8-bit Beats // Sunday 8th of May, 7:30 – midnight // The Yard (ex Ocean Rooms), Brighton

BuildBrighton & Spirit of Gravity are hosting a Chiptune and geekery themed night featuring some of the UK’s finest geeks. Expect atari-acid, gameboy-gabber, blip-hop and roland-rewinds a plenty.

Entry – £5 on the door. BuildBrighton member get in free!
Become a member at www.buildbrighton.com

Lineup:

Oxynucid
Lush soundscapes, coupled with electro and braindance influences combined with Oxynucid’s use of reel-to-reels and analgue synths to make his live sets a sight and sound to behold.

http://soundcloud.com/Oxynucid

The 55th Flotilla
With marine inspired instruments and extremely dirty beats, brotherly duo The 55th Flotilla will be providing dance music ranging from dubstep to acid techno to drum and bass.

http://www.55th.co.uk

http://soundcloud.com/55th

Firebrand Boy
Live chipmusic, with added buttons and knobs. Firebrand Boy is part of the new wave of chiptune musicians who were born after the rise of the demoscene. He has releases on several labels, including: Crunchyco, Toilville, 8bitpeoples, mp3death, Pale Fox Records, Intikrec and PixelPOP! Records.

http://firebrandboy.org/

Matt Nida
Dubbed out glitch-hop chiptune from one of London’s finest chiptuners. Matt uses Hexawe on a PSP.

http://soundcloud.com/mattnida

Crosis
Chiptune straight from a Gameboy, as long as he can clean the contacts on his cartridges on time

http://soundcloud.com/Crosis

10Rabbit
Pete produces thick soundscapes mixed with breaks and electronica. Watch out for some deep bass.

http://soundcloud.com/10rabbit

http://www.new.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111042985648573

Bangface Weekender – May 13th – 15th

We’ll be playing the Sunday afternoon slot in the Queen Vic, make sure you’re there!

Not only that, they’ll be on a virtual advent calendar, so you can get the joy of opening the doors without the guilt of eating a tiny amount of cheap horrible chocolate.

You’ll have three days to download each tune, after which we’ll be selling them in our downloads shop for next to nothing. We’ll post up a link to the advent calendar here, and on our Facebook and Twitter accounts. Keep an eye out!

Update: the advent calendar is here!

Keep tuned for the rest of the gig, we’ll be uploading them as and when we get round to chopping them up.

Rant over.

Another thing we’ve done is added a Research Department to the 55th. This is where we’ll be putting all our little experiments, starting with our MIDI Exercise Bike.

Enjoy, T.

Yup, we’ve crammed all the artistes into a one hour mix. It took bloody ages to find tracks from everyone, but we think it sounds pretty good, mostly. Some of the mixes are a bit… forced, but let us know what you think.
Download the Bangface Mix ‘ere

Update: I uploaded the wrong version of the mix, it had loads of mistakes in it. I’ve updated it with the second take now, and it’s higher bitrate too!
Track Listing:

• 00:00 Gescom – ISS SA
• 00:48 Alec Empire – Electric Bodyrock
• 01:55 Luke Vibert - Acid2000
• 03:15 Last Step (aka Aaron Funk aka Venitian Snares) – Showboat
• 05:15 Renegade Soundwave – Positive Mindscape
• 06:00 808 State – In Yer Face
• 07:00 DJ Kentaro – Free
• 08:15 Toddla T – Sound Tape Killin
• 09:35 Dexter & Bass-a-rani – Boogie Chasers
• 10:50 Drexciya – Species of the Pod
• 12:15 DMX Krew – You’re Not There
• 13:40 Aleksi Perala – Path
• 15:10 Kevin Saunderson – Bassline (Koris Voorn Mix 07)
• 16:35 Rico Tubbs – Gangsters
• 17:35 Jack Beats vs Dynamite MC – What (Dub)
• 19:25 Lory D vs Alex Cortex – Pezzo Sclero
• 20:30 Ceephax Acid Crew – Acid Whorl
• 21:35 Surgeon – Magneze
• 22:30 Zomby – Strange Fruit
• 23:20 Skream – Colourful
• 25:00 Caspa – Born To Do It
• 25:55 Wisp – Arc of Lens
• 27:15 Cardopusher – Homeless (DJ 100mado mix)
• 28:35 Otto Von Schirach – Trick Snitch (car jacking)
• 29:35 Rustie – Jagz The Smack
• 30:45 Altern8 – Underground (8 Till L-8 Mix)
• 32:30 Ed Real & Ali Wilson – Monkey Tekno
• 34:25 DJ Luna-C – End of an Era (Part 2)
• 35:55 KJ Sawka – Airplane Girl
• 37:00 Remarc – RIP
• 38:55 Deformer – Ori Ede
• 40:00 Bizzy B – Sound Test
• 41:40 Noisia – Block Control
• 42:55 Dillinja – Nasty Wayz
• 44:15 Shitmat & MC Devvo – Ellesse Warrior
• 45:15 Congo Natty – Champion DJ (99 remix)
• 46:30 Enduser – Switch
• 48:40 Panacea – The Bear of Berlin
• 50:30 Current Value – Consciousness
• 51:15 X&Trick – Graz
• 52:25 Ebola – Burke and Hare
• 54:25 The Teknoist – Full Metal Teknoist
• 55:05 Hellfish – Radical Digital
• 55:50 Cardopuser Feat. Rotator – Amenijad
• 57:45 Flying Lotus – GNG BNG
• 58:45 Bullion- Get Familiar

We’re on at 9pm so make sure you get there early and don’t forget to dress up as a zombie!

p.s it’s FREE to get in.

p.p.s I just published the new Litmus site, go check it out and tell us what you think!

Last.fm taps the wisdom of the crowds, leveraging each user’s musical profile to make personalised recommendations, connect users who share similar tastes, provide custom radio streams, and much more.

Which means you can go there, listen to our tunes, find other people that sound like us and discover some new choons.
So check out the 55th on last.fm now. Sweet. Cheers. bye.