It’s the only instrument he could play on the tourbus.

A few weeks back Fuck Buttons’ Benjamin John Power announced he’d finished his second album as Blanck Mass, and now Andrew Hung, the other half of the noise-punk duo, has detailed his first solo material.

Rave Cave was written on a Nintendo Gameboy while touring last year, explains Hung.

“Whilst touring, I needed an outlet for writing music; it drives me nuts to not have access to a means to making things. I’ve tried making music on laptops; carrying tiny peripherals around the globe, but this still wasn’t a portable solution. I’ve tried tablets but having my fat fingers play keyboard lines on a touchscreen isn’t very fun. In the end, it was the decrepit obsolete games console, the Gameboy, that opened up possibility for me again. Limiting but liberating, the emphasis is on fun.”

Judging from lead track ‘The Plane’, this isn’t exactly a chiptune record – instead Hung tweaks the frantic energy of Nintendo games into a paintball-splattered techno-stomp with only the faintest jolt of nostalgia.

Download ‘The Plane’ as a freebie ahead of Rave Cave, which he’s self-releasing on March 23 complete with artwork from Middleboop.

Read our interview with Fuck Buttons on their “aggressive, malevolent, apocalyptic” post-Olympics album, Slow Focus.

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