Bitbasic has been performing live at Cologne Commons – Conference & Festival on Digital Culture in June 12th, 2010. We took some video footage during Bitbasic’s live show at Gebäude9 in Cologne and turned them into some sort of audio-visual Cuts’N'Breaks. Lick ‘em, they’re ugly.
Pixel Mixel is the new full length album by Bitbasic containing 11 tracks of playful and melodic Electronica. On his 40+ minutes album he’s been touching the various styles such as Drill ‘n’ Bass, Nu Breaks and Intelligent Dance Music. Something for the ladies and gentlemen on the dancefloor indeed but also thought to be heard under your headphones!
Pixel Mixel arrives right on time for this year’s Cologne Commons festival where Bitbasic will be performing live on Saturday 12th June 2010 at the famous Gebäude 9 in Cologne. With his current release Bitbasic; the lunatic noise enthusiast from London, pushes forward the next level of glitchy Breaks and drilly IDM.
London-based Bitbasic aka. Simon Haycock, has released several EPs and albums through other netlabels such as Monotonik and Testpilot Music before; Bitbasic started his musical adventures at the age of 15. Playing out with a laptop and 40h monome, Simon uses his self-written software ‘dj64′ which modells a mixer and two turntables virtually.
As the music magazine Drowned in Sound has coined Bitbasic’s virtuosity “in nodding to the likes of Nathan Fake, Four Tet and Paul White among others, Haycock is [...]bringing together equally excellent and equally diverse genres and wedding them into a sound distinctly his own.”
rec72 netlabel is envolved in 2010’sCologne Commons – Conference & Festival . As we will send our crew members Zoe.LeelA and BitBasic live on stage – both concerts will take place at Gebäude 9 in Cologne!
Are you wandering unsystematically from music blog to community, from myspace to jamendo and backwards to last.fm? But you never met an album which combined all your favourite tracks from your beloved music acts? Then let Bitbasic simply introduce you “Leonard”, a musical aid kit for the moments of your life in which you lack melodic electronica. 12 tracks that cover almost any style and mood that music can deliver so far. For those of you that need a musical analogy: Expect a bunch of tunes on BitBasic’s Leonard that remind you on acts like AFX, Ulrich Schnauss, Air, Two Loneswordsmen and Steve Reich – no kidding!!!
BitBasic is London-based electronica artist Simon Haycock. His debut album “Leonard ” on rec72 was entirely produced in one month. “As part of the RPM Challenge, where participant musicians are challenged to try and make an album of at least 35 minutes (or 10 tracks) of music”, Simon says. You shouldn’t miss those bright moments of ambient, IDM and shoegaze on one album!
rec72 Netlabelectronica is celebrating the 20th music release with BitBasic’s Leonard album since we started our mission in 2007. Thanks to you people out there for popping by and helping us to spread the smart music of our fine artists!
Visuals & Clips
Bitbasic "The lack of anything good" music clip produced by A. Riethmann. Download Bitbasic track and his Pixel Mixel album for free
Tracklist Pixel Mixel
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