A New Band A Day
"To take a Gameboy or a NES as a starting point from which to make music isn't really as unusual as it may seem. Limiting your sonic options in this way is akin to a band picking the same combo of drums, bass and guitar as a million other bands have before. Kezzie Beat starts with her limited palette in an attempt to create something more than the sum of its parts.
It's a success - and here's where she differs from many of her peers in the Chiptune/8-bit/whatever scene: where most songs produced in this way can be admiringly described as "the soundtrack to a videogame you've never played," Kezzie Beat's songs step gingerly away from the obscure-Japanese-videogame-composer template. Her music takes hesitant steps towards life, love and happiness - you know, the big things that don't involve cheat codes, mid-level-checkpoints or CONTINUE Y/N?
In songs like Evaporating An Ocean, she attempts to inject as much life as possible, flailing to get out of the end-of-level boss rut with some satisfyingly tactile, fuzzy grunting sounds, a manically bleepy melody and atypical rhythms. 233 is joyously smart, bright and wide-eyed - almost touching. Not quite - the sheer mechanical nature of the 8-bit computer sounds have a defiantly inhuman sound - but almost."
Kezzie Beat: where the videogame bleep nearly held hands with human emotion. That's close enough."
Releases
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One Year Later
Oogenesis - The Girl Compilation
Videos
Kezzie Beat - And So The Alarm Sounded
Thanks to Gideon
Kezzie Beat was half pushed half thrown into the 8bit music scene in January 2008, her first track was for a never-released compliation that consisted of 15 second long tracks. This was all made on Fruity Loops, presets was all she had, as it was the demo version, She then proceeded to make songs on this software, still only presets, released a EP which is now not available as she believes it is “too crap for ears”. She then got her hands on a copy of nanoloop, and squeezed out a couple of tracks using that, but they are now branded as “too crap for ears”.
Six months after this, with the popularity of her 8bc’s 48 hour challenge song behind her, she released her first album ‘Things Just Got Colourful’, which contained both Nanoloop and Fruity Loops use. This is available (if you know where to look), even though she still brands it as “too crap for ears”.
In December 2008, Kezzie's career boomed after she debuted her new material at the Blip Festival Open Mic, and with this new found confidence in her music and the pure inspiration that Blip Fest produced, Kezzie continued to write, each track sounding better than the last.
January 2009, the one year birthday of Kezzie Beat, and another release, but the use of fruity loops has been dropped in Kezzie Beats career, with 8 tracks of pure promising nanoloop 1.3. She has a lot of recognition now, but Kezzie still believes she has a lot to learn.
Six months on from then, and Kezzie is still learning, working on some big projects and some small projects, and trying to become a lot more serious with her music.
I have played alongside artists such as Shonen, Breakbeat Heartbeat, No Disco, Renegade Runner, Odori, Electrify Me!, Cerebral Scars, Hexadeci, DJ Contort, Nullsleep, gwEm & Counter Reset, Starscream, Failotron, Syphus, minusbaby, Steve and The Tin Foil Hat Brigade.
I love playing live and will play anything and anywhere, I only ask for a bit of money towards travel and a place to stay. If you're interested, please get in touch using any of the methods below :)
Hi, Hope you're fine ! Pending the new release "Melotonine" (release date coming soon), i decided to offer you a part of my best recent works in a free EP, "Cupboard Replacement", downloadable in all numeric formats with special graphic art works by Flint on Music AutOmatiK's Website : musicautomatik.com
Hey!! I'm trying to get better at this updating thing. New song!! It's called TATTOO AND YOU and I've put fans' names in it! Check it out!! + new banner, put it up on your page or in a bulletin if you don’t mind supporting me! Buy a couple of songs if you can. Good day? :)
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God I wish I could make it to Blip Fest!... That would be great!!!!!! I have to check when it is and if I'll be able to get time off first lol. Work work work. But anyways thanks for finding me and adding me. I greatly appreciate it!
hallo, london was great to visit especially with gwem as a host, but for living i prefer small towns like hannover, hehe. hope i can invite you to play a show here sometime!!! sorry for answering so late. bests, matze
hey! thanks so much for adding us your music is awesome very, very happy stuff which is never a bad thing hope you'll give us a listen and let us know what you think how are you? :]
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