Ugly Machine: The Lost and Found

Pulsewave Halloween SPOOKTACULAR Covers Contest

It has been our October tradition to curate our Halloween SPOOKTACULAR where three of our favorite chip artists would cover a band for an entire set. In years past, we’ve been honored to host epic collaborations like Kris Keyser & Note! as Death from Above 1979, Bit Shifter as The Misfits , Oxygenstar as Led Zeppelin, an0va as Queen, Anamanaguchi as Weezer, glomag as Joy Division & many many others. Due to some logistical issues, we are not putting on a Halloween show this year (bummer, we know!).

However, we’d like to keep the open mic portion alive online. This is our challenge to you: make a kick-ass chip music cover and win a slot to play a full set at Pulsewave in 2016.

How can you participate?

Record a cover of a band or performer you love.

Upload the track to SoundCloud.com

Write a description of what hardware or software you used to make your track and why you chose the song. Make sure to tag @pulsewavenyc (so we’ll see your entry!).

Share your link on your social networks and tag @pulsewave, we’ll RT our favorites.

We’ll add your entry in a Soundcloud playlist. On October 26th, we’ll handpick our top 5 favorite tracks and the public will vote on who gets to play Pulsewave in 2016! Winner will be announced on Halloween.

Thanks for your support and we can’t wait to hear what you come up with. Stay tuned for details on our next show, we’re really excited about it.

Your boo-boos,

Dang!!! We were so blown away by fuckjazzforaminute’s incredible set. So  much dancing!! So many incredible singers!!! Such incredible covers!!! We are so appreciative of the fact that he was able to join us and make July’s Pulsewave so amazing <3 <3

July’s event also brought VOIA’s debut after several months of holding it down on open mic. VOIA has done an amazing job the past several months holding it down and doing our sound for us, so it was really exciting to get to see him shine on the stage as well! We’re so proud to have such a talented individual as a part of our team and we absolutely loved his set!

We were so happy that Shoujo Kiss was able to make it back to our city and put on an amazing show for us! While it was his first time performing under this name we were confident he was going to put on a good show and he sure did deliver on that! Also we need to talk about how great it was to see him bring up Azuria Sky to sing along live during the song she collaborated on. We’re so lucky to have experienced something so special!

Look at our wonderful open mic performers! We’re always so appreciative of everyone who puts themselves out there before our main event. We often find new performers during our open mic segment so please keep showing off your new songs and your works in progress. It means so much to us!

Thank you so much to all performers, our wonderful visualist, and all you amazing people who came out to last month’s Pulsewave! ugly-machine‘s photos are now up on our Facebook page so we’ll be spending the next several days posting them up over here so you can see higher-quality versions of them.