There's a great article in this month's issue of The Wire magazine about (US city) Baltimore's club scene where the writer describes walking in on "drunk kids from the local art school MICA (including someone in a zebra costume)" dancing wildly to a set by OCDJ, the whole room apparently buzzing to his 8-bit-fuelled club songs. Mixing hip hop and the still-underground sounds of the chiptune movement, OCDJ is one of the more accessible Game Boy obsessives currently garnering a growing fanbase, and you can certainly hear what the kids in the piece are so excited about after listening to his song 'What's Good' (now streaming on his SNAP), a record that turns what is often seen as an esoteric and self-involved movement into little more than an extension of party-friendly electronica. Fans of Dan Deacon and the like should get involved with a visit to his MySpace.
http://www.myspace.com/ocdjmusic