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10 November 2009 @ 12:23 pm
03 November 2009 @ 05:39 pm
Current Music: Cut Copy - Hearts on Fire
24 October 2009 @ 11:37 pm
30 September 2009 @ 10:20 am
Roberto Massaglia (also from Tankt and The Tenth Stage) has launched a new project, The Victim's Ball.
http://www.thevictimsball.com/
This is Roby's first ever excursion as a composer (as well as vocalist), and incorporates neo-classical elements, creative sampling and medieval folk instruments such as the Hurdy Gurdy. Thematically it draws inspiration from his usual chilling, morbid historical obsessions...and promises to be entertaining and inspiring.
http://www.thevictimsball.com/
This is Roby's first ever excursion as a composer (as well as vocalist), and incorporates neo-classical elements, creative sampling and medieval folk instruments such as the Hurdy Gurdy. Thematically it draws inspiration from his usual chilling, morbid historical obsessions...and promises to be entertaining and inspiring.
Current Mood: shroud eater
Current Music: Rotersand - I am with you
16 September 2009 @ 03:28 pm
"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
- Albert Camus
- Albert Camus
02 September 2009 @ 10:17 am
A big thank you to the organisers of Worn Wild whom have very kindly sanctioned The Hunger as a go-to before their after-party (for those of you not rushing home to change into your shiny new purchases from local designers). It's great when local fashion and music can support each other...
Check it out:
http://www.wornwild.com
As it's an early evening gig situated in the CBD and wraps up a little while before the WW after-party commences, entrants might enjoy the chance to grab a cocktail and see the band.
Consequently, anyone STILL wearing their Worn Wild wrist band as proof of their entry to the event will be able to attend The Hunger at HALF PRICE...ie $2.50...!
Please also note that as of this afternoon, Peril Underground will have limited free copies of the compilation single featuring Lunar Module on their Melbourne visit...
Details of the event and a flyer are here:
http://community.livejournal.com/melbou
See you soon!
Check it out:
http://www.wornwild.com
As it's an early evening gig situated in the CBD and wraps up a little while before the WW after-party commences, entrants might enjoy the chance to grab a cocktail and see the band.
Consequently, anyone STILL wearing their Worn Wild wrist band as proof of their entry to the event will be able to attend The Hunger at HALF PRICE...ie $2.50...!
Please also note that as of this afternoon, Peril Underground will have limited free copies of the compilation single featuring Lunar Module on their Melbourne visit...
Details of the event and a flyer are here:
http://community.livejournal.com/melbou
See you soon!
26 August 2009 @ 05:47 pm
11 August 2009 @ 02:23 pm
Does anyone know where I can find decently priced furniture in Melbourne, particularly a double bed, w/mattress and the usual bits and pieces?
The bed would have to be pretty good quality, but as for a chest of drawers, bookcase, desk, chair, shelf unit, they're all much of a muchness. I have been offered a wardrobe and desk pretty cheap, but I'd be looking at getting newish ones if at all possible (especially ones that go together :)).
The only immediate essentials are probably the bed and a chest of drawers...
As I've nearly always sharehoused at furnished places, slept on futons (to my spinal chagrin), or currently living in a girlfriend-created environment (thank you) I have no idea...
The bed would have to be pretty good quality, but as for a chest of drawers, bookcase, desk, chair, shelf unit, they're all much of a muchness. I have been offered a wardrobe and desk pretty cheap, but I'd be looking at getting newish ones if at all possible (especially ones that go together :)).
The only immediate essentials are probably the bed and a chest of drawers...
As I've nearly always sharehoused at furnished places, slept on futons (to my spinal chagrin), or currently living in a girlfriend-created environment (thank you) I have no idea...
29 May 2009 @ 04:06 pm
It appears that Catherine's cd rom drive isn't recognising anything put into it.
Now, I was going to burn off a few sets in the interests of keeping it loose and interesting, and also protecting my albums. However, it does not seem that this is an option... I could always give the old G4 a shot... but I've already spent two hours committing songs to the hard drive. Looks like I'll just have to take my originals with me and keep a sharp eye on them. I fucken hate technology...oh well. Time to start packing!
Tonight I'll be playing... well...everything. Dark synthy stuff, body music and industrial, electro/pop/clash/punk. I also have four copies of the last Inflatable Voodoo Dolls album which I'll add to the giveaways... this one is an acid-bass driven riot. See me before or after my set for a copy...
Details below:
Cabaret Nocturne - TONIGHT
HAPPY HOUR will run between 10PM - Midnight with VERY cheap spirits, beer and wine - incentive enough to arrive early and sink a skinful!
Royal Melbourne Hotel
629 Bourke St, City
Doors 10PM - 5AM - 18+, ID required.
Level 1 - EBM/Industrial/Electro - DJ's Hellfudge, Miss Aeryn plus special guests - Gus Exposition (PBS) & Marquis De Synth
Level 2 - Gothic/Indie Rock/New Wave/Retro - DJ's Lobotomy, Tommy Rotten, C-Rexx & Matt Sin plus special guests DJ Sobriquet (CAN) & DJ Basement Rock (PBS)
http://cabaretnocturne.net
http://rmh.com.au
EDIT: Note to self... Getting very drunk before a 2am set may in of itself impair your deejaying. Beautifully beatmixing DJ Hell's Bodyfarm2 into Miss Kittin's Stripper is one thing, but if no-one can hear it, it might be time to commit seppuku. Still, fun was had...I guess.
06 May 2009 @ 12:10 pm
This is my new look. Seriously. Add glasses and we're ready to roll.
Current Mood: sugar ape
25 April 2009 @ 11:05 pm
PS: After much chopping and changing (and chops), I'll be joining dark psy-trance act Plague Sequence next Friday night as a keyboardist at this gig:
Friday 1 May 09:
Event: Dark Realm (rescheduled from 25 April)
Live: Plague Sequence (1:30am), Death of Art, Harpy
Venue: Vedette, Footscray
Friday 1 May 09:
Event: Dark Realm (rescheduled from 25 April)
Live: Plague Sequence (1:30am), Death of Art, Harpy
Venue: Vedette, Footscray
http://www.shiv-r.com/
http://www.thecrystallineeffect.com/plag
Peter Crane is also doing a gig the following night launching his electro-industrial material as Shiv-r at the fetish/dark alternative night Cyberball at the same venue, which I daresay will go off...
Needless to say they don't make PVC deerstalkers or cardigans so if I'm there, it'll be as a respectful spectator. Go Pete!
25 April 2009 @ 10:44 pm
http://softsynth.wordpress.com/
So, I can't say I share this fellow's appreciation of certain U2, Lily Allen and Apop albums, but he's got some good words about all kinds of electronic music and I've seen some bands mentioned that seem like they bear investigating!
One of note was his top 10 electronic albums of all time, which I will attempt to recreate after my own stylings, as a conservative top five, with another few notable mentions...
1) David Bowie - Low. You know me. You know how I roll. You know this desert island disc was the doorway for many an indie kid into the world of icy soundscapes and warm seas of lonely electronica.
2) Kraftwerk - The Man Mashine. For that tight, step-sequenced sound, clicking synthesised percussion and the scientific art of making robots sing and play instruments. I also would've accepted Radioactivity, the trippiest Beach Boys album never made.
3) John Foxx - Metamatic. Blueprints for not a vision of the future, but a different way of looking at and living in a city. You've decay, you've light, and the endless concrete and steel. Who lives there? We do. This is pretty stark, but it's a jewel.
4) Depeche Mode - Violator. Music for the Masses is like a refinement of headway made on Black Celebration, and this more so from there. Ignore the overplayed singles. Listen to what a slick piece of production and personal songwriting this album is, from end to end. I could list countless Depeche Mode albums, like Construction Time Again for it's amazing sampling or Black Celebration for it's heady Blade-Runneresque atmosphere, but this is a balance of it all.
5) Covenant - Northern Light. The most polished Covenant album ever, where they stood on the precipice of conquering the world...before the world changed very quickly, forever. Great songs, a contemporary electronica album of many styles as much a piece of idiosyncratic Scandinavian synthpop.
Also... Human League - Travelogue and Reproduction, Gary Numan - Replicas, Brian Eno - Another Green World, Ladytron - Witching Hour. Much of Cabaret Voltaire and Nitzer Ebb before the late eighties, Klinik through eighties to early nineties, Haujobb - Homes and Gardens/Vertical Theory, almost any Fad Gadget or Frank Tovey, Anthony Rother - Popkiller, much Legowelt and Creme Organisation/Bunker Records material, Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park and Vivisect VI, Severed Heads - Rotund for Success, Yello - The Eye, The Faint - Danse Macabre, Seabound - Double-Crosser, Tankt - Despair Ltd...
What are your top five and what would we get out of hearing them?
13 April 2009 @ 01:06 pm
Selling some studio monitors and an audio interface because...well, I'm tired of moving them!
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?V
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?V
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http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?V
Will probably replace them upon settling somewhere more permanently.
01 April 2009 @ 08:47 am
Garrick and myself are happy to announce the formation of Tone Imperial, a new music project comprising the electronic and vocal talents of both of us.
I won't say much more because everything we've got is floating around the web as demos and covers, and everything else is "on the drawing board," and I certainly won't say much about the style of it because we've got some very diverse tastes and we're sort of "letting it happen," rather than driving it parallel to, say, my love of John Foxx or Garrick's love of Fischerspooner. What it isn't is dark ambient or straight-up ebm - we've got a broader mind than that, although you'll probably hear all kinds of things along the way, we want the freedom to wear blue jeans and shun blonde art-school groupies :)
I won't say much more because everything we've got is floating around the web as demos and covers, and everything else is "on the drawing board," and I certainly won't say much about the style of it because we've got some very diverse tastes and we're sort of "letting it happen," rather than driving it parallel to, say, my love of John Foxx or Garrick's love of Fischerspooner. What it isn't is dark ambient or straight-up ebm - we've got a broader mind than that, although you'll probably hear all kinds of things along the way, we want the freedom to wear blue jeans and shun blonde art-school groupies :)
In the meantime, Catherine and just about everyone else is obligated to tell me off when making a purchase that will interfere with a new laptop and keyboard.
But a name is there to be claimed, and we're claiming it - Tone Imperial. Bottle of Bollinger to anyone who can devise a less gut-wrenching name :)
But a name is there to be claimed, and we're claiming it - Tone Imperial. Bottle of Bollinger to anyone who can devise a less gut-wrenching name :)
Current Mood: tie-red
Current Music: And One - Speicherbar
31 March 2009 @ 02:38 pm
I normally don't give much heed to "musical toys" as being of any great usefulness. The Korg Kaoss Pads and Tenori-On struck me as being kinda cool, but keep your iPhone apps, give me a bank of dials and switches, and a couple of octaves of ivories and I'll give you... well, Pete's heard my last effort, and it was a one way ticket to "Bell-Town" (I figure that by being a weird-arse Danny Elfman, I'll somehow find a weird-arse...Jenna Elfman?).
Of course, in music technology, there's gimmickry ("Wow, I'm moving the cutoff on this Thor patch with my iPhone, and my music is still balls!"), usefulness ("Shityeah, I could use a free 'vintage' style compressor plugin") and then The Real Thing ("Now that I own an Access Virus TI, I have a permanent erection which interferes with the circuitry of your fucking Micron").
But this little bad boy strikes me as something potentially exceptional. You get your different flavours of synthesis, a sequencer amongst other features, put together in a straightforward, usable and attractive way. If the sound prooves to be decent, and the price competitive, I imagine it'll be a good thing for "cutesy indie bands" as well as "laptop sonic terrorists"...like a little Casio VL Tone with a bunch of clever tricks under its Kubrickian surface. As Pete said, if it's a toy, then kids today have better toys than we ever did!*
*Of course, Pete obviously didn't spend his childhood climbing and falling out of very tall trees or shooting arrows at birds, like Daniel and I did...didya, FOO!?
Current Mood: tired
tiredCurrent Music: David Bowie @ Hammersmith - Sunday
26 March 2009 @ 01:19 pm
http://www.ballardian.com/review-john-fo
It pleases me greatly that the "Legend of James buying John Foxx a beer" is on record by observers in both Sydney and Melbourne. Haha. Grand.
Current Mood: 
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amusedCurrent Music: And One
23 March 2009 @ 11:28 am
I will henceforth only answer questions using a Dub Siren.
"Do you want some toast?"
WEEEEOOOOOOOWOWWWWWWWWRRRRRHHH!!!
"Do you want some toast?"
WEEEEOOOOOOOWOWWWWWWWWRRRRRHHH!!!
Current Mood: Dub Siren
Current Music: Frankie Goes To Marybinong - Two Tribes
20 March 2009 @ 11:21 am
In reference to the Telegraph article posted by Trish*
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/s
It's quite simple.
One is a pioneer of original thinking, a man who utilised the studio as a musical instrument and brought a palette of avante garde and lower case sound into various pop contexts, who enjoys exaggerating female booty via Photoshop as a past-time, who's vocally (and practically) supported environmental and anti war movements, who never ceases to elude classification or total comprehension, and who was famously known by groupies in the Seventies as "The Refreshing Experience." A devil in a deep blue dress with a keen ear and a great amount of unusual knowledge and creativity he's all to happy to share.
The other one plays golf quite well, apparently.
Sydney, congratulations on making a choice that will potentially add to the enrichment of your cultural life, instead of springing for another sports-related event. There might be life left in you, yet, you painted lady.
I normally ignore bleating about sports figures, criminals-cum-popstars, minor politicians, supposed public figures or rich people who might have sung a pop song or dated someone-famous-or-other at some point, but really... three days of golf or three weeks of art and music and film and who knows what? I have it on reasonably good authority that Eno's not doing this for lots of money, either, he has Coldplay and U2 for that...
*Yes, I know it's the Telegraph, but let's not pretend the Sydney Morning Herald or The Age is any less suitable for anything except lining bird cages. I don't care if you're Catherine Deveney or Miranda Devine, I care even less to read so many column inches about how hard it is to get the kids to eat breakfast proper. A Newspaper is for fucking NEWS and an awful lot of it happens. Aw, naivete...
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/s
It's quite simple.
One is a pioneer of original thinking, a man who utilised the studio as a musical instrument and brought a palette of avante garde and lower case sound into various pop contexts, who enjoys exaggerating female booty via Photoshop as a past-time, who's vocally (and practically) supported environmental and anti war movements, who never ceases to elude classification or total comprehension, and who was famously known by groupies in the Seventies as "The Refreshing Experience." A devil in a deep blue dress with a keen ear and a great amount of unusual knowledge and creativity he's all to happy to share.
The other one plays golf quite well, apparently.
Sydney, congratulations on making a choice that will potentially add to the enrichment of your cultural life, instead of springing for another sports-related event. There might be life left in you, yet, you painted lady.
I normally ignore bleating about sports figures, criminals-cum-popstars, minor politicians, supposed public figures or rich people who might have sung a pop song or dated someone-famous-or-other at some point, but really... three days of golf or three weeks of art and music and film and who knows what? I have it on reasonably good authority that Eno's not doing this for lots of money, either, he has Coldplay and U2 for that...
*Yes, I know it's the Telegraph, but let's not pretend the Sydney Morning Herald or The Age is any less suitable for anything except lining bird cages. I don't care if you're Catherine Deveney or Miranda Devine, I care even less to read so many column inches about how hard it is to get the kids to eat breakfast proper. A Newspaper is for fucking NEWS and an awful lot of it happens. Aw, naivete...