8-Bit & Chiptunes

With: Bubblyfish + Marieke Verbiesen, Disrupt, ChaCha, Super Guachin, Candie Hank, Soom T, Visuals: Raquel Meyers

• Thu 01.12.2011 Haus der Kulturen – | 20:00 h | Admission: 10 €/8 € Tickets online…

Compiled by Manuela Krause

The production of 8-Bit music or Chiptunes (sounds synthesized and rearranged from the sound chips of computers and game consoles), which emerged alongside the hardware used in the late 1980s, has developed into an international musical movement. While the hardware used often comes from the days when the Commodore 64 was the state of the art, the artistic approach is totally up to date. The program is being put together by the veteran 8-Bit activist Manuela Krause, also known on the scene as Manou and famed for her lo-fi pop songs.

Bubblyfish + Marieke Verbiesen
Bubblyfish is dedicated to the sound aesthetics of the Gameboy: ambient surfaces blended with cheerful Super Mario music, mixed in with 8-Bit drones. With the visual backing of Marieke Verbiesen’s manual live animations.

Disrupt + ChaCha
Disrupt, co-owner of the Leipzig network label Jahtari, which specializes in 8-Bit, has his own unique way of preserving the genre’s digital cultural heritage: 8-Bit dub. He’s backed up by the singer ChaCha from Guizhou in China, whose own pieces are heavily influenced by Downbeat and Triphop, dark and full of nostalgic moods.

Super Guachin
This Argentinian duo’s mid-tempo tracks represent a kind of glossy 8-Bit. Their music, which has also been described as tropical psychedelic, is almost transcendental, with a range of influences ranging from Dubstep thru Techno to Reggaeton and Cumbia Villera.

Candie Hank
is one of the thousands of pseudonyms used by the hyper-productive Berlin-based Patric Catani. This Gabba wunderkind with the stage name E de Cologne began working with 8-Bit sounds at the age of sixteen. His music boasts a huge bandwidth of styles.

Soom T
Heavily influenced by Indian music from the 1950s, along with Bhangra, Hip-Hop and 1980s pop, Soom T sings and plays 8-Bit digital Reggae. In addition, she has lent her voice to productions by countless artists, including The Orb, T.Raumschmiere, Bus, Asian Dub Foundation and many others.

Raquel Meyers
Raquel Meyers’ 8-Bit soundscape solo compositions make her predestined to do some VJ-ing with 8-Bit musicians. She uses low resolution graphics and visuals generated with text code to tell surreal picture stories full of dark humor.

Party Catani – Lowfistication XXL Album Package / Cock Rock Disco by Catani

Lowfistication Album on Cock Rock Disco
Including free Remixes of Toktok and Candie Hank on Soundcloud

Order your copy here:

Stora Mailorder

I also made the Blowfist EP including a lot of Bonus tracks and nice artwork by Martin Mueller (http://www.ilikeyourbadbreathdaddy.de/)

Altogether a mega package of insensitivity, an excursion to a raving Jurassic Park. Something to wave your loincloth to while Dinosaurs around you digest their catch. If it gives you a head or muscle ache, I´m sorry.. ! – One of the few concept albums I ever made..
I took myself the freedom to stir up all I could find in the so called club, rave / banging context and made this overspiced, overcooked, – yes; let´s say even overcocked stew. Like in a shamanic self-cleaning I juggled and shuffled with all those “forbidden” elements that just can lead to ridiculous fun.. And we all know 2012 is coming…!

Since a long time now, I´m writing and producing Rap and HipHop Beats for the different Bands Puppetmastaz (http://puppetmastaz.com), Xberg Dhirty6 Cru (http://dhirty6.de), my solo stuff and other people. In the last time I had a closer listen again, seriously going thru piles of old backup Cds, DATs and an truly uncontrollable ammount of Beat & Bass work.. It´s quite impossible to nail down everything in a mix that I did during the last 12 years, but I thought this picks are shaping sort of the peak, at least in my crunked opinion .. I´m planning to do a release with my new stuff in 2012 but for now I hope you enjoy this compilation mix of my instrumental work from more of a decade.

Patric Catani – It´s C busy Spider (Beatmix) by Catani

Fantastic news! – It´s all 100% confirmed that there will be a tour in Australia and New Zealand happening in Feb.2012.

This is the plan for now, more shows will be confirmed and announced.

4th of Feb. – Sydney, Dirty Shirlows (AU)

9th of Feb. – Auckland, Whammy Bar (NZ)

11th of Feb. – Wellington, Camp a Low Hum (NZ)

17th of Feb. – Melbourne, Blip Fest (AU)

26^th of Feb. – Brisbane,  X&Y Bar (AU)

1st  of March. – Wollongong

2^nd of March – Sydney

requests for shows can be send to: Booking@Catani-Music.de

Hello, I started a Bandcamp to make my music available more quickly and release side projects, soundtracks, outtakes and different other stuff that I´m working on. Following albums and songs are available already and there´s much more to come soon. You also can go straight to the Shop - here –

Party Catani – Blowfist EP

Patric Catani – Supervision Soundtrack (music of a radio audioplay)

Patric C. / Toytone – Pad Sounds (music I did on the Gp2x Game Console)

Patric Catani – Die Zehn Gebote / Decalogue (Theater Soundtrack)

Patric Catani – Zocker / The Gambler (Theater Soundtrack)

Patric Catani – Toute la memoire du monde (music of an art installation)

Patric Catani – Goodbye Gasoline (music of an art installation)

Easily get your album in Wav, Mp3, Flac and many other formats and pay via Paypal.

 
Soom T – Yeah Yeah Yeah (Party Catani Mix) by Catani

Just got the release date of the collaboration Soom-T and me did for her new label Renegade Masters. The first vinyl release “The Source” is going to be released in August 27th. Have a look on the Renegade Masters Website for more information. We are doing some more music in the near future and keep you updated. Check back on our sites! – Click here to listen to more music of Soom-T

The Behemoth (Castle Crashers) newest jump&run videogame “Battle Block Theater” is announced to come soon. It will feature music of Patric Catani and looks just amazing. Watch these trailers and Enjoy!

Hello, a compilation of my Gp2x / Piggy Tracker Sounds. Finally the first official release with all this material on my brand new Bandcamp site that will be used to release a lot of my site projects, single tracks and many goodies that I got laying around here. Hope you enjoy the tracks and maybe some of them are also familiar to you from my live sets and mixtapes. Just left to say: ENJOY!

Patric Catani – Supervision – Soundtrack by Catani

Soundtrack of the story “Kongress der Supervisionäre” by Matthias Whittekindt and Christoph Kalkowski.  This is a selection of songs in a mix but the full version got released by Storage Records via Itunes.

- Get the full version here -

Kongress der Supervisionäre is a dark, sarcastic and political science “fiction” story about an international food company that produces artificial genetic food plants that fight other plants and even humans at some point. That´s why tomatoes are quite some topic in the lyrics and the titles. Two underground activists try to stop the dirty business and got to deal with a lot of weird events. -

Enjoy!