Jueves 28 Feb 2008, 11:30

Years ago I posted some music on last.fm by a friend and myself. We called ourselves The Sand People are Easily Startled but They Will be Back in Greater Numbers but unfortunately we only got to record one track. I quite like that track, though, as it has a certain feel to it.

Anyway, I've just noticed that last.fm has generated a list of similar artists to The Sand People are Easily Startled but They Will be Back in Greater Numbers and it's an inspiring mix of completely brilliant, completely stupid music, most of it heavily chiptune-influenced.

I'm posting it here because I happen to know there's a big update to the similarity algorithm coming soon and I want to preserve the list for future reference. And also because this connects my music to the profiles of dozens of obscure artists, perhaps bringing a listener or two.

Finally I might as well take the opportunity to plug my current musical project, Escape from the Head Cube. Not-too-serious experimental music with a DIY ethos, created by writing my own software, which I control live using joysticks. You might like it…

Anyway, here's that similar artists list:

Computer truck
Nullsleep
Puola
viznut/pwp
Disasterpeace
testpilot
Two Sheds
8Bitpeoples
Lithis
Sabastian Boaz
EAT_RABBIT
Minusbaby
Dilo vs Gurtz
Xinon
Twilight Electric
zabutom
777minus111
Skruvmejsel
Mr. Spastic
Gordon Strombola
Aardvarck
Datassette
Bit Shifter
8bit Rockers
glomag
gwEm and Counter Reset
Receptors
Bacalao
Covox
Oliver Wittchow
Blasterhead
David E. Sugar
Binдrpilot
barrientos & corrado
Monouo
047
marcos romero
BEN ET BENE
Blaze Dem
Krystoff
Leonel Castillo
Carl
Dubjack
Kram
Cow'p
Aphex Twin & Autechre
Neal White
Divag
Mini Roc
Complex Numbers
Gwem and the Gwemettes
the Nintendolites
Midbar
Rumours Of Whores
DeepChord Presents Echospace
Kola Kid
Paza Rahm
XzTrAz
reSet Sakrecoer
zdprfwer
Derrick May & Carl Craig
Dj Daniel-San
Sans Soleil
Franco Cinelli
hai! Robotto
Deepchord
Kombinat 100
BVoice
Jazzid
Mirror System
azek
Bass2
I, Cactus
Mr.Cloudy
Linde
Pelon
Syncom Data
dublee
Calibre & High Contrast
Lukatoyboy
NeLaS
Plötslichmusik