Role Model

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Showroom Dummies 03:58 Tools
not a fan 02:22 Tools
girl in new york 03:09 Tools
minimal 03:09 Tools
play the part 03:09 Tools
pop5 03:09 Tools
hello! 03:09 Tools
six speed 03:09 Tools
stolen car 03:09 Tools
i don’t rly like u 03:09 Tools
new balance 02:22 Tools
That's Just How It Goes 02:22 Tools
i don't rly like u 01:09 Tools
Puerto Rican (feat. Patches) 04:31 Tools
the climb 04:31 Tools
say it first 04:31 Tools
boy afraid 04:39 Tools
Granu Girlz 03:26 Tools
we, the soccer team 04:09 Tools
never give up 04:31 Tools
IMG3BD5 04:46 Tools
Wilma Rudolphs 04:31 Tools
super model 04:31 Tools
notice me (feat. BENEE) 03:11 Tools
gucci chair 04:31 Tools
thank you for coming 04:31 Tools
kinetiskt porslin 03:51 Tools
Everyone Loses Everything 00:00 Tools
kaffaf4 el bretagne 02:22 Tools
the party and i 00:00 Tools
snare rush disco 00:00 Tools
727 state 00:00 Tools
hello 00:00 Tools
design by contract 00:00 Tools
billy j 00:00 Tools
sol bakom lidingö 00:00 Tools
set-reset-start 00:00 Tools
ray's wonder 03:15 Tools
ostgut 6am 00:00 Tools
skier sur mille plateaux 00:00 Tools
c64forever4helvete 00:00 Tools
Funky Number (no say go!) 00:00 Tools
ashtrace 00:00 Tools
fur dem womb 00:00 Tools
en tyst minut 00:00 Tools
Pop5 (Johan Kotlinski) 00:00 Tools
big trick pony 04:33 Tools
Remains Today 04:33 Tools
Pan arabian knights 01:09 Tools
Pop 5 01:09 Tools
Showroom Dummies (8-bit Operators - The music Of Kraftwerk) 03:59 Tools
Roy Andrews (Bud Melvin Remix) 03:42 Tools
Teen Idol 03:42 Tools
Ass Porn Tits 03:42 Tools
EMINEM 03:09 Tools
Mini-Klik Rmx 03:32 Tools
live in rotterdam 03:05 Tools
sol bakom lidingц 03:05 Tools
Granu Giraz 03:32 Tools
Pop5 (Live) 03:09 Tools
reworked uptits 03:09 Tools
Rackwards in Beverse 03:09 Tools
Cocaine Babe (prod. tommy) 03:09 Tools
som ett annat fån 03:09 Tools
kuriös skenmanöver 03:09 Tools
One Note Samba 06:14 Tools
halibu 06:14 Tools
Role Model - Showroom Dummies 06:14 Tools
bleeper2 04:44 Tools
I Luve VUMs 04:44 Tools
My Favorite Things 04:44 Tools
Role model 04:44 Tools
Sweet Come No Easy 04:44 Tools
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Johan Kotlinski aka Role Model, the spider in the web of the Scandinavian chip music scene, was born 1979 in Sweden on an island in the Baltic Sea. His first introduction to computers was when his dad brought home a Commodore 64 in the mid eighties. As many others, he developed a deep interest in music during the teenage years. He learned to play the piano and also started using an Amiga to compose own tracks, which at the time (about 1992) was state of the art technology for hobbyists. In 1996, Johan took the name Role Model and started to make his own electronic music on the Amiga, which was released on demo tapes. The music had a very raw and unpolished sound, compared to contemporary electronic music, and had a hard time getting much acceptance from the house and techno scene at that time. But there was still much positive feedback from friends and strangers. In 2000, Johan started to develop Little Sound Dj (LSDj), a music editor for the Game Boy. The goal was to create a tool for making music during long subway commutes. When LSDj v1.0 was finished in end of 2000, he started to sell it on home-made cartridges. Many hundred cartridges were sold over the coming years, that were used by artists such as Puss, Nullsleep, Covox, and even Beck... but most importantly it helped giving chip music a revival, building a new scene with artists and people loving music built with basic analog waveforms. Musically, Role Model's breakthrough started when he started to upload tracks on the site micromusic.net around 2000, which soon reached a global audience. Attention followed and soon Role Model started to get live gigs all over Europe. Eventually the music was acclaimed by the likes of Malcolm McLaren, Sven Väth and Kraftwerk, and one Role Model track was even featured on Cocoon Compilation D. It gave him inspiration to make more music, and also made him go further with his record label Bleep Street. A string of 7" records were released, including best seller "Papaya EP" by Goto80. Later, Rebel Pet Set was launched, a record label explicitly focused on releasing chip music style. So far records by Covox and Goto80 have been issued on Rebel Pet Set. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.