Nullsleep
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| Nullsleep | ||
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 Nullsleep - live at The Tank, NYC 2006
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| Background information | ||
| Birth name | Jeremiah Johnson | |
| Born | October 07, 1980 (age 26) | |
| Origin |  Riverside, California, USA |
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| Genre(s) | Electronic music Chiptune Synthpop Indie |
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| Instrument(s) | Game Boy Famicom LSDJ MCK keyboard |
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| Years active | 1999 – present | |
| Label(s) | 8bitpeoples Intikrec |
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| Website | www.nullsleep.com | |
Nullsleep (born Jeremiah Johnson October 7, 1980) is an American electronic musician and computer artist currently residing in New York City. In 1999 he co-founded the low-bit art collective 8bitpeoples, and has served as its lead director since its inception. Throughout the early 21st century he has worked to elevate chiptune music to a more reputable status, in spite of its perception as sometimes kitschy or retro. He is best known for his romantic, high-energy Game Boy pop songs.
Johnson graduated from the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University in 2003, where he studied computer science and music. He uses Game Boys and NES consoles to create "conceptually unique music that blends subversive hardware hacking with powerful melodic pop."
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[edit] Biography
[edit] 1980 to 1998: Formative Experiences
Born on a United States Air Force base in Riverside, California, Johnson's family relocated to New York shortly after his birth. Most of his childhood was spent on suburban Long Island, where he attended Islip High School and lived with his mother and brother until he was 18.
Johnson has cited the film, Electric Dreams as an influential force in his early musical pursuits. Inspired by a Giorgio Moroder arrangement of a minuet featured in the film, Johnson took 3 weeks of cello lessons during one summer of his adolescence. This would be the only formal musical training he would have until entering university. However, Moroder's synthesizer-driven Italo disco style would have a more lasting effect.
Throughout his high school years, Johnson spent increasing amounts of time working with computers, coding BASIC programs with his younger brother and exploring the web. It was during this time that he met Mike Hanlon in an Internet chatroom – together the two would go on to found 8bitpeoples.
[edit] Discography
- Depeche Mode Megamix
- The Gameboy Singles 2002
- Hello World
- Click Bleep Click
- Wooden Polyurethane Papers
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