Post by uptowndragon on Sept 4, 2010 0:21:42 GMT 7
Colourama 2010 @ One Cafe, Jln Tunku Abdul Rahman, KL (9/10/10)
When: 2:00pm, Saturday, 9th October 2010
Back for the second time, Colourama celebrates the best and brightest from the realm of chip music and its related disciplines. The festival highlights the use of former heavyweights of personal computing such as the Commodore 64 and Amiga, the Atari ST and 2600, and the Nintendo Entertainment System, as well as the Game Boy, to create arresting music and visual art. Colourama is also a platform for chiptune musicians, both local and international, to exchange ideas and show their capability as artistes.
This event was and still is the platform for chiptune music, the first and still the only one in Malaysia but done at an international standard. Not only will it feature the local heroes but also our regional and international comrades too! Colourama is not just a place to exchange ideas between musicians but an avenue to expose this kind of music, no matter how niche it is, to newer audiences.
Colourama has always been about combining music and visuals to give the audience an euphoric experience that intertwines both nostalgic and fresh feelings. It is after all based on the hey days of the 8bit era (1982 – 1990). The love for all things 8bit, from the games to its sub culture extends to the realisation of this event.
Colourama is a major annual Chiptune music festival, the first ever to be held in Malaysia and of international standards, similar to Blip Fest ( New York and Tokyo), Pesta Mikro (Indonesia) and Pocket Music (Australia). Colourama not only explores the local and global chiptune scenes, but also electro music and bedroom music. People who play and loves music from Gameboy or Atari, or other 90s games will feel nostalgic of their childhood memories at this event. This is certainly is not a typical gig with typical music. People will get the chance to experience a very different genre of music and will soon be immersed in this new subculture that has been around for ages in other countries.
Colourama is only held once in 2 years! It will be the second time, this year! There will be Low-Fi live visuals presented during this event, a collaboration between Motiofixo and Dancing Bears Project who are among the best visual artists in Malaysia!
Colourama will also feature 15 artistes from 4 countries; Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and France, and is presented by Chip Chip Hurray Community.
For more information contact:
Fara (0163955285) or Aimen (0176682549) or email colourama@ymail.com
Website: www.colourama.asia
Facebook: Colourama
Artistes Line Up
Mikrochip No.32 (MN32)
Mikrochip No32 from Klang, Selangor. He is one of the pioneer chiptuners in Malaysia and a founder of Chip Chip Hurray (chiptune community Malaysia). He started his journey in early 2008 after watching JW86 performed at Youth 2008, PWTC KL.
Some of event that Mikrochip No32 has performeded in are Colourama 2008 at Galaxy Ampang, Youth’09 at PWTC and Rock The World 2009 at Stadium Bukit Jalil.
www.myspace.com/mikrochipno32
Local Drug Store (LDS)
from Jakarta, Indonesia has started his journey since 14 February 2006. LDS or ‘Toko Jamu’ in Indonesian language is one of the pioneer chiptuners in Indonesia. He started playing chiptune after he missed his good old days with gameboy.
In 2009, LDS become a chiptune-band with Yumna N Kemal (vocal) Dimas Theodora (machine), Babam Bramaditya(guitar) and Chacha Widyawan(drum).
LDS performed more than 90 gigs/event around south east Asia. Some of the event are Pesta Mikro 1 & 2 at Jakarta (Indonesia), Colourama I at Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Sound of Bit (Singapore) and Tour Asia (Thailand).
www.myspace.com/localdrugstore
MyEmpty Battery
MyEmpty Battery or Azham is a chiptuner from Klang. Been playing chiptune since 2008, MyEmpty Battery influnced his songs by Jochen Miller, JW86, USK, Sulumi and Shirobon. Some of MyEmpty Battery previous event are Colourama 2008, Wondermilik Event, and Rock The World 2009.
www.myspace.com/myemptybattery
Sebiron
Sebiron is chiptune alias of Amil Juniwalu originating from West Java, Indonesia. SEBIRON started his chiptune adventure since 2008. He had been concentrating on making dance house music combined with an airplane theme. One man behind desk, try to present a strong chiptune/solid chiptune/airplane premix which makes the audience caught up in excitement.
www.myspace.com/sebironox
Mikrobotmen
Mikrobotmen from Kuala Lumpur is a solo project that he made up to make music in the likes of classic console And in his case a gameboy using lsdj cartridge and some help from musician. Most of Mikrobotmen songs are influence by happy tunes that are presented on the classic consoles.
Some of event that Mikrobotmen performed are Colourama 2008 are at Galaxy Ampang, Youth’09 at PWTC and Rock The World 2009 at Stadium Bukit Jalil.
www.myspace.com/mikrobotmen
Sidabitball
Electro Musician, genius circuit bender, tetris grand master, Sidabitball (Pierre Boquet from Paris, France) takes discarded electronic hardware, tears them apart, reinvents them inside and out, and unleashed them onto the electronic music scene.
Since 2006, Sidabitball performed hundreds of show including Blip Fest New York 2008, Japan Expo 2008, La fleche d’or – Paris 2008, Istanbul Party 2008 and Pesta Mikro Indonesia 2009.
www.sidabitball.com
JW86
JW86 has started his journey in Chip-music since 2006. With other colleagues, he started the chip-music movement in Indonesia, where chip-music music is very taboo to them that operates music in conventional and conservative ways. Now the limitation of processing music in chip-music world doesn’t affect him to make more and more songs.
Some of JW86 performances are Pesta Mikro 1 & 2 at Jakarta, Indonesia, Colourama vol1 at Kuala Lumpur , KL Design Week 2010 and Youth 2008 at PWTC, Kuala Lumpur.
www.myspace.com/jw86music
Sunday Carousel
Sunday Carousel (previous name, Bit the Medusa) is chiptune (8 bit) music from Jakarta and Bandung, Indonesia. They decided to make chip tune music not to be ‘minor’ but universal. Their influence and concept are adventure game and happy tune. Their happy song and bubbly pop chiptune music has made Sunday Carousel one of the great chiptune artist in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore! They combine the visual and audio in live performance. The concept of the music is about journey adventure rpg game and heroes.
Some of event that Sunday Carousel performed are Efek Rumah Kaca live in KL 2010 (as opening act) and Netral live in Malaysia 2010 (as opening act).
www.myspace.com/sundaycarousel
Modula Screen
Modula Screen is a project consist of 3 friends that connects through chiptunes. AQIL ACAP and HIKER. We hear about chiptune music by searching bands in MYSPACE and and accidently found some 8bit projects such as FIGHTER X , HELLOSTEREO , SEBIRON(bitforbit), BIT THE MEDUSA and HAUHUAHUA and it was like love at first sight. we started making chiptune music since december 2008. We make our songs by using LSDJ 3.9.9, gameboys and some softwares such as famitracker and FLstudio.
www.myspace.com/modulascreen
Robot Asmara
Robot Asmara is not like your usual porn fix. This highly energetic band was formed in January 2008, and Art-Ku-Statik, DBP,KL was their first gig. The band members are Lin (vocal), Ijam (guitar), Tom (lead guitar), Kudut (drummer) and Danial (synth). They are influenced by various kinds of musicians from Led Zeppelin to Michael Jackson to NOFX to The Police and to Sarah Yakob which explain why their music is a mixture of pop, pop disco, punk and jazz. ‘Hati Besi’ was the first single properly recorded at Pertama Music Studio, Cheras and been aired in XFresh FM.
Robot Asmara is moving slowly but steadily in the independent music’s scene as they believed there’s nothing to rush but to enjoy every bit of entertaining moment on each and every gigs/shows that they participate.
www.myspace.com/robotasmara
The Dramatic
The Dramatic are, in their own words, a KL-based “electro/powerpop/electronic” outfit with an absessive affinity for peppering their songs with chiptune is essentially synthesised sound associated with anachronistic video games like Gameboy or Atari.
The Theatrics of the band’s conception are on full display on propulsive. danceable gems like ‘Cinta Frekuansi”-an urgently squelching, blipping, epileptic piece of pop smithery that bodes well for the niche they are looking to hack in the immediate indie scene. ‘Satu Kata” sees them segueing into New Order-like balladry-replete with stephem Morrisesque one-two drum tap fills and a chorus that begs for sing-along. Paramount on their priority list now is the recording of thier debut EP.
www.myspace.com/thedramaticc
This Is My Hurricane (TIMH)
This Is My Hurricane (TIMH) is a 5-piece pop punk band with hardcore attitude and mix up with early 90s Nintendo Gameboy reminiscing tune, accidentally created another hybrid genre called Nintendocore. Hailing from the many suburbs of Selangor paving their way transverse the hearts of not only hardcore kids out there but all music enthusiast with their heavy and happy breakdowns, cool and wicked chip tunes and incomprehensible acts on-stage presence.Coming from diverse bands previously had given the band members a new perspective on hardcore music and what they have to offer in order to produce another hardcore band in the scene with distinctiveness.Consist of five hardcore-base fanatics, Pijol (former vocalist for Avalon’s Whisper) as the main vocalist, Malee (Or the Golden Handshake) plays the guitar, Ask (The Arsonists) on bass, CWND (Hijau) tweak the Gameboy, and Adib (A New Fall, former drummer for Oh Chentaku) plays the drums.
www.myspace.com/thisismyhurricane
Hentai Kookies
Hentai Kookies is an Electro-industrial live project/act conceived and formed in 2008 by Pitt.Their music takes an influence from a variety of sources.
www.myspace.com/hentaikookies
Ticketing Information
Admission: RM17 (Pre Sale), RM25 (Door)
For more information: www.colourama.asia
Email: colourama@ymail.com
When: 2:00pm, Saturday, 9th October 2010
Back for the second time, Colourama celebrates the best and brightest from the realm of chip music and its related disciplines. The festival highlights the use of former heavyweights of personal computing such as the Commodore 64 and Amiga, the Atari ST and 2600, and the Nintendo Entertainment System, as well as the Game Boy, to create arresting music and visual art. Colourama is also a platform for chiptune musicians, both local and international, to exchange ideas and show their capability as artistes.
This event was and still is the platform for chiptune music, the first and still the only one in Malaysia but done at an international standard. Not only will it feature the local heroes but also our regional and international comrades too! Colourama is not just a place to exchange ideas between musicians but an avenue to expose this kind of music, no matter how niche it is, to newer audiences.
Colourama has always been about combining music and visuals to give the audience an euphoric experience that intertwines both nostalgic and fresh feelings. It is after all based on the hey days of the 8bit era (1982 – 1990). The love for all things 8bit, from the games to its sub culture extends to the realisation of this event.
Colourama is a major annual Chiptune music festival, the first ever to be held in Malaysia and of international standards, similar to Blip Fest ( New York and Tokyo), Pesta Mikro (Indonesia) and Pocket Music (Australia). Colourama not only explores the local and global chiptune scenes, but also electro music and bedroom music. People who play and loves music from Gameboy or Atari, or other 90s games will feel nostalgic of their childhood memories at this event. This is certainly is not a typical gig with typical music. People will get the chance to experience a very different genre of music and will soon be immersed in this new subculture that has been around for ages in other countries.
Colourama is only held once in 2 years! It will be the second time, this year! There will be Low-Fi live visuals presented during this event, a collaboration between Motiofixo and Dancing Bears Project who are among the best visual artists in Malaysia!
Colourama will also feature 15 artistes from 4 countries; Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and France, and is presented by Chip Chip Hurray Community.
For more information contact:
Fara (0163955285) or Aimen (0176682549) or email colourama@ymail.com
Website: www.colourama.asia
Facebook: Colourama
Artistes Line Up
Mikrochip No.32 (MN32)
Mikrochip No32 from Klang, Selangor. He is one of the pioneer chiptuners in Malaysia and a founder of Chip Chip Hurray (chiptune community Malaysia). He started his journey in early 2008 after watching JW86 performed at Youth 2008, PWTC KL.
Some of event that Mikrochip No32 has performeded in are Colourama 2008 at Galaxy Ampang, Youth’09 at PWTC and Rock The World 2009 at Stadium Bukit Jalil.
www.myspace.com/mikrochipno32
Local Drug Store (LDS)
from Jakarta, Indonesia has started his journey since 14 February 2006. LDS or ‘Toko Jamu’ in Indonesian language is one of the pioneer chiptuners in Indonesia. He started playing chiptune after he missed his good old days with gameboy.
In 2009, LDS become a chiptune-band with Yumna N Kemal (vocal) Dimas Theodora (machine), Babam Bramaditya(guitar) and Chacha Widyawan(drum).
LDS performed more than 90 gigs/event around south east Asia. Some of the event are Pesta Mikro 1 & 2 at Jakarta (Indonesia), Colourama I at Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Sound of Bit (Singapore) and Tour Asia (Thailand).
www.myspace.com/localdrugstore
MyEmpty Battery
MyEmpty Battery or Azham is a chiptuner from Klang. Been playing chiptune since 2008, MyEmpty Battery influnced his songs by Jochen Miller, JW86, USK, Sulumi and Shirobon. Some of MyEmpty Battery previous event are Colourama 2008, Wondermilik Event, and Rock The World 2009.
www.myspace.com/myemptybattery
Sebiron
Sebiron is chiptune alias of Amil Juniwalu originating from West Java, Indonesia. SEBIRON started his chiptune adventure since 2008. He had been concentrating on making dance house music combined with an airplane theme. One man behind desk, try to present a strong chiptune/solid chiptune/airplane premix which makes the audience caught up in excitement.
www.myspace.com/sebironox
Mikrobotmen
Mikrobotmen from Kuala Lumpur is a solo project that he made up to make music in the likes of classic console And in his case a gameboy using lsdj cartridge and some help from musician. Most of Mikrobotmen songs are influence by happy tunes that are presented on the classic consoles.
Some of event that Mikrobotmen performed are Colourama 2008 are at Galaxy Ampang, Youth’09 at PWTC and Rock The World 2009 at Stadium Bukit Jalil.
www.myspace.com/mikrobotmen
Sidabitball
Electro Musician, genius circuit bender, tetris grand master, Sidabitball (Pierre Boquet from Paris, France) takes discarded electronic hardware, tears them apart, reinvents them inside and out, and unleashed them onto the electronic music scene.
Since 2006, Sidabitball performed hundreds of show including Blip Fest New York 2008, Japan Expo 2008, La fleche d’or – Paris 2008, Istanbul Party 2008 and Pesta Mikro Indonesia 2009.
www.sidabitball.com
JW86
JW86 has started his journey in Chip-music since 2006. With other colleagues, he started the chip-music movement in Indonesia, where chip-music music is very taboo to them that operates music in conventional and conservative ways. Now the limitation of processing music in chip-music world doesn’t affect him to make more and more songs.
Some of JW86 performances are Pesta Mikro 1 & 2 at Jakarta, Indonesia, Colourama vol1 at Kuala Lumpur , KL Design Week 2010 and Youth 2008 at PWTC, Kuala Lumpur.
www.myspace.com/jw86music
Sunday Carousel
Sunday Carousel (previous name, Bit the Medusa) is chiptune (8 bit) music from Jakarta and Bandung, Indonesia. They decided to make chip tune music not to be ‘minor’ but universal. Their influence and concept are adventure game and happy tune. Their happy song and bubbly pop chiptune music has made Sunday Carousel one of the great chiptune artist in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore! They combine the visual and audio in live performance. The concept of the music is about journey adventure rpg game and heroes.
Some of event that Sunday Carousel performed are Efek Rumah Kaca live in KL 2010 (as opening act) and Netral live in Malaysia 2010 (as opening act).
www.myspace.com/sundaycarousel
Modula Screen
Modula Screen is a project consist of 3 friends that connects through chiptunes. AQIL ACAP and HIKER. We hear about chiptune music by searching bands in MYSPACE and and accidently found some 8bit projects such as FIGHTER X , HELLOSTEREO , SEBIRON(bitforbit), BIT THE MEDUSA and HAUHUAHUA and it was like love at first sight. we started making chiptune music since december 2008. We make our songs by using LSDJ 3.9.9, gameboys and some softwares such as famitracker and FLstudio.
www.myspace.com/modulascreen
Robot Asmara
Robot Asmara is not like your usual porn fix. This highly energetic band was formed in January 2008, and Art-Ku-Statik, DBP,KL was their first gig. The band members are Lin (vocal), Ijam (guitar), Tom (lead guitar), Kudut (drummer) and Danial (synth). They are influenced by various kinds of musicians from Led Zeppelin to Michael Jackson to NOFX to The Police and to Sarah Yakob which explain why their music is a mixture of pop, pop disco, punk and jazz. ‘Hati Besi’ was the first single properly recorded at Pertama Music Studio, Cheras and been aired in XFresh FM.
Robot Asmara is moving slowly but steadily in the independent music’s scene as they believed there’s nothing to rush but to enjoy every bit of entertaining moment on each and every gigs/shows that they participate.
www.myspace.com/robotasmara
The Dramatic
The Dramatic are, in their own words, a KL-based “electro/powerpop/electronic” outfit with an absessive affinity for peppering their songs with chiptune is essentially synthesised sound associated with anachronistic video games like Gameboy or Atari.
The Theatrics of the band’s conception are on full display on propulsive. danceable gems like ‘Cinta Frekuansi”-an urgently squelching, blipping, epileptic piece of pop smithery that bodes well for the niche they are looking to hack in the immediate indie scene. ‘Satu Kata” sees them segueing into New Order-like balladry-replete with stephem Morrisesque one-two drum tap fills and a chorus that begs for sing-along. Paramount on their priority list now is the recording of thier debut EP.
www.myspace.com/thedramaticc
This Is My Hurricane (TIMH)
This Is My Hurricane (TIMH) is a 5-piece pop punk band with hardcore attitude and mix up with early 90s Nintendo Gameboy reminiscing tune, accidentally created another hybrid genre called Nintendocore. Hailing from the many suburbs of Selangor paving their way transverse the hearts of not only hardcore kids out there but all music enthusiast with their heavy and happy breakdowns, cool and wicked chip tunes and incomprehensible acts on-stage presence.Coming from diverse bands previously had given the band members a new perspective on hardcore music and what they have to offer in order to produce another hardcore band in the scene with distinctiveness.Consist of five hardcore-base fanatics, Pijol (former vocalist for Avalon’s Whisper) as the main vocalist, Malee (Or the Golden Handshake) plays the guitar, Ask (The Arsonists) on bass, CWND (Hijau) tweak the Gameboy, and Adib (A New Fall, former drummer for Oh Chentaku) plays the drums.
www.myspace.com/thisismyhurricane
Hentai Kookies
Hentai Kookies is an Electro-industrial live project/act conceived and formed in 2008 by Pitt.Their music takes an influence from a variety of sources.
www.myspace.com/hentaikookies
Ticketing Information
Admission: RM17 (Pre Sale), RM25 (Door)
For more information: www.colourama.asia
Email: colourama@ymail.com
