Sidabitball @ Blip Festival 2008

Electro musician, genius circuit bender, Tetris grand master, Sidabitball takes discarded electronic hardware, tears them apart, reinvents them inside and out, and unleashed them onto the electronic music scene.

Bring out your dusty and forgotten Game Boys and Commodore 64s! They have been transformed and perverted by the magic of soldering irons! Your childhood memories are embodied in machines with an incomparable groove by an otherworldly method that has thought to have been lost for no less than 18 years.

Far from the original soundtracks of Mario Bros, Sidabitball's music remixes the sounds of the likes of The Brassens as well as Moussorgski with a flavour that is truly 8bit.

His energetic and efficient musical stories are embedded with melodies that are sometimes naïve, occasionally erudite, and tease with a hint of noise that has been subtly rendered raw and naughty.

Playing on this double entendre, Sidabitball's beats, taken from old Nintendo consoles, has nailed microclubbers all over Europe to the dance floor with a signature set of minimalistic electronic sounds.

Those of us who still wear helmets on our ears, who balk at the idea of playing Donkey Kong on machines that do not even have a colour screen, must prepare ourselves. Sidabitball is not deaf, and will stun all with his essential and direct take on micromusic.

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