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Dont think retro fashion, think RETRO GEEK! Vintage computing and gaming meets arcades and the finest local and international live acts for a night of blistering beats, acid, techno, breaks and console bleeps. Get down to the big ass bass or blister those thumbs on a NES, Amiga, Atari, C64, Neo Geo or any of many other gaming flashbacks powered up and on site for those of us who were more geeking up at home then doing the John Travolta.... screw the 80's...insert coin to play! We've got a killer line-up for you. Massive talent is coming down to perform LIVE on-spot, using audio hardware and computers. What's even better you'll get to play those early computer games. The line-up inclides a healthy dose of EAS, with Don, DRi, Ponyloaf, and Kim Delahaye, and Reuben and Jaymis on visuals. Non-EAS skills come by way of Superfluid, GOTO80 (from sweden), PHarmacy, Dejan Vs Sidewinder, Hexadecimal and more. more details @ http://analogik.com/arcade_64.asp

Clan Analogue's monthly night Ether returns to Loop Bar, 23 Meyers Place in the city, on Sunday April the 18th for a night of chilled atmospheres, cruising soundscapes and stratospheric rhythms. Absorb the latest sounds from Clan Analogue's artists and hear tracks from the upcoming compilation Doppler Shift, in an environment of three-dimensional incandescent tonality.

Youth Assist is calling for youth designers, graph artists, photographers, illustrators, cartoonists, and visual expressionists to enter the Youth Assist poster design competition. The competition starts immediately and will close 31 May - visit http://www.youthassist.org for details

The New Forms Festival is an annual festival forum highlighting emerging forms at the junction of art, culture and technology. This year's theme is 'TECHNOGRAPHY' - a hybrid word denoting the inscriptions of culture in technology. NFF04: TECHNOGRAPHY will examine the relationship of culture and technology: how culture writes technology and how technology writes culture. It will bring together practitioners and theorists from across grassroots, gallery and academic contexts and provide platforms for conversations among the diverse voices of contemporary digital regionalism. Send through your submissions by May 14th

Chris Welsby has been making and exhibiting work since 1969. His films and film/video installations have been exhibited internationally, at major galleries in UK, Canada, & USA. Welsby is currently working on a series of interactive video installations entitled The Water Cycle. Lost Lake, the first of the series, was funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and exhibited at the Western Front Gallery Vancouver in May 1999. Tide Line, the second of the series, was commissioned by the Tate Gallery, UK and has since been exhibited at the Tate Gallery St Ives and the Tate gallery Liverpool. Down Stream is the third project in the series and is currently at the post production stage of development. Read more for screening details or visit http://www.sfu.ca/~welsby

Pulse Radio's Switch Vs McGuyver's debut release on Beat Code will be released next week. Keep an ear to the ground for "Big Banana". catalog# Beat Code 004 is available now via Covert and SWAG, plus others including juno, primal etc first week of May. It's already receiving rave reviews from those in the know, so you better be quick if you don't want to miss out on your copy. click here or copy this link into your mp3 player to listen to a preview of Big Banana

bringing to Brisbane for the first time. . . Deedrah (Spun Records/Ibiza/Live), James Monro (Flying Rhino/UK), Bumbling Loons (Flying Rhino / UK / Live), Dick Trevor (Green Nuns of the Revolution / UK) + more. http://www.fusingbrisbane.com/downloads/blisseaster04/blisseaster04.htm for more details

A 5 zone monster blast of party action on the Easter holiday weekend! Bringing together some of the worlds best to join forces with the cities finest for a night of underground sounds, thrills & dance-debauchery! Reanimator brings you rave acts Lisa Lashes (Voted the worlds No.1 Female DJ annually from 2001 to now) & the explosive 'Lab4' live on the main stage plus a top floor Hydrofunk room featuring the finest underground hiphop, beats & drum'n'bass. Ninja Tunes supremo Kid Koala from Canada joins forces with producer de jour Rjd2 (USA) to headline that zone & both will play solo sets on 4 decks & FX displaying their scratchtastic sample styles & original productions in what is sure to be an unforgettable night for beats freeks. The 2 Dogs & Rudebwoyz Djs Operon & Erther bring the support and Gooble Warming has the last remaining earlybird tickets ($35 instead of $45).

Continue your Easter long weekend of mad party excitement at Eclipsed and Mezzanine lock heads and combine forces to bring you an energy fuelled night of thumping beats and visuals that'll keep you kicking hard till the morning. Brace your self for the onslaught as DJ's Home wrecker : DJ BJ /Paulio Q / Syke / Elusion / Grounded - Kaotic and DJ D3 pump it this Easter Sunday @ Rockefellers ( Middle Floor) 239 Brunswick Street, the Valley / This Easter Sunday April 11

Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! - Get ready to witness the beginning of a new dance era as the System 6 crew unveil all 3 spectacular rooms of the whole Troccadero entertainment centre with an all night Rave that's set to take over the whole multi-spilt level Troccadero entertainment centre will be a massive rave featuring the finest hard dance international super stars

www.undergrowth.org is calling for submissions for Issue #2 of it's webzine, Undergrowth. {we live not underground, but in the undergrowth} visit www.undergrowth.org for Issue #1 and more details or click on the read more link

Strange Music Society presented by -sMs- Easter Long Weekend** uLTRA pSYCHEDELIC f0REST d00f - Saturday 10th April, 2004. DJs: Luke Psywalker (Digital Psionics -Byron Bay) , Franny (Demon Tea/Sundance) , GETTAFUKT (Giiwa Recs - Byron) , RaptoR (Mechanik Sound), BeKa (Turbo Trance Records, France), TracT (Strange Music Society), Sam I Am (Dadastream), Ming D (Yak n Yeti), Femme (Blue Sol), Mash, Psyanide<>Daheen

D'Psyfa and Yak&Yeti in association with Tribeadelic proudly present SCIENCE OF SOUND featuring the master of full on trance SKAZI - launching his latest double cd - ZOO 3 on Saturday 24th of April - Anzac Long Weekend @ SPACE (127 Liverpool st, Sydney). http://www.australiens.net/sos for updates, artist bio's, free ticket competitions and sound bytes

Lanfranchi's warehouse in Surry Hills is hosting an evening of five artists performing 5.1 multi channel surround sound works on 2nd April 2004. Performing on the night will be Anthony Pateras & Robin Fox, Alex Davies, Julian Knowles, Sam Smith, and Daniel Heckenberg

SBB returns on Sunday 28 March 2004 (7-10pm) at Brisbane Institute of Modern Art, Screening Room, this month with guest artists: Fugal Quease (Michael Norris - custom instruments and electroacoustics - UK), Anthony Pateras & Robin Fox (multi-speaker improvisational environments - Melbourne) and The Lost Domain (folk-form based electric-acoustic experts - Brisbane). read more for details or visit http://www.smallblackbox.com.au for artist biographies