Back in 2003 a demoscene pro­ducer viznut from a group PWP man­aged to cre­ate a cou­ple of very nice Com­modore VIC-20 demos for our plea­sure. They are called Robotic War­rior and Robotic Lib­er­a­tion. Fuck­ing great!

Just try them out totally drunk! The sec­ond one is like a sequel to the first okay?

“Robotic War­rior is a single-loading VIC-20 demo fea­tur­ing a voice syn­the­sizer and an apoc­a­lyp­tic story about robots turn­ing against their cre­ators. The tech­ni­cal catch, of course, was the voice syn­the­sizer, which was used to sing out the text of the story. The sound-related code and data became quite bloated, eat­ing up more than a kilo­byte of RAM, but it still left space for some text, pic­tures and flashy effects which were used to illus­trate the story.

The demo uses a psy­cho­log­i­cal trick caus­ing the lis­tener hear details that are not there. There are only fif­teen dis­tinct sounds in the voice syn­the­sizer — far from enough — but since the view­ers also read the lyrics while lis­ten­ing, they get the illu­sion of hear­ing the words prop­erly.” –viznut/PWP

“Robotic Lib­er­a­tion, released at Assem­bly 2003, is still my finest show-off regard­ing what can be made with an unex­panded VIC-20 (and a stan­dard disk drive). The demo is designed around an apoc­a­lyp­tic con­cept sim­i­lar to that in Robotic War­rior and con­tains refined ver­sions of many of the ideas intro­duced in my ear­lier work.

Unlike its pre­quel, how­ever, Robotic Lib­er­a­tion is not an illus­trated story but rather like a music video invit­ing robots into a bat­tle against human­ity. You are free to inter­pret it as hav­ing an anti-fascist and/or techno-sceptical mes­sage. Also the graph­ics and effects are much more abun­dant than in the pre­quel.” –viznut/PWP

I am vis­it­ing New York as we speak and last night I went to see Heloise & The Savoir Faire at the leg­endary Bow­ery Ball­rom but it was the warm-up that really got my atten­tion. Adira Amram’s show is a mix­ture of disco, gym­nas­tics, stand-up and musi­cal com­edy. I’m eager to hear how the “Hot Jams for Teens Vol­ume 3″ –album works out.

Adira Amram inter­view at Gothamist

Adira Amram — “Wanna Make Out”

A good cover story of Mr. Oizo aka Quentin Dupieux at XLR8R.

A new track by Fly Lo with Bus­driver on the mic. Here.

Fehl­far­ben is a rock band which is per­haps best known as a ger­manese ver­sion of Gang of Four. They enjoyed one hit sin­gle which the band them­selves dis­liked since it was pro­duced pur­posely as a joke. Kyny­Nasty appreciates!

Fehl­far­ben — Ein Jahr (Es Geht Voran) (320 kbs) (2:52)