8-Bit Ninjas

Giant Toffee Crisp!

AC — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:49:06 +0000

A month or so ago, I was asked very nicely for consent to use Shiny Spaceship in a video by the lovely Jess (roboticpink). That video was the construction of a Giant Toffee Crisp! And it’s awesome so I thought I would share. Looks well tasty =]

Live at the Bull’s Head February 2012

AC — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 11:08:42 +0000

On a mild evening in February, I trekked to the venerable borough of Moseley in Birmingham and played a little gig. Here is a nice recording of it. See if you can work out when my d-string snapped.

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MTV Brand New 2012

AC — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:33:50 +0000

Hey y’all, we’ve been very quiet of late. Life took aver for a little while sorry. Very soon we’ll have some new interesting stuff for you to hear and a new chiptunes podcast. All coming in the new year. Also we have the 8bit Lounge Christmas Party on Tuesday 13th December. Come and play games with us while we make some noises! In the meantime, we’ve made the long list fro MTV’s Brand New 2012. Best way to explain it is to copy the text from the web page:

ABOUT COMPETITION

MTV are offering one unsigned act the chance to be part of Brand New for 2012. One UK or Ireland-based unsigned band/artist will have the chance to follow in the footsteps of Jessie J, Tinie Tempah, Lady Gaga, The Vaccines, Labrinth and Wretch 32 but they need your votes to to help get them there. On December, 9th our judges selected the longlist of acts through to the public vote. You now have between December, 9th and January, 8th to vote for your favourite. We will be tracking each act’s online buzz as well as counting their votes. MTV’s crack team of music experts will pick an unsigned winner from the top 20 – and on January 9th we will have our shortlist of 10. Make sure you ‘Like’ the MTV Brand New Facebook page to stay up to date with your progress in the competition.

See? Nice things might happen for us! So here’s a plea, help us out, like our track, vote for us, write loads of things on our Facebook page. Get your friends involved, if you like us, why shouldn’t they? If you have a blog, please mention us and our campaign and even if we fail, we might generate a bit of hype! Speaking fo whichm here’s a thingy which says arbitrarily how good we’re doing or something:

Contributions and Collaborations

AC — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:00:25 +0000

Remember ages ago when we played at the launch party of Dirty Bristow magazine? Well for the second edition we contributed a little somethin’ somethin’ by the way of a sonic tidbit. Every (many(some)) copy of Dirty Bristow, Beast Edition will come with a cover tape containing some musical mashups and a game for the ZX Spectrum! We did a very silly cover of “Deer Dance” by System of a Down, featuring a malfunctioning robot William Shatner. Well, they asked for “cross-genre”…

You can buy the second edition – “Beast” – of the magazine here.

And you can see our contribution here.

Oh, and I (Andy) also contributed some arts for one of the articles!

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Another New Gig

AC — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:02:18 +0000

We’ve been very kindly asked by Birmingham Promoters to support Greg Bird & Flamingo Flame at their Freestyle event at The Bulls Head, Moseley on the 15th July. Just had a listen to Greg and his stuff is really lovely. Looking forward to it big time!

Doors are at 19:00 and it will cost you the modest sum of £3 on the door. I should have some tickets beforehand though, I’ll let you know soon.

Here’s the event on their website

See you there!

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Festival Fun!

AC — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:53:09 +0000

We’re happy to announce we’ve been booked to play our first ever festival! Limetree Festival of Music and Arts is a small up-and-coming festival up in Grewelthorpe, North Yorkshire from 26th to 28th August. It looks wicked, and we’ll be playing on the Sorted Dance Stage at 17:00 on the Saturday. A weekend pass will set you back the modest sum of £85 and a day pass, but £35. It would be wicked if we could see some of your happy faces down there, and for those of you that can’t afford one of the larger more commercial festivals this year, why not help out and make Limetree awesome! Trust me, it’s worth it just to see Cantaloop. Oh, and we’ll be wearing capes! ;]

As we learn more info, I’ll let you know but we’re going to try and book a bunch of warm up gigs ove the next 8 weeks.

See you soon!

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Free single! April 10th

AC — Tue, 10 May 2011 18:37:19 +0000

Because you’re all so lovely, you can have this for free:

8-Bit Ninjas – April 10th by crazygibbon

Click the down arrow to download for free!

New Gig! – Wolverhampton 7th May

AC — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:42:35 +0000

A night of electronica, glitch, 8-bit bleeps, near-ambient noise, and crippled beats featuring Thee Moths, Chromatouch, Mutate, 8-Bit Ninjas, and domesticflight all playing easily digested bite sized sets of bliss.

It’s at the Light House: Yoohoo! CLICK ME!

It should be bangin’, and it’s free!

Been Working on Some New Stuff!

AC — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 10:06:59 +0000

We’ve been quiet really for a bit on here, just though I’d let you know we’re still alive. I have a bionic knee now and I’ve been writing some more tunes. Here’s a work in progress I have to finish:

Red Light by crazygibbon

We’re now stocked in Amazon!

AC — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:41:21 +0000

You can get hold of a copy of 6581 on Friday 17th from here:

Amazon MP3

I’ll know about more stores as they get it in but eventually it’ll be available from:

Amazon
iTunes
Rhapsody
Spotify
eMusic
Zune
MySpace
Napster
Nokia
And a bunch of others I can’t remember…

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