Drop da Bomb
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| drop da bomb | |
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| Formation: | 1997 |
| Genre: | Electro music / Chiptune Chiptune A chiptune, also known as chip music, is synthesized electronic music often produced with the sound chips of vintage computers and video game consoles, as well as with other methods such as emulation. In the early 1980s, personal computers became cheaper and more accessible than they had previously... |
| Website: | http://www.dropdabomb.org/ |
| Founder members / current members | |
| Re?mo: | Remo Suter |
| Rewind: | Thomas Kocher |
| Rod: | Roderick Pike |
| Stu: | Christian Studach |
Drop da Bomb is a collective
Collective
A collective is a group of entities that share or are motivated by at least one common issue or interest, or work together on a specific project to achieve a common objective...
of electronic music
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
producers and DJs based in Basel
Basel
Basel or Basle In the national languages of Switzerland the city is also known as Bâle , Basilea and Basilea is Switzerland's third most populous city with about 166,000 inhabitants. Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany...
, Switzerland
Switzerland
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. The Project started in 1997, founder members are: Re?mo (producer / DJ), Rewind (DJ), Rod (graphic designer / DJ) and Stu (chiptune
Chiptune
A chiptune, also known as chip music, is synthesized electronic music often produced with the sound chips of vintage computers and video game consoles, as well as with other methods such as emulation. In the early 1980s, personal computers became cheaper and more accessible than they had previously...
composer on the Atari ST
Atari ST
The Atari ST is a home/personal computer that was released by Atari Corporation in 1985 and commercially available from that summer into the early 1990s. The "ST" officially stands for "Sixteen/Thirty-two", which referred to the Motorola 68000's 16-bit external bus and 32-bit internals...
/ producer / DJ).
In 1998, Drop da Bomb released their first record "Yakuza EP". It contains 4 musical pieces produced by Re?mo and Stu and can be described as a rather experimental and premature release. The music included was produced in bedroom studios on 4-track tape recorders. The record also includes a couple of sound effects on each side for DJs to scratch with.
During the years 1998-2001 Drop da Bomb contributed their music to a couple of projects. For instance they made a soundtrack for the movie "Lincoln & 31st" by Damien Caldwell that has been showed on many festivals. Later they got involved into the Micromusic movement, where they also received a lot of musical inspriration from other micro-artists. In the year 2001 they remixed the song "full of sid" by Psilodumputer. The original version, as well as the remixes by Drop da Bomb, Sami and Paza Rahm were released on Swiss record label Domizil.
After their debut performance on a Micromusic festival in 2001, Drop da Bomb started to do more and more live acts around Europe and also organised a lot of parties in their hometown Basel
Basel
Basel or Basle In the national languages of Switzerland the city is also known as Bâle , Basilea and Basilea is Switzerland's third most populous city with about 166,000 inhabitants. Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany...
, in order to invite other Artists they met on the way. At the same time Stu started to compose chiptunes with Music-Mon on the Atari ST
Atari ST
The Atari ST is a home/personal computer that was released by Atari Corporation in 1985 and commercially available from that summer into the early 1990s. The "ST" officially stands for "Sixteen/Thirty-two", which referred to the Motorola 68000's 16-bit external bus and 32-bit internals...
exclusively leveraging the internal YM2149 soundchip, by which he became famous inside the demoscene
Demoscene
The demoscene is a computer art subculture that specializes in producing demos, which are non-interactive audio-visual presentations that run in real-time on a computer...
and micromusic-community. In 2003 Stu became a member of YM Rockerz, an international collective of active Atari ST
Atari ST
The Atari ST is a home/personal computer that was released by Atari Corporation in 1985 and commercially available from that summer into the early 1990s. The "ST" officially stands for "Sixteen/Thirty-two", which referred to the Motorola 68000's 16-bit external bus and 32-bit internals...
musicians.
In 2005 Drop da Bomb toured Germany the last time in the old formation, with Re?mo and Stu as musicians supported by DJ Rewind and Rods laser show. In the same year they released their first pure chiptune EP "3chnls4bit" on the German label Retinascan. The album title stands for "3 Channels - 4 Bit" and therewith all 7 pieces included were produced on an Atari ST
Atari ST
The Atari ST is a home/personal computer that was released by Atari Corporation in 1985 and commercially available from that summer into the early 1990s. The "ST" officially stands for "Sixteen/Thirty-two", which referred to the Motorola 68000's 16-bit external bus and 32-bit internals...
without any accessory.
Recently, a Norwegian band called 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...
used two of Stus chiptunes (STereoid and dYManite) without any agreement by him and in order to claim it as their own music. The band performed the music without any adjusment (except singing over it) on many festivals. Moreover the music was played on Norwegian national radio (NRK Urort) and there was even a videoclip made with the song STereoid that was played on Norwegian MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
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Discography
- Yakuza EP - Drop da Bomb (1998)
- Full of SID / Microcompo remixes - Domizil (2001)
- 3CHNLS4BIT - Retinascan (2005)