Mark Pollard / Stealth Magazine

Submitted by AliaK on Thu, 30/11/2006 - 00:37

artist / DJ / project name:
Mark Pollard / Stealth Magazine

myspace page:
http://www.myspace.com/stealthmag

website:
http://www.stealthmag.com

city:
Sydney

genre:
hip hop

Australian artist / DJ / project?:
Yes

can AliaK contact you for more info?:
yes

are you a currently active artist / DJ / project?:
yes

discography / releases:
Issue 1 to Issue 14 :)

bio - short:
hip hop magazine (Stealth Magazine) publisher, writer, event organiser

Any favourite artists, influential DJs or must-have labels?:
Too many too many. Most of the stuff I personally like I try to cover in the magazine so if you go through our back issues that will give you a partial indication.

Are you documenting / archiving your music / performances. If so, how?:
Yes – each issue:) I have a tonne of MDs, cassettes and reel-to-reels of interviews I've done over the years. I want to get them online one day.

How would you describe your style of writing music / musical / artistic policy?:
We cover hip hop and artists from around the world who understand and take an interest in the culture they are involved in.

::: category:

::: location:

::: artists:

Indigenous Hip Hop - documentation project / radio

Submitted by AliaK on Wed, 29/11/2006 - 19:08

Frank T.G aka Honesty is working on a project to document Indigenous Hip Hop in Australia and to feature them on a Koori radio program based in Marrickville. below is an email sent via the octapod list if anyone can assist. click on the read more link for more details or email deadly_buda@hotmail.com

::: category:

::: location:

The second edition of the Streaming Festival ended on the 28th of October 2007.

isfth's picture
Submitted by isfth on Mon, 27/11/2006 - 10:14

The second edition of the Streaming Festival ended on the 28th of October 2007.

The festival broadcasted four programs; documentary, fiction, animation and art plus three special programs.
Composed by the KAN festival was a special program presenting a select number of films including films from Agnieszka Smoczynska, Anna Maszczynska and Anna Pankiewicz.

CultureTV brought a special program with selected international video art works. Including works from Pipilotti Rist, Grimanesa Amoros, Gaelle Denis and Bathtime in Clerkenwell by Alex Budovsky.
Visit : www.culturetv.tv

Isfth broadcasted in a special program films from James Harvey, The City of Photographers by Sebastian Moreno and four recent works from Dr Didderiens www dredidderiens nl. This program was curated by Mak Kapetanovic.

We screened 18 hours of independent films from more than 100 filmmakers from over 20 different countries. The Festival was proud to present these films and their makers to you.

::: category:

::: location:

Drupal needs your help!

Submitted by kathy on Sun, 26/11/2006 - 03:53

The popular CMS Drupal is revamping their module management system for the next version. Future features include upgrade notifications for modules and better issue tracking through a versioning system. They need 3500$ to support developers involved in the process and they're asking for donations. Support Open Source today!read more | digg story

::: category:

::: location:

DORKBOT-SYD @ Lanfranchis (Sydney)

Submitted by AliaK on Sun, 26/11/2006 - 01:47

P E O P L E W H O D O S T R A N G E T H I N G S W I T H E L E C T R I C I T Y

DORKBOT-SYD : NOVEMBER DETAILS

POSTPONED TILL TUESDAY 28th November 2006!!! commencing 19:30
This will be the last Dorkbot of 2006!!!

Talkers of the month:

Leigh Russell is a 3d computer animator. He will be talking about a current project: to send a camera into the stratosphere on a helium balloon and has built a computer controlled machine that fabricates his 3d models from materials like wood and foam.

Gordon Monro will talk about his use of a Lego robotics kit to make an abstract art video. He will play the video and describe the processes used to make it.
http://www.gommog.com/pieces/redgrains.html

Tim Boykett, who is part of a group based in Linz called Time’s Up, will speak about SPIN and about sensors; the big ball and about the tools they have used to get data into and out of the machines to know what is happening with it and with other stuff.

http://www.timesup.org/spin

Tim's attendance is sponsored by the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT), as part of the the Creativity and Cognition
Studios /ACID symposium, ENGAGE: Interaction, Art, and Audience Experience. (http://www.creativityandcognition.com/engage06/)

LOCATION: Lanfranchis
Level 2, 144 Cleveland St Chippendale

OPEN CALL FOR APPLICATIONS!
Dorkbot is all about participation. It is what YOU make of it! We would love to see your work!

If you would like to present something please email dorkbotsyd@dorkbot.org.

All presentations should aim to be 20 minutes in duration. You are welcome to bring along whatever, the project itself or visual and audio documentation or both. Please bring as much as you can including resources e.g. Laptop, cables etc. Tell us what you are bringing beforehand so that we can accommodate you. If you are unsure as to wether your presentation is appropriate take a browse through dorkbot.org at what other people are showing around the world. Presentations are not supposed to be formal. We don't want your CV we want to know what you are making and how you did it. It is a great opportunity to get some quality peer review!

Sincerely,
Your fellow dorks: Pia van Gelder + Boris Gordon

TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT DORKBOT-SYD OR SUBSCRIBE TO OUR MAILING LIST GO TO http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotsyd/

.................................................. ......................
.........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity..........
......................... http://dorkbot.org ...........................
........................................................................

Taxonomy upgrade extras:

Net Neutrality video from Four Eyed Monsters and Caliblog

Submitted by AliaK on Mon, 20/11/2006 - 01:50

Four Eyed Monsters + Caliblog have created a video on the Net Neutrality issue happening in the USA. let's hope the telco's plan to control the internet is squashed quickly and cleanly. pass on the movie - see below.

http://blip.tv/file/103105


Click To Play


Spread the word by copy this code and paste to a blog, bulletin, your profile or comment. All are welcome to do anything they would like with the above edit or any future edits you make. Put it on you web page, burn a DVD to show at a gathering, show it in a theater before another movie, play it at a cafe, show it to friends on a portable player, or even put it on television. We've (Four Eyed Monsters + Caliblog) put a creative commons license on the video so that you don't have to ask permission, but it is cool to hear where it's showing and that knowledge is part of the feedback loop, so let us know in a comment. If people start showing it all over the place on their own accord, then we'll know the edit is really concise, if that happens on a smaller scale, it's possible the edit might be something only certain people have the backround to understand. Net Neutrality needs all the publicity it can get because major media companies, surprise, don't want to make it a big story. So blog about it, call your local newspaper, if you work in media get your editor to let you do something huge about it and feel free to contact us at anytime for our input or to get quote on why net neutrality is important to us as independent filmmakers who use the internet to distribute our work.

::: category:

::: location:

COMBAT WOMBAT, Lotek (UK), GM Grumble Pipes @ Tote Hotel (Melbourne)

Submitted by AliaK on Thu, 16/11/2006 - 03:02

THE WOMBATS ARE BACK!

Controversial hip-hop punks Combat Wombat return home after evading the cold Melbourne winter. MC Izzy and Monkey Marc have been working with indigenous communities up north in the desert whilst Elf Transporter has been touring the USA with San Francisco hip-hop/dub experimentalists Heavyweight Dub Champions.

Come welcome the Wombats home when they reunite with DJ Wasabi to play one last show for 2006 at the Tote Hotel in Collingwood on Thursday December 14 with special guest Roots Manuva collaborator and Big-Dada label-mate Wayne Lotek(UK).

This is your only chance to see the band before MC Izzy leaves for Africa in January to get creative with Kenyan hip-hop group Sinpare. GM Grumble Pipes on the ones and twos, doors open at 9pm and entry is only $10!

Wombats on stage at 11pm.

COMBAT WOMBAT
Lotek (Big Dada Records - UK)
GM Grumble Pipes

Thursday December 14
Tote Hotel, Cnr Wellington & Johnston Streets, Collingwood
$10 Entry, doors at 9pm til Midnight.

http://www.combatwombat.org
http://www.myspace.com/lotekdownunder

Taxonomy upgrade extras:

DUB DAY AFTERNOON 06 @ THE JUBILEE HOTEL (Brisbane)

Submitted by AliaK on Fri, 10/11/2006 - 03:00

DUB DAY AFTERNOON 06 @ THE JUBILEE HOTEL SATURDAY 18TH NOVEMBER!

Join together in a major fundraiser for Radio station 4ZzZFM in this years Dub Day Afternoon 06 event. It will be a chilled out and fun time for all attending!

Dub Day Afternoon 06 @ The Jubilee Hotel, Saturday 18th November!

$15 / $10 Zed subs / Free Passionate subs. Subscribe at the show and get in FREE!

Showcasing the very best of Brisbane's reggae bands, soundsystems and selectas in an afternoon and evening of blunted basslines, skanking roots, blazing conscious dancehall and big tunes.

Heavyweight Champion

Raz Bin Sam and Lion I Band

Rhythm Collision Sound System

Ruby Blue

Samedi Sound System

Suspect Seven

Selecta Bing

Barrington Rankmore III vs Deaf Toll

Lao Mirador

The Jubilee Hotel, 470 St Pauls Terrace, The Valley. 3pm til 1am - 10 hours of reggae, dancehall, dub and ska

$15 / $10 Zed subs / Free Passionate subs. Subscribe at the show and get in FREE

4ZzZFM and artist merchandise/CDs available at on site stall

http://www.4zzzfm.org.au

view the myspace event listing for more details

Taxonomy upgrade extras:

Uber Lingua @ Abercrombie Hotel (Sydney)

Submitted by AliaK on Thu, 09/11/2006 - 03:07

Sunday arvo-evenings at the Abercrombie Hotel

LAUNCHING NOVEMBER 19

As of Sunday December 19th, Uber Lingua is back with a weekly thing at the Abercrombie Hotel in Ultimo... arvos from 4pm in the Beer Garden thru summer, nice n close to our core mob...

and this time it's different... two house bands are melding with the crew of DJs to form a Sound System of Systems... Does that make sense? Well yes it does... coz the acts are the funked latin Dub-Hop crew SOCIAL PROGRESSION SYSTEM and Trevor Brown's electronics meets skankin' brass and strings ensemble the GYPSY DUB SOUND SYSTEM...

Both acts have impro woven within their genetic makeup and week by week they'll loosely form alongside the selectors and provide continuous Jazz-esque spontaneity across multi-hour sonic brackets... Wild card MCs, percussionists, instrumentalists and even whole other acts will be brought into this equation to add to each week's uniqueness... People like Black Symbol, Wire MC, Wei Zen Ho and Morganics... just to name a few.

Joining Mashy P, Sheerien and interstate interloper bP as a resident DJ is another leading figure of trans-lingual musical happenings in Sydney, Stu Buchanan... presenter of the legendary Fat Planet Radio show on FBi.

Alongside these are a league of culturally active DJs who will be rotated thru the place like there's no tomorrow. Individuals such as Prince V, Ollo DJs, James Locksmith, Spex, Man About Town, sakamoiz, Hezekiah and the like...

There'll be food to be had with once again a rotated list of international food caterers booked for the event so that each week a different culinary delight awaits... with the occasional Roo & veggies BBQ (when bP's in town)...

It all starts on Sunday December 19th with all residents bar Sheerien (who's overseas) playing... Both house bands will be in affect with Social Progression System appearing in their more cut back form SPS Crew.

It's free to get in before 7pm and $5 after that so mosey on down and join in on the opening night...

visit http://www.zonar.net/uberlingua/syd/ for details

Taxonomy upgrade extras:

Astronomy Class 'Exit Class' launch @ Hermann's / Syd Uni (Sydney)

Submitted by AliaK on Wed, 08/11/2006 - 19:03

Up the road at Sydney University at Hermann's is the Astronomy Class launch. Ass Class is one of Sir Robbo's children and sees him collaborating with Chasm and Ozi Batla to deliver summery reggae influenced hip hop. Exit Strategy is a top album and it will be good to check it done live. $15+bf - http://www.astronomyclass.com.au/ for more details
(via Cryo/Cyclic maillist)

Taxonomy upgrade extras:

The Last Valley film screening @ Capitol Theatre (Melbourne)

Submitted by AliaK on Wed, 08/11/2006 - 01:28

The screening of the documentary film, The Last Valley will take place at the Capitol Theatre Melbourne, 113 Swanston St (Opposite Melbourne Town Hall) on Tuesday 14th November 2006 from 8pm. This is the only opportunity to see the film prior to the Victorian state election. ABC have yet to announce a screening date.

The film is about the collapse of the East Gippsland logging industry after 50 years of unsustainable logging and the consequences of that for the local communities and environment. The film includes the controversial attempt by the Victorian government to log the iconic Goolengook valley.

http://www.waitawhilefilms.com.au

Taxonomy upgrade extras:

Sound Polaroids Festival @ Powerhouse (Brisbane)

Submitted by AliaK on Tue, 07/11/2006 - 03:30

Sound Polaroids
featuring Scanner, David Shea + others
Thursday Nov 9 - Saturday November 11, Brisbane Powerhouse

A Festival celebrating the sound of vision in cinema.

Truly beautiful imagery and deeply evocative sound by acclaimed international and Australian artists.

http://brisbanepowerhouse.com.au/

Taxonomy upgrade extras:

Super Massive - Huge new electro/rock sounds

Submitted by Malina Hamilton... on Mon, 06/11/2006 - 19:10

The drummer formerly known as Bryan Ferrysexual has shifted into high gear song-writing wise and screeched out of 70s funk and into the shimmering future of funky dance-based, electro-rock music on this new leg of his spectacular musical journey. Grab your friends and come along for the ride! .............

Formed in 2006, and Sydney based, Super Massive have played a handful of shows around Sydney at venues such as Spectrum, @Newtown, The Excelsior Surry Hills, Lansdowne and the Agincourt Hotel.

They will be playing two shows at the Beach Hotel, Byron Bay, this Saturday 11th November, 9:30pm, and Sunday 12th November at 4pm, with special guest appearance by The IT Boys, featuring 3K Short (MGF), returning to Sydney to play The Annandale Hotel on November 16.

For more information, visit www.myspace.com/supermassivesounds

::: category:

::: location:

IF? Records return to Melbourne (albeit briefly!) in 2007

Submitted by andrez on Sat, 04/11/2006 - 16:45

IF? RECORDS: IFFY BUSINESS INDEED

Since its inception in Australia in 1995, IF? Records has worked with a plethora of talented people, most of them born and bred in its exceptional hometown: Melbourne.

Think people as far afield as Steve Law (a.k.a. Zen Paradox), Voiteck, Honeysmack, Digital Primate, Little Nobody, Frontside, Artificial, Isnod, Son Of Zev, TR-Storm, FSOM, Guyver 3, Soulenoid, Blimp, Black Lung, TDM, Josh Abrahams, DJ Venom, and Q-Kontrol.

IF? has also inducted like-minded experimental electronic boffins from Sydney like Sub Bass Snarl, 5000 Fingers Of Dr. T, Kid Calmdown, Pocket, and Nick Littlemore (Pnau).

And internationally over the past decade the label has worked with Si Begg (Buckfunk 3000/Noodles Discotheque), Tobias Schmidt (Tresor/Sativae), Jammin’ Unit (Pharma/Air Liquide), Biochip C (Force Inc.), Tal (Sub Rosa), DJ Rush (Kne’Deep), Thomas Heckmann (Trope), and Yamaoka (Kazumi/Holzplatten).

Then there were the parties – the now-legendary Omniglobe raves at Global Village in Footscray in 1995/96, and the Zeitsprung (1995/96) and Zoetrope (1997-2001) live electronica sessions at the Punters Club in Fitzroy - along with the collaborative jaunts organized by IF? with Club Filter, Teriyaki Anarki Saki, Honkytonks and Centriphugal.

Founded eleven years ago by Andrez Bergen (a.k.a. Little Nobody) with his mates Brian Huber and Mateusz Sikora, IF? always was about diversity, experimentation, pushing the perimeters, and flying the flag of Melbourne-made electronica – and the label also released a fistful of essential CDs and records to prove that point, from the cutting edge “Zeitgeist” series of compilations to debut releases by Little Nobody, Guyver 3, Artificial, the LN Elektronische Ensemble, Isnod and DJ Venom.

Since 2001 head-honcho Andrez has lived in Tokyo, but he continues to run IF? Records as a collaborative Melbourne/Tokyo project, with help from Melbourne-based mates like Damian Stephens (Isnod), Allan Klinbail (Son Of Zev), and Briony Wright (DJ Venom).

Finally, after their original web-server went bankrupt and took all the original IF? web-site details with it, the label has recently constructed two temporary home-bases online at http://if-records.tripod.com, as well as at http://www.myspace.com/if_records.

It has a bunch of artist profiles, a discography, reviews, pictures, information about the label’s avtivities in Japan as well as Australia, plus a demo competition for aspiring electronic producers!

On Saturday 10 February, 2007, IF? makes it’s annual (or, in some cases, bi-annual!) pilgrimage back to its place-of-birth, when the first IF? live party in 2 years is set to happen at Horse Bazaar!

ZU-ZUSHII 2 will feature a bunch of local and Tokyo-based live acts and DJs including Little Nobody (Tokyo), Isnod (Melbourne), Kid Calmdown (Sydney), Schlock Tactile vs. Slam-dunk Ninja (Tokyo), DJ Venom (Melbourne), Sleepy Robot (Sydney), label-meister Andrez, plus others to be confirmed – all for just $5 on the door, from 8pm to 3am, at 397 Lonsdale St., Melbourne.

The week before, from 2 February to 9 February, Andrez will also be holding a photographic exhibition of his visual works from Tokyo at an exhibit titled KEITAI KOUTURE, at Brunswick Street Gallery (2/322 Brunswick St., Fitzroy, Melbourne).

Check out more at his website: http://keitai-kouture.tripod.com

::: category:

::: location:

The Bubble House

Submitted by wjkington on Thu, 02/11/2006 - 09:53

Ever wondered what your house would look like if you could see its sounds? No, probably not. Neither have I. But I did walk around the house the other day tapping stuff. In the MP3 file below, you will hear music made from walls, doors, windows, picture frames, tourist trays, the bass futon.

go to http://theurbanmyths.blogspot.com/2006/09/bubble-house.html
to download mp3 file

Why you might ask? Because I was wondering if you could make music just by tapping stuff. It turns out you can. Actually, the rythms are surprisingly driving. This house rocks, all it needed was an opportunity to express its inner rythm.

::: category:

::: location:

::: artists:

Pages

Subscribe to AliaK [filter] ::: specture RSS