M7Kenjiは８bitの映像を使い皆様を魅了します。昨年のBlip Festival Tokyoにて彼のVJ workが認められ、先日NYで開かれたBlip Festivalに招待されました。Super Deluxe’sの大画面でぜひ見てみて下さい。
The next battle is just a few days away now! At the last minute we have confirmed two very special guests who will be our DJ and VJ.
JaQwa will be dropping some awesome tunes at the start and end of the event and between rounds. JaQwa was a strong contestant in the last event, but was knocked out by DJ Take in a very close battle in the second round (you can see a clip in the Vol.5 video). He founded the Osaka based Breakcore collective 5Gene and is now performing live and DJing in Tokyo.
M7Kenji will be mesmerizing us all with his 8bit visuals. Kenji took past in the first ever Blip Festival Tokyo last year, providing visuals perfectly matched to the lo bit music artists performances, and has just returned from Blip Festival in New York. Seeing his work on Super Deluxe’s mega three wall projection is gonna be immense!
Finally, after a two year break, Laptop Battle is back. Get ready for some great new contestants in Vol.6!
Laptop Battle is a music contest in which laptop musicians each have a few minutes each to win over the crowd and convince the judges that they are the king of the qwerty!
BD1982 (Brian Durr) is a Japan based producer who co-runs the Diskotopia label with A Taut Line and is a member of the Dev 79 and Starkey headed Seclusiasis crew. http://diskotopia.com
Broken haze (Keisuke Ito) is japanese “electronica, hip hop, glitch hop, wonky, dubstep” producer/artist. His fururistic music is composed with glitchy digital noise, chopped melody, lazer synth, and cinematic ambience.
Born in Ukraine, raised in the UK and now living in Japan, XLII is a multifaceted MC, producer, sound engineer and DJ whose music is as diverse and rich as his background. Over the years it’s been labeled hip hop, electronica, abstract, dubstep and drum n bass. In reality, it’s all these things and more, or as they say ‘the total is always more than the sum of its parts’.
Cycling 74 have again kindly donated Max/MSP/Jitter, an interactive visual programming environment for music, audio, and media. In use for over twenty years by performers, composers, artists, scientists, teachers, and students, Max is the way to make your computer do things that reflect your individual ideas and dreams. More about Max
Abletonから提供されました。音楽界の革新者たちは、自分らしい独特のサウンドを生み出す新たな方法を模索してきました。 今日のクリエイティブなコンピュータミュージシャンたちは、Max for Liveを使用して限界を押し上げ、Ableton Liveをアーティスト独自のインストゥルメントへと変化させています。Max for Liveについて、PowerDJsのブロッグ
Musical innovators have always sought new ways of making unique, personal sounds. Today’s most creative computer musicians are pushing the boundaries with Max for Live, turning Ableton Live into their own customized instrument. Many thanks to Ableton for donating this prize. More about Max for Live
(Please note that these software prizes are non-resalable. The prize winner’s details will be forwarded to Cycling 74 and Ableton respectively after the contest, and they should register the software as soon as possible.)
It has been a real long time coming, but we have finally fixed a date for the next event. Weds 22nd June at Super Deluxe. Anyone interested in competing, let me know.
A group of musicians have responded to the recent earthquake disaster in Japan by creating a compilation with all proceeds going to the Japanese Red Cross. Artists Broken Haze, Laurent Fintoni, XLII, Audace appealed to international artists to donate music for the Nihon Kizuna compilation which has already raised over $20K.
Nihon Kizuna – 50 tracks, £10
Nihon Kizuna Bonus – 34 tracks, free or pay what you want.
UPDATE: A Nihon Kizuna free bonus compilation was released on 8th April, get it while its hot.
One year later, I finally got around to editing the LBT Vol.5 video. It was a brilliant event, as you can see a very high standard of battlers. Thanks to all involved and shouts to @Lazerbeat for shooting the video. Sorry everyone’s clip is so short, had to get it down to 10 mins. Got to get another event in sometime this year.
