Music Goto80 released his first music in the
demoscene in 1993, at the age of 12. He founded the group ''Hack n' Trade'' and released his music for free in
demos and on
BBSs. The style seems to have been predominantly rave and electronica. His first live performances was with the pop group HT in 1998. The first formal Goto80-release was the cassette
Lo Fi Mono Festival in 2000. The following year he made one of the first
Gameboy live performances with LSDj together with Role Model. His
Papaya EP was released the same year, combining pop, dub, vocoders and calypso. This led to some media attention, and him opening the
Hultsfred Festival. He was also working regularly with famous demoscene groups like
Fairlight and
Triad. In 2002, he co-founded the band
Superdöner to play a form of 8-bit punk rock. The following year he moved to
Melbourne where he began to incorporate modern tools such as
Renoise into his music making. Goto80 released his debut album
Commodore Grooves in 2005. The same year he was selected as artist of the year at the Microdisko Chipmusic Awards, and was later one of three nominees for all-time C64-composer at
Commodore's official 25-year celebration. In 2007, Goto80 made one release every month and performed once a week. The following year he tried to release one song every day together with
Dan Brännvall at internet2008.se. This established him further as one of the top 8-bit acts. His next release,
Breakfast (2009) has been listed as one of the top-10 chip songs of all time. Following this poppy song, he started to focus on darker sounds, often improvised completely on
Commodore 64. One
BBC review described his music as microscopic bursts and stutters of atonal sound on which he eventually lays down some beautiful descending bass tones. Among his aliases, Extraboy seems to be the most productive one. Extraboy appeared on record for the first time in 2002 with a remix of Tim Koch. Other aliases include Johnny Location, Tomas Delin, GotoET, Susanne, Gordon Strombola, 4D Man, and Crystal Master. He has appeared in groups such as the synth pop duo HT (1995), the
EBM-band Damitu Kuerpo (1997), the punk group Superdöner (2002), Goto88 and the Sunshine Band (2007), and the electro duo Kommando Knorr (2009).
Research Goto80 has been called a demoscene historian. His main research topics are
chipmusic,
textmode graphics, and the
demoscene. He published his first text in the book
From Pac Man to Pop Music in 2008, where he described chipmusic as a
medium and
form. Carlsson received his master in
Media and Communication in 2010 with his thesis
Power Users and Retro Puppets – a Critical Study of the Methods and Motivations in Chipmusic. Other published texts include a history of demoscene music for
Rhizome.org and
Future Potentials of ASCII Art together with A. Bill Miller.
Art His art works are often focused on live performances (2SLEEP1, Gotozilla, Punk Potemkin, Data Jam) or computer violence (HT Gold, Polybius, 44422435 To Nowhere). He has worked together with artists such as
Raquel Meyers, Jossystem, Otro, Videogramo, Entter,
Rosa Menkman, Shojono Tomo, and Jacob Remin. Since 2011, he has been focusing on
textmode aesthetics together with Raquel Meyers. In 2012, they claimed to be the first to make a performance using only
PETSCII-based graphics and music software. ==Music distribution==