20 GOTO 10

STU from DROP DA BOMB is the most promising and amazing YM2149 musican yet. his raw swiss style warmed the crowd up for NULLSLEEP on the BLIPstage at SPERMfestival in prague. we were there to nab a recording off the board … eat it up and have some fun!

if you find your self comming down and need more of the atari sound, dig deeper into STU’s incredible mix archive on his homepage:

http://www.dropdabomb.org/stu/temp/index.htm

or profess your love for YM2149 jamz to STU on friendface:

http://www.myspace.com/bombstu

 

 MicroMusic Episode 05 [52:50m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (114)

7:44pm Mar 21st

In March of 2008, SPERM festival congregated many artists in Prague for the CONFUSE party. Starpause recorded all sets at the BLIP stage which will be podcasting from the twentygoto10 gallery blog. If you don’t know NULLSLEEP here is his SPERM write-up:

In 1999 Jeremiah Johnson cofounded 8bitpeoples - a collective of artists interested in the audio-visual capabilities of early home computers and video game consoles. During his shows he generally uses a couple of Game Boys and NES consoles hooked up to a QWERTY keyboard, letting him rock out in much the same way a conventional keyboardist would. (www.myspace.com/nullsleep)

 

 Micromusic Episode 04 [46:13m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (143)

i wasn’t aware of this since i’m not a follower of energy drinks.  not that this is new information, but anyways, from wikipedia:

Mate products are sometimes marketed as “caffeine-free” alternatives to coffee and tea, and said to have fewer negative effects. This is often based on a claim that the primary active xanthine in mate is “mateine”, erroneously said to be a stereoisomer of caffeine. As it is not chemically possible for caffeine to have a stereoisomer, this claim is false. “Mateine” is an official synonym of caffeine in the chemical databases.

According to the Biological Magnetic Resonance Data Bank, when guaranine is defined as only the caffeine chemical in guarana, it is identical to the caffeine chemical derived from other sources, for example coffee, tea, and mate. Guaranine, theine, and mateine are all synonyms for caffeine when the definitions of those words include none of the properties and chemicals of their host plants except the chemical caffeine. Natural sources of caffeine contain widely varying mixtures of xanthine alkaloids other than caffeine, including the cardiac stimulants theophylline and theobromine and other substances such as polyphenols which can form insoluble complexes with caffeine.

starPause recently ran off to prauge to rock some VICEAUDIO soundsystem at CONFUSE party which was part of SPERM festival. he recorded all the artists performing on the BLIP stage there and we will be podcasting each performance in the comming weeks.

the first installment is the last performer of the night: 1a2v1 who performed in candy-culture full-color three-dee party-vibe. the SPERM festival flier has some nice words:

New czech project brings new life to local club environment: underground 8-bit sounds by Jaro Haro are met by fitting like a glove visuals by VJ Kolouch creating perfect lo-fi experience.

and you can leave the boy comments @ http://www.myspace.com/1a2v1live

 

 Micromusic Episode 03 [45:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (131)

Pictures of the works from “Los Disappeared” can be found in the store. And theres more pictures of the opening from Pascal Wassum. More pictures of the opening from Joe Boyle.

“ducati owners are renowned for their lack of kilometres”

I’d just like to mention that I just had another Po’ Boy sandwich at Brenda’s on Polk St. and they are freakin’ delicious.  Delicious enough to be an honarary hamburger and thus deserve a hamburger post.
Brenda’s French Soul Food
652 Polk St. @ Eddy St.
http://frenchsoulfood.com/

Starpawz vs. K9D

 

 Micromusic Episode 02 [83:09m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (103)

We’ve always hung out with friends on Sundays at 20 GOTO 10 and this is the 2nd week of our MicroMusic podcast so I’ve decided to officially make Sundays the hang-out, drink beer and listen to music day.  All are welcome, and if you want to DJ just shoot us an email.  Every Sunday 3-6PM.