Alright Nullsleep! Tour time folks... get your tickets here for Nullsleep's Collapsed Desires Tour. Nullsleep is an electronic musician whose style is best described as post-cyberpunk: a combination of distorted synthpop, electro, and industrial produced with repurposed low-bit electronics. Something to listen to while experiencing the rapture/apocalypse/end of dayz. His mastery of sound and technology produces a sound that is simply a wall of digital noise, but driven by a deeper pulsing beat, that is inevitably torn apart in a cascade of complex glitches and drones emanating from cheap plastic devices.


Tour dates:
2010 05 19 CHICAGO IL, USA . REGGIES ROCK CLUB
2010 05 28 PORTLAND OR, USA . BACKSPACE
2010 06 03 SAN FRANCISCO CA, USA . DNA LOUNGE
2010 06 06 AUSTIN TX, USA . THE HIGHBALL
2010 06 09 NASHVILLE TN, USA . THE END
2010 06 12 PHILADELPHIA PA, USA . STUDIO34

Listen below for A little taste of what you can expect to hear from Nullsleep on the Collapsed Desires Tour this Summer.

Nullsleep- "2010 Promo Mix"

Tracklist: Wave Function Collapse | Pleasure Construct | Tel Aviv | Decade | Limit Break | Shadows in the sky | Disaster Fetish

This submission is licensed by author under CC Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works (BY-NC-ND)

Tuesday!!!

Some videos of blip festivals of past, wonderfully done by 2 Player Productions...

Be prepared for some Nerd-Moshing!!!!

Bubblyfish live at the 2006 Blip Festival!



Bit Shifter live at the 2006 Blip Festival!



Random live at the 2006 Blip Festival!



Nullsleep live at the 2007 Blip Festival!

Monday!!

8-bit music refers to a style of electronic music totally inspired by the sounds that can be created by old computer consoles. Some may listen and simply think that they are listening to the soundtrack from a video game, and the musicians themselves claim that they create this music out of a common love for classic video games, but I must stress the following sounds are far from something that simple. Because it takes more than just these small plastic devices to produce a surprisingly intense sound. It takes a relentless search for new ways to add, subtract, link, merge, synthesize, tweak, alter, and adjust, to overcome the limitations of these simple machines.

The artists below all only use the Game Boy system and some other machines to distort the sound being produced. Other than that, this is as basic as it comes... besides 1-bit music... but you can only imagine what that sounds like. That alone is a post in itself...

Bit Shifter- "March of the Nucleotides"

Bit Shifter- "Hexadecimal Genome"

Random- "Beautiful Brutality"


Random- "Grey Love"

Nullsleep- "On Target"


Nullsleep- "Ballistic Picnic"

8-bit, or low-bit, music is high energy, sporadic, and primarily produced and composed on low bit computers by grown up nerds and video game enthusiasts alike. Artists take advantage of these perfected palm sized systems commonly known as the Nintendo Game Boy. Other consoles used include the Commodore 64, Game Boy, Atari 2600, and the Nintendo Entertainment System aka NES. Musicians boot up an "LSDJ" cartridge which gets you access to the program which turns the system into a synthesizer and a sequencer and using only simple tones allows the user to do some pretty crazy things. Which brings us to the reason for this music. 8-bit music isn't about using the Game Boy or any other Nintendo system (actually Nintendo seems to have distanced itself from this music scene), but using the hardware inside these systems to create this music. Because of this the genre can be appreciated in literally every state or nation anywhere in the world that has come across a computer or some form of computer technology in the last three decades which makes it a truly international music form. Specifically, its blowing up in Japan, Sweden, Spain, France, Greece, Russia, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Canada, and of course the USA.

Thats all for today. More tomorrow.

WOW

Something I learned how to do, pretty sweet, easy, and it looks fucking sick...



...and it will make you sick if you look at it for too long...

Listen to Nullsleep- "Dirty Rom(dance mix)" as you take this nauseating image in...