New York’s only monthly chiptune series returns, this time at The Tank’s new venue at DCTV! If you had been to a show over the last two months at The Tank, you know that there was some serious crap (no pun intended) going down, and it’s definitely a pleasure to be in a space that has that new venue smell (at least, new to us). If you attended the mind-and-circuit bending festivities of Bent Festival 2008, then you’ve already been to DCTV and know that you’re going to have room to breathe and room to dance– but know that the organizers of this month’s Pulsewave are taking full advantage of the increase in space.
This is a super-special Pulsewave because my little brother is coming to town for his first chiptune show EVER! Ok, ok, it’s actually extra special because we have a new venue AND because Damian and the crew from This Spartan Life will be MCing and presenting machinima videos live for a multimedia, game reappropriation extravaganza.
On hand to provide beats will be the one and only Neil Voss (he wrote some tunes for a couple of games you might have played called Tetrisphere and The New Tetris) making a very rare live appearance– see him now while you still can!
Unicorn Dream Attack, the most adorably named chip-artist of all time (sorry, Girljoy, he’s just barely got you beat) is coming in from Minneapolis to lay down some of his patented Love Bits.
I’m particularly fond of his cover of The Pixies’ “Monkey Gone to Heaven,” even though I can take or leave the original.
Monkey Gone to Heaven — Unicorn Dream Attack
And finally, the man who flipped all the breakers and had us jumping around in the dark to the music still banging in our ears when he killed the power… The one, the only, 8GB!
Pic by silvertje http://www.annehelmond.nl/
To keep with the cover theme, here’s the 8GB Z80 version of Kraftwerk’s “Die Roboter.”
Die Roboter (8GB Z80 cover) — 8GB
And to give you a better, though by no means completely representative idea of the stompers that this guy puts on live, I’ll throw in an original. Take the intensity of this and turn it up to +80 and you MIGHT have an idea of how hard you’ll dance on Saturday night.
Hacks and I hope to see you there– if you spot one of us, we may even buy you a beer!
Hey, so, if I spot you, you give me a beer, right?
How many times can I spot you in the night?
xD