8-Bit Operators

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8-BIT OPERATORS CD at Amazon.
8-BIT OPERATORS ALBUM & SINGLE at ITUNES.
ALSO AVAILABLE! 12INCH vinyl & download only EXCLUSIVES!: 8-BIT OPERATORS MEGAMIX of "Pocket Calculator" w/ "The Robots" on the flip by L.A.'s rap robots 8-BIT ! at your favorite record merchant and/or at ITUNES.
8-Bit OPERATORS
An 8-Bit tribute to the music of KRAFTWERK.
* EXCLUSIVE 12INCH SINGLE OUT NOW!
* 15 TRACK CD OUT NOW!
on ASTRALWERKS.

"People grew up immersed in this stuff – that 8-bit, blippy sound speaks to them on a deep level. It’s taking back a pure and total part of our childhood and turning it into something crazy and new" – Mike Rosenthal, artistic director, Blip Festival, NYC in XLR8R magazine, November 2006

A labor of love, many years in the making, Astralwerks is pleased to present a various artist covers compilation, featuring interpretations of classic Kraftwerk songs, arranged primarily on lo-bit handheld gaming devices, vintage video game consoles and obsolete 8 bit home computers, revered for the rich and distinctive sound of their lo-bit microchips. This video game-influenced branch of electronic music, sometimes referred to as ‘chiptune’, ‘bitpop’ or just ‘8-bit’, has developed a flourishing international live scene, and is one of the first new genres of music to use the internet to its fullest advantage, with the advent of home-brewed synth cartridges and hacker influenced musical tools.

As one of the New York chip artists Glomag said in a 2004 Art Forum interview, "We've made Kraftwerk's phrase 'I'm the operator with my Pocket Calculator' more apt than ever”.

Conceived and compiled by long-time electronic artist and 8-bit composer Jeremy Kolosine(a.k.a. Receptors), the 8-BIT OPERATORS collection features some of the top 8-bit artists from North America, South America and Europe, a selection of the best musical innovators, and several of the inventors themselves.
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CD Tracklisting:

01. Bacalao - The Robots (Die Roboter) - Switzerland
02. Glomag - Pocket Calculator - USA
03. Covox - Computer Love - Sweden
04. Role Model - Showroom Dummies - Sweden
05. Nullsleep - The Model - USA
06. David E. Sugar – Radioactivity - UK
07. Oliver Wittchow – Kristallo - Germany
08. 8-Bit Weapon – Spacelab - USA
09. firestARTer - Computer World (Computerwelt) - Germany
10. Neotericz - Electric Café - Argentina
11. Receptors - Trans Europe Express - USA
12. Herbert Weixelbaum – Tanzmusik - Austria
13. Bubblyfish - It's More Fun To Compute - USA
14. Bit Shifter – Antenna - USA
15. gwEm and Counter Reset - The Man-Machine (Die Mensch-Maschine) - UK

8-BIT OPERATORS CD at Amazon.
8-BIT OPERATORS CD at ITUNES.
Official Websites :
http://8BitOps.com
http://8BitOperators.com
http://myspace.com/8bitoperators
http://astralwerks.com/kraftwerk

Reviews & Press on 8-Bit Operators
8-Bit Operators Press kit with Bios/pix
ALSO OUT NOW:
An exclusive 12" inch single (and digital download equivalent) features 2 EXCLUSIVE tracks :
* 8-BIT OPERATORS' amazing Glomag MEGA-MIX of “Pocket Calculator”
(featuring 0x7f, Bit Shifter, Bubblyfish, firestARTer, Hey Kid Nice Robot, Ladybug, M-.-n, Nullsleep, Psilodump, Random, Sidabitball, and David E Sugar)

PLUS an EXCLUSIVE version of :

* “The Robots” by L.A.'s 8-BIT !
At your favorite record merchant and/or at ITUNES.
OUT NOW ! 8-BIT OPERATORS T-SHIRTS!
( Poke's 'AvatariBahn' silk-screen on black, blue or burgundy red Haines Beefy T!)
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