Cool Hunting
An electronic producer with a string of international sound installation accolades, Melbourne's Spoonbill delivers his second album Nestegg with a crispness and precision that plays across a broad audio spectrum. Blending both modern and antique sounds from live performances and electronic creations, Spoonbill delivers hard beats, sweeping musical landscapes and everything in between. It's an incredibly unique sound, and is riddled with conversational sound bytes taken from numerous sources, blending a heavily accented narrative with the surreal, electronic wonderland Spoonbill has crafted. Incredible, and addictive. It's an exploratory and rather ingenius release, and induces the craziest thoughts and visions as conversation dances across experimental tracks tempting our wildest imagination. Dream inducing, somewhat ground-breaking and undoubtedly chaotic.
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Beginning in May, experimental composers Marie-Claire Brycztwa and Sudhu Tewari will host a seven-month "audio play" called Radio Village Nomade. Broadcast daily from a makeshift village in La Corbière, Switzerland, the 214-day project will feature live performances, as well as audio submissions from sound manipulators the world over. The concept is to let people define for themselves what constitutes a moment in time and...
Melbourne's Cut Copy is the hottest electro act out of Australia right now. We spoke to Mitchell Brown from the group to get the lowdown. Does Melbourne still have a dynamic creative scene? I think it really does—there's no shortage of people in Melbourne doing amazingly cool things creatively, whether it's music, art, fashion, or design. There's a lot going on. Also, for music,...
Leaving their hometown of Brisbane, Australia, two-piece band An Horse will tour the States from 17 April 2008 with good friends, the Canadian band Tegan and Sara. Created by Kate Cooper of Iron On and Damon Cox of Intercooler and Mary Trembles, An Horse have been rapidly making a name for themselves around the world with New York's Kaki King recently covering an unreleased...
Sugar Army are four guys who've spent their lives in the dreamy slumber of West Australia, with their only savior from terminal boredom being music. With the lengthy titled opener, "And Now You're Old Enough, I Think That You Should Know," earning these indie rock purists high rotation on Australian radio network Triple J and community radio, the cheeky quartet have just added a...
Melbourne-based documentary and music photographer Leah Robertson has an exhibition of her work running at Melbourne's Prahran's IMP Gallery until 9 March 2008. We got the scoop on the inspirations behind her shots.What's been the most memorable gig you've attended in recent times? Sufjan, Arcade Fire, Bjork and Rufus have all just played consecutively in Melbourne. It's been one hell of an incredible, horn-heavy...
The two most iconic Australian bands of the past decade—Silverchair and Powderfinger—joined forces recently on a joint Australia-wide tour of monumental proportions. And when we say monumental, we mean playing everywhere from "Darwin to Ballarat to Toowoomba to Tasmania." Crikey! A three DVD set called "Across The Great Divide" has just been released to commemorate the occasion.Pick it up from their site....
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