Came across drdrak.over-blog.com. Very cool assortment of topics and links. The retro stuff is great.

Venue: Acme Game Store & Gallery 1988
Event: “I Am 8-bit” Art Opening
Address: 7018 & 7020 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038 (Corner of Melrose & La Brea)
URL: http://iam8bit.net
Time: 7pm - ?
Cost: free?
Bar: Suicide Girls

Comments: This is the opening night party for the “I Am 8-Bit” art exhibit at Gallery 1988. The exhibit features tons of 8-bit video game inspired artwork. The samples we’ve seen so far are wicked awesome!

Read all about it at the Game Informer Online

8 Bit Weapon at The Echo

Venue: The Echo
Event: Hang the DJs
Address: 1822 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
URL: Hang the DJs MySpace Page
Time: 9pm - ?
Cost: $?
Comments: 18+ !!! Performing with 8-Bit Rap Krew and other bands (we think)

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8bitpeoples offers plenty of reviews and links to great “chip” music from around the world. They’ve been spreading the love since 1999 and even perform live shows. The 8bitpeoples consist of Bit Shifter, Mesu Kasumai, Nullsleep, Sabastian Boaz, Tangible, Ten and Tracer, Tet, Twilight Electric and Yuppster.

“We continue to provide the vast majority of all our releases for free, including printable covers and inserts so that anyone with the desire to can “manufacture” physical copies of our albums. Furthermore, limited runs of most of our releases are available, offering superior sound quality to the mp3 releases and occasionally bonus tunes.”

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micro music is site completely dedicated to 8-bit and computer generated music.

“basically “musical research” is the most accurate description of the micromusic.net activities. even though music produced on low_budget equipment and retro computer games sounds was the focus at the beginning of the micromusic project we always had far more in our minds than that. the internet is still in its first years and topics like how to build up ’special_interest_communities’, advanced realtime communication tools and highly optimized interface design were also quite important to us.

the micromusic crew realised a multimedia_website which is unique on the worldwideweb within less than 2 years. the very active and rockin’ micro_community counts almost 3000 people now and the quality of the uploaded lowtech_tunes has reached a level which defines a new standard in the territory of low_tech music and online music communities.”

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