Electronic explorations & new media manifestations, Racket showcases Melbourne's finest audio and visual talent, first Thursday of every month.
This months performers include:
SPHERIX LIVE
NAM (replacing Dan Beck)
NASTY GENIUS LIVE
VDMO KSTATI
XENOSINE LIVE
SIMON HAMPSON LIVE
NETZAIR INSTALL
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SPHERIX Live
(lowercase/immerse/tube10/sub continental dub/aquatic lab/bare dubs/camino blue)
Spherix is widely recognised as Australia's leading post-dubstep export. His label, "lowercase" was founded with a simple objective: To support and release world class, original work that continues to explore the endless possibilities of bass music. Inspired by dubstep, field recordings and techno, lowercase is committed to seeing just how blurred genre lines can become in the hands of open minded producers.
Josh's production style is sleek and emotive, melding delicately sculpted textures and crinkled melodic hooks with the deepest of sub bass tones and syncopated rhythms. He has received worldwide acclaim in the dubstep world, with his tracks becoming a regular inclusion in the sets of the likes of Scuba, Appleblim, Ramadanman, and Sigha. His tracks have also been shortlisted for inclusion on the forthcoming DJ Kicks compilation, mixed by Apparat.
The Spherix live show steers itself somewhere between the concrete bass principles of dubstep and the commanding percussive reductions of berlin techno, resulting in a deeply personal and hypnotic exploration of the space that exists amid the frayed edges of both genres, whilst incorporating many sources of inspiration to his own sound design.
http://www.lowercase-music.com/
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Nasty Genius _ Return of the Thunder
Tom Hansen a.k.a Nasty Genius & one half of Boto represents the new wave of dirty bass and drum driven club producers. With his unique production techniques he has solidly established himself within the dubstep, electro, drum & bass underworld. Gaining the notoriety from enthusiasts and many well respected independent labels, Nasty Genius is revered for fast heavy hitting tunes that draw on the dark tech sides of dance music. Originally from Christchurch, New Zealand and now based in Melbourne, Australia, he has grown an impressive arsenal of tunes as well as being recently compared to drum and bass heavyweights to the likes of Noisia. Supporting this is a huge set of forth coming releases on Ammunition, Dark Asylum, Adversion and Dangerous New Age.
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vdmo Kstati - Seems to be Right now - Live Visuals
vdmo Kstati is passionate Visualist/Multimedia producer and performer with much of his attention placed to Visual
aspects of Events production and regularly can be found performing at Electronic Events and Festivals around Australia,
Far North Queensland & Tablelands, Cairns, Mission Beach, Magnetic Island, Townsville, Mackay, Finch Hatton,
Noosa, SE Queensland, Brisbane, Nothern NSW, Sydney, Victoria Country, Melbourne and continues to expand.
http://www.vdmokstati.com/
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Netzair; Live installation
Netzair has spent years experimenting, shooting and producing his own unique content. Crosscutting live, graphic compositions to sync, his style allows you to see beyond a reel of pleasant images - you see the music. Striving to make the night's audio entertainment tangible, bringing sound to life, the visual experience is especially suited to an electronic environment where bass, glitch and snare can be translated optically. With a passion for live performance, it's not uncommon to see Netzair pushing out vision for ten or more hours straight, on festival stages alongside International and local Dj's, as well as club nights and community based video art events.
http://www.netzair.com/
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Xenosine Live
Vijay Thillaimuthu is an audio-visual artist and designer. In his artistic practice he creates a synaesthetic relationship between sound and video. This relationship is exemplified by the fact that what you are seeing and what you are hearing are both created by the same analogue voltage, whether it is being turned into vibrations via a speaker cone or used as a means to accelerate and deflect electrons in a cathode ray tube television or oscilloscope. His means is by modular synthesis combined with signal feedback, fed through springs via transducers, mixed with voltage rendered from video signals and so on, a system that is ever expanding like the behaviour of synaptic networks.
Vijay Thillaimuthu has performed at the Melbourne International Film Festival, Liquid Architecture and the This is Not Art festival in Newcastle. He was a founding member of the Within Earshot collective who specialised in immersive and surround sound installations and performance. He has had work shown at the Australian Center For the Moving Image and an installation exhibited at the Melbourne Museum. Vijay has designed software for real-time audio visual environments by Giles Simon, has done lighting at the ABC Iwaki Auditorium and can be found doing live sound mixing at venues around Melbourne. He won an award for his soundtrack to animated film Inner Spaces and has collaborated with celebrated artists Robin Fox and Darrin Verhagen. He studied Technology Composition and Perception at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and currently works for Rutledge Engineering a company who specialise in audio visual systems.
“Musician and filmmaker Vijay Thillaimuthu is working right in the analog space of defunct technologies” – Jake Wilson, The Age
http://www.xenosine.com/
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NAM - The Operative word
Nam has been involved in Melbourne's(Aus) drum'n'bass scene over the last 7 years. Originally starting out playing mainly drum'n'bass and landing gigs at festivals & many club nights. He has played on the same bill as DJ Marky and Stamina MC, Ed Rush and Optical, Klute, The Upbeats, Bailey, Black Sun Empire and Concord Dawn to name a few, the last 3 years has seen him spread his wings and play genre hopping sets and discovering a whole new musical
frontier in Future Beats, Dubstep, Glitch, Wonky and Bass Heavy Beats.
The last 3 years has seen Nam supporting the likes Flying Lotus, Hudson Mohawke, Chris Clark, Gaslamp Killer, Harmonic 313, Dizz1 and this year, in 2010, supporting The Nextmen, Marky again and gaining monthly residencies at Tight - a Funk, Soul, Hip Hop night, at the Croft Institute, Section 8 Bar and together with Shikung starting the Glitch This! bi-monthly events and now radio show every Sunday. Nam also played on the Red Bull stage at Good Vibrations Music Festival in 2009 and at Rainbow Serpent in 2009/10 and the inaugural Shine On festival warming up for Fat Freddy's Drop and Blue King Brown with JPS.
Nam is also an agent of The Operatives. The Operatives have for the last 5 years have been touring and running gigs in Melbourne, spanning many genres of music and artists from Platinum Pied Pipers to Hudson Mohawke to DJ Marky to MJ Cole to Tokimonsta to FLying Lotus to Total Eclipse(The X-ecutioners). With The Operatives expect nothing but good music!
http://www.theoperatives.com.au/
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Simon Hampson live
Hampson wants you to open your ears to the sounds around you. His live show weaves a tapestry of location recordings, beats and bleeps together, transporting you to another place.
Simon's show, Symbiosis, has been on radio and now online for over 10 years. Check out the weekly artist mixes and interviews at http://www.symbiosis.com.au
Doors open at 6:30 pm with performances starting at 7 pm sharp &
finishing just after Midnight. $10 jugs and $5 pizza all night with door entry only $5.
R6, Thursday 6th of January 2011,
Miss Libertine, 34 Franklin Street, Melbourne.
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Excited about my Racket debut!!
