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You’ll be able to stream tonight’s gig using the flash player or links for your mediaplayer of choice below.
You can also get interactive with our bigscreen visuals and speech-synthesis MC by sending a picture or message to blipscreen@gamepakcollective.com.

We’re delighted to annouce that PiXELCORPS, aka Tim of eclectronics.org, will be providing some interactive audiovisual at our gig with Jimmy Penguin and KaraKara tomorrow night in the Dark Horse Inn. To get in on the interactivity buzz, and see YOUR message or picture up on the bigscreen in a pleasantly lofi pixellated style, just send it to

blipscreen@gamepakcollective.com

. There’ll also be some nifty text-to-speech synthesis occasionally relaying your shoutouts and messages, kinda like a virtual software MC!

We’re also delighted to be showing off some sneak previews of Dublin-based independent game studio bitSmith Games‘ forthcoming isometric adventure game Kú, based on the ancient Irish mythology of the Táin.

Check the event page here for directions and more info.

17.02.12

JIMMY PENGUIN

KARAKARA

+GAMEPAK DJs

Dark Horse Inn, George's Quay, Dublin 2

ADMISSION FREE – 9PM – 1:30AM

Best known perhaps as one of the scratch ninjas behind Galway’s ‘Community Skratch Games’ (an annual week-long celebration of scratch music and culture), DJ/producer Jimmy Penguin made formidable pixelated waves in the Irish chiptune scene, and beyond, at the start of this year when he released the album "Ninjenisid".

Made when 2012 was still young and innocent, using various free NES- and SID-chip emulators, "Ninjenisid " is a seriously accomplished chipmusic release. It brings the listener on a most entertaining journey through the various levels of a virtual videogame, with nods to classic 8-bit VGM aplenty – replete with "title screen" and "game over" sequences as its opening and closing tracks, and aptly imagined "levels" along the way. Whatever the chiptune purists might say about "fakebit", we say this is how it's supposed to be done!

After all, as one of the country's most progressive scratch DJs, Jimmy has dedicated the best part of the last decade to advancing the possibilities of the turntable as a musical instrument. His own productions have showcased music styles from bass heavy electronica through to slow building ambient noodlings with lushly orchestrated instrumentation. Never a stranger to innovation, he'd crafted songs before using the mighty little Korg DS-10 snynth for NintendoDS. Now he's now taken on the wonderful possibilities of the sound palettes that can be squeezed from the archaic sound-chips in well-loved videogame consoles, and in doing so has pretty much captured the essence of what chipmusic, at its best, is all about. The results, we feel you'll agree, are rather tasty. Most definitely check out "Ninjenisid" over at bandcamp – you won't be disappointed. And check out some of his other output at http://​www.alkalinearrecordings.tu​mblr.com/ or http://​www.nozlrecordings.com/

 You won't be disappointed either when he performs the album live, in its entirety and with extra bonus levels, exclusive to Gamepak, at our new monthly home in the Dark Horse, on 17th February.  In fact we're more than delighted to welcome Jimmy along to inaugurate what are shaping up as a super series of nights.
    

 Support on the night comes from the excellent KaraKara, performing live, with Gamepak DJs to heat things up, interactive bigscreen visuals and classic games to play too.

Oh and the price of admission is absolutely free!
Facebook EVENT PAGE here, yo!

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You’ll be able to stream live audio from tonight’s gig from 9:00pm GMT using the player below.

Circuit-bending workshops: Our fun, informative & fathomable workshops looking at circuit bending and more are returning in March, in a fantastic new venue. More details soon so stay tuned, or mail us at info@gamepakcollective.com to find out more.

We’re delighted that members of Gamepak collective will be taking part in an AV performance as part of Dublin’s inaugural Glitch Festival. The event startsat 5:30 pm, and included a circuit-bent ‘cinema’ set from Holland’s Karl Klomp and Tom Verbruggen, as well as an AV performance from circuit-bender and instrument-builder extraordinaire, Gijs Gieskes, both of which promise to be absolutely unmissable. To kick things off though, will bea short live performance from Gamepak’s gLotChbOt and SU7A7S, joined by visualist iNFOTOXiN.

Using a variety of bent casio keyboards and modified toys, fed through an array of analogue effects, onetime Siam Collective mainman John Leech, aka SU7A7S, will create a veritable wall of noise. He’ll be joined in the mix by Gamepak’s Andy (Zyme), who’ll be wearing his gLOtChbOt hat for the night as he utilises homebrew software running on the Nintendo DS to jam out some generative glitchmusic, arranging samples of circuit-bent and video-game sounds using cellular automata as a sequencer matrix.

More info to be found here , directions can be found here or check Google maps here.

For anyone who can’t make it to Capel Street tonight, you can catch the gig LIVE using this player, starting at 9pm
If you have any trouble tuning in, email gamepak@theultimatecomment.com for support.

Or use one of the “tune in” buttons below

Gamepak Dublin Presents
/:://::/ A night of chip-bass, skweee, wonky, bleepy dub & lofi electronic futurism /:://::/

2 rooms of tunage, games, visuals featuring

A-Force [ !Kaboogie /::/ GhettoQuietly ]

Noid the Droid [ Bap to the Future ]

Meljoann [ Boy Scout Audio ]

Scout Hardcastle [ Boy Scout Audio /::/ Digital Vomit ]

Buzz Conductor DJ Set + Gamepak DJs /::/ Visuals by ReVerse

/::/ A-Force is a DJ and producer with the Dublin-based !Kaboogie and Alphabet Set collectives. His tunes often feature fine 8-bit style blips and bleeps meshed into danceable 2-step or dubby bass-blasting joints. Check out his soundcloud or blog at the links below.
/::/ http://www.aisteardub.blogspot.com/ /::/ http://soundcloud.com/a-force

/::/ Meljoann is a wonky R&B-flavoured electronic producer and vocalist, with a debut album, ‘Squick‘, out on Boy Scout Audio. She is a nerd, wears glasses, and has allergies. She’s also one half of noise n’ beats duo Gland and Conduit, with Herv.
/::/ http://www.meljoann.com/

/::/ Scout Hardcastle is a brash, wanky producer, affiliated with Dublin Wonk label, Boy Scout Audio. Following a string of remixes for label-mate Meljoann, he’s branching out into the heady world of skweee big-shottery with a recent release on UK imprint Digital Vomit, alongside such notables as Mesak and Randy Barracuda. His debut album is out soon.

/::/ Noid the Droid is a vinyl-obsessed selectah, known for being ahead of the curve when it comes to the freshest and most innovative sounds around. Also a curator of Galway’s Bap to the Future nights, expect sounds from the furthest reaches of the boom bap bleep continuum from this don of future funk.

/::/ Buzz Conductor will be laying down the vibes in the bar area, manning the decks in his usual indefatigable way, familiar to some no doubt from killer sets everywhere from Gamepak club nights to an after party near you. Expect the unexpected from this honorary Gamepak resident, the artist formerly masquerading as Oshroom.

/::/ Same wonderful venue as our last big Gamepak event, now operating under the new name Rúta, still located at the very top of Capel Street. Drink deals on the night again include 3 Heineken, Sol, or Miller bottles for €10. Any Spirit w/bottle mixer €5. 2 vodka and a red bull for €10 and all the usual delicious import Svyturys beers at €4.

Entry a mere €5, with various shiny exclusive vinyl and CD offerings from some of the luminaries we have performing available on the night. Obligitaory Facebook event page shenanigans live here.

To whet appetites for the sorta fare on offer at this veritable banquet of beeps and beats, check out this little mix that A-Force has rustled up for us in the player below!
Bleeps from Inna Space mix by A-Force

Schedule/Timetable for tody’s workshops:
2pm-4pm Video screenings; introducing circuit-bending
4pm-5pm Demos/show & tell
6-7pm Databending 101
8pm Performance jam – impromptu gig with circuit-bent toys and modified game controllers, feat QPOP, Glotchbot, John L & you…

Above: QPOP gets the bends going in the circuitry at our last workshop

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A couple of new galleries have been added to our website! Below you can check out pics from our Launch Party for Herv’s Portable Music Vol.1 on 1st April – props to Pauliina for the ninja camerawork.

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And, in eager anticipation of our next circuit-bending session in Exchange this coming Saturday, you can check out some photos from the last one here – props to Seb for the shutter-snapping this time.

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If you want to take part in the next workshop – which will include videoscreenings, databending, live bending of a speak-and-read device as well as performances, demos and walkthroughs, hit us up with the contact form here or send an email to info – at – gamepakcollective.com