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Artist Spotlight: Talk To Animals @BlipFestival

“Talk to Animals compliments her moody, beat-driven 8-bit & lo-fi soundscapes with a range of vocal styles. The resulting music is alternately frenzied, melodic, fierce and serene, always with an unstoppable energy, as precise as it is punk.”

Talk To Animals played this year’s BlipFestival, and her unique style sets her apart. Using a MiniKP to process effects, Talk To Animals manipulates her sound live. Combined with her vocals and grimy, almost industrial sounds, Talk To Animals rocks.

Talk To Animals has released an EP on Bandcamp. Support this artist by picking it up for only $5. You can also add her on Facebook and MySpace.

The Video Game DJ @ OTAKON 2010

Dj CUT MAN and MC DEATH BEAR at OTAKON 2010Big news for Dj CUT MAN and MC DEATH BEAR, this weekend they headed down to Baltimore, MD to attend OTAKON, the east coast’s largest Anime and Japanese Culture festival (attending approximately 30,000 people.) The convention is named after the Japanese word Otaku which is used to refer to people obsessed with Japanese animation (anime), Japanese comics (manga) and Video Games.

This was a big milestone for Dj CUT MAN, as it was their largest live performance yet. Dj CUT MAN played his new mixtape, DUBTROPOLIS (available soon via SoundCloud), a collection of Dub-Step influenced Chiptune songs, a sub-genre known as ChipStep. A last minute addition of this track by UK chiptune artist Monster! Monster! proved to be a worthwhile addition. MC Death Bear became a true Master of Cerimonies that night, hyping the crowd and providing vocal interludes and shout outs throughout the set.

The music Dj CUT MAN spun was a comprised mostly of chiptune compositions from the 8BitCollective and 8BitPeoples communities, websites devoted to providing their independently created music for free download. Later in the set, Dj CUT MAN featured the music of bLiNd, a top-tier Video Game Remixer and trance/dance producer known from the groundbreaking video game remix website OCREMIX.

MC Death Bear has been creating art for Dj CUT MAN for months, and is responsible for the killer flyers for the series of shows at Ithaca’s own Waffle Frolic. Dj CUT MAN has created three full-length mix albums so far and his fourth is expected soon. Stay tuned for more.

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Dj CUT MAN embarks on Mini-Tour

Okay, so it’s not really a tour, but it is going between states frantically to play shows. This weekend also marks Dj CUT MAN’s return to Waffle Frolic, a guest spot at Load Of Fun studios in Baltimore, MD, and another rad show at The Giving Tree cafe put on by the warriors at Ithaca Underground. I could go on but I’d rather post the rad flyers:



VG Remixes + Baltimore Club = DJ Sega

DJ Sega - New Jack Philly

Fans of the Baltimore Club sound beware, DJ Sega has released a full-length mixtape with well over an hour of heart pounding club music primed to test the limits of your speaker system. This mix features 28 blazing tracks @ 135bmp, featuring a myriad of video game samples and original beats all produced and mixed by DJ Sega himself. His new album, New Jack Philly, is available now. Here’s the first track:

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If you don’t know, now ya know.