At the end of the 80s, Anders and his brother bought a promitive Commodore 64 PC. This quickly changed his life and he spent the 90s in front of the C64 screen and the next model's screen, the Amiga. In 2001, after several dark demos, the 'Papaya EP' was released in Bleepstreet Records. It was a crossover of schlager, dub, pop, rock and electro made with a C64 and a vocoder. The first track was a cover of 'Papaya Coconut', a grotty-kitsch 80s hit by the Swedish singer Kikki. A then decaying star due to problems with alcohol. Papaya EP was very succesful. 500 copies were published and they ewere all sold.
Since then he has continued working rooted in extreme music simultaneously with the kitschest pop, together with an insane obsession with mistakes and variation, Goto80 produces totally eclectic work. Anders' creative madness expands in moods that start Ambient, IDM, Pop, Dub and end in the most extreme breakcore and noise. His music can't be exclusively catalogued as 'chip music' or 'chiptune', because since he's been using the limited 8bit sound he has blended a big variety of music genres.
Alter spending the 90s decade envolved in the underground computer art scene, he started to play beyond computer parties changing the demoscene for the pop and club scenes. He has currently performed around 70 concerts in 15 different countries and has edited tons of music in netlabels like 8bitpeoples, in the free mp3 EP format.
His first record 'Commodores Groves' is edited in RebelPetSet, a small independent label run by RoleModel (Johan Kotlinski), known worldwide for being the creator of Little Sound DJ, a program to create music with the GameBoy. Goto80 has just released his second CD album in an independent German label distributed by Kompakt with a data track done together with Entter including videos and a karaoke machine.
Entter and Goto80 took part this year in the Mapping VJING Festival 2007 in Geneva, a worldwide reference for VJ culture. This year Mapping was celebrated from April 26th to May 5th and had over 30 artists/VJ groups from Switzerland, France, Germany, the US, Belgium and the UK. Throughout those days there were workshops, talks, installations, concerts and DJ/VJ sets.
'8bit' (2006), the documentary by Marcin Ramocki and Justin Strawhand on 'Chip Music' art and 8bit videogames was premiered at MoMA in New York and was shown for two days in BAC (GenevaÕs Space for Contemporary Art) as a supplement to their performance.
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