Posted by: Waffs | http:// | 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.

Posted by: burgatron | http://www.townhallsteps.com | Mon Jan 21 10:31:13 2002

casio hardcore bands - bs2000 atom and his package (touring locally soon) reggie and the full effect

Posted by: acb | http://dev.null.org | Mon Jan 21 12:17:55 2002

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.

Posted by: acb | http://dev.null.org | Mon Jan 21 12:18:30 2002

though, yes, Casiotone is the x0x for indie kids.

Posted by: Graham | http://grudnuk.com | Mon Jan 21 13:00:39 2002

Except that krautrock stuff tends to use a real drummer. Just nitpicking.

Do those VL-Tone calculator keyboards count? 'cos I've got one! :)

Posted by: acb | http://dev.null.org | Mon Jan 21 13:55:30 2002

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.

Posted by: acb | http://dev.null.org | Mon Jan 21 14:53:09 2002

Though perhaps the next big thing will be Nokiapunk...

Posted by: Colin | http://www.onepointzero.com/ | Mon Jan 21 16:13:34 2002

NintendoPunk also.

Posted by: Dave | http:// | Mon Jan 21 17:24:20 2002

Gerty Farish are casiopunk.

Posted by: acb | http://dev.null.org | Tue Jan 22 04:30:33 2002

Who are Gerty Farish?

Posted by: burgatron | http://www.townhallsteps.com | Tue Jan 22 11:24:07 2002

nintendo punk Alec empire released a cd called 'nintendo teenage robots' where the all the sounds are taken from the gameboy.

Posted by: acb | http://dev.null.org | Tue Jan 22 14:38:55 2002

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.)

Posted by: dave | http:// | Tue Jan 22 15:41:41 2002

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.