Author results: Mark Gomes
Negative Vibes, Chrome Dome
Chrome Dome's pass at the commonest subjects of outsider music - misanthropy, deadened feelings, self-hate and insanity - is brilliantly skewed, catchy-as-heck and potentially disturbing. The local duo makes a rattling, drugged-disco chug with heavily intoned suicide-note lyrics, machine sounds in spasm, atonal synthesiser step-melodies and eerie, childlike tambourine accompaniment melting down as the sound of mental disintegration: chilled, deathly, tinted with hysteria and madly funny.
Mistletone Records present Castle Tones
What:
Mistletone Records present Castle Tones
Where:
Edinburgh Castle, Cnr Sydney Rd and Albion St, Brunswick
When:
Sat June 27, 3pm-12am
How much:
$16 +BF from here and Polyester
Win:
We have a dbl pass to give away! To enter, email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject 'Stereolab would have asked for M&Ms'
Description:
Mistletone's latest festival shifts from the label's regular theme of seasonal change to specialist locale - specifically, Brunswick pub The Edinburgh Castle - in making Nordic headliners, Je Suis Animal feel at home, or simply in recognition of the thriving venue's recent contributions to local live music.
Event: Bands
Stimulus: Hana Shimada
Regression
Nate Young is a fiend catcher and master of morbid atmospheres. The Detroit native's latest solo disc, Regression, out-graves anything by his erstwhile group, Wolf Eyes, with apposite subtlety rare in analogue electronic music. Passing over familiar Noise strategies of assault and explosion, Young's tape burbles, synthesizer whorls and junk textures are determined by a cold, disciplined pathology of restraint.
Yesterday and Today
The Field's last album, From Here We Go Sublime, was an aptly named stunner of crossover micro-house, rapturously received in 2007 by a general audience newly hip to the possibilities of repetitive electronics. Italo Disco, Panda Bear's extended sampling pop and seemingly everyone's referencing of Krautrock (however vague or inaccurate) had prepared sub-pop listeners for the next logical step - a revision of 1990s trance and ambient styles and the long-form bump and click of Euro techno labels Kompakt and Mille Plateaux.
Brothersister Records 7" releases
Trust cottage Melbourne label Brothersister Records to solve the 'problem' of pop music's dematerialisation and release format conundrum so neatly and with such understated class. Tonight the inventive and enduring collective launch two new lathe-cut 7-inch releases, bundled with digital mixes and packaged in beautiful, limited edition sleeve art.
God Is Saying This To You
Dharma bum with guitar, Kurt Vile, is another self-recording US artist of the moment, but perhaps the most anomalous and welcome yet. Taken by name - a serious misnomer - and the company he keeps, alone, Vile could be the next tapes-and-bong Surf thing by numbers, but instead he's a finger picking Zen simplest; more about clean, pastoral melodies and journeyman lyrics than any going lo-fi style.
Dextrous and Truth at HEAVY INNIT!!
What:
Dextrous and Truth at HEAVY INNIT!!
Where:
Roxanne, Lvl 3, 2 Coverlid Pl, Melbourne
When:
Sat May 2, 9pm-5am
How much:
$18
Description:
Melbourne's only dedicated, future bass club monthly - HEAVY INNIT!! - upsizes from its regular digs at The Laundry to Roxanne Parlour this Saturday night in order to accommodate two very large international dubstep / future grime producers; Dextrous (half of London's The Others) and Truth (from New Zealand).
Event: DJs
Stimulus: E
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