The electronic break & blipmeister known as Herv comes for his debut Gamepak gig to launch his new E.P Portable Music Vol. 1.
Gamepak brings you music from & inspired by video games in a friendly and interactive atmosphere.
Dust of your plunger & comb your moustache!
Entry also gives you Hervs E.P on cassete for your walkman. :)
All for only €8!
Gamepak brings you music from & inspired by video games in a friendly and interactive atmosphere.
Dust of your plunger & comb your moustache!
Entry also gives you Hervs E.P on cassete for your walkman. :)
All for only €8!
1/4/11 @ 9:30pm
O'Byrne's Beverage Bar, Capel Street, Dublin.
Heres some info on Herv who you should check out:
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 workplace'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 'Portable Music Vol. 1', Herv returns 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, and sees him train his hyper-active musical mind to focus on minute subtleties within square-shaped vignettes. With the user restricted to a mere 16 notes per pattern and 16 patterns per track, he 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 the record. 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. Stalwart Dublin-based producer Herv has always had a thing about free music. His anarchist aesthetic becomes clear when you notice the number of free releases available on respected net-labels such as Acroplane, Net-Lab, Cock Rock Disco and The Centrifuge. By no means simple promos, these records are a match for his swarm of physical format releases on Irish and international independents, including labels Risc and Go Away Recordings, while remaining true to the net-label scene's DIY and chiptune roots. Herv is one of Ireland's premier and pioneering exponents of the chiptune genre, 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. Also in high demand as an old-skool-rave referencing DJ (with a free-download mix on Brighton label Wrong Lab), his production advances stylistically prog-influenced wildly modulating chord progressions, which jostle and balance jauntily against razor-sharp beat programming to melodically eccentric effect. Herv's music grabs hold of your channel-hopping attention span, bashing it against the speakers to the battle-beat of its perversely contrarian itinerary. We've watched his music evolve from the experimental folktronics and concrète of his 2002 debut 'Snap Hands' into the full-frontal punk assault of breakcore excess. With later releases such as 'Gang Molded' (The Centrifuge, 2010) re-integrating his rave roots, his noise urges are now simultaneously and comprehensively satiated, not only in the layered subtleties of his Herv production aesthetic, but in the company of his alter-ego Muttermal and as part of duo Gland & Conduit. And so, on April 1st, Gamepak Dublin and Boy Scout Audio are proud to celebrate the release [BSA003] 'Portable Music Vol. 1' by Herv. The release is available on strictly limited edition Cassette for your Personal Stereo Walkman, and on digital from April 14th through boyscoutaudio.com. Support on the night comes from Bluefood (Ghettoquietly, !Kaboogie), Glotchbot (Gamepak), PR! and SU7A7S of Siam Collective, with WuffaH laying down some deep and dubby 8-bit tinged vibes in the Bar area.
