DUBCRT is a music album, interactive light synthesizer and remix gadget released as a Commodore 64 cartridge. With music and visuals from some of the most prolific experimentalists of the 8-bit scenes, DUBCRT taps into 1960s modernist forms, 1970s dub, 2000s glitch aesthetics, and 2020s sustainable computing. DUBCRT features:
โข Eight songs ranging from ambient to IDM and drum nโ bass
โข Visualisers that react to the music, and that are user-controllable
โข A secret remix module that allows you to re-interpret all the music on the cartridge
All of this uses only 64 kilobytes โ equivalent to 1.5 seconds of MP3-audio. This is possible thanks to clever use of resources, and by making all the graphics in PETSCII, the colourful and quirky ASCII-variant of the Commodore 64.
This audio version of the Commodore64 cartridge features all of the tracks that have been recorded from the actual MOS 6581 and MOS 8580 SID chips from authentic hardware - with a stereo mix combining both of the SID models into one waveform.
Also included in the audio version are eleven remixes from artists such as Datasette, Julien Mier and Mesak.