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I was certainly interested enough and excited to check out the chiptunes concert so I made my way down to Toronto's City Hall where the impromptu guerrilla performance was to take place. Once I got downtown it took me a few minutes to locate the group (City Hall was packed with tens of thousand of people last night), but the beeps and blips of classic Game Boy music was instantly recognizable so I knew which direction to head.

At the show, what I saw was a group of enthusiastic Nuit Blanche goers huddled around the chiptunes artists, which included jefftheworld, deadbeatblast, and Eastern Blok. They had a compact rig in the centre consisting of a giant battery, an amp head, and a single PA speaker, all strapped to a dolly. The artists told me that audience participation is key to a successful chiptunes concert, and fans are encouraged to sing/rap or even bring their own Game Boys to create music.

After spending a good thirty minutes at the show it became clear that chiptunes is one of the most interesting new forms of music to come along -- especially for a gamer enthusiast like me. If you're curious to learn more about the Game Boy Guerrillas you can check out their website here (it's a shell website for now, the full site will be formally launching later this month). You can also follow jefftheworld on Twitter.

- Futureshop