Interesting. Along these lines, check out Golden Shower ( _not_ what
you think! ) at:

http://www.goldenshower.gs/e/asmusicas.html

This is the direct link to their downloadable music. Look for Video
Computer System. I think you will recognize some of those sounds!
There was a video made for it and was done just like the Atari 2600
games.

Another band is desertplanet.com which can be found here:

http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/229/desertplanetcom.html

- Ed


--- In columbusconsortium@yahoogroups.com, "11011 110111000"
<the_illiac@y...> wrote:
> The November issue of _Wired_ has a fsacinating article by
> Malcolm McLaren (of Sex Pistols fame) about an international
> underground music scene centered around tweaked 8-bit
> computers and electronics devices: C64s, GameBoys, NES
> consoles, etc. It's kind of a merging of the techno and punk
> aesthetic, full of all that pricipled political posturing and
> whatnot...but the music's not bad, at least what I've heard of it.
>
> Link to _Wired_ article:
> <http://wired.com/wired/archive/11.11/mclaren.html>
>
> Link to Bit Shifter site (one of the musicians mentioned in the
> article):
> <http://www.bitshifter.cc/>
>
> It starts with the artists and spreads to the crowds (did someone
> say something like that before?)...
>
> --i