JOY DECOY|St.Louis, MO|05-31-2008

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JOYDECOY

MAY 31st 2008

St.Louis, MO



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NO CARRIER
PHILADELPIA, PA

NO CARRIER, or Don Miller, live visualist currently living in Philadelphia. He reprograms nearly obsolete videogame and computer hardware, the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Commodore 64, creating visual works that incorporates both new and recycled symbols and patterns. His work simultaneously speaks to the emerging DIY technology culture, and the reminiscence of a generation raised on interactive media technologies.


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minusbaby
minusbaby, born Richard Alexander Caraballo in New York City, is a musician, designer, photographer, and wandering, beat-collecting international vagabond, whose finely-crafted blips and bleeps are as eclectic as the broad range of music and culture he draws inspiration from. Focusing primarily on software-based composition, minusbaby uses lo-fi electronic synthesis to create chip music that defies genre classification.

NEW YORK, NY

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bong-ra
The Netherlands



Bong-Ra, Jason Köhnen’s electronic alter ego saw life in 1996. Hailing form The Netherlands, Bong-Ra initially started as a dj, but quickly focussed his priority on producing his own music in 1997.

From 2001 to 2004 the ‘Breakcore a Go-Go!’ parties were run and organised by FFF and Bong-Ra becoming one of the first (bi) monthly regular Breakcore nights in Europe. ‘Bikini Bandits, Kill! Kill! Kill!’ the second full length album was released in 2003 on Supertracks Records. In 2006 a special 4 track remix EP of Venetian Snares’ ‘Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett’ and the debut of Bong-Ra’s main side project The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble were released on Planet Mu (UK). The politically charged album ‘Soldaat van Oranje’ was released on Sublight Records (CAN). Bong-Ra returned for his second Lowlands Festival, becoming one of the highlights of the Festival (according to Dutch magazine OOR). A second European tour and split 12-inch with Enduser ‘The Kill’ and a memorable muddy Glastonbury Festival highlighted 2007.

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end.user
San Francisco, CA


END.USER is one of the cornerstones of the modern eclectic electronic music. This Cincinnati, Ohio-based breakcore/raggacore/jungle musician Lynn Standafer has received support from BBC Radio's Mary Anne Hobbs and a list of DJs too long to fit on a one sheet. Releases across many platforms have built him into a juggernaut. A usually prolific artist, having recorded for Hymen, Ad Noiseam, Sublight, Cargo, and many others, he took 2007 off, working on something very special - his debut album on Ohm Resistance. He has also played in various countries around the world and at festivals including Maschinenfest and Distorted.

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bit shifter
New York, NY


Bit Shifter explores high-energy, low-bit music composed and performed on a Nintendo Game Boy. The result is an unapologetically fun foray into an evocative and distinctive soundset, executed on a console generally misperceived as being technically limited. Made possible by Oliver Wittchow and Johan Kotlinski's respective home-brew Game Boy musicmaking programs Nanoloop and Little Sound DJ, repurposing sounds into novel idioms. Based in New York City, Bit Shifter has performed over one hundred shows worldwide, having recently circumnavigated the planet in a 20-date world tour with fellow chiptune compatriot Nullsleep.

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EDENFLUX
KANSAS CITY, MO


Edenflux first made Industrial and Acid Breakbeat in the early nineties. He was kidnapped by a pack of rabid strippers at age 18. “It was my first time living without Mormon adult supervision.” One of the strippers’ boyfriends owned a noise label. Noise soon fused into his Live Trip-Out Freak-Out Sets. Owner of 'Label Haters' with 2008 release of 'Money Money Money,' Edenflux loves using drum machines, vintage synths, and destroying stuffed animals.

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bitRchip
MINNEAPOLIS, MN

bit'R'chip is a colab between LameBoy [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] and Unicorn Dream Attack [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]. Only bit'R'chip has hit light speed. Combining circuit bent instruments, children's toys and modified video game consoles with 8bit audio sources sampled into an Akai MPC2000 ... they are pushing back boundaries in the micro world of lo-fi music.

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e.s.c.
CHICAGO,IL

environmental sound collapse is the current recording/performing alias of Kevin Gondek. The name environmental sound collapse was adoed for his experimental electronic music in late 2001, the style evolved out out of samplers, synths, computer software, sequencers along with multi-effect units. Over the years, environmental sound collapse releases have ranged from spacey, ambiance to digital noise 8bit (nintendolotry, BTR8).

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SphereX
KANSAS CITY, KS

For nearly 7 years, SphereX (Chris Phatic), has been producing genreless, aleatoric, atmospheric, and sometimes hard, loud, and obnoxious live material.
The music evolves with every new track. When SphereX throws down some sounds, expect to hear a wide variety of material. Tech Gurus in Kansas City Kansas sponsors SphereX works.
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NKF Darkstar
CLINTON,IA

Tre is 22 years old and been making chiptune as NKF Darkstar for a little over two months. Now honing his software NKF has just completed works on his first EP. Titled "I Wanna Be A Ninja".
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Unicorn Dream Attack
MINNEAPOLIS, MN

The music he makes is often times called "8bit" or "chiptunes". Live sounds, trackers, or midi inputs on vintage computers(like Commodore 64), game systems(like a Gameboy or NES), old Casios/Yamahas(like vl-tone or vs-30), and circuit bent toys or non-bent toys of all kinds. Unicorn Dream Attack is another artist making steadfast on his own path.

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