Binärpilot is an electronic music project by Alexander Støver.

All of his music is freely available online through various outlets such as Jamendo

Jamendo

Jamendo is a music website and a community of music authors. It bills itself as "the world's #1 platform for free and legal music downloads under Creative Commons licenses."...

 and 8bitpeoples

8bitpeoples

8bitpeoples is a DIY record label/arts collective centered in New York City that focuses around the 8-bit aesthetic, which is heavily influenced by vintage videogames. 8bitpeoples was founded in 1999 by Jeremiah "Nullsleep" Johnson and Mike "Tangible" Hanlon...

 as well as torrenting hosts such as The Pirate Bay

The Pirate Bay

The Pirate Bay is a Swedish website which hosts magnet links and .torrent files, which allow users to share electronic files, including multimedia, computer games and software via BitTorrent...

. His music style resembles that of a chiptune-style, incorporating vocoder vocals and dance-like beats. The music is designed for listeners to "dance like no one is watching".
Binärpilot has also remixed various music by other musicians such as Daft Punk

Daft Punk

Daft Punk are an electronic music duo consisting of French musicians Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter . Daft Punk reached significant popularity in the late 1990s house movement in France and met with continued success in the years following, combining elements of house with synthpop...

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Career

Binärpilot addresses the issue of music piracy in a statement published in a thread on his forum. Mainstream music has become, he says, a collection of "soulless, bland and branded acts spewing their sixth-grade level lyrics through every major media outlet". In his eyes, the record companies will do anything to make more money, regardless of who they hurt. He addresses the argument that artists lose money because of piracy in this statement: "It's not hurting the artists, it's hurting the industry behind the artists. And that is, in my opinion, the beauty of it; Contrary to what they want you to believe, piracy is (if anything) saving music, because it's bringing a corrupt and exploitative machine down to its knees." Binärpilot has been praised by pirates and opponents of the music industry because of his staunchly anti-corporate stance.

Controversies

The artist has had his work stolen by cover group Fitts for Fight

Fitts for Fight

Fitts for Fight is a female duo consisting of Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard and Julie Ilona Balas from Kristiansand in Norway. They became known when it was revealed that the songs they claimed to have written themselves were made by demoscene musicians and downloaded from micromusic.net, while the two...

. Their song Monstermachine was uncovered to be Binarpilot's Otosclerosis with added vulgar lyrics. The band had also stolen music from 8 Bit Weapon

8 Bit Weapon

8 Bit Weapon is a chiptune music band created by Seth Sternberger. The instrument set of 8 Bit Weapon consists primarily of old 8-bit and 16-bit computers such as the Commodore VIC-20, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Commodore Amiga 500, and the Apple II, as well as game consoles such as the Nintendo...

 and other artists. In response, the by:Larm

By:Larm

by:Larm is a music festival and conference held annually at different locations in Norway since 1998. Since 2008 the festival has been held in Oslo....

 festival organizers replaced Fitts with Binärpilot.

Discography

To date, Binärpilot has released thirteen download-only albums and EPs. The listed albums are only his four main releases, starting with Defrag (2005) and culminating with Nordland (2010).

• Defrag (2005)
• You Can't Stop Da Funk (2006)
• Robot Wars (2007)
• Nordland (2010)

His 2010 release, Nordland was the first release available as a hard copy, funded entirety by donations. and can be ordered through CD Baby

CD Baby

CD Baby is an online music store specializing in the sale of CDs and digital music downloads from independent musicians to consumers. The company is also a digital aggregator of independent music recordings, distributing content to several online digital music retailers.CD Baby has achieved recent...

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The album also contains a track which is a tribute to the internet-based file sharer aXXo

AXXo

aXXo is the Internet alias of an individual who became popular for releasing commercial DVD movies on the Internet as free downloads. The resulting files can in turn be easily distributed through the internet and be viewed instantly on a computer....

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