The melding of punk and electronic music is notable especially on вЂњScotch Grind,вЂќ which smacks of Discordance Axis-style blast beats and showcases a need for speed that started with punk but didnвЂ™t end there. вЂњWNo matter how bonkers and demented this music may seem to get, title track вЂњDrumizedвЂќ shows a cohesive structure that befits it all, displaying a mastery of interspersing sound signals arguably on par with modern composition geniuses like Reich or Xenakis.

His newest album Drumized is a natural continuation of that insanity. Born in Japan but residing in Brighton, England, DJ Scotch Egg has been offering up schizophrenic dance music for the Nintendo generation since 2005 when he released his debut KFC Core, which dealt candidly with his unhealthy obsession with the greasy fast food chain while inaugurating the dawn of a new level of frenetic insanity injected into electronic music. Regardless, Scotch Egg (real name Shigeru Ishihara) creates day-glo gabba techno splattered with paintballs of punk fury and modern minimalist composition. Given that he began his musical forays in circuit-bending, it seems reasonable to surmise that hardware hackery is still part of his trade. Standing at an apex of video game music, he uses four gameboys and a mixer, manipulating in real-time using programs such as the Nanoloop and LSDJ.

Elsewhere, other artists like DAT Politics, Nullsleep, and 8-bit Weapon all use Gameboys as centerpieces in their acts.ДЄnd then thereвЂ™s DJ Scotch Egg. A new world of musics made by Gameboys was spawned, with some highlights being the aforementioned Nanoloop comp and Alec EmpireвЂ™s We Punk Einheitmade (released under his Nintendo Teenage Robots moniker), which was made entirely on Gameboy. Then came Johan KotlinskiвЂ™s LSDJ (Little Sound Disc Jockey), which was even more of a revolution, as it allowed for real-time, free-hand wave-form drawing and real synth-modeling capabilities like resonant filters and arpeggiators, not to mention having a sample bank of nearly every drum machine ever made. Nanoloop, developed by Oliver Wittchow, is a sound-editing and sequencer application that was made famous on 2002вЂ™s Nanoloop 1.0 comp. Two notables were both designed for the original Gameboy. Soon, sequestered hardware hackers were creating home-brewed ROMs to interface with the consoles. They called it Chiptune, and by utilizing the simple sawtooth, sine, and pulse waves encoded in various consolesвЂ™ soundboards, a new realm of electronic music and composition was opened. In the mid-вЂ™80s to early-вЂ™90s, a music scene developed around the primitive 8-bit soundcards of now seemingly ancient computers and game consoles. Sampling video game sounds and delivering a message of relinquishing all of oneвЂ™s money at the arcade, it was a herald in breaking down the walls between the video game world and the music industry. In 1982, Buckner & GarciaвЂ™s seminal Pac-Man Fever spawned Billboard toppers such as вЂњDo the Donkey KongвЂќ and the self-titled track. And while the game doesnвЂ™t account for the pacifiers and glowsticks, it proved to be even more prophetically poetic in its suppositions that many of these pill-munching party people would eventually wind up chasing ghosts. In fact, by the dawn of the rave era, many people were doing the very things they had grown up watching Pac-Man do. But it would be naive to think a technological novelty so earth-shattering as the video game would not wind up affecting other aspects of our culture, both musical and sociological.

Most everyone has heard of that little satiric meme made famous by British comedian Marcus Brigstocke. I mean, if Pac Man affected us as kids, weвЂ™d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.вЂќ Others: Neon Hunk, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Atari Teenage Riot, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, DAT Politics Styles: Gameboy-gabber, chiptune, happy hardcore, experimental, 8-bit grindcore

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