Bad Luck

The sun is shining and the ghosts who live, silently and invisibly, in your room are warming up. They have something to say.
Scrape the jam and muck from your ears, there’s an important lesson to be learned…

Listen

Alpha Beta Gamma by Bitmap - 2003 Debut Album 

01 Runjamesrun

06 Everything's Gone Wrong

07 Black Arts in the Town Hall

08 I'm So Lonely

09 Alpha Betta Gamma

10 The Morning Wine

11 The Wind Farmer

12 Turn It Around

02 - My Heart And The Wave

03 - Don't Be Lonely

04 - How The West Was Won

05 - It's A Shame

07 - The Colour Of The Night Sky

08 - Gravity's Got Me Down

10 - Blood For Money

11 - Hey, Summer Sunshine

12 - She Fell Quickly Into Fall

13 - Micro Macro

14 - Match Hips Or Go Pure

Somewhere in Britain there’s an imaginary station. There, just past the platform, in a small office, beside a beige melamine desk and a brown tipped, slightly neglected spider plant, is a door. It’s the door to the National Lost Property Office. 

Inside it’s huge. Much bigger than you’d think. There are oversize pigeon holes for each and every type of thing which could be, or has ever been, lost. 

That’s where I found this song. It took a while, but there it was, arranged neatly between lost remote controls and lost identity. 

Everything lost will be found again in time.

Everything Lost Will Be Found

Things come along every now and then. Things which change you. They change you and your life down to the very atoms. 

The Bronze Gorge is about that, plain and simple. 

It’s track 2 of twelve and it’s free to download.

The Bronze Gorge

Colours In The Rain

Track 5 of 12 in the Bitmap 2020 odyssey.

Riches Come and Go

Track 11 of 12 

A crippled space laboratory falls rapidly towards the Earth...

We're Losing The Will To Survive (The Skylab Disaster)

Hoping To Hold You

Nothing To Be Afriad Of

Night Games

Science Will Save Us From Ourselves

This Is A Low

All I See

On a nearby planet, an exploration robot has an existential awakening...

I Am The Lord Of This New Kingdom

And On And On

Bitmap is a band made from just one man. Luke Barwell is that man.

Preview two exclusive tracks from Magnetic Fields, the brand new album, right now...

Releasing two critically acclaimed albums and one EP between 2003 and 2006 on the Gentle Electric label - This is the complete archive of those records. 

Luke is formerly a member of John Peel favourites Salako.

Both Bitmap albums and the EP are available to buy on CD via BandCamp. Follow the link for cut-price joy.

NME said:
How does a modern petunia stand out from the hanging basket? Does he go down the Pavement "writing songs while sleep-walking" approach, sonic terror dentistry or a little bit of "analogue synths go bloop"? Bitmap try all approaches. If Bitmap could change their name to The Beta Band, thousands would hail this as the album that finally confirmed their potential.(8/10)

The Sunday Times Magazine said:
Fitting neatly alongside the classic harmony-drenched summer sound of The Thrills, Bitmap offers an alternative that is equally seasonal. Alpha Beta Gamma is a delight. Basically it's the album we've all been hoping the Beta Band would make. Smart electronic noodling underpins old-school melodic pop that veers from easy listening to weird psychedelic workouts. As with so much frothy pop, there's a darker twist to the lyrics. (Pop CD of the Week - *****)


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