SHOWS, AUDIO & press kit
RECEPTORS BIO:
RECEPTORS is electronic artist/producer/gearhead Jeremy Kolosine aka Ksine, founder of electro pioneers Futurisk, and chiptune/bitpop vanguards 8-Bit Operators, among other projects. Exemplifying a longtime experimental hardware electro ideal, Receptors stands equipped with everything from 8-bit gameboys, ataris and commodores to circuit-bent furbies, vocoded stylophones and 12-bit walkstations. Receptors utilizes the purist non-sampling approach to sound synthesis. The debut 7" EP "Controller Array" was released in 2005 and Receptors' full length CD "LO" is planned for 2008. Also OUT NOW is the critically acclaimed ReceptorsMusic compilation "8-Bit Operators - an 8-bit Tribute to Kraftwerk" on Astralwerks/EMI.
coming soon
Ksine of Receptors by Jesse Turnbull, promo for upcoming"LO" album.
NEWS
older news below
*08/16/2008: GROK WORK!. Korg DS10 Gameboy outtakes.
I got the Japanese version of the new Korg DS-10 cartridge for Nintendo Gameboy DS! Here are some preliminary outtakes i did in the 1st 24 hours with it, just for fun:
mwa-Grok Work 2.mp3
mwa-Grok Work 3.mp3
mwa-Grok Work 4.mp3
mwa-Grok Work 7.mp3
mwa-Grok Work 1.mp3
*08/09/2008: New free chiptune MP3s
New free downloads from Receptors, Bacalao, Minusbaby,TouchBoy and many more:
MICROMUSIC.net
always great to be on the legendary Micromusic!
Plus newly available for free download...
an instrumental 12-bit/vl tone/analog mix of Receptors track :
RECEPTORS - A Boy n His Rom. mp3
...and one MWA track on gameboy w lsdj:
MWA - Tapping Your Line. mp3
cheers!
jeremy
*07/05/2008:A BUNCH of tracks ADDED to some of our Myspace pages!
go there and befriend/check out newly available tracks :
RECEPTORS 12-bit walkstation/ analog outtake from upcoming album "LO", check "A Boy n His Rom" :
http://myspace.com/receptorsmusic
A bunch of instrumental digital handheld/analog tracks from turn of the century KSINE:
http://myspace.com/ksinemusic
A few more SHAKESPACE shoegazer electro tracks also from the turn of the century:
http://myspace.com/shakespacemusic
Another FUTURISK track from Player Piano EP 1982:
http://myspace.com/futurisk
OLDER NEWS BELOW
FREE MP3s:
RECEPTORS
(8-bit electro-pop)
RECEPTORS - Have Gameboy Will Travel- gameboy lsdj
RECEPTORS - Aerospaceage Inferno - gameboy HAWKWIND cover.
RECEPTORS - A Boy n His Rom 12-bit/vl tone/analog mix.
RECEPTORS - Disconnected - gameboy w stylovox
RECEPTORS - Disconnected (Ksine Mix) - featuring Leigh Anne Thompson
RECEPTORS - Neurotransmit 08 - gameboy w stylovox
RECEPTORS - Glass Houses- gameboy instrumental
RECEPTORS - Everything Fades Away (Ksine mix) -moog rogue mix
RECEPTORS - User Quit- gameboy instrumental
RECEPTORS - So Long Thanks For All The Chips- gameboy instrumental
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MOMMY WAS AN ASTEROID
(Lo-bit experimental/ambient)
MOMMY WAS AN ASTEROID - Ant Hill Vs The Wasps Nest -gameboy lsdj
MOMMY WAS AN ASTEROID - MIDI-Life Crisis in Mini-Graceland - gameboy w lsdj.
MOMMY WAS AN ASTEROID - I'm A Lazy Sidstation - gameboy nanoloop 1 w sid.
MOMMY WAS AN ASTEROID - Jaded And Naive - gameboy micro w nanoloop 2.
MOMMY WAS AN ASTEROID - 4-bit Blissed- gameboy classic
MOMMY WAS AN ASTEROID - Nature Is Hard - gameboy w lsdj.
MOMMY WAS AN ASTEROID - missionary_mannequin - gameboy dmg
MOMMY WAS AN ASTEROID - Tapping Your Line - gameboy lsdj
more FREE mp3s below.
photo: Receptors, circa '04, by O'Buckley.
CD / VINYL:
8-Bit Operators | 8-Bit Operators Myspace
Astralwerks Records | Buy At Amazon.com
8-Bit OPERATORS : The Music of KRAFTWERK.
8-Bit OPERATORS: Pocket Calculator MegaMix 12inch single.
Receptors / Mommy Was an Asteroid
CONTROLLER ARRAY EP(2005) split 7"
Now on ITUNES!
maybe still some vinyl at Retinascan.
OTHER UPCOMING RELEASES IN 2008:
8-BIT OPERATORS CD : "I WANNA HOLD YOUR HANDHELD"
RECEPTORS CD : " LO "
MOMMY WAS AN ASTEROID EP : "MORPHBALLS"
RECEPTORS "USER" EP coming soon:
Lo-bit archives:
FREE WebLabel MP3s HERE
LIVE MP3 ARCHIVE
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OLDER NEWS:
*06/12/2008:MIDI-Life Crisis in Mini-Graceland:
new gameboy tracks:
MOMMY WAS AN ASTEROID - MIDI-Life Crisis in Mini-Graceland
MOMMY WAS AN ASTEROID - missionary_mannequin
new gameboy show:
Receptors live show in Roanoke, VA this saturday 2:30 pm.
new chip-pod:
very cool podcast, this month w added Receptors :)
*06/05/2008: Ant Hill Vs The Wasps Nest: Mommy Was An Asteroid’s New Free Gameboy track!
Mommy Was An Asteroid - Ant Hill Vs The Wasps Nest
Mommy Was An Asteroid (MWA) is my project that concentrates on instrumental lo-bit. Watch for MWA's "Morphballs" 3-inch cdr( microtonal works on nanoloop 2 on a gameboy micro ) out on Retinascan.de soon!
Check out last year's "Jumpin Jack Flashcart"(12-tone compositions on nanoloop 1.3 & lsdj CDr) also on Retinascan.
jksine
*05/30/2008 :WANNA HLD YR HANDHELD!
pssst...
stay tuned...
...for some news about a BRAND NEW 8-BIT OPERATORS official album release!
nuf sed ;)
http://myspace.com/8bitoperators
*05/27/2008 : NEW gameboy track in the Receptors Myspace player:
Receptors' "So Long Thanks For All The Chips"
also available for d/l here:
Receptors - So Long Thanks For All The Chips
cheers!
jksine
*05/20/2008 : "Have Gameboy Will Travel" A NEW Receptors gameboy track in the Myspace player
also available for d/l here:
Receptors - Have Gameboy Will Travel
*05/10/2008 : 2 New gameboy tracks at the 8BitCollective...
receptors - glass houses
receptors - i came coz the sound i stayed coz the peoples
the 1st track is LSDJ and the other is nanoloop 1.3 both on a gameboy classic.
*04/19/2008: New Receptors instrumental gameboy track at Receptors Myspace. Plus a show in Roanoke.
The track is called "User Quit", an outtake from the upcoming Receptors "User" EP.
HERE at myspace.com/receptorsmusic.
Also Receptors has a short show in my hometown Roanoke, Virginia at Plan 9 Records on Saturday April 26th at 10 pm with my friends The Situationist who have a CD release.
*03/18/2008: "Heroes" Soundtrack out now, Plus SXSW 8BitPeoples Showcase report, "Reformat " on IFC!
First off:
Roll up sci-fi fans and Heroes worshippers!
NBC’s "Heroes" Soundtrack! Executive Produced by me bruv and friend of chiptune Errol Kolosine is out now!
Look at this Heroic line-up!:
The New Pornographers, Panic At The Disco, Nada Surf, Wendy & Lisa, Sheila Chandra, My Morning Jacket, Death Cab For Cutie, Imogen Heap, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Bob Dylan, Cucu Diamantes & Yerba Buena, The Chemical Brothers And Spank Rock, David Bowie!! Nuff said! Get it on ITUNES , Amazon or BestBuy.
And Secondly:
The 8BitPeoples Showcase event at SXSW 2008 went fabulously and was possibly the most fun chiptunes show, outside of BlipFest, that I’ve ever attended let alone played at! Got to talk further with creators of the ’Reformat The Planet’ documentary of BlipFest 2006 which premiered at SXSW FilmFest and is getting enthusiastic reviews everywhere! There’s an interview running on IFC this week. Here’s the clip, it starts about 5 mins in after the nerdcore and gaming bits:
IFC "Reformat The Planet" interview with 2PlayerProductions and a Glomag gameboy demonstration!
Here’s an interesting blog re the chipmusic presence at SXSW:
InBetween on SXSW chipstuff
I also got to hang with my old Shakespace homie Josh Strawn, whose band Blacklist was playing down the street(!?) and another Roanoke expatriot Will Silero(sp.) who has an 8 piece band ! in Austin i need to check.
*03/10/2008: Holy crap! I guess I have to burn my dissed by the QFS card now since Receptors' gameboy track "Disconnected 08" is now on the hallowed Micromusic.net! Go there and download hundreds of familiar and definitive chiptune artist's tracks!
*12/10/2007: New Futurisk vinyl, 8-Bit Ops Tshirts, Blipfest DVD, Ksine ambient on itunes, Toy Symphony shows.
8-Bit Operators AvatariBahn T-Shirts (by Poke of C-Men!) out later this week!
The Blip Fest '06 DVD is out (Receptors has 2 tracks on here)
...meantime, me, the son and the bro were at blipfest 07...amazing of course, here's some footage from Attack of the Show
and some great gameboy camera shots by Yes,robot!
In Tune monthly goes out to all the high school band classes in the US i'm told, and this month there's an article on chiptunes featuring Bubblyfish and other 8-Bit Operators.
My circuit-bent performance of Haydn/Mozart's Toy Symphony with the Roanoke Symphony at Virginia Tech was more cohesive and appreciated, i believe, than my Civic Center performance (mostly due to technical difficulties on my end and an unbalanced sound mix). There were many challenges in trying to fit a style of music(circuit-bending) that is governed completely by chaos within the regimen of classical music. Anything I do of this nature again will feature a more melodic chiptune approach which i wasn't able to convey this time handling only the percussive toy sounds of this piece. All in all I had a great time,enjoying David Wiley's wit, and thank all who tolerated my Furbinator mouthing off during Tchaikovsky's "Waltz of the Flowers"!
in other related news:
unreleased Futurisk out on 180 gram vinyl limited edition of 500.
Ksine's first dark-ambient xmas album from 2000(composed mainly on the handheld Roland PMA midi-stylophone also triggering various synths.) Now on itunes.
Thanks to all,
Happy holidays and have a great new year!
Jeremy
*December 7th at Salem Civic Ctr, and the 8th at Virginia Tech:
Jeremy Kolosine | The Roanoke Symphony.
Jeremy Kolosine and his "Controller Array" of twisted toys will be part of the Holiday programme for Salem Civic Center on 7th Dec, and Virginia Tech on the 8th Dec:
details regarding the segment:
Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, David Wiley, Music Director
Jeremy Kolosine, Technologist
David Wiley, Conductor & Pianist
F.J. Haydn & Leopold Mozart "Toy Symphony" [First movement, Allegro]
with soloist Jeremy Kolosine, Technologist (toys = Kolosine on electronics)
Kolosine's parts will basically be the percussive runs originally performed on the toy drum,rattle, triangle, toy trumpet, quail(cuckoo?) and nightingale, but will instead be replaced by electronic circuit-bent & modified toys (ie: the circuit-bent furby will take the nightingale part)
some equipment to be used:
circuit-bent furby | circuit-bent speak & spell | pocket theremin | atari 2600 & controllers/carts | nintendo system/controllers/carts | gameboy classic/carts|gameboy ds
tickets here
CURRENT RELEASES:
on 
hear more and join us at: myspace.com/8bitoperators and 8bitOps.com
order the cd NOW from AMAZON or get it at ITUNES!
Get the exclusive 12inch/dowlnload on ITUNES
*11/01/2007: Receptors rocks Reykjavik / NY / Roanoke!
A productive few weeks on the receptorsmusic front..
Played the Iceland Airwaves festival! My show on Friday night at the Barinn Airwaves club went good and got a great reception from the small but enthusiastic crowd, i must have had a dozen or more people come up to me and ask about or comment that they dug it. Receptors also got a nice pic and positive mention by Billboard's Katie Hasty in the daily review paper that comes out there (will post soon). All the acts were great that night, but i particularly liked Van Of Two's stuff. Also met members of Iceland's Hellvar who i will be working with soon.
The next morning to my amazement i woke up early enough to catch the ride to the legendary Blue Lagoon party which was memorable indeed.
Iceland Airwaves home
While in Reykjavik i also made the acquaintance of the members of !!! , Annuals and Of Montreal, among others, all of whom were a funny and nice bunch of guys, and showed a curious and sincere interest in the gameboy applications in my music. I also got to catch all of their shows on Saturday.
Then it was back to NYC where Glomag and Receptors played an 8-Bit Operators '80's gameboy covers war at some giant party opening for the B52's! Us 2 old grey boys have to do that again soon !
Back in Roanoke, had a quite productive meeting with Roanoke Symphony Director David Wiley regarding a joint project for this season's holiday program(stay tuned for more on that)! Thanks to Museum Director David Brown this project will also involve a piece for the opening of the breathtakingly Futuristic new Art Museum of Western Virginia building in 2008!
Art Museum Of Western Virginia construction cam
next up! attend Blipfest in NYC the end of the month!
*09/27/07: New videos & tracks! Receptors at Iceland Fest!
Receptors plays the Iceland festival Oct 19th,2007!
Iceland Airwaves:
icelandairwaves.com
Receptors profile
Receptors at Pulsewave 09/15/07 pic by Nullsleep, live visuals Dan Winckler
Receptors w Glomag - Disconnected live footage from Pulsewave NYC
Lost in archival territory we find an old 1982 video posted by my friend Veronica
Futurisk : Army Now 1982 vid
Stay tuned for more news about all these projects in the coming weeks..
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EQUIPMENT:
Here's what i use mostly these days....
[lo-bit stuff]:
VARIOUS GAMEBOYS(GB Classic,Pocket,Color,Advance,SP, micro and DS)
NAN0LOOP 1 & 2 for Gameboy
COMMODORE 64
SNES & NES
SYNTHCART for ATARI 2600
CYNTHCART for COMMODORE 64
ELEKTRON SIDSTATION
LSDJ (LittleSound DJ) for Gameboy
midiNES for NES
POCKET MUSIC for GB COLOR, GBA & MusicGenerator for PS1
ELECTROPLANKTON for Gameboy DS
GAMEBOY CAMERAS & Trippy-H synth
STYLOVOX Vocoder setup
VARIOUS circuit-bends ( furbies, speak & spell, casios...)
portable TVs
Click here for UPCOMING SHOWS:
OLDER NEWS:
*Saturday, September, 15, 2007 at Pulsewave @ The Tank ,NYC.
performances by
Glomag | Receptors | Touchboy | Nullsleep
plus live Visuals by Dan Winckler.
*09/11/07: new tracks new york :
Now up here and on the myspace.com/receptorsmusic page... I did yet another version of Hawkwind/Robert Calvert's "Aerospaceage Inferno" done solely on 1 grey gameboy with vocoded midi stylyphone,prompted this time in preparation for a request at this saturday's NYC Tank show I'll be playing at with Glomag, Nullsleep, Touchboy and Dan Winckler. I've been playing this song since i was 15 and to me it's like musical comfort food as is the entire "Captain Lockheed & the Starfighters" album! This saturday I will also do a new Kraftwerk cover ;) and a few new originals from the forthcoming Receptors " LO " CD nearing completion finally...
( it seems now that the "Wanna Hold Your Handheld" may be materializing into an 8BitOps title instead ;)
*08/07/07: 8 bit-friendly skies...music for airplanes!
It was exciting to discover that Receptors' version of Kraftwerk's 'Trans Europe Express', from the 8-Bit Operators album, was flying thru the skies on the American Airlines inflight 'Buzz' playlist all last month!
*06/07/07: Official LCD Soundsystem Ringtunes by Receptors!
8-Bit Operators member Jeremy Kolosine / aka Receptors, has completed a set of unique Real ringtones for LCD Soundsystem! The ringtunes , which are re-interpretations of all 9 tracks on the brand new hit album "Sound Of Silver" , were arranged and created in 8-bit fashion on the gameboy synth. The first batch of Real tones have been posted here and here.See more at dfarecords.com and lcdsoundsystem.com
RECEPTORS at BlipFest 11-30-06 By Marjorie Becker
*04/30/07: Links to 8BitOps NPR piece, BlipFest on MTV.com, more...
Here are links to some recent related airwave action regarding 8-Bit Operators, plus the growing chiptune/8-bit and circuit-bending scenes...
8-Bit Operators/Receptors' Jeremy Kolosine interview on NPR
BLIP Fest video on MTV.com
"Gadget Gurus Go Wild at BENT Festival" on NPR
check em out.
*04/27/2007: NPR Interview with 8-BIT OPERATORS' Jeremy Kolosine this Sunday, April 29th!
Exciting news! On National Public Radio this Sunday, 29th April, check out the interview with Jeremy Kolosine about the 8-Bit Operators Kraftwerk Tribute release and chiptune/8-bit music! It airs this Sunday morning on the Weekend Edition which runs from 8AM to 10AM in most places..
"The Video Game Soundtracks of Our Lives / Bit Poppers, Chipsters & Bitsters" summer show series in Chicago.
*02/06/07: OUT NOW!:
ORDER 8-BIT OPERATORS CD now at Amazon!
ORDER 8-BIT OPERATORS CD now on ITUNES!
HEAR 8-BIT OPERATORS "Pocket Calculator"(MEGA MIX)- NOW AVAILABLE!
exclusively on Vinyl & download at your favorite record merchant and at ITUNES!
Check out http://myspace.com/8bitoperators
8-Bit Operators Reviews/Press page
8-Bit Operators media/press kit
contact: INFO at 8BITOPERATORS dot com
*12/10/06:some shots of Receptors on opening night of Blip:
cool shot of Receptors big thanks to pepino!
also to Joel Johnson for this cool photo link
Marjorie Becker for this one
Rabato for this one
*12/30/06: New track for the new year to commemorate BlipFest '06!
(mp3) Receptors - Smack Yo Blip Up!(2007)
(thanks to dr™ at Robotsound.com for the title ;) EJK
OUT NOW!:
*12/08/06 - Check out some great links re the Blip Fest (which I am still reeling from playing /attending )
I'm still not sure it really happened...
Thanks to everyone involved, especially 8-BitPeoples , Bit shifter and the Tank!
I will never forget the 1st annual Blip Festival NYC!
Blip shows on YouTube
Wired blog on Blip
Blip on Microscopiq
Great photolog on Blip
Vertexlist blogspot on Blip
on Gamesetwatch
fort90 journal on blip
Blip on Flickr
Check out 8BitPeoples' 8BP050 CD for BlipFest
Blip Fest 06 in NYC-Nov 30th - Dec 3rd
*11/29/06- There's a new alternate web address from 8BitOperators.com , now you can use 8bitops.com too.
*11/27/06:Press mentions re 8BitOps in XLR8R, Blip fest in Village Voice, Vertexlist 8-bit blog.
*11/20/06: This month's issue of WonkaVison Magazine is the McFarlane toy issue, and has an article about bands who use toys as instruments. Receptors is 'exibit A' on page 67. :)
*11/01/06: Thanks to Naughtyboy from 8-Bit Weapon for informing me that ReceptorsMusic is mentioned in the newest issue of Future Music Magazine on page 126. ReceptorsMusic.com is #1 under "Ways To Be Noticed, Gear under $100". It has a pic of a Gameboy classic , & 'join the 8-bit revolution' with a link to this site! This helps solidify my image as the poor man's electro gear guy yet again..
J =)
10/03/2006:
4-bit gameboy side project AUTOCIDE's FactoryDriveEP - exclusive weblabel download on GainLad!:
AUTOCIDE - "Factory Drive EP" (2006 Gainlad)
"Five tracks that will take you from your boring job and life to a playful gameland, rich in emotions and adventure."(neotericz/ignat)
Download some of the best quality chip music for FREE at Gainlad!
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04\27\06: Had a great time playing at the Bent 2006 circuit bending fest in NYC.Did a couple of nano2/gameboy micro tracks as well some lsdj/old grey gb tracks.Plus i ran my live gb cam feed during the set, which looked great up on the big screen. Check out the AP story on the Bent 2006 and here's a bunch of great pics on the Bent site..and here's a shot of Receptors on flickr by mindphone divided.
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10/25/05 - October 22,'05 The INTERNATIONAL CHIPTUNE RESISTANCE show at The Tank NYC was one of the best shows I've ever been part of.The place was packed with lo-bit fans, and every set was awesome! Thanks to Paris for the visuals during the Receptors set and all who participated in this historic chiptune event! Here's some pix by Dave Wolcheck.
..and check out the photos of Bit Shifter & Nullsleep getting arrested for flyering the show!
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*08/27/2005: Check out Tad Dickens' cool Receptors Podcast for the Roanoke Times...
*06/24/2005: Now It Can Be Told Dept: Well, the secret track on the Receptors/MWA vinyl has been discovered!
No, that's NOT a scratch on side 2 of "Controller Array EP"..it's a 'locked groove' that repeats the word 'mountainside' indefinitely at the end of the track "Devil's Backbone"(named after a mountain here in Roanoke)
...the secret unlisted track "stuck in This City" is right after it ;)...there's a clue on the back sleeve btw.
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*06/18/2005:New MWA MP, "redNails" at Gainlad netlabel...features exclusive ambient Game Boy tracks using lsdj,nanoloops& GB Camera.
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*05/25/2005 - Superstar DJ Larry TEE's Gentle Electric compilation is OUT NOW! It includes an exclusive RECEPTORS Moog version of "Everything Fades Away", as well as 16 other tracks by the likes of Future Bible Heroes, WIT, Freezepop and Larry himself!
* 05/05/05
Receptors peformed at the 2nd annual BENT 2005 circuit-bending fest in NYC.., Saturday April 30th 2005...thanks everyone who saw my show & bought records the micro-chipsters and my heroes i finally got to meet...Glomag,Nullsleep,Bubblyfish & Bitshifter as well as micropeeps Gijs, lektrogirl ...plus the legendary Bill T Miller & Paul B Davis...check the SHOWS: page for pix.. Here's an awesome pic of my Furbinator (circuit-bent furby)shot by KaizerS
*RECEPTORS w MWA split 7" "CONTROLLER ARRAY" EP
*Includes 2 new gameboy / sidstation tracks plus 2 new atari / nes tracks!
*gameboy camera stickers with each of the 1st 500 copies...
gameboy side:RECEPTORS/
1. Neurotransmit!We R Receptors 3:39
2. My Secret Side 3:36
atari side:MOMMY WAS an ASTEROID/
1. SpeakFreak (gameboy camera lo-fi vid promo) 2:02
2.Devil's Backbone 3:34
*Check the RECORDS page for other official releases available for purchase...
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* 04/02/2005:
The RECEPTORS track 'Disconnected' is featured in a new wake-skating DVD now for sale: Flatline:Disconnected.(Check the trailer featuring the track).
* 02/01/2005
Treewave's Paul Slocum , inventor of Atari Synthcart(and numerous other wonderful music tools, including the musical dot-matrix printer!) has posted 2 Receptors loop demos performed on the current beta version of the upcoming Atari 2600 Loopcart!
* 11/02/2004
Thanks to Roanoke Times for the Nov 6 Extra cover story all about Receptors, gameboy & atari music, plus a cool futurist music timeline that mentioned the likes of Delia Derbyshire, Eno, MBV, Glomag & Bitshifter...& Futurisk.Plus Eric Brady provided some great shots of my live controller array setup that shows the lsdj, nanoloop & synthcart .
*04/25/2004:
Micromusic Gwem's open letter to Malcolm MClaren
*06/04/2004:
Our return engagement at PIANOS in NYC.. Check out the SHOWS page for more, including Receptors' live gameboy track "Lo-bit-12-tone 1[variation]". ..
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*04/04/2004:
Receptors first live show at NYC East Village PIANOS. This was my 1st ALL electronic show since the final FUTURISK show. Musically it went great.,,(see the SHOWS page for more..)
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