HERV - Portable Music Vol 1 EP Launch Party - April 1st - Dublin

djwelfare

Gamepak Dublin in association with BOY SCOUT AUDIO present:

HERV //// Portable Music Volume One //// EP Launch Party /// Handheld electronic music showcase

O’Byrnes Beverage House
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€5 admission /€8 with limited Edition cassette for your personal stereo walkman!
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[img]http://server.myspace-shack.com/d19/wuffah gig.jpg[/img]

www.gamepakcollective.com
www.boyscoutaudio.com

Full Lineup:

HERV // BITWISE OPERATOR // CATSCARS // GLOTCHBOT // SU7A7S // PR!

Visuals by BLUEFOOD
Vinyl DJ set in Bar area by WUFFAH

PLUS: boardgames, ancient console videogames (blow on them cartridges!), shiny LED poi-spinning performance by festival-fire-spinner SPINOBI - and special raffle with proper oldskool stereo cassette walkmans as prizes!!

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PORTABLE MUSIC VOL. ONE [BSA003]

Portable Music Vol. 1: a record that was composed on buses, train platforms, and in friends’ houses; concocted while commuting and on the go; a record that beats the clock and dodges your boss’s CCTV. This is Portable Music, released on April 1st by Boy Scout Audio, on limited edition CASSETTE tape for your personal stereo walkman, with digital release to follow on April 14th.

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HERV
Herv has always been one of Ireland’s premier and pioneering exponents of chiptune, with tracks such as ‘Party Gaff’ (from the album ‘Customer’, Go Away/Reconfiguration Records, 2006) standing out as one of the scene’s most loved floor-filling choons. ‘Portable Music Vol. 1′, sees him return to the world of hand-held gaming devices and to a new generation of gear uniquely suited to the adept knob-twiddling he has demonstrated on previous releases. With the user restricted to a mere 16 notes per pattern and 16 patterns per track, Herv squeezes the last drops of musical juice from a Nintendo DS, battering the synthesised daylights out of the bare-bones Korg DS-10 software that is the sole sound source of this series of square-shaped vignettes.

Herv had another reason for switching to portable methods: giving away music for free is all well and good, but a man’s gotta eat. Returning to full-time day-job hours away from his studio, he soon realised that increased restrictions on his time would mean drastic changes were needed if his musical output was to endure. Adapting his methodologies to this end, he traded studio gear for portable devices.

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BITWISE OPERATOR
Bitwise Operator’s been described as sounding like “50 Sega Megadrives attacking you at once!” – expect pre-modern synths, break beats, DS tomfoolery and weird harmonies.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bitwise-Operator/107449203384

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CATSCARS
With electronic pop delights on debut “Construction” tinged with gothic spookiness and longing, she’ll be rocking the DS-10 on the night too.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/catscars/138708102823970

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GLOTCHBOT
Gamepak’s Xyme dons his Glotchbot hat to jam out some generative sample-based 8-bit goodness, armed with a couple of Nintendo DS’s.
http://glotchbot.tumblr.com/

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SU7A7S
Founder of triphop massive Siam Collective, ‘SU7A7S’ bends your ears with warped NES and gameboy tones, and some of the oddest circuit bent goodies for good measure.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Siam-Collective/181837121373

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PR!
Dublin based instrumental musician ‘PR!’ uses a laptop, a gameboy and some sampled toys and video games to make distorted hip-hop songs.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/PR-Music/186505818026265

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WUFFAH
The enigmatic and otherworldly WuffaH will be laying down some deep and dubby 8-bit tinged vibes in the Bar area with a special vinyl DJ set.
A production alias of one of Irelands bass ambassadors, watch this space with more to follow...
www.soundcloud.com/wuffah

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THE VENUE
Venue location: the wonderful O’Byrnes Beverage House, where the old Booze2go off-licence formerly was – the very top of Capel Street:

See link below for map & streetview:
http://www.gamepakcollective.com/?p=206#map

Drink deals on the night include 3 Heineken, Sol, or Miller bottles for €10. Any Spirit w/dash €4. 2 vodka and a red bull for €10. All the usual delicious import Svyturys beers at €4.

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EARLY SHOW!!!!!
Kicking off around the 8pm mark – get down early for some retro-future-fusion electronical madness!!

djwelfare

TONIGHT innit!