Four of Melbourne's finest purveyors of lush sounds ranging from smooth liquid triphop, dub and sample based beat landscapes to squelchy, 8-bit glitch unite to deliver a night of synaesthetic delight for your auditory and visual pleasure. V.J. accompaniment by Shower Screens (Gertrude Projection Festival) and Siadatz (Uber Lingua) will be augmenting the multimedia experience of fresh local producers of organic electronic music, White Minus Red, Ionic, Editer and Paranym.

White Minus Red combine elements of triphop, dub and jazz, live instrumentation with Ableton powered technology and soulful vocals. Fronted by Sarah McDonald (ex Symbiosis, Bois et Charbon), with Liam O'Connell (Agency Dub Collective, 30B), Ben Ganley (Agency Dub Collective), Jon Hopkins (Agency Dub Collective, Malicine) and Leigh Hegg (OffBeat@Horse Bazaar, Plankton), White Minus Red have graced many a festival stage (Falls, Renaissance, Folk Rhythm + Life, Sustainable Living Festival) and are ones to watch.

Expat Novacastrian duo, Ionic have been getting many a party started since relocating to Melbourne with their unique and tasty blend of sample based, beat laden electronica, as well as gracing venues, galleries and festivals (Gertrude Projection Festival, Icicles and Raindrops). To follow up their latest release, Prototype 2.0, the Ionic lads, Stu and Div are in the process of recording a new album, so keep your ears open.

Editer is the latest project of Soup, a.k.a Thomas Campbell (of Miso fame), and he is joined by Dave Williams (Miso), Willow Stalhut (violinstress extraordinare), Richard Burns (trumpet slinger from the Red Eyes, The Snappers ) Thom Mitchell on percussion (Monsoon Moon, Kate and the Vigonaughts). Smooth, lush, deep and dark dub-scapes peppered with crisp beats and tasty instrumental melodicism is the result of this collaboration, so be sure to come and check them for yourself- they're most likely to be one of your new favourite bands.

Armed with an MPC, a synthesiser and effects, Paranym layers loops live, playing beats and melodies on the fly.. sometimes gritty and funky, sometimes soulful and heartfelt , Paranym delivers a live show that encompasses a myriad of styles-from crunchy hiphop breaks to 8-bit electronica to smooth dub.. It's a sampleadelic trip that will keep crowds moving and leave their minds reeling. Be sure to check him out.

At Northcote Social Club, Sunday 20th of July. Doors open at 7:30, music starts at 8pm.
Hope to see you on the D-floor!!!
Ten dollar.

NEW COLLABORATIVE WORK

SOUND/ Jerome Noetinger (Rives, France)
VISUALS/ Liz Racz (Melbourne)

It's 3.14 a.m. In darkness, the audience armed with torches gather to experience the outcome of residency collaboration between visual artist Liz Racz and Jerome Noetinger, an internationally recognised improviser using electroacoustic devices.

The artists' work is connected across distance by the idea of erasure; sounds being erased from tape by magnets and images rendered by being erased from the blackened walls.

Noetinger was a guest of the Melbourne International Biennale of Exploratory Music and the Liquid Architecture Festival. The collaboration with Racz being conducted by email, letters and photographs of sketches will extend her practice of ‘memorable large dark works’ (Penny Webb, The Age, 17 August, 2007).

LUPA/ art: A new space in Northcote hosting collaborative residencies with happy cross-disciplinary outcomes.

The phone chat is split into two parts & hosted on archive.org

part 1 archive.org page, where you can select the format to listen or download the mp3 via direct link

part 2 archive.org page, where you can select the format to listen / download or download the mp3 via direct link

I had written a profile for Robin on www.pulseradio.net years ago, but unfortunately I don't have a copy any more.

Expect a steamy summer evening loaded with slamming, dirty-groove, electro-laced, beguiling tunes, as award-winning Sydney band Super Massive bring their unique blend of rock and dance music to Brisbane over the Australia Day long weekend, as part of their first Queensland tour.

Paral-lel's album Upgrade to mutant sheep is a new step in blending and mutating styles: electro, grime, drum’n’bass, electronica, techno, 8-bit music, hip hop… An album with a strong thematic, seeking to break the genres by proposing 12 tracks of fusion and mutations of electronic music.

Erik Davis is an award-winning journalist, independent scholar, and "performance lecturer" based in San Francisco. He is the author, most recently, of The Visionary State: A Journey through California's Spiritual Landscape, with photographs by Michael Rauner. He also wrote Led Zeppelin IV and TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information, the latter a cult classic of visionary media studies that has been translated into five languages. His essays on art, music, technoculture, and contemporary spirituality have appeared in over a dozen books, including AfterBurn: Reflections on Burning Man, Zig Zag Zen, The Disinformation Book of Lies, 010101: Art in Technological Times (SFMOMA), and Prefiguring Cyberculture. Davis has contributed articles and essays to a variety of publications, including Bookforum, ArtForum, Salon, Blender, the LA Weekly, and the Village Voice. For many years he was a contributing writer at Wired, and he is now the editor-at-large for Evolver magazine.

A vital speaker, Davis has given talks at universities, media art conferences, and festivals around the world. He has taught workshops and seminars at the UC Berkeley, the California Institute of Integral Studies, the New York Open Center, and Esalen. He was one of the original minds behind Planetwork, an organization devoted to cross-fertilizaing information technology and global ecology, and continues to bring these passions to bear on the Evolver Project. He has been interviewed by CNN and the BBC, and appeared in Craig Baldwin's underground film, the SciFi media critique Specters of the Spectrum. He occasionally plays guitar in front of microphones.

-- bio from the techgnosis website

KOG 30/10/2003 phone interview with Mark from KOG label.

http://www.kog.co.nz/

this is the full transcript for reference. so excuse the ums & ahhs & spelling / transcription errors and incoherency on my part.. I had a shorter, edited version on Pulse Radio site a few years back but I've lost the copy and the content's changed on their site now.

Kog=Mark
K.=Kath/AliaK

Kog Yes we are just running around – meeting people day and night
– having meetings – looking forward to getting home and having some
sleep

K. Yes it takes a lot out of you a bit doesn't it

Kog Yes it does

K. Pretty draining

K. Have you been having fun and going around to all the festivals and that?

Kog Oh yes we've been having a blast – only thing I'm bummed about
is we missed the 4ZZZ thing up in Brisbane

K. Oh market day! Yes I heard it was really good

Kog. Yes, one of our acts, Shapeshifter, played. I was going to go

Candy lips, gyrating hips - Two SUPER MASSIVE shows in Sydney in April