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bt#48: stAllio! – blame it on the algorithm

bt#48: stAllio! – blame it on the algorithm

release date: april 8, 2022

Years ago, while making music with the program Impulse Tracker, stallio noticed an unusual feature: it would open any file on his hard drive as if it were an audio file. Fascinated, he spent hours listening to Photoshop brushes, Windows system files, and all other sorts of data, selecting the most interesting sounds to use in his music.

This path eventually led to three releases, including a self-released 12″ (True Data); experiments in visual arts; influential glitch art tutorials; academic citations; and more.

Now, 10 years after his last data sound recording (On the DLL), he returns to his 8-bit roots. Heavy as a brick and crunchy enough to break a tooth, “blame it on the algorithm” coaxes intricate rhythms and buzzing basslines out of raw 8-bit data. No filters or effects are used.

download mp3s:

  1. something bad happened
  2. blame it on the algorithm
  3. fast coma
  4. dead feed
  5. conflicted copy
  6. zero day

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bt#45: muerto zoke – 1982 till muerto

bt#45: muerto zoke – 1982 till muerto

release date: february 22, 2022

this is it! years in the making, we can finally unleash the long-long-awaited bad taste debut of muerto zoke!

download mp3s:

  1. 1982 till muerto

bt#46: stAllio! – Ok Google

bt#46: stAllio! – Ok Google

release date: march 31, 2020

dance music for you and your digital voice assistant

download mp3s:

  1. Ok Google
  2. Hello Computer

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bt#44: animals within animals – we fail for a living

bt#44: animals within animals – we fail for a living

release date: 10/11/19

failure will occur, so when it does, turn to the experts: animals within animals. who do you call when the y2k bug finally strikes? animals within animals — we fail for a living! got sphincter arrest? brainwarshed? your friends call you a fool? we fail for a living!

nearly 80 minutes of collage and rhythmic noise from the masters of making music out of unlikely things. free mp3 download or compact disc for the collectors.

download mp3s:

  1. unlikely things
  2. a fine how-do-you-do
  3. trashy music for trashy people
  4. put ‘em on
  5. decoupage
  6. fresh for 88
  7. y2pacalypse
  8. marketing for dummies
  9. chronological history of the united states 1607-1864
  10. a disturbing discovery at the bus stop
  11. angel blood
  12. kylie’s fave
  13. dominatrix / mother russia
  14. human-style sex
  15. chronological history of the united states 1865-1968
  16. a good talking point
  17. forecast for failure
  18. chakkar kahn
  19. hollywood hocus pocus
  20. true believers (brain warshing)
  21. words with friends
  22. i’m (a) baby
  23. galvanized garbage
  24. redesigning women
  25. back to school
  26. chronological history of the united states 1969-2020

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bt#43: animals within animals presents skipmunks volume 2

bt#43: animals within animals presents skipmunks volume 2

release date: 11/2/18

Nobody can explain exactly what happened to The Chipmunks. Or they won’t publicly. Maybe they don’t want to admit it to themselves. Was it all flawed from the start? Doomed to fail before it even began?

Best not to think about it. At least we have the recordings.

download mp3s:

  1. Fame (Skipmunk Mix)
  2. Low Rider (Skipmunk Mix)
  3. Right Down the Line (Skipmunk Mix)
  4. I Wanne Be Sedated (Skipmunk Mix)
  5. Atomic Dog (Skipmunk Mix)
  6. True (Skipmunk Mix)
  7. Rock It (Skipmunk Mix)
  8. Drive (Skipmunk Mix)
  9. Computer Love (Skipmunk Mix)
  10. Policy of Truth (Skipmunk Mix)
  11. Lithium (Skipmunk Mix)
  12. Mr Boombastic (Skipmunk Mix)
  13. I Want You (Skipmunk Mix)
  14. Last Night (Skipmunk Mix)
  15. Fallin’ (Skipmunk Mix)
  16. Sweet Escape (Skipmunk Mix)
  17. Mrs Officer (Skipmunk Mix)
  18. Pumped Up Kicks (Skipmunk Mix)
  19. Call Me Maybe (Skipmunk Mix)
  20. Work (Skipmunk Mix)
  21. Bad and Boujee (Skipmunk Mix)
  22. This Is America (Skipmunk Mix)

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bt#42: animals within animals presents skipmunks volume 1

bt#42: animals within animals presents skipmunks volume 1

release date: 7/7/17

When you think back, it should’ve been obvious that something was wrong with The Chipmunks. Something about the way they moved, the way they sang. Something you could never describe. Now that they’ve started to break down, there are many questions, but few answers. You scan the recordings for clues.

download mp3s:

  1. I Feel Love (Skipmunk Mix)
  2. Miss You (Skipmunk Mix)
  3. The Robots (Skipmunk Mix)
  4. Physical (Skipmunk Mix)
  5. Electric Avenue (Skipmunk Mix)
  6. When Doves Cry (Skipmunk Mix)
  7. Love Song (Skipmunk Mix)
  8. Justify My Love (Skipmunk Mix)
  9. Closer (Skipmunk Mix)
  10. Boys & Girls (Skipmunk Mix)
  11. Hypnotize (Skipmunk Mix)
  12. Try Again (Skipmunk Mix)
  13. Last Resort (Skipmunk Mix)
  14. Drop It Like It’s Hot (Skipmunk Mix)
  15. Buy U A Drank (Skipmunk Mix)
  16. My Humps (Skipmunk Mix)
  17. Somebody That I Used to Know (Skipmunk Mix)
  18. Partition (Skipmunk Mix)
  19. Uptown Funk (Skipmunk Mix)
  20. Flex (Ooh Ooh Ooh) (Skipmunk Mix)

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bt#41: stAllio! – fixed that for you

stAllio! - fixed that for youbt#41: stAllio! – fixed that for you

release date: april 26, 2016

this is the one you’ve been waiting for — stAllio!’s third post-mashup release kicks it up another notch to expert level. pop music is shredded apart and intricately woven back into new hooks, mashed to pieces but still recognizable and accessible. no fx, no chipmunking, no corny one-liners where the whole joke is in the title — this is lesson three in how to “mash smarter, not harder.”

comes with a 10-page booklet complete with sample list! it’s a free download (also on bandcamp).

download mp3s:

  1. mash smarter not harder (smartass mix)
  2. bust a groove
  3. people like damn
  4. superman vs robo-haters
  5. booms of doom pt 1: howl at the boom
  6. booms of doom pt 2: boom worker
  7. howl at the dead boom bam footworker (remix by Dr. AWIA, V.M.D.)

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bt#40: stAllio! – sword to your mother

stAllio! - sword to your motherbt#40: stAllio! – sword to your mother

release date: october 2, 2015

you had probably forgotten that line, buried in the liner notes for 2008′s wack cylinders, that read “part one of a trilogy i haven’t named yet.” and who could blame you? there have been three other stAllio! releases since then! but stAllio! never forgot, and the trilogy that still hasn’t been named continues with part two — sword to your mother.

part two continues many of the loop-based appropriation techniques of part one, and throws in a few new tricks. it’s a little glitchier, a little less chatty. it’s a meditation on death and dying technology. it’s a free download.

download mp3s:

  1. this could be close
  2. a thing of the past
  3. a kind of death
  4. winding up
  5. an added advantage
  6. like a broken mp3
  7. everything’s silent
  8. this failed future
  9. tainted canvas
  10. proud and stupid
  11. computer graveyard

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videos:

stAllio! – tainted canvas from Benjamin Berg on Vimeo.

bt#39: humdrum – sivok

humdrum - sivokbad taste #39: humdrum — sivok

release date: october 2, 2015

sivok is a direct result of forced entry.

humdrum returns with more heavy drums and gritty basslines that make your speakers hum.

download mp3s:

  1. march to the dead
  2. switchback
  3. skaths rupture
  4. facility of destruction
  5. wired souls

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bt#38: stAllio! – on the DLL

cover artbt#38: stAllio! – on the DLL
release date: december 19, 2012

stAllio!’s triumphant return to the world of sonified data! once again, stAllio! plunges deep into his hard drive and listens to the data — image files, executables, and link libraries alike are converted to sound for his review. the choicest bits of data are then meticulously assembled into music: glitchy melodies, skittery rhythms, and thunderous beats emerge from the digital noise. you could call it IDM (interpreted data music), dirty 8-bit, or glitch-hop. stAllio! used to call it databent music, but these days prefers the simpler term data sound.

this is stAllio!’s first full-length release in the data sound style (his label debut, dissonance is bliss!, and 2004′s true data 12″, were both EPs) and his first release as a pay-as-thou-wilt bandcamp download. so stream it online, download it for free if you’re feeling cheap, or even chip in a few bucks for your music the way people used to — but whatever you do, don’t sleep on this!

includes 10 brand-new data sound bangers from stAllio! and a bonus remix by schaedel!

stream/download on bandcamp!