The first Ninja 9000 EP, Bit Collapse, is out. You can download and celebrate four tracks from the Ninja 9000 minisite. Revel in 8 bits! Then find the fifth hidden bonus track.

This is C64 retro the way it should be. Slam in-your-face 8 bit rocking electro-disco. No meaningless introvert modular wankery over the SID chip or silly chiptune sampling just for the nod. Screw the fat ugly contemporary cred-surfers. Ninja 9000 takes no hostages, does not stop until the dancefloor is it's own computer game, everyone squared in the eyes and our parents have been in 5 times.

I played the first Ninja 9000 gig last Friday and it was a peculiar experience.

The Ninja 9000 music is very energetic and optimized for clubs and dancefloors. I dream of having thousands of naked Dutch supermodels, both sexes of course, dancing wildly uncontrolled to real, mad SID 6581 beats. Yes, I'm hammering out live beats on my Prophet 64. However this night was pretty far from that.

The gig space was a huge, abandoned office space with a carpet floor, part of the huge building complex where I have my laboratories. I was playing on a stage at one end of the space, and the few nice people who showed up lounged randomly on the floor in front of the stage.  My audience was a super-relaxed, allthou attentive and polite, bunch of scattered lounging creatures.

I must admit, personally, I would have loved to experience live concerts lounging flat-out on the floor. And everyone present was actively listening and appreciating the music. Which is probably more than I could expect from the Dutch models  admiring their own bodies.

There was however, as always on my gigs, some things that screwed up. The visual animation, which was mashup of various Amiga games colour  manipulated and layered on top of each other, was run from a projector thru a TV BeeBoo filter. It was supposed to give a diffused experience of retro games. But no. Too late I realized that the idiot no-good-for-nothing crap BenQ projector had somehow switched from 1024x768 to 800x600 while rigging, rendering much of the visuals... wrong and off-screen. That didn't work out pretty well. I hate that projector it keeps screwing up things.

Anyway, the ninja is out, the live show is up and ready for future gigs, and I am very happy to be able to present it. I think it is some of the best material, club-wise, I have done the last few years, and I really would like to have those Dutch models go crazy.