent open mic, and he’s bringing his gameboys back to Melbourne to get you moving.

Next up, rebelling against the game boys we have a double shot of Amiga epicness from two of Sydney’s finest. DF0:BAD who you may have previously seen performing as Vicious Cyclist will be a gabber kick to the face, while Australia’s favourite performing “wale”, Peaches along with her dad godinpants, will be performing amazing aquatic inspired jungle d&b for your listening pleasure.

Of course, we haven’t forgotten our local talent, with Maddest Kings Alive, Derris-Kharlan and dot.AY rounding out what is sure to be a stellar lineup. And, just for a little something extra special, with an AV setup like The Order has (trust us it’s amazing!), we’d be crazy not to have visuals too to round out the evening so for the first time at SoundBytes we have Abortifacient and iLKke (yeah the guy that makes our amazing posters!!) ensuring that you’re not only getting the audio chip experience but spectacular visuals too.

$15 on the door, $10 presales here

¡Viva la Revolución!

Good Game SP: Chiptune Musicians

Good Game put together another awesome little piece for their shows using the footage that they filmed over Blip Australia weekend.
This one, on Good Game SP, their kid's show, rather than being about Blip, is focussed on what chipmusic is, and might just have some of their viewers hunting for dads old game boy.

The videos not imbed friendly, but you can watch it on their webpage

Blip Festival Australia 2012

It's been far too long since we have posted for you guys. We realise that most people follow our SoundBytes facebook page to get their news about SoundBytes, so during the leadup to blip, we admit our focus has been there and on the Blip Site.

Now that it's all past we can do a little bit of a wrapup.

The four days of Blip (if you include the pre and post parties) were just amazing, with performances from a massive line up of Australian and international performances - not only chip ones, but we were incredibly fortunate to have a super special guest, Amanda Palmer, take part doing a track with dot.AY

We also had a surprise special guest for those people who stuck around to the end of Saturday with a short and sweet cTrix set that rocked the house.

We also had special guests in the form of Good Game

who were on hand to film the event, do some interviews

and, it would appear generally rock out and have a good time.

The segment appeared on Good Game earlier this week and

was incredibly well recieved by gamers and chipmusic fans alike.

You can watch it online here

We also had a very successful open mic and discovered some great new talent who you might just see on a SoundBytes bill later in the yearm both a combination of names we had heard of before and some new stars in the making too, which was super exciting for us.

There was a large number of interviews and press appearances

both online, in print and on the radio, so we'll be linking to as many

of these as we can in a future update (rather than overwhelm this one

update, so keep an eye out!

There are some awesome photoes online, the ones that we have been lucky to have shared with us are available on photobucket but we've featured a few in this article too

We're already talking about the next SoundBytes, and even another

festival next year, so as always, watch this space!

Blip Update

Ok, we've been super lax updating the sound-bytes blog. The blip webpage has taken priority with constant updates and new info being added.
So, what have we missed putting here?
1) line up additions.  Monodeer (NL), Jayson Haebich (Melb), Old Grey Wolf (NZ) and Gentle Hurst (Syd) have now joined the lineup
2) Workshops and panel discussions. This is such a good list. We're doing multiple workshops on the Saturday You can learn to make a midi controller for a Master System with little-scale, learn LSDJ with cTrix, learn LGPTracker with lazerbeat, or be there for a panel discussion about the chipmusic scene, moderated by Nullsleep, featuring guests dot.AY, Bit Shifter, Hally, lazerbeat and Patric Catani
3) Pre and after parties - including an open mic on the Thursday night. Definitley worth checking out as some of Australias best are actually either playing this show OR playing the open mic.
4) Multimedia, we've been doing weekly updtes and adding more and more multimedia to the blip page, including an amazing invite ROM created by Batsly Adams, with music from Animal Style!

Go check out all the details about these bits and piece on the Blip websites at http://blipfestival.org/

Blip Australia lineup announced!

Very pleased to announce (most) of the lineup for Blip Australia

7bitHero (BNE)
10k (SYD)
Abortifacient (SYD)
Batsly Adams (US)
Bit Shifter (US)
Derris-Kharlan (MEL)
Dot.AY (MEL)
_ensnare_ (UK)
Hally (JP)
iLKke (SYD)
Lazerbeat (UK)
little-scale (ADE)
Nullsleep (US)
Patric C (DE)
Saitone (JP)
Trash80 (US)
More info at http://blipfestival.org/
Tickets on sale 09/01
Tweet about it @blipfestival #blipau

See you at the show!

SoundBytes is tomorrow night!

Hey all,

Just a reminder that SoundBytes is tomorrow night at Wah Wah Lounge!

Set times are as per below. $10 presales are available until 6pm tonight, or $12 on the door tomorrow night.

Hope to see you there!

Doors Open 8pm

8:30 – LOOM launch – collab between dot.AY and little-scale

9:00 – Rubijaq

9:45 – dot.AY

10:30 – little-scale

11:15 –Maddest Kings Alive

12:00 – cTrix

12:45 - Abortifacient