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The FREEDOM Festival is an annual national music festival that aims to raise funds and awareness of Amnesty International's work to promote and defend human rights programs worldwide.

This year's FREEDOM Festival is raising awareness for Amnesty International's global "Stop Violence Against Women" campaign. Specifically, this includes women's rights to freedom from violence, fear, discrimination and torture, as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

These campaigns aim to draw attention to the obligations of governments and communities to stop violence against women in the broader pursuit of human rights. FREEDOM's focus in 2005 is specifically targeted at domestic violence in Australia.

Team Plastique love the Monaco Royal Family - they are fun, trashy and tragic, like every Royal family should be (...or actually is). Monaco-a-go-go will be a scandalous night of Eurotrash glamour - Think international Playboys, Circus Trapeze Lovers, Bodyguard Romances and Tragic Princesses. Catch the Princess Stephanie Dancers - the ultimate tribute to Monaco's own chain smoking, former fashion model, swimsuit designer and Rock Band Singer. Booty dance with the Air Hostess Go-Go's from Togo named after the mother of Prince Albert's scandalous illegitimate child. Performing on the night are Team Plastique - www.team-plastique.com (Berlin), Monster Zoku Onsomb - www.monsterzoku.com (Australia), Instantremovers - (Amsterdam), with visuals by Alex and Jeremy (Amsterdam) - www.alexetjeremy.com

The Women Take Back the Noise project is a showcase collection of over 40 women artists worldwide who experiment with sound in various ways - ranging from ambient-organic to quirky-glitch-beat to harsh or extreme noise (and other categories yet to be defined...) Brisbane's noise artists Kunt as well as international artists such as Californinan bLevin bLectum and New Zealander Solanas, are featured on the release - keep an eye out for the custom-made circuit bent packaging release due out later this year. visit http://www.ubuibi.org/wtbtn/ for more details on the release. Kunt are also touring with Justice Yeldham and his Dynamic Ribbon Device and Nora Keys through Scandinavia and Italy from 21 October - 6 November, and with Scorpio Scorpio in November. read more for details or visit http://www.kuntnoise.com/

Bottom Heavy and Rude Bwoyz presents drum'n'bass Kings, Dieselboy & MC Messinian (USA) alongside locals Superfluid, Aniki, Erther, Brazen, Mr Gaunt & Cutloose. 1st September @ Shamrock Hotel

D-Ko have just returned to Brisbane from their tour of Sydney, Melbourne and Byron Bay with Melbourne drum'n'bass crew K-Oscillate. photos of the trip can be found at the band's website, http://www.d-ko.com/. read more for details of their upcoming Brisbane gigs at Moonbar, Tongue & Groove and Brisbane's first Earthcore in December

"Beatroot" (the edible root of the beat), Soup's new 14 track album will be released on September 11th on Invada Records. You can catch Soup performing at gigs around Australia on his tour from September - December. read more or visit http://www.sampology.com/ and http://www.invadarecords.com for more details.

Drum&Bass, Jungle, Ghettotech & Electro.. with an All Female line up including guest Adelaide DJ Cryptic!

DJ Cryptic played her first set at a ladies night alongside legendary DJ Storm (Metalheadz UK) over 3 & a half years ago.. Since then she has become one of the two top female DJs in Adelaide playing at many local events, including the wellknown winter & summer Enchanted Forest Festivals and has held a residency at Cumberland Arms' "Under The Influence" night for the past 12 months..

Femalehiphop.net is a platform and a network for all female hip-hop activists and intends to call females from all over the world to get in touch with each other, to exchange ideas and to support the movement. - Your participation is welcome! Just log in as a user and post dates, news, links. visit http://www.femalehiphop.net for details

ctrl_alt_del was the first sound-art festival realized in Turkey, in September 2003. It was a collaboration between NOMAD, Marres, Hedah, and Istanbul Technical University Center for Advanced Musical Studies (MIAM). ctrl_alt_del hosted by NOMAD and Istanbul Technical University - MIAM is being held in spetember 2005 and will be an experiment in aural stimulation and urban awareness. Taking the city of Istanbul as the ground for this experimentation, ctrl_alt_del seeks to observe, activate and cultivate a series of idiosyncratic possibilities this city provides, under the rubric of the 'buffer zone'. NOMAD and MIAM would like to receive interesting, provocative, experimental and sophisticated works. About 10 pieces will be selected among the entries by a jury to be performed during the ctrl_alt_del 2 festival on 22 September 2005, in front of an international audience. read more for details or visit http://project-ctrl-alt-del.com

This week, Frigid features two quirky local live acts with an ornithological theme and is hosting the launch of Sydney alt-pop outfit Sparrow Hill's debut album. Melbourne post-rock outfit Scissors For Sparrow also plays a live set. read more for details or visit www.cyclicdefrost.com

cajid media produces and distributes audio/visual and web-based works of art, concentrating on australan experimental sound and video. Their first releases are intimacy, by thembi soddell and static tones, by bruce mowson. They are looking for more high quality material to release (audio, video, dvd, web) and encourage interested artists, male and female, to contact us regarding submission of works. visit http://cajid.com or read more for details. CAJID tour melbourne, wagga, and bendigo this weekend

This is Andrez, these days over in Tokyo - I used to run Melbourne's IF? Records, make electronic muzak as Little Nobody, and do hack journalism for papers like Zebra, Beat, 3D World and The Age. Anyway, I've set up a new website where you can check out a back-catalogue of interviews I've done, both new and old, with the likes of Coldcut, Luke Vibert, Andrew Weatherall, Si Begg, Reinhard Voigt, Goldie, Jeff Mills, Claude Young, and Mamoru Oshii (the director of Ghost in the Shell 2)... if you can be bothered!! visit http://andrezbergen.tripod.com