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OMG, I‘m addicted. Addicted to a little simple Flash Game called „Monkey Kong“. The gameplay has nothing to do with Donkey Kong. You are a small ape that has to collect bananas. That’s all. No hazards, no enemies, just bananas, jumping and you. This game is FUN!!!
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Last night I slept so damn bad… and I dreamed such shitty things. And when I woke up this morning one name revolved in my head „Raquel Meyers“. She is one of the best visual artists in the world wide chip and retro scene and I really love her work. But in fact I never saw her face. So why the hell do I dream of her? Anyways. Here she is.
[Image source: www.raquelmeyers.com]
She is cute but definitly older than me. Besides I don‘t wanna start anything with her… gosh… where’s my mind today… it is the fault of the weather. Shitty weather, respect my authoritah!!!
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Oh boy… I‘m so done… mentally… I already said it in my blog on rpmchallenge.com (and here’s my RPM-Blog): I‘m fed up with making music. In the last 21 days I finished 8 tracks, I still have to write and record vocals for one song, make a field reording for the introduction, master everything a little bit, burn the CD, print and cut out the cover artwork that I didn‘t receive yet, put everything into an envelope and post it on Friday afternoon. HARD!!!
Well… I‘m glad when RPM2010 is over again. After that I will finish my next album „Tweakological Techniques“… hmm… I‘m saying this for ages… Motone is planning to do a remix of „Assembly Required“. I‘m going to ask him if he has time to do the mastering and I will release everything in one package. My RPM2010 album „Who Are You And Why Are You On TV“ (ot just WAYAWAYOT) will possibly be released on Jamendo again. I am really pleased how „Stock Music“, my RPM2009 album, is presented there. I don‘t like how the upload is managed on rpmchallenge.com: first of all you have to do it yourself. OK I admit, I would expect too much from the RPM team if I wanted them to upload hundreds of albums. But additionally you only can upload songs in 128 kbps which is a little low. I normally convert my songs with 160 kbps, Jamendo even offers 192 kbps which is more than I need.
Don‘t get me wrong, I‘m absolutly loving every single song I made for WAYAWAYOT so far. I‘m sure it will be even better than „Tweakological Techniques“. But only because the time span between the tracks I made on TT and WAYAWAYOT is rather big. I also tried many new ways of composing and sampling I didn‘t use on TT. Additionally I‘m working on TT for about 2 years now. And actually I think of dumping the most.
I‘m unsure about TT. I don‘t know if it is still my style. Maybe it doesn‘t show what „The MM Project“ sounds like in 2010… WAYAWAYOT does it much better. I also don‘t want to overwork everything. In fact, it is done. It just needs some little corrections and mastering… I will care for TT as soon as WAYAWAYOT is done completly.
Till then…
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Some months ago I was interviewed by Thomas Dörflinger for his weekly radio show bitte8bit. In one of the last shows, Thomas interviewed Motone, a dear friend of mine. I haven‘t heard the show yet (hope I can do it at the weekend) but I‘m sure Motone talks about some interesting stuff. He is using NL 2.3 on a GB micro and I learned a lot from during the „micromusic get together“ in Berlin last year. Listen to it.
More infos on the show: MOTONARONI
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Because the blog-platform Blogsport.de is from Germany every single word in the Wordpress-engine was in German. I tried a lot to find certain word and translated them to English manually. But I couldn‘t find the word for the extended blog-posts. Now I found it and it looks like this: (mehr…)
There is a nice service on the net that automatically posts your RSS-Feeds to Twitter. I created an account and with this post it should be activated. So I don‘t have to post a new blog entry to Twitter manually anymore. Let’s see if it works. I‘m excited 
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At the moment there is a discussion going on in the chipmusic scene. I don‘t follow it, I don‘t like this flaming and hating and cursing on things people can‘t change anyway! The reason for this discussion is that one of the best bands that uses chipsounds has signed a major label contract.
I just wanna say this little thing: Imagine you would get the offer, wouldn‘t you sign? Hell, I would! I mean, I heard it from Psilodump some years ago that he almost got signed. But he said that the label people wanted to change his music too much so he quit the contract. I don‘t know. I love it to work as an underground artist. But I am just doing music. I‘m not playing shows, I‘m not selling merch. There are certain thing I don‘t care about. I don‘t even care about getting famous, if somebody likes my music, fine! If not, go to hell. So I don‘t need a label contract. The small chipmusic scene is enough for me. My universe doesn‘t need to be too big.
If others want to be bigger and dare to deal with major label restrictions, OK for them. Courtney Love said one thing the best: „It’s a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than cash, which by the way we don‘t have at major labels anyway, so we might as well get with it and get in the game.“ You can switch „Napster“ with any platform you want, last.fm, Soundcloud, even 8 Bit Collective and micromusic. Musicians don‘t need a major label as long as they accept not beeing in the charts, in all record stores and on the big stages all over the world. Beeing a small artist with a small fan base is OK. It is enough. But as long as you dare to deal with major labels destroying your vision of music, go for it!
And nobody ever said, earning money with indie-/underground-music is wrong. It just doesn‘t meet the points of view of many underground artists.
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It’s Feb 10th today and I just wanna give you a little status report about my album. First of all the album is called „Who Are You And Why Are You TV?“. Long title, but I love it. The artwork will be done by Martin Schemitsch who also draws Lo*Bert, the comic shorts in Lotek64.
At the moment I have 5 songs done and another one in the making. I will sing a lot on this album, 2 of my 5 songs I have so far contain vocals already.
I‘m sure this album will be much better than my last years RPM album and even better than all my albums so far. I tried out a new way of production. This time the whole album is based upon samples and loops from libraries, that I take to be inspired. Most of the time it is just one riff or melody-sample and I‘m building the rest of the song around them. Sometimes it is just a percussion loop that defines the rhythm and/or sound of the song. I also use a lot of improvising. Letting the main melody play and record many notes to it. After that I correct the timing, delete some mistakes and add some additional notes. The song I‘m currently working on is mainly based on that concept. Melodies turn out to be much more alive and funky with that method.
I hope I can upload some songs soon. There is an RPMcast again, unfortunatly not longer run by Joshua Wentz. He decided not to take part in any way in this years RPM which I think to be very sad. I loved his calm voice in 2009s podcast-episodes, even though he had a cold in the last days of February.
I also met many great artists from the chipmusic scene on the RPM website. Dauragon is preparing something and the awesome zan-zan-zawa-veia (long but great artist name), too. I guess there are some more who I just didn‘t notice.
So far for this time,
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When you follow me on Twitter you might have noticed that I startet to smoke again last week. This is because of a girl that just makes me nervous. I fell in love with her and I even managed to get a date with her. This date is tomorrow. But I know it since beginning of last week so every day I waited I got more nervous. I was so nervous that I asked my collegues for cigarettes more and more and eventually bought my first pack of cigarettes since years. So I smoked my way along the last week and then I noticed how stupid it was. So I used my patented „MM 2 Step Stop Smoking Methode“:
That’s it basically! I just stopped. I only had one cigarette left yesterday morning so I smoked it before work. That was all. I just stopped. I feels like I have never smoked before. I can even stand sitting next to a smoking person. No problem. Of course it was hard to stop the first time… in Summer 2008. But I had smoked for 4 years before that. This time I „only“ smoked about a week. It is expensive, unhealthy. IT STINKS!!! Nobody likes the smell of smokers, not even other smokers. Weird, but fact!
Well anyways, I‘m happy that I made to stop. But everybody adviced me to. Greets to Motone, Bianca, Reyya and Silja that all said that it is nuts to smoke and they were right! Thanks to you boys and girls! Ok, the date is tomorrow and I‘m still VERY nervous. She’s working in the same company but in another department so I see her quite often. It makes my heart jump a little bit everytime I see her face. And I will meet her in a few minutes, „by accident“ of course 
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Yesterday I was interviewed by Robert Glashüttner. He is currently writing his bacherlor dissertation. His topic is „changing of chiptunes in transition from a technical restriction to an aesthetically dominated music genre“. Sounds complicated. And it actually was. The interview was a lot different to the one I gave to Thomas Dörflinger from bitte8bit last year. I really had to think back all the years I am active in this scene. And during this interview I noticed myself how much this scene changed in the past few years. I mean, I started in 2005. This October I‘m celebrating my 5th anniversary of beeing a chipmusic artist.
I met Robert the first time last summer on the „micromusic get together“ in Berlin. He saw my performance and liked it a lot. I asked him which other artists he interviewed. Besides me he interviewed David Sugar, some people from the Austrian Gameboy Music Club and Thomas Dörflinger from bitte8bit. I was the only German chip-artist he interviewed which honored me a lot!!!
I hope this dissertation gets released as a book. He told me I would receive a copy in PDF format but I don‘t think that this document is meant to be public in first place. There was a dissertation about chipmusic some years ago that was released in book form… I have to look it up.
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