Goto80

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Goto80

Goto80 performing in 2006

Background information

Birth Anders Carlsson

name

Also Extraboy, Johnny Location, Tomas Delin, GotoET,

known as Susanne, Gordon Strombola, 4D Man, Crystal Master

Born February 9, 1981 (age 39)

Origin Varberg, Sweden

Genres Chipmusic, glitch, skweee, electro

Years 1992–present

active

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. At the turn
[1]

of
 the millennium he was one of the first to bring chipmusic to a wider audience,
and was also an early adopter of live Game Boy music. He has an extensive[2]

back catalogue of free music – often open source – with a wide span of musical
influences. He currently
[3]
focuses on research and art, and maintains a
[when?]

number of blogs and labels such as Chipflip and the text-mode tumblr.

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. He [4]

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. His first live performances was with the pop group HT in 1998.
[5] [6]

The first formal Goto80-release was the cassette Lo Fi Mono Festival in

2000. The following year he made one of the first Gameboy live performances
[7]

with LSDj together with Role Model. His Papaya EP was released the same
[8]

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 Superdöner to play a form of 8-bit punk rock. The following year he
[9]

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. The same [10]

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 Da
n Brännvall at internet2008.se. This established him further as one of
[14]

the top 8-bit acts. His next release, Breakfast (2009) has been listed as one of
[15]

the top-10 chip songs of all time. Following this poppy song, he started to
[16]

focus on darker sounds, often improvised completely on Commodore 64. One [17]

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. Other
[19]

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
Superdöner (2002), Goto88 and the Sunshine Band (2007) and the electro duo
Kommando Knorr (2009). [20]

Research[edit]
Goto80 has been called a demoscene historian. His main research topics
[21]

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. Carlsson received his master in Media a
[22]

nd 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 and Future Potentials of ASCII Art together with A. Bill Miller.
[24]

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. Since 2011 he has been focusing on textmode aesthetics
[25]

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. In the same year, he
[27]

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. He is vaguely connected with hacking and piracy, having performed
[28]

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. 2SLEEP1 (2011) is a collection of audiovisual performances
[29]

in textmode, but was only available as streaming video. All these releases
[30]

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: Cйbзя Tсaя
 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. He has also remixed more contemporary artists,
[31]

such as Monster Zoku Onsomb, Icarus, Tim

Koch, Psilodump, Dubmood, Damn! and Best Fwends.

References