Goto80

Goto80
Goto80 performing in 2006
Background information
Birth name	Anders Carlsson
Also known as	Extraboy, Johnny Location, Tomas Delin, GotoET, Susanne, Gordon Strombola, 4D Man, Crystal Master
Born	(1981-02-09) February 9, 1981 (age 36)
Origin	Varberg, Sweden
Genres	Chipmusic, glitch, skweee, electro
Years active	1992–present
Labels	Chipflip, Bleepstreet, 8bitpeoples
Website	www.goto80.com
Notable instruments
Amiga C-64 Renoise TR-808

Goto80 (born Anders Carlsson, 1981) is a Swedish music artist and researcher. He has been described as one of the key players between glitch and chipmusic, as well as an active demoscener. At the turn of the millennium he was one of the first to bring chipmusic to a wider audience, and was also an early adopter of live Game Boy music. He has an extensive back catalogue of free music – often open source – with a wide span of musical influences. He currently focuses on research and art, and maintains a number of blogs and labels such as Chipflip and the text-mode tumblr.

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.