About

The cheat code show is a new ambitious project byOla radio in collaboration with Cindy Bluray (Daisy Mortem) and Pakun Jaran. It aims to bring together different artists who share the same intimate passion for music and video games. Each artist drawn to this project will create a unique interactive and auditory work reflecting their personal links to video games. In sum, this show seeks to illustrate the degree to which video games have influenced producers in their lives and in their creative work.

The 9 artists invited for the show’s first season come from various artistic backgrounds and geographic areas. These range from : Chicago-based contemporary artist Vyle, Japanese music with DJ Sakusahara, Sao Paulo-based producer Xiao Quan and Cindy Bluray, to lead singer of the french-based Daisy Mortem duo. The latter artists have conceived the works conveyed through the episodes as sonic auto-biographies, intimate experiences told through the collective experience of the virtual.

Visually, this project adopts an innovative approach. Each episode will be illustrated by a corresponding visual world curated by the artist s1m0nc3ll0, based on gaming esthetiques and experiences. Once added up, all worlds will form a general map used as an illustration for the show’s first season. This map includes artifacts, allies or end bosses and features a musical journey specific to each corresponding artist. All of these maps will be assembled on a specifically dedicated website (still under construction) whilst each episode will unlock a new world on the latter website - thereby adding to the interactivity and excitement for the audience following the unfolding of the different episodes.

The first episode composed by Shadymonk, founder of Hyperpop Records, reveals the first world. He tells us about his creation in a few words :

"Very young, I discovered music through video games by watching my brothers play. I considered them as gods, watching them navigate from one game to another in an almost innate way. As time went on and my proficiency in music evolved, the world of video games became an important part of my work. I was very happy to be contacted to make this mix, a showcase, or rather a capsule of titles that have marked me while growing up. It's organised according to the games and their release years. There is a chronological progression to more recent games. I hope you enjoy this journey down memory lane."

This project is the result of a collaboration between two talented producers Pakun Jaran and Cindy bluray from the duo Daisy Mortem and Ola Radio, a heterogeneous webradio-community specialized in electronic music and based in Marseille.

Artists

Cindy Bluray is the lead singer of the dark and experimental duo “Daisy Mortem”. He has started lately developing his own solo universe. His first EP «N0.SL33P», released in 2021 on Clan Destine Records, explores and questions the supposed limits between reality and virtual reality. Following the release of a first EP «Sekt» released on Kaometry, an EP that acts as a homage to freedom of action and that explores the plurality of the electronic scene, Pakun Jaran continues mixing genres and multiplying mediums and tools.

s1m0nc3ll0’s approaches maximalist design and VFXs, his main fields of expertise, with a fantastic and magical view. He finds inspiration in Heroic Fantasy books, video games, and medieval music.

Samuel Bassett is a web designer/developer oriented towards the creation of new web experiences with the latest available technologies in a way to offer the most resilient web solutions, whilst always placing the human at the center.



Website bySamuel BassettandHicham El Kaddioui

Design bySimon Villaret