BitBasic
London-based BitBasic (AKA Simon Haycock) is a lunatic noise enthusiast with a passion for Jazz licks, Breakbeats and reasonably priced beverages.
As an accomplished multi-instrumentalist he fuses musical dexterity with insane, twisted ambience, bleeps and glitches to create an eclectic range of quirky, often Jazz-tinged Electronica.
Borrowing characteristics from various styles, such as Drill ‘n’ Bass, Nu Breaks and IDM, BitBasic’s breezy, avant-garde sound is playful, fluid and unpretentious, channeling musical references into a goofball mix of funk-jazz-electro-ambience all his own!
Beginning his production adventures at 15, Haycock is constantly refining and evolving the BitBasic sound, keeping a heavy emphasis on conceptual expression and compatibility with visuals.
He has released several EPs and albums through netlabels such as Monotonik and Rec72, as well as up-and-coming remixes for Electronica/Drum & Bass label Urban Sickness Audio and the new Urban venture Viral Beat Recordings.
On the live circuit, harebrained passion for music and noise is rivaled only by a desire to exploit new technologies. Playing out with a laptop and 40h monome (an open source device containing a grid of 64 reconfigurable backlit buttons), Simon uses his self-written software ‘dj64′. The program models the actions a DJ performs on two turntables and a mixer, mapping these actions across a sea of blinking green buttons. Pretty crazy stuff!
Here is an example of BitBasic’s ‘dj64’ for Monome:
