Trash80 is a micromusic/

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project from Timothy Lamb (born on March 5, 1979), a pioneer of independent

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. He has published several songs online under a

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license ( BY-NC-ND) under the Trash80 and Tresk banners. Whereas many Trash80 songs are ambient soundscapes featuring the use of

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sounds, Tresk songs feature simple piano lines. Most prominently, Lamb's music has been featured on the soundtrack of the

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game ''

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''. The name "Trash80" is a reference to a slang term for the Tandy /

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computer model (now defunct)

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(model 1/2/3/4/4p). In 2003 the EP ''Hologram'' was released. and in May 2008 the EP ''Icarus'' was released. In the Fall of 2008, Trash80 unveiled the ArduinoBoy, a relatively cheap and easy-to-assemble device that allows MIDI synchronization with a Game Boy running the proper software. As the name implies, it is based on the

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open-source microcontroller.ArduinoBoy Project
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