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Northern Soul Funk Rock Jazz Pop Psychedelic Bip-Bop from Kingston upon Hull, UK.

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

Releasing a brand new track every month since January 2020 and aiming to continue until, at least the end of 2022. 

Luke is formerly a member of John Peel favourites Salako.

The first two Bitmap albums - Alpha Beta Gamma & Micro / Macro - and the EP - Black Arts in the Town Hall - 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 - *****)

Black Bufanda created and played his own soundsystem then, after some years, left if and played in a punk band, made some radical activism & DIY things, cooperated in a Squat and in other "free-places", digged many records, worked with so called mad people, studied homeoparhy, loved GNU/linux & free software, founded the Roots(A)Spread! Freedom Steppers Collective to enjoy reggae music together trying at the same time to help polital prisoners, loved his brothers & sisters the best he could....and other weird things he's surely forgetting.

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