"8cylinder...I keep hearing that guy's a dick." - analogrobot [em411.com]

"Yeah, I think I heard your tunes. If I remember right, they sucked." - devnull [Tigerbeat6, Omeko, Violent Turd]

"I don't want to lose money on this show, so I'm taking you off the line up" - Manny Theiner [local Pittsburgh promoter]

This dogshit is made with computers and self-made gameboy programs. No pre-packaged or sampled drumloops are used:

Cut Out The Eye That Looked Away Breathe Deep The Stifling Madness Pop Quiz, Hotshot A Land Where Pretty Birds Crap Arms and Armor When I Say Kill All Humans, I Mean All Humans Except You, Miss Beautiful Slogging Cock-deep Through the River of Blood Celebrating 30 Years of Near-Constant Decline A Picard Maneuver On The Dancefloor No-name Goats Having No-name Kids Planeteater Game Got Switched [8cylinder Remix] These Emptied Bowels Are My Last Gift To This World

VS series with Pixel Stalin, originally available on 3 inch cd's. Recorded in 2002 in Pittsburgh, PA:
8CYLINDER vs Pixel Stalin, Version 1 8CYLINDER vs Pixel Stalin, Version 2

On "Sidetracked", released by Mode of Proof Records, Detroit, MI:
Blastastic Domecrusher

On "Wigsplitter", released by MP3DEATH netlabel:
Engineered Plague Battlemage Defective Tournament Level Racquetball

All of these gameboy audio programs were written in C. Compiled and built with GBDK:

Sludgeon2
Download the latest version View the Sludgeon2 README

 

Everything is contained in a standard, run of the mill, metal toolbox. The bottom drawer contains a working computer with a VIA EPIA V motherboard & cpu, memory, hard drive, cd rom drive, fans, power supply, and cables. The middle drawer contains a usb audio interface, roll-up keyboard, mouse, and a Gameboy running Sludgeon2. The top contains a midi controller, power cables, surge protector, and a crappy lcd screen mounted to the bottom of the lid. Holes were drilled so that the power cables in the top could be connected to their respective devices in the middle and bottom drawers and would not impede the opening and closing of these drawers.

 

The "U" jutting out of the front is the power cable for the computer connected to the flush-mounted power supply in the bottom drawer. There was not enough room to completely enclose the power supply with the power cable attached. To resolve this problem, holes were drilled into the front of the bottom drawer in order to run the power cable from the power supply back into the toolbox. The white cable coming out of the top is from the surge protector. This is the only cable that needs to be plugged to use this rig. Once plugged in, everything but the Gameboy starts up and is ready to use.

 

The Manual Drive Tape Player is a device that allows a user to manually play any tape at variable speeds. Playing tapes at any rate other than the nominal rate alters the pitch. The Manual Drive Tape Player is comprised of 2 parts: the deck and the crank, both of which are derived from 1 old Sony Walkman and about $5 worth of parts. The audio from the headphone jack can be run into any amplifier, mixer, or computer.

 

The deck is made by removing the motor and gears that spin the spindles, as well as removing the spindles themselves [the motor and gears can be thrown away, but NOT the spindles: those are used later]. It is important to leave the mechanism that moves the tape head into and out of place in tact [in other words, leave the Play mechanism alone].

The crank is made from a simple casement window crank [about $3 at a hardware store]. One of the spindles removed from the deck is turned upside down and mounted on the bottom of the crank. Modelling putty works good and is cheap [about $2 at game or hobby store]. Once complete, put in a tape, insert the crank into the tape as shown in the first picture above, press Play to move the tape head into place, and spin the crank.

 

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