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Date: 2007-01-17

All 8Bit Material, including albums, tracks only released on compilations and unreleased work to be given as FREE DOWNLOADs

The grand secret council of Bitland has decided to release all 8Bit material just like the headline says. The council is preparing all albums for free download as .zip files along with uploading them to relevant newsgroups. This news comes as 8Bit requests the site still be kept up despite his time and space obligations as a real person running a real company that actually has very little to do with any of this. The releases will be made systematically available starting Febuary 1st and extend until the ressurection. For the meantime, 8Bit is dead -- at least in 1st life. Catch him on Second Life if you're a member, he's been known to be DJ'ing there..

Date: 2007-01-09

iPhone looks retarded awesome!

"When you have your chance to get your hand on it...", Steve Jobs says bobbling back-and-forth onstage, "...you will understand that Apple has reinvented the phone." Just than the image on the projection screen mirrors his words: REINVENT THE PHONE.

I watched the keynote speech, peering intently at the plasma in my LCD. "Jobs has some nerve", "I hope Bill Gates is seething right now or maybe taking a wet Zune", "Please don't tell me my 2 week old T-Mobile T-Dash is about to be rendered uncool" :: Thoughts in my cranial universe. Echoes. Finally, silent pauses as Jobs spoke and showed and troddled around stage in his burned denim and over-40 man boobs.

"This is awful", I thought as I rested my bum knee on a nearby Ottoman. If I only had my empire I would be the Steve Jobs of the Dervishes, showing them new morphing energy crystals that made transparent astral teleportation easier by gelling our dantien cords during the soul projection phase. "If only...", I thought and listened and watched. The iPhone is tremendous technology. By tremendous I don't mean mass. I mean fifty percent phenomenal and fifty percent homonidal; a melding of all our last thirty years of semiconductor, microchip, integrated electrical engineering scholarship and human interface design. The iPhone is left brain meets right brain for a spot of tea in the Bosphorus when the world was a better place. It's simply retarded awesome!

Date: 2007-01-01

8Bit EP, 'WAR IS!' Available for free download

Just hit the 8Bit Myspace page at http://www.myspace.com/whois8bit and you will see the tracks where you can play or download them. Also, our other band page is http://www.myspace.com/8bitalliance where we will post newer works.

I just spend most of 2006 in a haze. Way back in the eightbit.com timeline, before we wore socks, I descibe something about the loss of the sensation of time. Time doesn't exist, ontologically, it only exists through measurements. If that doesn't make sense think of it this way; how much can you transform in one year? If you answered, "more than alot", you're right. However, there is an old saying about the busiest of people having the most time on their hands. This is also true. Busy people have lot's of time on their hands because time does not exist if your knocking sh*t out. I have a to-do list that doesn't end. It started when I read 7 Habits of Highly Effective People when I was a teenage runaway squatting in surburban homes mesmerizing the locals with tales of deep Brooklyn. Several years later and after forcing manifestations in my life based on that list something clicked. I had accomplished much of what was on that first to-do list. Nowadays, I keep it around to look at.

To-do lists are nuts. If you keep them around after you've "done" the "too"s and look back on it later (assuming you've roared down a number of lists since) you see that time does not matter. All that matters is whether your Windows Mobile 5.0 T-Mobile Dash can load M.A.M.E so you can play asteroids.

That's the point. I've got this fabulous form fitting supposed smart phone and it can't f*cking load M.A.M.E, the old arcade game emulator that even the OS's on digital camera's can load.

In that my previous point of the infinite discoveries keeping to-do lists offer I can't say I'm any happier about this technology thing in 2007.

I'm such a geek.

Note to self: add user response thingie to announcement footers or start using drupal.

Date: 2006-09-13

Rise of the 8Bit's

"BE 8-bit. knock yourself out. run with it.... rule it. kill it. be all the 8-bit you can be."
- quote from email by Tony, 8Bit #3293, after Cihan contacted him informing him that the name was taken. [this is a common phenom, ppl take the name and refuse to acknowledge he exists, this last scenario finally sparked this article as a response]

A couple of months ago I noticed my moniker appearing more often. The first sighting was a little magazine BPM that had sprawled across it's cover the headline 'Geek Canvas: the Art of 8BIT' . I was made aware of it and my girl asked if it had anything to do with me. The sight of article didn't surprise me at first, after all the term 8-Bit is common in itself. According to the wikipedia, "In computer architecture, 8-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are at most 8 bits (1 octet) wide." That's the origin of the term but it more often has come to symbolize the era of gaming on Commodore, Nintendo, Sega and Atari. Common for deejays, common for hackers and now seemingly retro. 8Bit has returned to stay...actually I never went away. As the Nintendo generation finally starts their worldwide takeover more and more refined slackers are reminiscing on their young days playing Super Mario and twiddling joysticks to dig dugs. As if they were the first one's having the revelation, they think, "Wow. I'm so 8Bit!" Usually the realization is superceded by firming that they are 8Bit by the groups of friends that also played Super Mario Bros and the cycle goes on and on. 8Bit's pop-up. It's called morphic resonance and it's a phenomenon of learning and of species that originates off the first organism in the species to do it. In the case of 8Bit, that would be....yes, you guessed it.

The article in the magazine was about the 8Bit art movement, artists using obsolete computers or designing in the vein of that old technology. What a great name for a movement", I thought "I wish I could of came up with something like that...". Hold on.

I've been making music as 8Bit since 1993. Doesn't seem to matter now though. My biography is irrelevant as is my site -- a site which has been up since the internet started and most of these imposters were growing pubic hair. My discography is the site too. Old albums of mine can still be purchased, albiet they are so underground Saddam's corpse can't even get hold of some releases. But they are official. I signed contracts with labels and am registered. I am 8Bit, not you and not your buddy with a gameboy.

This was made clear more recently when I was told Beck had hired me to produce a track for him. Unless Beck was the Atomic Babies or Frankie Bones in costume, I doubt the relation. That's the kicker. An 8Bit has appeared on the west coast (I won't promote them because our communication was a vile exchange, as much of this article is turning out to be, but believe me, it hurts me as much as it hurts you.)

The sightings continued. I was ready to leave it behind and move on with my other work when I get an email.

Hi, we're having a playboy party and would like u to come play a set all night, thanks [name withheld]/

Naturally, I thought this was a promoter who wanted to book me. A live act usually costs $1000 and up depending on location and visuals. His reply when I told him this was: well we can definitely get you a blowjob from the Australians but you have to fly out with your wife again like last time - and bring the stuff this time. First off, I had never been in an orgy with this specific dude and I definitely was not from Australia.

Whether they are the art-pop group 8Bit Peoples, who appeared on the scene sometime in 1998 (who I contacted in '98 and never heard back from) or the Dutch remixer who appeared on the scene in 1997. There are plently of 8Bits to shove an elephant intro a laundry machine. None of them seem to do their research and none of them decide to type EIGHTBIT.COM into their browsers. Perhaps it is the claimless name.

When everyman is 8Bit, who is 8Bit? Can a human being be 8Bit? My ongoing dillema.



I suppose I both enjoy and abhor watching 8Bit's pop-up all around the world. The latter because I am naturally venomous and think the world owes me something, like most ghetto youth. In this short life we have, I can imagine not having anything at all, like a even worse-off ghetto youth. I imagine these other 8Bits. These suburban twits and Columbia post-grad students. What are their experiences with the name? Do they have the vision? Is it just computer game music to them? Do they consider themselves original? Is originality important and is who does something first even important?

Some 8Bit in Europe might be one way and another 8Bit in Mexico is another. It's been my name in the neighborhood in Brooklyn for years. People call me 8Bit to my face, my long time friends and yes, even family. It's imprinted on my mail, on my walls and girlfriends keychains, ex-girlfriends ass tattoos, and ex-ex-ex girlfriends concrete coffin. Admittingly, I've graffed it up on walls around Brooklyn. It goes way back, read the bio for the origins.

Sightings, namings and revelations -- all from that mysterious number eight. A number than when rotated 90 degrees clockwise becomes an infinity symbol. The divine humanity of all beings. It is a number that contains inside it the doctrine of no-mind yet of complete mindfulness. There are 8 laws. There are 8 dimensions. We were created from 8 elements. Of course, none of this is true. I am not 8Bit and all of you are.

I've been replicated.

I've been Agent Smith'ed, if you will and it feels good, like a golden handfull of glory hole cow dung. It reeks of copyright infringments, lawsuits and bitter dopplegangers made to eat out of the bowels of my lower chakra. I get all wet just thinking about it.

To the once and future 8Bit's of the world, know that 8Bit Exemplar has risen, from here on to be known as 8BX. Exemplar is latin for 'the original'. Even better, I'll be just the word 'Eight'...no, that's not enough. I claim 8B! Oi! Oi! Oi! Even better, because all that is easy to hack, a completely original name with no potential for copy-cats would be Sochu the Sponge Doctor, an alias I've put out tracks under.

Rise Sochu, Rise!

I have tasted blood, my friends, and I will kill again.

Date: 2006-07-30

8Bit Productions Presents "US Department of New Patriots" Podcast

Operation Own it began last night when eightbit.com launched feedburner injected podcast feed, linked it to iTunes music store. To subscribe using iTunes click here. We'll let the description of the feed speak for itself: Legendary Brooklyn filmmaker and hardcore techno God presents Apocalyptic content. Techno Videos. She's Got an Atomic Bomb Clips. Apoca-cast with Bob Dobbs. Maximize the moment motivational course with Omar Robbins and special VJ mixes with brand name 8Bit DJ's. EIGHTBIT.COM presents weekly podcasts from 8Bit Productions/Landbridge Massive Films. No podfading guaranteed to please.

"Brooklyn Hoodratz" 1st EP Schemes & Treachery live on Napster

See 8Bit and the boyz on their myspace here.

Revolutionary Tactics on a corporate owned Social Network System

In an effort to cut out the middleman I've decided to take this operation out of the system and into the streets. The overlords of MySpace, particularly the FOX news owner Rupert Murdoch, would like it if I kept it all internal or rather inert. Unlike an inert gas though, he is as active as I've been, tracking me at every turn; a profile edit here, an additional photo there. Each micro-step recorded and analyzed for terrorist ties. I know your watching Rupert. I know about your biased monopoly on our subconscious and I intend to exist in the face of it by taking back the face of it.

To "think and therefore be", cartesian logic, is implicit of a need to survive. Revolutionaries do not survive. Emma died having been deported and lost her love. Che, through some bizarre series of circumstances, killed too soon to see his hologram on t-shirts of the future. The 3 M's; Malcolm, Marat, Maxine. It won't be long this time, but I have a plan. It's a short-term long interest investment baby and hell yea it's going to work. No violence, no bombings, nothing like that -- just good ol' corn dogs and lobster. Yes, you got it Ishmael; give them people what they want. You see, revolutionaries are scum. They are smelly shitbags, usually the only child, crying out for attention to the masses. I'm going to be lovable, like a sweet nectarine on a pile of shit, humming radical tunes of dissent under my breath and into your medulla. Following the acoustic teachings Hazreti Khan to the most ethereal detail. Researching thought control, neural marketing, cultural movements, subcultural bullshit and why it is only the 16-20 year olds that seem to matter.

Fast Food, baby.

Fast Food, baby!

I ask you America (and parts of Malaysia) Is it really healthy to be so close to your friends, to see what they are up to at every moment? I ask this to the 16-20 year old carbon based humbrids with their plastic sidekicks sticking tongues through satellites to tickle some Hudson's Crossing media victim. You'll discover soon enough that you create your own reality and by that I do not mean getting some plaster of paris and newspaper and making some infinitely whack pseudo-structure. Creating your own reality is a skill just like being revolutionary or eating 75 hot-dogs in 3 minutes. With practice comes rejection and with rejection comes perfection. Here you are, addicted to myspace fumbling around profiles trying to find your match, your pay day, your cousin, your flame -- while in the background somewhere in corporate server land silicon alley, some schmuck is reading your emails and tracking your frequency. What do you do? What do you like? Are you into this or into that? What kinds of friends do you have? Are they all the same age, race, nationality? In the end, data is compiled and converted into advertising dollars as you miraculously find yourself being served an ad on "relationship advice for ethnics" while reading your third break-up message to the chick from Guadi Lumpur.

The question than arises, how does one gain? For the answer we must take the stride of Dolomite, the super fly guy, mix it with 2/3's Che Guevara and tie the whole damn package up with a hip-hop cyberpunk ethos that can only be downloaded and not learned. I've got the hyperlink muchacha. I've got the secret code and I'm telling you, the war of the codes has begun. Myspace is their space and you are their little digital monkey parrot. Remember that toothless crackhead who was ranting about...

"The system! It's the system damn it!"

...well you're in it baby, and it's got your name, race, sexual orientation and a friends list connected to another and another. Time's up bitches, you've been owned. Now the good news.

You can't copyright my deeds, only my ideas - right? Take action, that's the key. Be aware that you're being tracked not just by Ruperts global mafia of personality sharks but also by shrewd opportunists that see this phenomenon as a social research tool. If they can figure out your online habits based on a recorded pattern of behavior they can insidiously garnish transformation in that pattern through slow information dissemination. What does that mean? It means that your "deeds" are not singularities in some random myspace chasm of free thought. You're deeds, or your clicks and listens and views, they are all interconnected into a browsing pattern like a quilt that when you zoom out of, shows the person. Once they've got enough of the pattern to see a repeat, your join a larger group on their chart.

There was a knock on the ceiling and lights flashed in my bunker -- time to wrap this up cyber-scum. I'll be back and I'll plant little movies around until I get word from my superiors on how to hack the system so we're free again. Until than, don't give it all away, stay restrained at all times and semper memores acti prudentes futuri, always be mindful of what has been done and aware of what will be.

By Cihan Kaan (c)2006 8Bit Productions/Landbridge Massive. Content providers may reuse the above article only if author is credited.

Date: 2006-01-23

Michael Wiener belts out a tragic yell in Cihan 8Bit Kaan's newest short film Shuffle Mode

Shufflin'...Keep Shufflin'

 

Much strangeness has been afoot lately. Bit's newest short Shuffle Mode is for all intensive purposes, another finished short film. It tracks the unknown resident, played superbly by downtown actor extraordinaire Michael Wiener, through a series of shuffled moments in a party atmosphere. Real crazy stuff kiddies. Don't wanna give too much away so you're gonna have to wait to see it. [check out the listing for it here]

Some updates to the site are; new backstage photo's added for "She's Got an Atomic Bomb" listing in the film section and a new tune from that film. By the way, the last couple of tweeks of the weeks have been lifted straight from the Bomb soundtrack, so if you likey likey than you should consider buying the movie. Self-distributing movies requires support, as you can imagine.

I know there hasn't been an update in a while but there are lots going on and much more to come so stay tuned bitters.

~8

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Date: 2005-08-17

Bob's father appears in this image, Rene F. Dobbs, Birth: June 4, 1882 Death: July 5, 1976, age 94

The Rebirth of Bob Dobbs:
Man, Myth, Hologram

“Experimentation has passed from the control of the private artist to the groups in charge of the new technologies. That is to say, that whereas in the past the individual artist, manipulating private and inexpensive materials, was able to shape models of new experience years ahead of the public, today the artist works with expensive public technology, and artist and public merge in a single experience. The new media need the best artist talent and can pay for it. But the artist can no longer provide years of advance awareness of developments in the patterns of human experience which will inevitably emerge from new technological development." - Marshall McLuhan, Report on Project in Understanding New Media, Part VII(Exhibits), p.i, 1960.

Stragglers from the Porno Film Festival sipped Stellas and flaunted the latest retro-vaudeville thriftstore cocktail dresses. I met Bob Dobbs right before one of the flapper look-alikes began screaming at me for having the nerve to screen my short film for the second time in the evening.  The venue had double booked She’s Got an Atomic Bomb, my movie, and the Porno Film Fest, an apparant hobby of the organizer, a girl who conceived of it after years of being ignored in public.    Bob didn’t tell me he was Bob when he requested a second screening because he missed it, having been erroneously misdirected to the Porno Film Festival.  “Can I see that movie about the girl with bomb?”, he asked probably not knowing I was even the director.  Just like Dale Carnegie rule #2 of winning friends and influencing people, Bob Dobbs’ salesman face prompted me to want him to see it.  I’m not prone to do repeat screenings especially after a night of hard drinking and countless battles with out-of-state cinema egos.  A conflict ensued between myself, innocent renegade vigilante director and her, the overweight stressed out type-A estrogen-based robotoid.  All this leads to my eventual pissing onto the Porn Film Festival girl’s leg, not one of Carnegie's bits of friendly advice by the way.  Alas, Bob came to my defense when security arrived to extricate me.  “That girls a liar.  Let him put the movie back on!”, he demanded.  I later learned of my new defender's true identity on the subsequent walk through New York discussing how he influenced the Church of the SubGenius while being the archivist for media guru Marshall McLuhan and Prince Charles’ connection to Lofti, one of five pre-Lemurian deities he keeps in contact with through an alien species called the Booteans (with whom he manages to speak to through one of his many mediums).

Continue reading "The Rebirth of Bob Dobbs: Man, Myth, Hologram"...

Date: 2005-06-08

On the Mythos of Sound

Research by Cihan 8Bit
Sound is the living beat of the psyche. It resonates in every person and every culture from antiquity to the cyber present and beyond. The truth behind the actions of humankind can be discovered by listening to the unconsciously living and universally united soundscape. Therein that art of soundscaping is molded by the soundscapist who rests on a timeless grammar of which we are defined by, destined to live by and most of all, infinitely creating. As we form new sounds we hence rebuild ourselves and furthermore as we reinforce old sounds we seal ourselves with the glue of ancient ends.

If I've lost you already think of it this way, the memories you have of your life are images in your head. Along with those images are the sounds. The sounds of peoples voices, noises of objects and general assorted audio. People have libraries of pop songs in their brains while others have libraries of their angry grandmother yelling at them. In the end, it equates to an inner soundscape.

Next to Cinema, sound is the most powerful modern device by which our cultural myths are transmitted. The projection screen and the boombox have replaced the tribal storyteller. The audience are no longer just the local villagers. They are instead a global mass and whomever creates the new sounds and images are the new dreamweavers, heralding godlike power over their creations, which are but substitute for demi-gods. Theseus is still slaying the Minotaur except the monster is a distorted 909 and the hero, a driving bassline. The differences are only conceptual in that the themes and lessons of myths pervade the underbelly of culture as if they were genetic or even psychologically embedded from birth. A journey through a strange land by a hero is instead a self-reflecting pilgrimage into oneself whereby we overcome the obstacles of the personality and finally achieve metamorphosis. When understood symbolically both the mythological journey in unison with sound technique enter a dimension of monumental proportion where heroines still slay dragons and old wise men tell the way towards the elixir. The purpose of this piece is to describe and compare this union as it relates to the soundscapist.

It was impossible for this writer to venture into a comprehensive discussion of mythological implications in sound structure without confronting his own personal sound mythology at some point. Near the middle of doing the needed research it was clear to myself that a journey had been embarked on and my place of origin would become more and more distant. Surpassing music is one thing but to go beyond the idea of "the sound" in general proves to be a huge task. How exactly this occurred would reveal itself gradually as my perception of the music I was making began to shift as I read up on the mythological and primal mind. I found myself seeing the world in terms of its sound myths and furthermore witnessing my actions and my music as suiting certain elements of those myths. Myths transform the outer world into an extension of the inner one, not the other way around ("...therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in menís minds without their being aware of the fact' -Quote from Claude Levi-Strauss).

On a grand scale the sonic world outside of us is created by our inner noise. Advanced sentient beings are able to shut off their abilities to hear without covering their ears just as guru's and transcendental monks can isolate pain and control their body temperature. Mythic thinking helps us understand this concept. Mythic thinking is not merely a way of thinking about oneself but a way of thinking about the world and in turn -- of experiencing the world. Seeing through mythic eyes presented a revealing angle on every person, place and thing which consequently lent itself to hearing sound differently than I had prior. This once latent component of consciousness would launch this writer, musician and filmmaker to appreciate and understand the truth behind the dynamic waveforms and pattern structures that make a great idea and likewise a great track.

To be continued...

Date: 2005-04-04

Upcoming Projects to Fear

By Zoran Telliemiester - Minister of Propaganda
Now that the film has had it's fair share of viewings around the Tri-State (6 to be exact) the next wave of projects have begun their snowballing. Two secret operations are undergoing heavy scrutiny from the 8Bit mind, of course both needing funding in order to guarantee a return and valued add sociological changes. Now that "She's Got an Atomic Bomb" had been unveiled, 8Bit has transformed into a hypercreative machine writing new concepts and designs for a future that may only be 7 years away from decimation. Raising investment capital for a top-secret prototype device that will change the media content world (Codename: ProtoOne) to the next film tentatively slated to begin shooting in the fall, our man on the scene, a certain Senor Ocho Bit, is keeping his mind clear and his eyes on the prize. The Doomsday Countdown is also under heavy review as recent global changes have indicated catacyclsm is nearer than expected.

"Leave me alone. I'm cooking something up!", he commented as we tried to enter his catacombs in Midtown. We heard assorted tweeks and blips emanating from behind the steel door before he shut it. Despite the door to what is stirring in his pot has been closed, we believe they next wave of 8Bit music will be a down tempo arrangement of Middle Eastern sounds and hip-hop beats. Conversely, there may be a hardcore track or two that will slip out as well. His recent "I'll be your Terrorist" and "Teenage Crusaders on Vacation" have been defining the blossoming Taqwacore scene as staples to Muslim punk rockers iPods.

None of these advancements mean the "She's Got an Atomic Bomb" surge is over. Plans are being drawn for a US tour of the film along with Beeloved Creations, "Anti-Vigilante". Based on the sell-out success of the Tribes screening of these two films, it's only a natural evolution to tour the two Erroristic films together. Also, 8Bit has dropped the Candiria soundtrack from the film and replaced the score with a hyper-hard-junglacidic 8Bit score. There were numerous reasons for dropping the Candiria soundtrack which we cannot comment on due to agreements between 8Bit Productions and the band.

Date: 2005-03-25

"Errorism: A Night of
Deprogramming "

at Alwan [see invite]

on March 31, 2005 from 7-9pm

$10 admission

Landbridge Massive Pictures invites you to a night of deprogramming new short films and poetry:

"Errorism: A Night of Deprogramming "

Thurs: March 31  Alwan for the Arts
Directions below

She's Got an Atomic Bomb 
25 min/Comedy Directed by Cihan Kaan  (2004)
 
www.bombmovie.com
 
A girl on the verge of sanity and eviction. A quiet Brooklyn neighborhood seething and blaming her for an explosion of the sewage treatment plant. A time when depleted uranium is sold on the street by the local Russian mafia…. Angst, unnecessary violence, and hardcore punk rock music. The recipe for annihilation in a hyperreal world when an atomic bomb can be made from two welded together salad bowls. A film about bad science, big hair and vintage cars, NOT a film about nuclear proliferation!

Taliban Country
45 minutes/Documentary Directed by Carmela Barnowska
(2005) 
www.talibancountry.com

Away from the glare of the media, in the most remote and dangerous parts of Afghanistan, US marines are on a mission to hunt down the Taliban. But in many places their security sweeps are proving counterproductive. More and more villagers are alleging they have been abused by marines. This documentary is a disturbing exposé of American actions in Afghanistan. A must see,

Theater of War: The Plot Against the American Mind
Nicholas Powers reads passages from his book
www.upsetpress.org

A collection of socialist, surrealist poetry and prose, Theater of War parodies the rhetoric of the U.S. National Security Strategy Report, exposing the fascist machinations of the Bush administration. Presented with unforgiving humor, disjunctive syntax, and subversive wordplay, Theater of War removes the earplugs that "defend" us from dissent.

RSVP to this event here

Alwan is located at:
16 Beaver Street, 4th floor
Directions:in the Financial District between Broadway & Broad 
Subway:   4,5 Bowling Green   R,W Whitehall  2,3 Wall Street   J,M Broad Street   1,9 South Ferry
[Alwan Website]

Date: 2005-02-04

8Bit's little film continues to WOW punks and depress Republicans

By Zoran Telliemiester - Minister of Propaganda
A fight between punk squatters and the lumpen proletariat broke out at a recent screening at DEKK in NYC during the run of "She's Got an Atomic Bomb", the short film by renegade director Cihan Kaan aka 8Bit. When asked about why the fight started Jacob 'Cowbell' Bouchard, son the drummer from Blue Oyster Cult and founder of the temporarily defunct indie rock label eIndie yelled, "Nothing brings people together more than mutual hatred!" He than spit at this writer and stormed off with my cash and a telephone number I got from the bartendress.

Once again, as with his hip-hop and techno works Mr. Kaan (director of Frankie Bones and assorted techno videos) remains ahead of his time. Some can say it is to his disadvantage yet again. "I will prevail in the end", he remarked when asked about the umteen rejection letters received from so-called Underground film festivals around the world. He claims, "There will be no second guessing of the brilliance of this film because some greasy fingered interns don't like the idea of angry punks blowing up the suburbs with dirty bombs. This is the future -- I have seen it and I won't stop exhibitions because Rumsfeld controls the minds of the masses."

Screenings of the film have been plentiful thanks to his crack team of publicity merchants and uzbeki snake-oil saleswomen. "90% of filmmaking is the makeup.", 8Bit commented angrily downing a shot of Jack. "Look at David Lynch. The other 10% is confidence and you my friend have got none." He than keeled over into the boobs of the transvestite beside him. There are talks about a 4 city tour after "She's Got an Atomic Bomb" finishes its run in New York, the final screening being at the New York Vigilante Festival, a festival he somehow managed to begin 4 hours ago after an unnamed festival rejected the film. "It's as if I get a c-section operation consisting of festival organizers ripping my stomach apart each time these letters pour in. I met some other filmmakers with the same scars who all had awesome films like mine and thus NYVFF was spawned." Spawned out of frustration over the submission fees from festivals around the world, the aptly titled NYVFF claims on its website to "Subvert the film festival submission racket..." We wish him the best of luck and hope he doesn't hook up with some psycho vampire energy sucking chick who sabotages the whole project because her needs outweigh the needs of every struggling filmmaker in New York. Stay focused Mr. Bit and perhaps you'll be able to laugh at these festivals all the way to Spiderman 9, where all the suicide girls you want will be an arms reach away.

CHECK THE OFFICIAL MOVIE SITE FOR UPCOMING SCREENINGS! www.bomb-movie.com


THINK OUTSIDE THE BOMB!
8Bit

Date: 2004-10-22

'She's Got an Atomic Bomb' plays to a packed house. 2nd Screening Coming Soon!

CHECK THE OFFICIAL MOVIE SITE! www.bomb-movie.com

(DUMBO, Brooklyn) - Landbridge Massive Pictures premiere event screening for "She's Got an Atomic Bomb" played to invite only audience (150 people showed up) on the tip of Brooklyn in DUMBO. The reception and screening was followed by a brief Q n A with the Director and cast members where the question was asked, "Will there be a sequel and what will it be called?". "Probably She's got an Atomic Kerry or She's Got an Atomic Bush, depending on the elections.", said the Director. Thank you's extend to all the people who were part of the cast and crew without whom this film would not have been made. Also, to the amazing folks at the DUMBO location for allowing us to screen there.

"Reminiscent of Romper Stomper. There is an air of wild abandon."
-Slamdance

"Oh my gosh, Marine Park and Russians with gold chains and flashy jump suits and sandals. Crazy! I will never look at Sheepshead Bay the same again."
-In Out Press

"Exciting and reinforcing the angst of hardcore punk music."
-Punk Rock Press

THINK OUTSIDE THE BOMB!
8Bit

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Date: 2004-10-15

Premiere Event Set!

UPDATE:Tired of the old activist anti-corporate documentary screenings at dive bars? The drip, drip, drip of Skull & Bones frat boys debating each other about wood companies?

The premiere of "She's Got an Atomic Bomb" is set for October 21st, 2004 in a DUMBO art gallery warehouse in downtown Brooklyn. Get your name on our RSVP list FAST so you can get the info!

Now what the hell is this movie about?

A girl in Brooklyn is accused of blowing up the Sewage Treatment facility. Pissed off at the world, she buys depleted uranium to construct a nuclear WMD. Two poser punks from the nonexistent South Hampton punk scene attempt to cash in and rob her but things get messy real fast.

There's big money in WMDs. Huge profits are being made off plundering backwards run countries with ancient nuclear programs. This film is NOT a tale on the state of nuclear proliferation. The story bares no actual relationship to any real life situation. It does however contain bad science, lots of make-up and vintage cars. Just come and see it on October 21st!

Candiria has completed a super dramatic guitar score for the film. Musical contributions include New Black, a great band out of Chicago, Les San Culottes, NY based french kishy lounge sensations, and a host of other great bands (Frankie Bones, Upwelling, Marauder).

For location and times please enter your email below so we can send you information after processing you into the Terrorist Watch list...just joking..

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In the meantime, check these out:
George Orwell letter to Eisenhower: You and the Bomb
CNN: Inside America's Bomb Factory
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists: 7 minutes to midnight
Global Nuclear Stockpiles
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdochs war on journalism
The Radioactive Boy Scout
THINK OUTSIDE THE BOMB!
8Bit

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Date: 2004-09-19

'She's got an Atomic Bomb' Screenings Set to Begin

UPDATE: Screenings begin NEXT WEEK in downtown brooklyn. Get your name on our RSVP list FAST so you can get the info!

I got a flyer, now what the hell is this movie about?

Well, Jacko, I'd say it's 25% Punk Rock Extravaganza, 75% independent film!

A girl in Brooklyn is accused of blowing up the Sewage Treatment facility (she just so happens to be this awesome punk rock chick). Whether or not she did is another question entirely. When she buys depleted uranium and begins constructing a nuclear bomb two poser punks from the nonexistent South Hampton punk scene attempt to cash in and rob her. Like the flyer says, 'A tale of Revenge, Punks and a girl on the edge.'
Oh and this story bares no actual relationship to any real life situation -- it contains bad science, alot of make-up and vintage cars.
Candiria has completed a super dramatic guitar score for the film. Musical contributions include New Black, a great band out of Chicago, Les San Culottes, NY based French kitschy lounge sensations, and a host of other great bands (Frankie Bones, Upwelling, Marauder).

Screenings Info
SGAB will be shown throughout the NYC area starting in October and running through January. For locations and times please enter your email below so we can send you information.

Click here if you have a venue to contribute to a screening or want to be part of the SGAB street team.

Also, if someone asks you why don't you like Bush start with the first thing he did in office, canning the ABM treaty (than work a perverted spiral of misdeeds out of that). Can someone tell him that canning the ABM Treaty was nothing short of step one to Nuclear War?

Peace

8Bit

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Date: 2004-09-15

'She's got an Atomic Bomb' about to Blow!

Time for an update. The film is nearly complete and we've set the promotion machine in motion. There are no set venues for the premiere as of yet but anticipate either a late September or October release. John Lamacchia from Candiria has completed a super dramatic guitar score for the film as well so get ready for some intense moments. Invitations to the premiere event will probably be based on whoever has worked on, been in or is somehow involved in getting this film out. We want you to come even if you didn't help out so if you simply want to be invited to the premiere please contact us so we can send you the dates and times when they are available. Also, send that pic to your friends. The more people come the merrier.

Also, can someone tell Bush that canning the ABM Treaty was nothing short of step one to Nuclear War?

Peace

8Bit

Date: 2005-08-25

New Black, Candiria scores Bomb!

...Along with some other hot new acts like Les Sans Culottes -- French lounge pop loveliness from New York City. Woo-haa! New Black explains themselves as ,'...Quirky and complex, yet catchy as all get-out, New Black is your new tweak." which is good enuff a pitch for the founder of the tweek of the week, Senor 8Bit.

As for Candiria, they can do the explaining. Having just arrived from a merciless tour for their new album "What Doesn't Kill You" guitarist John LaMacchia takes swings at scoring 'The Bomb' with his arsenal of hardcore sound machines.

If you want to be invited to the premiere please contact us so we can send you the dates and times.

8Bit

Date: 2004-07-27

That's a wrap!

Yes indeedy. One moment we were there, the next moment -- poof! In a blaze of disco lights and project kids we wrapped up. The exhaustion from the crew finally set in when we realized it would be over. This, the last night of shooting for over 86 hours over 5 days.

Here's a couple of shots from the random scenes. Pete Damica plays Lexington, the poser punk rocker from the non-existant South Hampton punk scene, Tim Romero is Fink -- the purple haired deaf mute. Take a look at the huge wide shot of the street as Kenny Glck, who stepped in as our Commanding officer after the actor never showed up. Those extras are actual OLD LADIES! Yes, no joke -- they actually lived on Batchelder, the main locale of the film. It was a blast directing 7 Brooklyn Irish Italian women with natural red hair. Anyway, enough of my MILF fetish talk.
Off to post production...should be a premiere in later august. Keep in touch if you want an invitation. L8r

8Bit

Date: 2004-07-24

The Show Goes on!

2nd day of shooting was cancelled from a rain scare/flash flood warning which never happened to our dismay. Within 3 days though we were back for the biggest scene in the entire film. Cop cars, arrests, flying atom bombs and old ladies. The strong production crew kept moving foward from 7pm Wednesday to 8am on Thursday. Carmel Sheehan, head grip catapulted herself up to the roof of our location and broke in because we had no keys. It was a sight to see.




From a text message from random crew member: Watching a babe like Monika handle an atom bomb. Priceless. I'm sure ya'll can't wait to see how this stuff is going to turn out -- me niether. Our lead actress Monika Przybylska ripped through scenes like a pro and we consistently nailed shots take after take.

Pic: Tim Romero (Fink), Sarah Huling (Prada Woman), Monika Przybylska (Truffi), Joe Soos (Prep Man/Makeup), Mindy Seegal (Officer), Pete Damica (Lexington)
Good Times, good times....

Date: 2004-07-20

Makin' Movies!

The first shots for The Bomb are in the can.

The new 8Bit Productions crew are; AD - Sarju Patel, DP - Joshua Alafia (see his website), Location Manager - Fredrich Brehm, Gaffers - Hit and Run Productions. More info on the way...

Date: 2004-05-27

8Bit Productions begins production on short film "The Bomb" and begins shooting Heroin

By Cihan 8Bit
And he still doesn't have signs of crows feet...

Anyway, you're here because you're in some way an 8Bit Ally, found us on google or followed one the many ads for crew or cast. I will hold up no illusions/delusions of greatness here -- we are not part of the godforsaken Bush administration. Rather, our renegade crew of film assassins are partly composed of evil-Doers, naysayers and bi-polars. In fact, we condone relevancy in exchange for obsolescence.

So sorry we've lost Danica McKellar and Debrajean Danger but apparently our new operating system couldn't handle the W32.Some.Fool32 email virus that spreads when phones aren't used. Isn't that always the case.

I wonder if a movie with a $70,000 budget, a bored greedy crew and labored script is any better than a no budget guerilla punk, bitch ass movie with a dedicated crew and fantastic script.

I'm opting for the second solely based on my Sufi upbringing (don't tell anyone) and musical taste.

Peace. Support our troops and the truth -- eat carbs not lards.
8Bit

Date: 2004-04-23

I feel like robbing an old man and becoming a Hare Krishna

By Cihan 8Bit
I was contemplating my fate the other day an decided instead of hating people individually I would simply batch them into groups. We need to start a new social community that chants "No Globalization without Generalization!" dressed like Navajo in black face. My major neuroses is not my identity or even my fate, as previously thought. The one thing I can't stop going over is being mediocre. NOFX has a great song on their new album War on Errorism titled "Medio-core' -- and its about what else, mediocrity. Defined on dicitionary.com as "a moderate or low degree of excellence". The idea of being substandard or below par (as opposed to being up to par) is daunting and makes me nauseous.

So I've directed the EIGHTBIT.COM team of web-assassins to slash prices and clear out the merchandise. Time for the next level shite.

Peace. Support our troops -- eat carbs.
8Bit

Date: 2004-02-23

Catching up with 8!

Need to catch up on essential 8Bit tunes? Check these out, crank your speakers and have your real/mp3 player connected.

DIGITAL NOIZE- full track

REINTERPRET Vol. 2 Hyper Punk Drum & Bass Mix- sampler

DYSRHYTHMIA- sampler

Date: 2003-12-19

Cultivating Qi in Wintertime Dungeons

"How big is your gong?", seems to be the prevailing question around these parts. The idea being that the bigger the gong the greater the bang or in the philosophy of Qi-Gong, the more powerful one's system is. That's an all around power -- health, dexterity and in combat. Battle aside though, 8Bit has enough head wounds to last a lifetime. In order to achieve the heights of Gong-ness, or exist in a state of virtue, one has to clean out the karma. Sounds easy. Light some sage and call your Wicca friend to dance around a pit, right? Not really.

We can't clear out karma. It's dealt to us on a first slap, first punch basis. The idea really than is not to kill anyone or anything. Don't be a bitch and since it's Christmas try not kick the homeless for once.

Date: 2003-11-29

Yo! What the f*ck!

Post your rants PPL!

Like an indignant, screaming temper tantrum from a 6 year old blonde girl, 8Bit has returned strapped with gloks, packing nines, twenty pieces, and a crew of degenerate malcontent non-conformists with one mission...to reinterpret the philosophy of hardcore. Another round on the house for all my peeps.

With several incomplete scripts, unfinished short stories and half-assed brain spillages will arise a tremendous montage of strewn together images and vagrantly defiant music that seem to make no references to anything we known as Americana yet embraces all things esoterically Islamic.


Henceforth, the Adopt-an-Al-Qaidan program is in effect and will be run by General Hooligan of the 10th Decibel. You too can sponsor your own Guantanamo Bay refugee for the cost of a cup of coffee.

With this 13th coming, and a stable web host in hand, eightbit.com will shortly be dramatically stripped of it's prior 5 years of archives for the quasi-techno-god 8Bit and transform into a Mecca for the end of space-time as we know it.

Onward Alliance Bearers!

Date: 2003-05-19

New Interactive 8Bit DVD!!

- Remastered Digital Broadcast Videos
- Eardrum shattering Dolby Digital Audio
- Deleted Scenes
- 8Bit Interactive Music Machine
...and full blown interactive menus.

$18.88 US [Online Paypal Purchase]

Website Updates:
Eightbit.com now residing on a new and faster server.
Added new Forums.
Created the 8Shop for easier Paypal based orders.

Date: 2003-04-29

8Bit Spotted in Studio and on Streets of NYC

War songs from 8Bit:

Bush is the antichrist, BTW. [read more]

8Bit Alliance - Within Fear [real player] [mp3] [read lyrics]


Under the sky of a NY in spring transition, the merry hipsters and acid rain dancers got together for a little outdoor shindig. Thanks to the guys at Blackcat for organizing a Thompkins square park event complete with superstar DJ Red Alert, our own Frankie Bones and Heather Heart and other likenesses to whom this 8Bit machine iconifies.






8Bit is in the studio reworking the new EP with Alliance cohort N3trco. Be afraid, be very afraid. This ill collaboration had already created poltergeists in the studio and may have permanently damaged certain members corneas. The EP currently titled 'Ethnik Cleansing' is scheduled for completion some time soon and updates will be presented on the site.




Pictures from Thompkins Square Park Blackkat event April 27th. N3trco on the mic and DJ Red Alert on the one.

Date: 2003-04-06

Those evil brutes are no match to my shrinking gun!

Apparently mass consensus on the war has been reached as stated by our own Republican Guards. Nevertheless, some anti war songs from 8Bit and the Beasties:

Bush is the antichrist, BTW. [read more]

Beastie Boys - World gone Mad [goto website]
8Bit Alliance - Within Fear [real player] [mp3] [read lyrics]

How to survive SARS? That's a toughy. We're thinking it has something to do with one or more of these things;
1.overpopulation
2.mother earth cleaning herself out
3.some form of government "population surplus" extermination project"
4.a truly heinous microvirus having evolved out of our constant use of antibiotics for paper cuts

That being said, frightening as either one may sound that gritty reality is this: New York may have less than 14 days before it starts getting as hectic here as it has in Hong Kongs Guang Dong Province.

Another downer to your already orgy filled day -- there is no escape.

Date: 2003-03-20

March War Week!

First off, some new anti war songs from 8Bit and the Beasties:

Bush is the antichrist, BTW. [read more]

Beastie Boys - World gone Mad [goto website]
8Bit Alliance - Within Fear [real player] [mp3] [read lyrics]


Dubya, looking like the retarded banjo player from Deliverance, has haphazardly tossed the US into a single-sided, one-eyed "war". Despite millions of anti-war protests from Antarctica to Rwanda, the UN Security Councils veto and warnings from the Pope himself, Bush has decided the best path for him and the US is to go into Iraq.

According to dictionary.com 'War' is defined as 'A concerted effort or campaign to combat or put an end to something considered injurious: the war against acid rain. ' If the innocent families of Iraq are considered injurious I can understand this war. If they were responsible for direct attacks on US soil -- if the Iraqis themselves were guilty of anything other than being Saddams people perhaps this war could be justified.

However, there are many dictatorships in the world. There are many countries who wield greater arsenals than Saddam and are madder than he is. How can 'regime change' be justification in view of the greater threats facing us? It is not.

Nor is the grand illusion of the 'war on terror' justification. Bush has failed to find Osama like he has failed with our countries economy. Basically, everything he touches turns to shit, look at his personal history. He ran an oil company into the ground in the 80s along with a hockey team he owned. Bush single-handedly oversaw the prison executions of over 300 inmates during his governorship of Texas,.

America, 'We will never forget' is a euphemism used all to often to conjure up patriotic fervor and rationalize the killing of innocent Iraqis. It is a tool of age old brainwashing. President Alexander Polk used the EXACT SAME angle when justifying the mexican war [read speech]. The angle to induce a people into a patriotic corner thus prohibiting them from questioning, dissenting, and being forthcoming. It is the angle of blaming the otherside. Exclaiming to the masses of the United States that 'We have given diplomacy a chance!'. This technique has been used again and again.

There are major holes in this war. Looming questions that have remained unanswered for 2 years now. There has not been any valid examination of the September 11th attacks for starters. No independent investigations or black box recordings. Furthermore, Bush and Cheney's hands are blood red from Enron and Halliburton yet there is never any mention of how tangled this Administrations web is.

The media, like vultures, are gathered around Baghdad waiting for the bombs to explode and the numbers of dead to come rolling in. Its called 'Psychic Politicking', the art of collective behavior control through talking heads.

Pictures from NYC Antiwar Rally March 21st, Washington Square Park.

Date: 2003-07-03

Un-American Film Fest Strikes Back

As a purely patriotic gesture of Lincolnesque 'tippings of the hat' we salute the purveyors of Los Festivos del Unamericano or as its really called 'The unamerican film fest'. Not to be confused with the 'American Film Fest', which I doubt exists, but if it did would show a rampage of Kevin Costner films. Albeit Costnerians are great people it would seem there has been an absence of Un-American piety -- a gap now filled in with the plaster of Paris known as the Unamerican Film festival.

Furthermore and henceforth it is seemingly nonetheless been a success over at the NY Underground Film Fest where the Jello Biafra: Live At Warsaw peice was shown alongside many other worthwhile visual documents of dissent. If 'Dissent is patriotic' the a dissentful film festival is 'uber-patrios' in motion. In the immortal words of your Daddy -- Mr. GW himself , 'I recognize there are people who -- who don't like war. I don't like war...We'll be there in a minute. King, John King. This is a scripted -- (laughter.)'.

[see whole Bush Speech]

Date: 2003-02-24

"Im really into that diversity sh*t!"

We all wish N3tcro good tidings in his departure from NY to NC, its a drastic move to the say the least. New York is a hot zone lately -- are we blowin' up today or tommorow? Apocalyptic dreams soak its inhabitants. Chaos grows inside the weak hearts manipulated by rags like the New York Post with headlines like 'CYANIDE!'. And all the while Brooklynites, members of that concatenated village, incur an urban patriotism that should be called ignorance and violent self-reassurance.

"Im 2nd generation American, what about you?", said the white dread standing outside of the bar. The dirty blind boys girl replied, "Im 3rd generation." She turns towards the 'ethnic' kid, "I like that diversity bullsh*t! So what kind of arab are you?"

"Im not an arab lady."

"Oh no, thats cool...im on the Palestinians side anyway."

"Listen, lady I really dont care about that sh*t."

Yet another conversation aided by the war on terror.

Date: 2003-02-15

Date: 2002-02-11

Commodifying the Cause

com·mod·i·fy : To turn into or treat as a commodity; make commercial.

The disempowerment of dissent has entered pop culture and threatens to seep into the minds of our younger brother and sisters. EIGHTBIT.COM will attempt to inform of current ads, songs, artists and/or corporate mind bashing that gains interiority with the sole purpose of sucking our very souls while teaching the children that 'the system' is all powerful, all seeing, all knowing. Take a minute to review the 'Commodifications of the Week' and share the info. The ratings are on a scale from 1-10 , ten being the most manipulative and threatening. The Corporate Machine are the terrorists.

Watch out for:

Artist: Aimee Allen Song: Revolution - Rated : 7 (suggests she would have a revolution if she could wake up in the morning,)

Artist: Jah Rule: Mesmerized - Rated : 9 (video loosely depicts underground resistance planning to overthrow government )

Che Guevara Gap Shirt - Rated : 5

Bob Marley Boots - Rated : 9 (happy b-day! Bob Marley boot are horrendous creations)

Marie Claire - Article on Ethnic Couples : Rated : 10 (watch out for anything that uses the word ethnic)

more to come...

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The Warpaint of Vanity

Here's this Miss World competition. A bunch of women battling out who's got the whitest cheekbones to carry the title. Now, that's all good and fun, but the strange part is how its going down in Nigeria.

Heavy is the head that wears this years crown because the strangest part of all this is that 200 or so folks have already been killed in protest. Well, who is to blame? Check this quote out;

Asked if she had regrets, Miss Wales said: "No, definitely not. The Nigerian people were fantastic and we were greeted everywhere we went. It is a shame a small minority of people spoilt it for everyone ... There were a lot of people crying as we were leaving because they did not want us to go."
[read whole story]

Of course, "it's those pesky Muslims at it again", reflects the tone of every media source out there. The most bizarre element to this whole debauchel is that these anarchist Nigerian Muslims are up in arms over their Prophet Muhammad being defaced in the local paper there. This all started because the pageant decided to take a full page ad out that said 'These chicks are so hot even Muhammad would get down with them'.

Now, excuse me but that's some spiteful sh*t right there.

Date: 2002-11-18

NYPD: Take a 6 Month Course and You're always Right

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From Wellstone to Jay: Just Another Victim

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Coming Through for your Friends

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-excerpt from Howard Bloom Interview
'Ive met god and he lives in Brooklyn'

Some links 4 yer mind:
American Hardcore: A Tribal History
911: The Conspiracy Theory
Tesla

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DATES COVERED: @6.00.99 - 9.26.00

General

8Bit will be coming to California Sept 29-Oct 9 for all things good and sensory! Also added an experimental track player (see lower right to activate)...still buggy but it works! Try using it with the interactive noizecore mod - hours of fun...for around 5 minutes.

Announcements

MENTAL UNITY is frozen but will return with a facelift and some real unity. Apologies to all confoozed and given misinfo but no further info can be given at this time. Check mentalunity.com for details..

The Dead Tracks Movie has also started to be rethought as another summer shoot is being planned. In the meantime the only existing photos of last years shoot where the camera and film were stolen have been posted in the projects section.

The dudes at the Interactive Online Music HQ, ss7x7, have asked for an 8Bit design for their machines -- check them out; we should have our music on their cool little machines soon.

8Bit has restarted production on a new style release entitled, "Sunshine, Booty & the Cosmos" due to the incident. Although still extremely hard this EP incorporates newer elements -- like crappy Frank Sinatra-like vocals (which 8bit tries to emulate but unfortunatley sucks at so it sounds like complete rubbish -- but good rubbish -- he hopes to be Noizecores 1st Englebert Humperdink). 8Bit is now working with live musicians from many influences and plans on "Sunshine" to be a revolutionary component to the future of hardcore techno and general rubbish. Estimated release date will be later this year although you shouldn't hold your breath -- it'll really suck.

Old Happenings

PROTOSONIC Studios now a reality! Finally, after years of making tracks out of his living room studio, 8Bit and partners have teamed up and secured a space in Rockaway Beach, NY, as the dedicated studios for all music based projects. Here are the specs; 32 track Mackie, Layla Digital Multitrack, Akai MPC-2000, ALL OF 8BITS GEAR, 2 drumsets (electric and acoustic), Racks of effects and sound modules as well as a Bass Rig, Guitar Rig and assorted percussion items. FUN FUN FUN! We will work on other projects whether film of music oriented. Dig IT!

Congratulations! We have made EIGHTBIT.COM hit its 50,000 hit marker as of the new millenium. This place might actually be cool one-day. 8Bit has been dismissed from all charges against him for the assault charge in NC so expect more from this role-model for children everywhere. MP3z are now on the site so for all those who have the bandwidth (and those that don't) download them to hear the full audio spectrum of the 8Bit Alliance.

Well, after all the propaganda and panic nothing happened when the clocks switched over. 8Bit however did land his ass in a jail cell in North Carolina's Hillsboro Correctional Facility where with 15 assorted felons he ate collard greens and a hamhock for the first time. While awaiting his indictment on Febuary 7th for an 'Assault with a Deadly Weapon with serious injury' charge he is working on beats and rhymes with Hooligan and OM from the Bones video. The Official ProtoSonic Studios is also being set up in Rockaway, Brooklyn in cooperation with Generic. More on that in the coming months.

Finally got around to making some MP3z so check them out. Also made a couple of noticable aesthetic changes to the homepage. Fixed a major bug with the refresh command constantly updating old browsers which really annoyed some users.

This place will be real different soon. With respect to confidentiality, in collaboration with some unknown cohorts we will be making EIGHTBIT.COM a portal of sorts. The design - purpose and strategy as well as business model are being worked out. Join the cause now!

Seems like noone is interested in halloween set so me and Little Chris are switching our hobbies. From now on the 8Bit Alliance will be known ass DJ Mush-E & the Fat Wenches. Okay and there won't be a live set album. We lied. We didn't even record it. As a matter of fact I'm not even human - yeah - so there.

The live set from halloween will soon be available for all those ghouls interested.

Things are once again shaping up around here. I totalled my car while getting an amp for the Halloween gig -- whatever. The 8Bit Alliance (Chris Larosa was featured on Congas and Midi Triggers/Cihan was doing the beats and noizes) teared up the party with 2 live sets.

Props go out to Sean Generic, RFS Productions, AlliGarber, Rich and the whole warehouse crew for getting a phat party together. Don't sweat it if I didn't shout u out.

A shockwave version of eightbit.com is about to premiere. Expect it to suck and be nothing more than a feeble attempt at trying to get people to look at me naked -- which should not attract you unless of course your gay -- in which case u should know I'm straight but think nothing wrong of the gay population -- just dont touch me when I'm naked.

The idea for a rackmountable tracker (imagine FastTracker as a RACKMOUNT device!) has been proposed to various electronic music device designers and we've gotten lots of feedback on it. I've posted these interactions so you will all know the progress of this device. Check it out here!

A $10,000 rented Arriflex BL 16mm camera was stolen from our rental car after a film shoot in late July. A weekend worth of filming was in the case which was consequently also stolen. The film was based on the Bones video except it would of been a feature film with dialogue, not a dull music video. Unfortunately, this has been a major financial blow to myself and the company and will take a couple of months to recover from. -8Bit

Compilation

There hasn't been much progress on this front mainly due to finance issues with the stolen equipment plus I lost interest in the type of music I had been into for so long and life in general is a hollow void of identically shaped female butt cheeks. I'm currently on a regimend of selling my body to japanese business women, ingesting pounds of prozac a day, not sleeping for days, and kinky unprotected sex with badgers from the outback-- as soon as I'm done with that I'll get this comp going again. No more entries are being accepted for the comp mainly cuz the 8Bit Alliance and The Bastards United will be featured on the first release of the new ProtoSonic Label. We have also joined forces with with Sinc Recordings for distributions and future releases. If you need info on the compilation. click here.