Since 2005, No Sides Records CEO and ex-Skin Graft staffer Billy Sides has risen to prominence in the burgeoning video game music, or “chiptune,†scene with his enthralling, genre-transcending bursts of sonic nostalgia under the moniker WILLIAM SIDES ATARI PARTY. As a one-man-band utilizing the Atari Synthcart program and an array of modified synthesizers and electronic gadgets, Sides brings a low-tech approach to his top-of-the-minute techno/breakcore/electrocrash jams.
As WILLIAM SIDES ATARI PARTY, Sides has brought his exciting and energetic live sets to many different scenes and settings around the U.S. He has shared the stage with the likes of ALBINO GHOST MONKEY, ATARIMATT, BARON KNOXBURRY, BIT MUMMY, CARJACK!!!, CARPET OF SEXY, CLIMAX DENIAL, DEASTRO, DUAL CORE, 84001, ENVIRONMENTAL SOUND COLLAPSE, GIVEUPNEWYORK, GRAVITY PLAYS FAVORITES, THE HATE MOMS, HAWNAY TROOF, INSECT DELI, J+J+J, JENSEN SPORTAG, KENTUCKY PROPHET, LAZER CRYSTAL, LIL PRINCESS, LUNATIK, THE MACHINIST, MAD HAPPY, MAGIC IS KUNTMASTER, MAKEUP AND VANITY SET, MC ROUTER, NAUTICAL ALMANAC, ODDIOBLENDER, ONE MILLION TINY TINY JESUSES, PLAYER TWO, PROTMAN, RIGHT-EYE RITA, SASKROTCH, SIR VIXX, SOFT SERVE, SOUNDS HAPPY, SPORTS, SPUNKY TOOFERS, SUPERFUN YEAH YEAH ROCKETSHIP, THIS IS MY CONDITION, TRIN TRAN, ULTRA PULVERIZE, VELVA, XRIN ARMS and many more.
WILLIAM SIDES ATARI PARTY has been featured in Herald Times (Bloomington, IN), Illinois Entertainer (Chicago, IL), Louisville Eccentric Observer (Louisville, KY), Metro Pulse (Knoxville, TN), Nashville Scene (Nashville, TN), Omaha City Weekly (Omaha, NE), The Reader (Omaha, NE), Real Detroit Weekly (Detroit, MI), Riverfront Times (St. Louis, MO) and Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK).
All Aboard For Mrs. Rifkind's House CD
No Sides Records, 2005
Southern Cross 3" CD EP
Give Daddy The Knife, 2007
