What The Math?

Cardiff, Wales based retro musical events.

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What went down @ Get Pixelated! <3 <3

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HEY CARDIFF!

GET PIXELATED!

What the Math? Presents a mini festival full of huge music made by small machines. Taking vintage gaming hardware and bending/beating/coding them into submission to create lo-fi, homegrown electronic music, we invite a diverse line up of UK based artists to show us exactly how much sound can pour from every chip. With genres ranging from straight retro videogame music to post-rock influenced pop, DnB, house, bass and seapunk, the chipmusic scene bubbles with a creative energy flowing off the forums, tumblrs, gif-sets, and vines onto the stage. We couldn’t be more excited!

Headlining the event we are proud to invite TDK aka Mark Knight, a veteran performer on the chipmusic/demoscene. TDK’s music gushes with melody, fizzing highs and deep bass led by live violin, providing a lively contrast to the driving electronics.
TDK is joined by Shefield’s Harleylikesmusic, Cardiff’s own Alone, xCriticalStrikex, The Virus Empire, Infotoxin, Sky Pope, King Keytan, Whitely, J3wel and CFGK24.

So grab a Game Boy, level up your dancing shoes, max your high scores and welcome to Cardiff eleven of the finest chip musicians the UK has to offer.

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Hey Cardiff

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This weekend, What The Math? presents what may or may not be a super world first: A gig streamed to the internet via a Playstation 4!  Whoop.. Even if its not We are excited to have Alone (Game Boys / Guitars / Euphoria) and Laurence Made Me Cry (Folk, guitars, singing etc) together to have an evening of live music, lolz and maybe even cat interruptions.. you can even get involved to through the livestreams social deals... See Facebook Event for more info!

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Gameapalooza is coming!

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Byzanite done did a video diary of Hub Festival. Nice

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Meet Byzanite

Alongside JellyBear, Alone and Chemical X and Kepler we are proud to have Swansea based electronic master Byzanite join us on Saturday night of Hub!

Going solo from an Electro/Glitch duo in March 2009, Byzanite since then soared to a unique sound of chiptune. With other tastes in music, He indulges in non-purism chiptune or creations which have no 8-bit elements in at all! With tracks featuring on Adam Walton's Welsh Music Show on BBC Radio Wales, Jen Long's Introducing Show on BBC Radio 1 and working closely with Babycakes Clothing, Byzanite will soon be a house hold name for Dance & Electronic music! In 2013 Byzanite unleashed Citadel of Chaos, his latest album mixing dubstep, chiptune, house, hard beats and a passion for partying, pizza and cigarettes. Both as a live performer and DJ, Byzanite is an artist not to miss.

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Poster for our Hub Festival Stage. www.hubcardiff.com for tickets!

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Hub Festival! JellyBear!

JellyBear will be playing as part of our Chip stage at Hub Festival. We can't wait to see what he gets up to with his fantastic blend of modern production and squarewaves.

JellyBear is the alias of Jack Farrow, twenty year old experimental producer currently living in Cardiff. After studying music from an early age playing the piano JellyBear moved on to writing chiptune influenced music in 2008 taking inspiration from Sabrepulse, Philter, nsrrenard and many other chip artists.

 Hey, Listen!

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Find JellyBear on Bandcamp: http://jellybear.bandcamp.com/album/hey-jellybear

Twitter: https://twitter.com/heyjellybear

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HUB Festival August 23-25th, Cardiff

We are stoked to announce What the Math? and JC Ents are teaming up for a night of chips and beats as part of the epic HUB Festival in Cardiff! Whoop!

We have a line up of retro inspired live acts to usher in Sunday 00:00am - 03:00am @ Four Bars (upstairs at Dempsey's which will make you groove, move your feet and feel the bleeps. We'll be breaking these guys down over the coming days but fear not our line up is here: JellyBear Alone Byzanite Chemical X and Kepler For load more info on the metric boat ton of other acts and awesome artists visit HUB Festival The Facebook event is here Tickets are £10 a day / £15 for the whole weekend It's going to be large!

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Today

We met and shook hands with people. Stuff is on the move. We are excited. More soon? Yes.

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Going to be showing peeps how to build one of these soon (info to come). Little Scale's SN76489 chip synth (with MIDI input via USB or DIN). Cheap chip toness.

The SN76489 was the chip found in many early Sega consoles like the Alex Kidd touting Master System.

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Retro Party s4c piece on yootoobe. 

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Retro Party on TV?!

Hell yeah we were! Last week (bit slow) our Retro Party was featured on s4c programme Y Lle. Which is damn cool. Its a great overview of the games, the music and the noise. Sadly the crew didn't stay long enough to catch the HFTGB cause a sweaty pit of bodies writhing to the Tetris theme. You really had to have been there for that. You can catch up for the next 30 days or so here (there are English subtitles for you non-Welsh speakers) Y Lle Episode 19

Here is what it looks like if you take screenshots of the catch up player (bless you cmd shift 4)

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Retro Party Videos

<3 <3 <3 to all our artists. The night was RAD. Video evidence:

Huge thanks to everyone who came down and partied with us. Massive thanks to Public Therapy for co-promoting too, obvs couldn't have been as awesome as it was without them. and to Super Tomato, for the video gameesss xxxx

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Cardiff Retro Party 29th April 2013 @ 10 Feet Tall

Pictures by Katrina Forey (katrinaforey.carbonmade.com)

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Cardiff Retro Party Profiles: Tommy Creep

Our final Party Profile! Not long now... Monday is so close! Tommy Creep

What do you get if you mix dirty basslines, Alice Cooper's on-stage-persona (we all know the Wayne's World routine) and two innocent young 1989 Game Boys? Only Tommy Creep knows as he shreds through our purest chip-tune set of the night. Feel the horror-chip necromancer tingle your dancing bones or close your eyes and pray for Zombies Ate My Neighbourhood carts to rain from the ceiling.

Fresh from the Bristol scene Tommy opens our party by stretching LSDJ to its most twisted form. Check it!