True Chip Till Death
About True Chip Till Death
herr_professor on 12/08/2009 at 09:59AM
What is right, and what is good.
For those who follow such things, you'll find in the chip music as genre discussion lots of hand wringing about authenticity and the place chip sounds have in modern music. The weight of these arguments grow weakest when faced with the output of a significant artistic voice, whose results outweigh any semantic discussions of the source and the tools used, and just focus on the results. Swedish performer Psilodump has enough ammo for both sides of the debate. Having been involved with trackers and the demoscene since 1991, he has also crossed over doing remixes for Kraftwerk, Slagsmålsklubben and Bodenständig 2000, and has performed with Neil Landstrumm, Chris Liebing, Cari Lekebusch, Thomas Krome, Infected Mushroom, Slagsmålsklubben, Bit Shifter and Kleerup.
His 2005 release "You Sick Little Monkey" finds the typical chip arpeggios and blips mixed in with found audio and deep electronic percussion into a hard hitting blend of the two eras where one can longer tell where one starts and one ends. US fans are in for a treat as he is perhaps one of the most unheralded performers at next weeks Blip Festival, so check out this release and his extensive Archive.org catalog.
Speaking of Blip Festival, it starts next week! Check in next Tuesday for a special mix of Blip artists, or tune in next Monday to WFMU for a special edition of "Sound and Safe With Trent" with live performances, interviews and all that junk from some of the Blip Performers. See you in seven!
