casio hardcore bands - bs2000 atom and his package (touring locally soon) reggie and the full effect
Melbourne has quite a Casiotone-using scene; most of it is garage pop (not garage in the house-music sense); bands like Ninetynine, Lacto-Ovo, Minimum Chips, &c., and not all that punk (though one could argue that the punk-rock "here is the E chord, here is the A chord, here is the D chord, now form a band" aesthetic dovetails with garage indie). Perhaps there's a krautrock influence there too.
though, yes, Casiotone is the x0x for indie kids.
Except that krautrock stuff tends to use a real drummer. Just nitpicking.
Do those VL-Tone calculator keyboards count? 'cos I've got one! :)
Ninetynine use a real drummer (for most of their songs; one uses the bleepy drum loop from a VL-Tone-like device), and I think Minimum Chips do as well. Real guitars too.
Though perhaps the next big thing will be Nokiapunk...
nintendo punk Alec empire released a cd called 'nintendo teenage robots' where the all the sounds are taken from the gameboy.
Someone on Germany created a Gameboy cartridge called the Nanoloop that turned the unit into a noise maker/drum machine/something. It made all sorts of grungy, glitchy noises which could have some use if you like that kind of thing. (I actually have a LM-4 drum kit made of NanoLoop samples.)
Gerty Farish are history now, I think, but they were a duo casio/guitar punk band from Boston. CD on Load Records, sample MP3 at http://loadrecords.com.
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Mon Jan 21 07:05:32 2002
BS 2000, the side project of the Beastie Boys' Adam Horovitz, has often been described as "casio hardcore." I'd toss them into casiopunk as well.