Goto80 performing in 2006

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Goto80

Goto80 performing in 2006

Background information

Birth name
Anders Carlsson

Also known as
Extraboy, Johnny Location, Tomas Delin, GotoET, Susanne, Gordon Strombola, 4D Man,
Crystal Master

Born
February 9, 1981 (age 39)

Origin
Varberg, Sweden

Genres
Chipmusic, glitch, skweee, electro

Years active
1992�present

Labels
Chipflip, Bleepstreet, 8bitpeoples

Website
www.goto80.com

Goto80 (born Anders Carlsson, February 9, 1981) is a Swedish music artist and
researcher. He has been described as one of the key players between glitch and
chipmusic, as well as an active demoscener.[1] At the turn of the millennium he was
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Contents
� 1Career o 1.1Music

o 1.2Research

o 1.3Art
� 2Music distribution

� 3Discography o 3.1Studio albums

o 3.2Compilations

o 3.3EPs

� 4Remixes

� 5References

� 6External links

Career[edit]
Music[edit]
Goto80 released his first music in the demoscene in 1993, at the age of 12.[4] He
founded the group Hack n' Trade and released his music for free in demos and on
BBSs. The style seems to have been predominantly rave and electronica.[5] His first
live performances was with the pop group HT in 1998.[6]
The first formal Goto80-release was the cassette Lo Fi Mono Festival in 2000.[7]
The following year he made one of the first Gameboy live performances with LSDj
together with Role Model.[8] His Papaya EP was released the same year, combining
pop, dub, vocoders and calypso. This led to some media attention, and him opening
the Hultsfred Festival. He was also working regularly with famous demoscene groups
like Fairlight and Triad. In 2002 he co-founded the band Superd�ner to play a form
of 8-bit punk rock.[9] The following year he moved to Melbourne where he began to
incorporate modern tools such as Renoise into his music making.
Goto80 released his debut album Commodore Grooves in 2005.[10] The same year he was
selected as artist of the year at the Microdisko Chipmusic Awards, and was later
one of three nominees for all-time C64-composer at Commodore's official 25-year
celebration.[11][12]
In 2007 Goto80 made one release every month and performed once a week.[13] The
following year he tried to release one song every day together with Dan Br�nnvall
at internet2008.se.[14] This established him further as one of the top 8-bit acts.
[15] His next release, Breakfast (2009) has been listed as one of the top-10 chip
songs of all time.[16] Following this poppy song, he started to focus on darker
sounds, often improvised completely on Commodore 64.[17] One BBC review described
his music as microscopic bursts and stutters of atonal
sound on which he eventually lays down some beautiful descending bass tones.[18]
Among his aliases, Extraboy seems to be the most productive one. Extraboy appeared
on record for the first time in 2002 with a remix of Tim Koch.[19] Other aliases
include Johnny Location, Tomas Delin, GotoET, Susanne, Gordon Strombola, 4D Man and
Crystal Master. He has appeared in groups such as the synth pop duo HT (1995), the
EBM-band Damitu Kuerpo (1997), the punk group Superd�ner (2002), Goto88 and the
Sunshine Band (2007) and the electro duo Kommando Knorr (2009).[20]
Research[edit]
Goto80 has been called a demoscene historian.[21] His main research topics are
chipmusic, textmode graphics and the demoscene. He published his first text in the
book From Pac Man to Pop Music in 2008, where he described chipmusic as a medium
and form.[22] Carlsson received his master in Media and Communication in 2010 with
his thesis Power Users and Retro Puppets � a Critical Study of the Methods and
Motivations in Chipmusic.[23]
Other published texts include a history of demoscene music for Rhizome.org[24] and
Future Potentials of ASCII Art together with A. Bill Miller.
Art[edit]
His art works are often focused on live performances (2SLEEP1, Gotozilla, Punk
Potemkin, Data Jam) or computer violence (HT Gold, Polybius, 44422435 To Nowhere).
He has worked together with artists such as Raquel Meyers, Jossystem, Otro,
Videogramo, Entter, Rosa Menkman, Shojono Tomo and Jacob Remin.[25] Since 2011 he
has been focusing on textmode aesthetics together with Raquel Meyers. In 2012 they
claimed to be the first to make a performance using only PETSCII-based graphics and
music software.[26]
Music distribution[edit]
Following the practices of the demoscene, Goto80 releases most of his music for
free. By 2007 he had 1000 songs online.[27] In the same year, he left Myspace and
later criticized fellow musicians for trying to be present on too many Internet
platforms, advising them to use their own distribution channels instead.[28] He is
vaguely connected with hacking and piracy, having performed at Pirate Bay parties
like Spectrial and in several hackerspaces.
His early C64-songs were distributed as executable files and not recordings, and
they sounded different every time they looped. In the netlabel context, he made low
bitrate releases such as Copyslave (2004) and also mixed his music together into a
megamix with Monkeywarning (2002). More recently, Open Funk Sores (2007) was an
audiovisual open source release in MOD and MP3 for web and PSP.
Cherry CD (2011) was released in an envelope and distributed as a form of mail art.
Acid Burger (2011) was a mini-DVD inside a cheese burger.[29] 2SLEEP1 (2011) is a
collection of audiovisual performances in textmode, but was only available as
streaming video.[30] All these releases were made together with Raquel Meyers.
Discography[edit]
Studio albums[edit]
� 2005: Commodore Grooves

� 2007: Digi-Dig

� 2007: Made On Internet

� 2007: Bortabra

� 2008: Son Of Music

� 2008: Open Funk Sores

� 2011: Cherry

� 2013: C.b.. T.a.

� 2014: Files In Space

� 2015: _|.|.

� 2016: 80864

� 2019: Shirbum

Compilations[edit]
� 2016: 0407

EPs[edit]
� 2001: Papaya

� 2002: Monkeywarning
� 2002: Bushrunner

� 2002: Philemon Arthur and the Vic

� 2004: Copyslave

� 2005: Contech

� 2005: Bravo

� 2007: Zyndabox

� 2007: Updown

� 2007: Ximplef

� 2007: Barryland

� 2007: Wet Pulse

� 2007: 6

� 2007: Unlimited Edition

� 2007: _2_4x4 (with Entter)

� 2007: Little Tittle

� 2009: Breakfast

� 2012: Acid Burger (Menu 1) (with Raquel Meyers)

� 2011: Summer of Seven 5/7

� 2012: Virtual 7. (with Warren Myles)

� 2012: The Ferret Show (with The Uwe Schenk Band)

� 2013: Come Together / Warm Leatherette

Remixes[edit]
Goto80 has contributed to several famous remix compilations such as 8bits of
Christmas (2003) and Wanna Hld Yr Handheld (2009). In the 1990s, Goto80 did many
tongue-in-cheek remixes based on 1980s pop culture. This can be heard in Lo Fi Mono
Festival and Papaya EP where he covered music from Yazoo, Kikki Danielsson, The
Incredible Hulk, Megaman, Depeche Mode, Barbapapa, etcetera. In 2002 he released
Italo Megamix for C64, with remixes of Miko Mission, Scotch, Laserdance and others.

In 2007, he made a C64-version of Deep Throat together with Role Model. The full
movie was converted into chunky pixel graphics, which was streamed from the C64
datasette in realtime.[31] He has also remixed more contemporary artists, such as
Monster Zoku Onsomb, Icarus, Tim Koch, Psilodump, Dubmood, Damn! and Best Fwends.
References