dang, after that last post, i started digging through our old 8bitrecs releases up on archive.org – there are so many good ones! Quite a few people have gotten a lot bigger since then, which is really excellent.

Here’s my picks from the more well known artists and some of the stronger releases:

Jefre Cantu Ledesma – Dialogue

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Jefre, as you probably know is the driving force behind Tarentel, who i know from back in my San Francisco days, and who contributed a solo track to our first Highpoint Lowlife compilation along with the other Tarentel members. These five pieces are hauntingly good:
http://www.mediafire.com/?kk10d0f4bdy

Shitmat – Stickthespamupyerbumtillitreallyhurtsbabylon

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Okay, so it’s completely juvenile humour, but this track still completely cracks me up! With the South Park opening sample and the Alexi Sayle samples all through, with an underlying pounding breakcore beat – ah!! in fact, i do believe this is the track that Ruaridh/TVO was referring to when in one of his last posts about the no-signal gig which i finished with a breakcore track! This track was an outtake from his first Planet Mu album “Killababyloncutz” – I had gotten the pre-release version of the album from Henry as I had drawn the artwork for Killabablycutz (see cover here), and when I found out it wasn’t on the album i immediately asked if i could put it up on 8bitrecs!

Slub – 20020524

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Slub was originally Alex McLean and Ade Ward, now with the addition of Dave Griffiths. They used to be a lot more active doing london shows, however since then, Alex has been studying PhD Arts and Computational Technology at Goldsmiths College, had a baby, is actively involved in TOPLAB an”organisation for promotion of live algorithm programming” and Dorkbot London. Find out more about all his projects on his blog at http://yaxu.org/projects/. All the music in these pieces is composed and playing via perl scripts.
Grab the two tracks from: here

Donna Summer – 20,000 Screaming Gay Fan’s Can’t Be Wrong

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I knew Jason Forrest from back on the IDM list around 2002/2003, and i managed to snag these tracks from him before his first album came out and he became pretty big! I put on the first London show for him at the tiny Betsy Trotwood club in London – was a hot and sweaty night! Grab the EP from:
http://www.mediafire.com/?jxeynoymysn

John Davis

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From memory, i believe John was working at UC Davis, and i was put in touch with him via Jefre Cantu – beautiful tranquil field recordings and processing:
http://www.mediafire.com/?l55hmjylz1n

Osso Bucco

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Osso Bucco is Gregg Kowalsky, who you probably know from his releases on Kranky. These two pieces are a lovely compliment to each other – “Three Days The Rode” and “Three Days They Slept”
http://www.mediafire.com/?adjzwwyetoh

Greg Davis

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Greg Davis has also gone on to do some amazing stuff, from releases on his own Autumn label, and releases on Kranky, Room40, Carpark and Staalplaat amongst others. Four track EP: http://www.mediafire.com/?d9ymxnxkmym

As linked in the last post, you can browse the whole collection at http://www.archive.org

cheers!
thor