Interview with 8-Bit - Podcast 19

Yo, bitch, this is 8-Bit. 8-Bit, bitch. 8-Bit. And you're listening to...

Motherfucker.

Yeah. Yeah. Hey, thanks for tuning in to Sound Scene Revolution. What's up? I am Rich. We've been gone for a month or two. Months. We wanted to skip all the season finales on TV like Lost and The Simpsons and Family Guy and American Inventor because we figured you guys would all be busy watching that horse shit. So instead, we skipped all that and now the TV sucks once again. We're back so you can listen to us instead. So, for our very first interview in nearly a month or so, we decided to hook up with Los Angeles' 8-Bit. I think they're LA. They're SoCal for sure. But this is a group of robots, if you will. They wear big fucking bunny man costumes. Not like rabbit rabbits, but rabbits, bunny suits like the HP guys wear and shit.

So it's kind of cool. And, yeah, they're a pretty interesting band. So you may want to check out this interview. Before we do, we're going to hop into a track off of their album, You Ain't No Robot, which is on Ninja Star Records, which I think they may run. I don't know for sure. But either way, we're going to play the track called Mario 3. So check it out and be sure to listen to the interview. Plus, we have a giveaway this episode, which we may have written about on the blog, the sphere thing. But in case you didn't read that, be sure to listen at the end and we'll tell you how to enter and win free shit from us. Stay tuned.

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Tune in to South Scene Revolution. This week, we are sitting in the back of the van with 8-Bit. If you guys can all say hello. Yeah. Oh, what? Yo, what's up? All right. I guess just start off if we can get your name and I don't know any special talents you have. I'm Robo T. Suck my pee pee. I'm Antilog. Flog my log. I'm Space K and I ain't gay. Yes, you are. Dicksucker. I'm LaFrost and I'm a rapper. And you're lost. I'm a lost. Works for me. All right. So I guess just start off if we can get like a brief history of you guys, how you got started and all that. Can we swear on this? Yeah, you can swear. Oh, fuck yeah. What? Who wants to feel that one? Every reaction, every time, everyone just starts swearing like crazy. They're like, we can swear?

Shit, yeah. Fuck yeah. I don't know. What's the question? Yeah, just a brief history like how you guys got started and all that. All right. Uh, we were rappers on the digital planet where we're from and we were rap stars. But then, uh, analog started encroaching on our whole scene, our whole country, our whole planet. Analog. The analog revolution, not anti-log. And, uh, there was a big war. Planet exploded, but we managed to escape. We crash landed on your shitty ass planet about two and a half years ago. Something like that. And, uh, we just started, you know, observing the stupid shit that humans do. And, uh, yeah. So we've kind of assimilated into LA life, LA culture. And, uh, now we're just getting drunk, eating tacos, fucking hoes, and playing shows.

Right on. Uh, is there any particular reason you guys chose LA or is it just where you landed? It's just where we landed. Uh, right on. Uh, we wouldn't have chose LA for sure. Wouldn't have been your first choice. That's cool. At least we don't have to breathe air, because that's a fucking shithole. I have a hangover. It's 8.20 at night. Can you have a hangover, like, this late? Yes. Did you start drinking at, like, 10 or something? No, I didn't get home this morning until, like, 6.30 in the morning or something. Oh, my God. We're going to get drinking quick. So, uh, what do you guys, what have you picked up in LA? Like, what do you do other than this? Jerk off. To gay porn. We jerk off to gay porn. Uh, what else do we do?

That people suck our dicks, even though I don't have one. Even taco trucks. LaFrost gets her dick sucked a lot. And, uh, I don't know. Smoke a bunch of pot. We're devout republicans. Get drunk. Hail Bush. Alright. Fair enough. Um, so I guess, uh, one thing that comes to mind is, like, the music that you guys make. Uh, where is that inspired from? Like, just, it's the sound and everything. It's a mixture of, like, uh, old school Nintendo video game playing and old school some hardcore rap listening to stuff mixed together to make, uh, music. Basically, we use Nintendo to make our music. And Satan. And Satan. So it's a healthy mix of Nintendo. We prefer to call them Natas.

Ha. Very, alright. Fair enough. Um, do you guys, like, own a Nintendo? You guys still play it? Yeah. I just got four new games three days ago. Yeah, I just, I'm trying out these new games. Caveman games. I wouldn't recommend it. It sucks. Oh, yeah. Caveman games where you can, like, throw the chick by your ear. Yeah. Yeah, and start the fire. That's the only good part, throwing bitches. Yeah. But we can just do that in real life. Exactly. You know? It's a lot, it's like, you know, it's like virtual, you know. Virtual reality? Yeah, I mean, if you're gonna toss a bitch, you might as well grab them for real. Shut the fuck up, RoboT. We're not Toss the Bitch, I fucking Toss the Bitch. Um, what else did you get? Looney Tunes, right?

Or something? Tiny Toons? Tiny Toons, like, kind of like Mario 3. Oh, that's a good game. Yeah. And, uh. German, the producer, agrees. The, um. What is the other one? The fucking Gremlins game? Gremlins 2. Yeah. The music's actually pretty cool for it. So. I might steal some of that. Ah ha ha ha ha. Uh, now where do you guys find all that? Like, just eBay or, like, old game shops and whatnot? Just old game shops. When you're breaking into a house and shit, you fucking find some fucking games. And they don't even notice ever. There's a plasma screen and a motherfucking thing in there. Fair enough. Uh, now I was reading, reading up on you guys before this, and I heard you guys have been kicked out of a couple of the different clubs in L.A.

It's all a frost, man. Yeah, right. How, any, how many do you guys know? If you guys know about us, you guys know who it is. Shut up. Okay, we were banned from the Echo, but they took us back because we brought them business. We were banned from, we are banned from the Silver Lake Lounge. Why were we banned from the Echo? Because that's when that fucking brawl broke out. No, that's, no, that was the first, that was the second time. The first time we got kicked out of the Echo because you guys were drinking in the back parking lot. No, that was at Silver Lake Lounge. No, you're wrong. You're wrong. And the Derby, the Derby we got kicked out of. We're, we're still banned from the Derby. Because Anti-Log again, um, got beat up for like, I mean, he beat up somebody, the manager or something.

Robo-T slammed his head into a wall. Because he's, they have this neon sign that's been there since the 30s, and on the way out I decked it and broke it to pieces. Alright. So we're banned from that place, we're banned from the entire state of Wyoming. Which, we don't really need to go back to Wyoming. Yeah, there's no real reason to feel upset about that. There's more cows than people, literally, in Wyoming. I believe it. It's a stat. We're banned from six girls' vaginas. And they're all eight. Oh. So all six girls are eight? Yeah. One was seven. That's, that's disgusting. It was delicious vagina though. Disgusting? What's wrong with you? A lot, but we won't get into that. So what's probably the craziest thing that's happened at one of your guys' shows?

Uh, Spacey K broke three ribs at a show. What? I broke my ribs falling off the stage. And then we were all nice enough to dive on him. That's a derby, that's a derby. Yeah, that was the same night we got banned from the derby. Yeah. Were you alright? You gotta, like, get medical attention or what? Yeah. What, you waited like a week or two. I was okay for a while and then one day I couldn't, I couldn't stand up without terrible fucking pain and I called up LaFrost and had her take me to the hospital. Normally you can't stand up from drugs and alcohol. Shay took me off the stage. Wah! Wah!

My ribs are broken. Wah! Do you guys, talking about he didn't feel it at the time because he was fucked up, do you guys go on stage more intoxicated than sober? We have never played a sober show. You've never played a sober show? Yeah, we have played a sober show. When? When we played at some record store and it was not fun. Oh, it was at 3pm. We fucking were late. Yeah, it's hard. It's hard to fit in. We gotta get, do you have any booze in your car, Frosty? No. Julian's got that black play ball. Alright, we gotta, we gotta start drinking, like, quick. Alright, we'll get, we'll make this quick so you guys can get into the drinking. Alright, now we're just going to seamlessly splice ourselves into the middle of that conversation.

I bet you didn't notice. We're masters of the editing technique like that. We're going to give you another track off of 8-Bit's album, You Ain't No Robot, so you guys can hear more of their stuff because it's, it's, uh, groundbreaking, Machiavellian, even, uh, you know, 30 years from now this is the music your kids are going to remember. That's my opinion. Uh, we're going to play the track Eatin' Cat, um, off the album. Also, if you just want to, uh, skip all the rest of this and figure out how to get free shit, I think we're going to say that at the end of the, uh, whole show today. How to enter to win some free crap from us. So be sure to check that out. And, uh, yeah, so here's Eatin' Cat by 8-Bit.

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songs for his remix type album? We did? You did? Oh, yeah. How did that come about? Does someone remember how that happened? That's why I jerk off every morning. Well, one day I was looking at myself in the mirror and I was jerking off. And, uh, no, um, I guess Beck's brother is a fan of ours and he passed along the CD to Beck. Beck. And, uh, then Beck started sucking our dicks, you know what I'm saying? And then, uh, and then, and then, and then basically, to make a long story short, you know, Beck's management got in touch with us, uh, specifically Antilog, and they're like, hey, you know, we want you to try this remix for Beck. And Antilog wrote back, fuck you. Because he thought it was a joke. One of our fans, like, fucking with us.

Because it seemed kind of unrealistic at the time. And it turns out, it was real. And we got the tracks and knocked that shit out. So even after you wrote, fuck you, back to him, they still went out, they still wanted you to do it? Yeah, they're like, no, no, seriously, like, I don't know. I wrote back to him twice. And then he's like, why are you being like this? Like, call my office. So I'm like, I'm getting ready, I call him and I'm getting ready to fucking cuss him out. And I called him and they're like, Interscope Records, Mark Williams. Oh, fuck, no, hey, what's up, man? Let's be fine. Did you feel bad about it or you were still like, eh, we'll do it? Fuck that guy. Is that how you guys afford this van?

Yeah, that's exactly why. We got a check on a Monday, bought this on a Tuesday, and left for a tour on a Wednesday. Hey, seems like it came in at just the right time, though. Yeah, dude, I thought you were going to be fucking walking. That would be a fucking long walk. We were going to take a Volkswagen Golf, like a little four-door Volkswagen on tour for 10,000 miles. But luckily, we got the money just in time. Yeah, no shit. That's good, too, because when we got home, we drove it like 50 miles and the engine blew up. Oh, damn. It would have been fucked. What a suck dick. Plus that back seat you're sitting on, folds out into the bed, you know what I'm talking about? There's been a lot of, like, there's probably a lot of jizz on that.

There, like, jizz crunches when you sit on it? That's fucking... That's all right. If you find a wet spot, it's probably one of us. It's okay. Only three out of four of us are HIV positive. It's all right. We just came from inside the Gailman. I'm sure that place is covered in AIDS. That's true. So, don't worry about it. One of the things I was reading about when I was going through your guys' MySpace, when you shot a commercial with Dr. Phil... Yeah, me and Robo-T. Now, how the fuck did that come about? For Scratch, every now and again, me and Robo-T will work on whatever. Just bullshit commercials or whatever. Help out. Yeah. And it was a Dr. Phil, like, match.com thing. Yeah. So, we were stuck on a fucking golf course with fucking Dr. Phil all day.

And the funny thing is, is that he's a fraud. Like, he doesn't really act. Like, he made a rule for himself where he will only work for two hours on a given day. What? So, like, a fake Dr. Phil showed up. He's got an evil twin. Looks exactly like him. And does, like, close-ups and all the mid-shots and everything. He's lousy. For real? He even does speaking of cards. Yeah. Yeah, but, and then Dr. Phil does, like, the ADR post shit. Whoa. So, he only showed up for two hours. The other guy worked for, like, ten hours. What? Like, at two hours, he's like, I'm gone? Yeah, he's like, I won't work. I won't work one, two hours. Or whatever the fuck. I'm too busy waxing Oprah's coochie. You should do his work for me, well.

And the guy... You're starting to sound like Tim Ford. He's like, he's like, it pays me. The guy was... The guy that was... He didn't have my money. The fake Dr. Phil even said that he was... He, like, accepted an award for Dr. Phil the night before. What? He either accepted an award or presented an award. One of the two. I hope Dr. Phil doesn't know that. The one, the only Dr. Phil. So, we hope Dr. Phil dies a horrible death. Goes back to that whole AIDS topic. Does Dr. Phil... Does this dude at least get paid decent money? Or does he seem, like, fucking miserable? Like, that's all he could do for work? He seems pretty miserable, but he does get paid pretty well, from what I understand. Better than any of us fucking bitch-asses.

Yeah, but I mean, at the end of the day, he has to know that he's Dr. Phil's standing. Well, but then again, imagine how many, like, 40-year-old bitches you could bone.

Hey, so you want to polish my head while you give me head? Yeah. Oh, yeah, who's Dr. Phil now, bitch? Turn around.

I'll give you some advice how to suck my dick, you fucking cunt. Did you just fart? Gee, shit, I got that. Gross. Did you hear that? No. Oh, it was, it was there, though. That was nice enough not to, like, stick your mic on my ass. That's good, because these are, like, a hundred and something dollar mics. Yeah, this is nice. That's amazing. I'd like not to get some fart on them. I know, I know how it goes. No, no, LaFrost got the shitty mics, we're sorry. We can only afford two. It's okay. We can only afford two. I don't know anymore. We're about to do a Beck remix, so maybe we can get better mics. We'll remix one of his songs to get good equipment. There you go. I highly recommend doing a Beck remix. All we've got to do is get him to listen to our show, which probably now he won't ever do, but...

Well, we've got nothing against Beck. No. I'd have nothing against him if he gave me money to get a van, too. That's true. Dust Brothers, they're hacks. Beck's all right. Just kidding. If the Dust Brothers were any good, they wouldn't need us to do songs for them. All right. So, we've got to... All right, we're going to cut the... We can keep going? All right. All right, we'll go to another question, assuming I still have one. Oh, here we go. Do you guys have any personal favorite video games in your history? Ice Climbers. Ice Climbers? Yeah. I like Shadowgate and Rygar. Dragon Warrior. SNK Baseball All-Stars. All-Stars. And All-The-Marios. All-The-Marios? Even the second Mario, which wasn't really a Mario game. I liked Mario, too, because it was, like, really drugged out.

Yeah. Well, it was based on some Japanese game, and... It was a Japanese game. Yeah, they just put Mario faces on it and shit. So, that was kind of weird. You guys ever think of using, like, any more... Anything besides the 8-bit sound, like 16, 64, anything like that? Well, because then we'd have to change our name. What up, bitch? What up? Hey, this is Vince from The Mormons. Hey, what's happening? How you guys doing? The Mormons are a great band. I'm invited by the Mormons. Yeah, all right. Thanks, man. Hey, what's happening? We love the Mormons. All right. That's cool, though. Our plan plug worked perfectly. No. Everything's going according to plan. Well, real quick... Hey, why don't you take us out with the beef box, Kelly?

I mean, Spacey K. Oops. We can cut that in post. So, yeah, I guess we're going to wrap it up. You guys got anything else you'd like to say before we cut this? Yeah. Fuck all y'all. Some new news is that we just got signed in Japan, which we're going there in... You guys got signed in Japan? Going there in July, which should be cool. No, I don't have the name of the record label. What's the name of the label? Someone who knows? It's called Village Again. Village Again? Village. Village Again. Village. That's awesome. So, you guys are going to be going to Japan in July? Awesome. Is that going to be your first time there? Yeah. Cool, man. Well, we've talked to a couple bands who've been there. They said it's a pretty fucking awesome place to tour.

Yeah, I'm excited. Claw machines everywhere. Apparently. What's everywhere? Claw games. Those claw machines. Oh, shit. Everywhere. There's going to be claw machines when we get there. Clone Snatch. Underwear vending machines. No one commented on the underwear. We asked. No one was willing to comment on underwear vending machines. I'm going to take pictures if I see them. Do you want us to give, like, your, like, a station something? Like, a station thing? Yeah, we can get into that. We'll do that. So, uh, we're going to, I guess we're going to cut that, and you guys can all say goodbye, and thanks so much for coming. Later, bitches! Bye, motherfuckers! Fuck my dick! See you in hell.

Alright. That was fantastic. I hope you guys enjoyed that interview as much as I enjoyed doing it, and hopefully Sound Guy and Airmen didn't get AIDS from the back of 8-Bit's couch in their van, which was fucking horrendous. Between that and Gilman, it was, like, walking into some sort of, like, hazmat zone. It was just terrible. But, anyhow, we're going to wrap up the show. Like I said, we got a contest. We got, uh, one or two, probably one of 8-Bit's CD, You Ain't No Robot, that we're going to send out to you. Uh, how do you enter, you want to know? Well, you enter just like this. Basically, send us your name and address, uh, to our Gmail account, which is soundseenrevolution at gmail.com, and include in the subject line, 8-Bit Contest.

Send us all of that information by, say, next Tuesday, which would be, I don't know, the 32nd of June, next Tuesday, which will be May 1st, or May, June, I don't know, what the hell is next Tuesday? May 30th will be next Tuesday, so send us all of that stuff by May 30th, and we'll put up the winner with our next contest, or with our next, uh, broadcast. We'll let you guys know who won, so that way you can say we gave you some free shit, and you can't complain when Santa doesn't bring you anything this year for Christmas, uh, because your mom's poor. So, uh, to wrap up this broadcast, we'll play the title track off of 8-Bit's album, You Ain't No Robot. I hope you enjoy it. Be sure to enter the contest, uh, one entry per household, so get lots of friends to enter if you want free stuff.

Alright, that's it. Thanks for tuning in. Have a great week.

Yeah, yeah, what, what? Yeah, you best take off that fucking robot suit. Especially when you're opening up for us, and that fucking car to get all this shit. Know what I'm saying?

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