Stuff your stocking with Sin

November 10th, 2007

During last year’s summer I released Synd (e. Sin) as a single mp3, but due to incredible, unholy demand, I will be releasing each and every track, individually until christmas starting the 15th of november.

You can subscribe via iTunes to receive them all, or just visit regularly to get your fill.

resurrection

November 23rd, 2005

I am putting the chicorockstar.com website up back again after some downtime. I will be restoring the content to its final glory.

I’ve made a podcast feed of the tracks to you can subscribe to the CR stuff.

It’s not clear if there will be some new music or not. But you will be updated if you subscribe to the feed.

another review

December 20th, 2004

Here is a review of the “friends we met along the way” compilation located at tesselate.me.uk :

exerpt includes :

  • “IM STUCK INSIDE THE HELL PIPES”, well thats what it sounds like at the start of “codebloated” by Chico Rockstar, but luckily it chills out a bit. A journey through minimal machinery, rewinding and hacking sounds all smoothed up by a cloudy chilled atmospheric tune. Glorious.

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    hogwash

    June 9th, 2004

    Im starting work on a remix of a track by the superfly artist Fredo Viola.

    The track is Hogwash, and is available on his web site…. i’ll put up a note when i finish the remix.

    site update

    March 6th, 2004

    Sometimes most of the work goes into the shit no-one will ever see.
    Initially i put this website together with my crude css knowledge… no need to go into details, but i decided that i’d rather like to have it centered then to the left as it was.

    Well… lets just say that it was not as easy as it sounded because of my earlier hacks, but several hours later, after some groesome trial and error with various browsers its as good as it gets…. at least for now..

    …back to the music.

    stuff to buy

    January 15th, 2004

    Music web site isn’t complete without some shit to spend your hard earned money on. With the help of the good ppl @ cafepress.com i’ve setup a little store where you can by shit marked by the rockstar.

    So get it while its hot at the chico rockstar store

    born to do it

    January 15th, 2004

    An EP is in the works. Soon to be released on a small scale, net-only cd dubbed “Born To Do It”. Featuring 4 tracks, including the tracks “Codebloated” and “Bosbee”.

    yet another review

    January 6th, 2004

    Yet another old review pops up, this one reviews the compilation Hive [cbb], where i have 2 tracks on.

  • V/A-HIVE CD (Central Breakbeat Bionomics/CBBCD002) $23.50 For the second CBB release, the idea was to showcase the diverse range of sounds and artists that the label will be presenting. This revolves around two sets of geographically-separated artists, with Apparat and Modeselektor residing in Berlin, and Frank Murder and Chico Rockstar coming from Iceland. Each of the four artists were given 15 minute time-limit to portray their sound and approach. Most of the artists opted for separate tracks in the time allowed, apart from Modeselektor who have given us a 12 minute opus! Nice warm sprawls of sound here, tapes, odd beats, electro trickery, and we all know Iceland means sound kids line up.

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    tracktion

    January 3rd, 2004

    I just got myself a audio/midi workstation software called tracktion from raw material software and will be doing some tracks on it.

    Its looks more simple then what i’ve been using to so far. Simplicity is nice when you want to get some work done.

    a review

    December 20th, 2003

    Boomkat, a online music retailer, reviewed the Cactus Island compilation “Friends we met along the way” which included my track, codebloated.

    The review is attached to the cd at boomkat which doesnt seem to be available anymore, so here is the review of it:

  • “Second release from the Cactus Island label, collecting a diverse spread of talents as a sampler for the label and a record of musical acquaintances made. Contributors include Apparat, Bovine Life, Commander, Tim Koch, the excellent Stendec, Maps & Diagrams and a surprise bonus remix of Verbose by man of the mo, John Xela. Commander’s opening salvo slumber is a horizontal beginning to a lush seventeen track exploration of the state of melodic idm circa summer 2003. Stendec’s bassy, engaging head nodder ‘aileron’ bodes extremely well for their forthcoming project on Expanding records, as does the gorgeous Maps & Diagrams tune contained within. Apparat delivers the kind of form we’ve come to expect from him on his outings for Shitkatapult, and on recent collaborations with Modeselektor for Bpitch. Skurken and Chico Rockstar from Iceland employ the particular and original electronic angles on drums and harmonies the natives of the island execute so brilliantly, while Xela’s version of Alloneword for Verbose highlights once again just how deep and crunchy the man’s production really is, not to mention his flair for a devastating melody. All in all, an assured, unfailingly melodic and beautiful collection of tunes. Lush.”

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