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ISSUE 8 CONTENTS 4 COVER DESIGNER: MARK GOWING by Bim Ricketson 6 PO Box a2073 Sydney South NSW 1235 Australia PURDY by Sebastian Chan 10 CITY CITY CITY by Bob Baker Fish We welcome your contributions and contact: 11 ANTHONY PATERAS by Bob Baker Fish 14 PABLO DALI by melinda Taylor [email protected] www.cyclicdefrost.com ISSUE 9 DEADLINE: AUGUST 12, 2004 16 Publisher & Editor-in-Chief Sebastian Chan COLDCUT by Clark Nova 18 Art Director & Co-Editor Dale Harrison LALI PUNA by Peter Hollo 20 TORTOISE by Matt Levinson 23 MP3 AESTHETICS by Vaughan Healy 26 MUSIC REVIEWS 38 SLEEVE REVIEWS by Alex Crowfoot 40 SELECTS: MUSIC VS PHYSICS by Dale Harrison 42 DEAR DEGRASSI Sub Editor Aparna Khopkar Reviews Editor Dale Harrison Advertising Sebastian Chan Advertising Rates download at www.cyclicdefrost.com Distribution Inertia Distribution www.inertia-music.com Printing Torch Publishing Web Programming Giv Parvaneh, Qbique www.qbique.com Web Design Luke Elwin, Qbique www.qbique.com Web Hosting Blueskyhost www.blueskyhost.com Guest Cover Design Mark Gowing Issue 8 Contributors Jordan Spence, Bim Ricketson, Vaughan Healy, Alex Crowfoot, Melinda Tayor, Bob Baker Fish, Lawrence English, Tim Levinson, Matt Levinson, Tim Colman, Peter Hollo, Damian O’Keefe, Ron Schepper, Dan Collins, Barry Handler, ollo, Lawrence English Thank You Grace Chan for blessing us with your presence, Nick, Ash, Justin, Ruby, Chloe @ Inertia, Natalie & Noel @ Torch Publishing, Giv @ Qbique, Chris Bell at Blueskyhost, and all our advertisers. 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It has been a upward curve since Sonar last year, and Cyclic Defrost is back at Sonar this year and continuing to build connections with Europe. Good Australian electronic music has been starting to spread more broadly overseas and the next couple of months sees the number of Australian acts overseas growing substantially. This issue’s cover art is by Sydney-based graphic designer Mark Gowing, whose logos and other work should be familiar to a lot of Sydney locals. Inside you’ll find interviews with the old guard – Kevin Purdy, Coldcut, Tortoise’s Jeff Parker, as well as the spring chickens – Perth’s IDM youngster Pablo Dali, Melbourne post-rockers City City City, Lali Puna and Anthony Pateras. After the continual hectoring about MP3 politics in previous issues, one of our writers, Vaughan Healey finally got hold of an iPod for a fortnight and went about trying to learn the art of iPod krumping, and Degrassi gives solid holiday tips. By the time you’ve waded through those in this 44 page bumper issue, you’ll come to the treasure chest of reviews and this issue’s sleeve design look at embossing. There’s so much that couldn’t fit in this issue, including an even greater number of reviews – some for some very important releases that just couldn’t be squeezed in. We’re trying to add those to the online version over the next month or so, and some will run in the next issue. Our other news for this issue is that Cyclic Defrost has received some additional funding from the Australia Council for the Arts to help us keep our advertising rates down and continue for another 4 issues. Also, we will be putting out a double CD compilation in early 2005 for which there will be a call for submissions on the website and in issue 9 (September). Get in touch, Issue 9 is up next. Sebastian Chan & Dale Harrison Editors Extended articles Downloads of featured artists ISSUE 8 EXCLUSIVE WEB CONTENT: reviews of Koji Asano, Backfeed Slumber, Cornelius, Scanner, AGF, Sun Ra, Giardini di Mirò, Kid Spatula, Pensive Platforms Comp, DJ Shortkut, Illogic, Music vs Physics plus more www.cyclicdefrost.com The views contained herein are not necessarily the views of the publisher nor the staff of Cylic Defrost. Copyright remains with the authors and/or Cyclic Defrost. A New Audiences project, assisted by the Australia Council, the Federal Government's art funding and advisory body, through its Audience and Market Development Division. Handmade compendium for Hopscotch Films 4 S N O I T A U Q E C I M H T Y H R O Gesigner owing LoO G ver D Mark C ith iew w son Inter v t Ricke m i B by Escaping from the cold wind into a big old warehouse in Redfern, I’m struck by the size of Mark Gowing’s studio, which he has all to himself. ‘I just like having the space,’ he shrugs. Recent photographs are piled in neat stacks on generous bare desks, a retro digital clock tells the wrong time and a pad of hand sketches lies beside a couple of immaculate Macs. An impressive and inviting workplace. Mark Gowing, designer of this issue’s front cover, got a very early start as a working designer, leaving school at 16 to work as a junior at children’s book publisher Scholastic. ‘As a kid I was fascinated by logos and typefaces and I used to copy them from magazines with textas. My grandfather told me that what I was doing was called commercial art (as it was at the time), and that there was a part of commercial art called typography. My head started spinning at the idea of designing logos and typefaces as a job. So that was it. I knew what I wanted and went after it. I never really liked school, so uni was never on the cards – I just couldn’t wait to get started. I did work experience at Scholastic when I was 15 and was offered the full-time position after volunteering there in my holidays. ‘The job was assisting the marketing art director in a then one-man studio. Within four years the studio grew to eight people and I received all my training from the art director, Peter Lee. I stayed at Scholastic for seven years, and in that time worked as art director for the Book Club, Software and Trade divisions. I then took a job at Next Media as art director of Hyper Magazine. I chose this job as the magazine was a culturebased computer games publication and allowed me to explore and experiment with design and type in ways I had only dreamed of at Scholastic. After four years working on various publications and freelancing for the music industry, I left to start my own business.’ Gowing’s business now has an impressive range of clients and media, most of it culture or arts based. His work ranges from corporate identities and packaging to film campaigns, record covers and photography. In his office I am shown a sample of recent work, much of it recognisable and all of it quality. Responding to my compliment Mark shrugs again. ‘Thanks, I do try. A couple of years ago I decided I didn’t just want to design, I want to be good.’ The first outstanding thing I spot in Mark’s portfolio is a hand-made compendium for Hopscotch Films. In keeping with the company’s commitment to ‘real’ films, Mark used fabrics and found materials that related to each of the distribution company’s upcoming films, and each of the 150 copies is individually handmade. Accompanying a photograph and synopsis of Good Bye Lenin!, for example, is some flocked wallpaper and a page from a German novel. It took Mark and a bunch of friends and work experience students many weeks and piles of materials to create, and although he drew no fee from the project, it has led to an strong relationship with Hopscotch, and Mark now designs campaigns for all their films. Especially proud of the posters for Spellbound and Raising Victor Vargas, Mark has also sold the designs of some of these campaigns overseas. ‘Money for nothing,’ he says. Mark also developed the distinctive Hopscotch corporate identity and this year developed that into a live promo for cinemas. Deliberately avoiding the mega, 3D, animated, aural extravaganzas of other cinema promos, this is simply the Hopscotch logo filmed as neon, sitting in an urban park. Simple, real and a point of difference. Also immediately recognisable to Cyclic readers are his corporate identities for Sydney’s 2SER and Inertia Distribution, both of which have had recent updates and additions. Mark’s has also designed artwork for a number of releases in the last few years, including for trip hoppers Lino, chart topper Groove Terminator, indie rockers Big Heavy Stuff and compilations of his own Preservation label. ‘I started working with the music industry through my contacts at Rolling Stone Magazine when I was at Next Media,’ he says ‘I always wanted to design record covers. I guess as a designer I saw it as a way to somehow contribute to my love of music. From there it just snowballed.’ Before long Mark found himself designing for a major label – but he soon found they weren’t nearly as receptive to cutting edge ideas as perhaps their European or American counterparts were. Although lucrative financially, Mark moved away from the frustrating majors for a number of years and is only now considering putting his hand up again. ‘Four years later, perhaps attitudes have changed,’ he says hopefully. Much more satisfying are the record covers he does for Preservation Records, which he co-runs with Andrew Khedoori. ‘I met Andrew about six years ago through mutual friends. Andrew had worked at a few record labels, was then a freelance music writer and is now the music director at 2SER. Andrew came to my house one day with a copy of a beautiful recording by Sun, made up of Oren Ambarchi and Chris Townend. When we found out that Sun were having trouble finding a label we decided to form a label and put it out. ‘Preservation is still evolving and is becoming a good home for project-based works that might not be financially viable at other labels. We have very few boundaries on the kind of music that we will release. We look for artistry and a uniqueness that will make a recording interesting. In the past we have released what might be classed as pop, avantgarde, electronic and folk. We have another folk record on the horizon and an electronic piece in the works. Andrew and I make most of the decisions together. Andrew handles what you might call A&R and publicity while, I handle a lot of the business management as well as the creative direction.’ ‘So far we have released work by Sun and a remix disc of Sun featuring Mapstation, Pimmon, Tom Recchion, Rafael Toral, Hrvatski, Norbert Möslang and Christoph Heemann. Last year saw the release of Rand and Holland and the Motion compilation of 22 Australian experimental and avant-garde musicians that included Candlesnuffer, Pimmon, Qua, Joyce Hinterding, Ray Diode, Oren Ambarchi, Clue to Kalo and Pretty Boy Crossover. This year we have released a record by American folk/electronic d rity an by pu d e ir f s insp tion o alway execu rm.” e m h a t I “ lest fo n to p io t im a s ic h the a ded hroug t t p e conc artist Tara Jane ONeil. We are currently working with Grand Salvo on a release for mid-year.’ For the cover of Cyclic Defrost, Mark wanted to create something that represented what interested him about design on a more experimental level. ‘Because there is no real brief or guidelines, I was able to let go of the usual strategic design goals and set more aesthetic ones. The photograph is one of my own. It is a field solar panels in Switzerland. I like the sort of super-technology/brave new world tone of this place. The pattern printed over it is a coded typeface that I have been working on lately. When text is set in the coded typeface it becomes more of a pattern than legible copy. It can still be deciphered – the cover pattern reads “Cyclic Defrost Magazine, Issue 8, Free”. I find this random pattern generation interesting as the design is driven by specific content and meaning, but the result seems purely aesthetic. ‘The coded type is locked into a perfect square controlled by the magazine proportions. This system immediately removes the freedom to mess around with free-form ideas, shapes or layouts. I also limited myself to a very small colour palette, with the only criteria being that the pattern and type lift Clockwise from Left: Film poster for Spellbound, Live & Direct CD cover. Photography for Glen Street Theatre. Above: a selection of Mark’s logo designs cleanly off the picture beneath. The type in the top left corner hints at the content of the pattern as they utilise the same colours. The combination of the pattern and photograph is based on nothing but tone. There is no real meaning except for an overall sense of technology. The matching of the angles is pure coincidence.’ ‘I am always inspired by purity and a dedication to the execution of concept through the simplest form. Aesthetically, I am excited by art. Especially within a record cover context. Modern art is a constant inspiration when attempting to express musical content. Finding the heart of a musical piece is the same process as viewing a piece of art and embracing its meaning – the two are one in the same. ‘My first objective is always to create an exchange between the medium and the audience. ‘For most of my work I like to use a kind of arbitrary decision making theory: existing constraints need to be embraced and new ones invented to minimise the number of aesthetic decisions. I like the design process to work like some natural law of inevitability: build in sufficient constraints and it designs itself. However, a lot of record cover design is a different process. I find that the packaging for a recording is best approached as a material extension of the music and is sometimes closer to art than it is to design. The best results are tonal and largely intangible in a conceptual or design sense.’ 33 ARTISTS MARK GOWING LISTENS TO WHEN DESIGNING: Smog, A Silver Mt Zion, Bob Dylan, Bonnie Prince Billy, Brian Eno, Brokeback, Clue to Kalo, Colleen, Do Make Say Think, Domenico De Clario, Duke Ellington, Gene Clark, Gillian Welch, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Grand Salvo, Iron and Wine, Jackie-O MotherFucker, Jim O’Rourke, John Coltrane, Judee Sill, Marvin Gaye, My Morning Jacket, Neil Young, Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers, Radiohead, Richard Buckner, Savath and Savalas, Sigur Rós, Songs: Ohia, Sufjan Stevens, Susumu Yakota, The Rectifiers, Wilco. 6 nts in h Sir mome it Three on. Left: w ti Kevolu s Tooth; a Circa Robbo nd Right: a e v o Ab oom Madr G N A H T L ’ I L Y D Un PRurdy in Purdy P Kev evi K ith iew w han Inter v ian C t s a b by Se Kevin Purdy has been around forever. Oscillating between Sydney and Melbourne he is probably best known at the moment for his psych-rock influenced sampladelica, for his solo Purdy project and as a core member of Sydney three-piece Tooth. He is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist, as much a blues guitarist as a ProTools boffin. His musical career stretches way back to the late ‘70s playing with some of the seminal Australian post-punk and avant-rock outfits throughout the ‘80s, including the predecessor to legendary Sydney band Box The Jesuit. Purdy’s story is one of coincidence, constant experimentation and a commitment to following your own path. THE MADROOM YEARS (EARLY ‘80S) The story begins in Sydney in the late ‘70s. Kevin explains, ‘I was a bit of a late starter due to the fact that every band I was in from the age of 11 broke up before they played their first gig. I was living the rock n’ roll dream in my head. I’d been playing some pretty mean drums since I was about ten, plus collecting records, and generally being a manic music nut. It wasn’t till 1979 that I found a notice in a music store from Brian Hall who was looking for other musicians with similar musical tastes – Eno, Velvet Underground, post punky stuff. Brian had a Tascam PortaStudio, Roland Jupiter 6 and a Dr Rhythm, could play guitar, bass and keyboard quite well and was a very unusual. As it turned out, he didn’t really want to play live… he’d only played once in a car park in Sydney’s Bankstown. Brian was really a classic bedroom boffin beat head, mixed with a bit of Phil Spector/Brian Wilson. When combined with my take on things, it produced some very curious results. Most of it was never released but we did put out a cassette album under the name Aural Indifference, titled The Sound of Indifference, and a 7" on the M2 label which was a version of “California Dreaming”. ‘Between us we spent thousands of hours in his studio, doing all sorts of cut-up post punk, poppy, Factory Records-style stuff, that made its way into many households in inner city Sydney. Meanwhile I hooked up with what was to become Madroom, the precursor to Box The Jesuit. Back then Goose had flaming red hair and was still known as a journo around town. Suzie, his girlfriend wanted to be part of the band so she was given a keyboard with the letters of the notes written on corresponding keys. There was also bassist Paul Koff and his girlfriend Karen, she wanted to sing, but was made manager… that was a scary mistake. That left our very own ‘Keith Levene’ [Public Image Ltd], Gary Taylor, on guitar. We rehearsed for about nine months, working through everything from Stooges and Velvet covers, to our own Joy Division/Echo & The Bunnymen/Roxy Music-inspired originals. ‘We ended up recording three tracks and releasing them independently as The Cruelty of Beauty, a reversal of the Louis Nowra book, The Beauty of Cruelty. It was launched at our first gig ever, at the Exit club, which is now Candy’s Apartment, possibly the most re-named venue in the history of Sydney. The place was packed. Double J (before it became Triple J) had been making a big fuss about it – we were their darlings for a while, until we got too weird. That’s where former Double J presenter Tim Ritchie came into it for us. He loved the weird shit and we couldn’t get weird enough for him. Tim was a big supporter and friend and even managed us for a couple of weeks. ‘Madroom went through lots of changes. I began bashing things apart from drums, like chairs and cookie tins, doing backing yelps and mumbles, running homemade tape loops and slasher guitar. We organised many happenings, complete with performance art, Russian films, oil lightshows and other craziness. We had hooked up with others like Tex Perkins and Lachlan McLeod, Peter Reid and Stu Spasm, who had an ever-changing variety of bands, some of which I was in, such as Chicken Holder, Leather Moustache, Thug, Salamander Jim, and Moist. ‘Madroom was a regular act at the Strawberry Hills Hotel, the Trade Union Club, the Yugal Soccer Club, Behind Enemy Lines and other seminal 80s underground venues around Sydney. We played with The Tactics, The Models, Box of Fish, The Lighthouse Keepers and a lot of other great (and crap) bands of the time. ‘Eventually we put out an album that had a paragraph-long title taken from the Klaus Oldenberg Manifesto – I’m for an art … The engineer had a habit of nodding off over the mixing desk and taking breaks to score [smack] and consequently it took forever to finish and sounded like crap. The mastering and pressing made it sound even crappier. It was rightly slagged. The follow up was a 7" of our big live number “Acid Dog Man”. ‘Madroom went through about seven guitarists, eventually stopped looking for one, and we decided to all play guitar instead. Near the end we got our own sound, a sort of drunken dada-ish loose, lazy, less-inhibited one. Sadly, the recordings were never released, except for the ‘Banana Box’, a 50-only cassette box, with a plastic banana stapled to the front. I never got one. Suzie says she hasn’t got one either, but I don’t believe her. During all this artiness, I had discovered early rhythm n’ blues, soul, funk, hillbilly, bent rockabilly shit and lots of points in between. But I’d also become more serious about playing guitar, which was a crime in those circles. Madroom was together for five years and five minutes after I left the band they became Box The Jesuit.’ MELBOURNE (LATE ‘80S TO EARLY ‘90S) ‘After Madroom, I spent the next year or so playing with an Afrofunk outfit and a hillbilly thing I called Gasoline. They were very unsettled times, and I was living in Sydney’s Kings Cross and then above the Hopetoun Hotel. I knew I had to get out. Then I discovered Melbourne, which was like shining beacon of musicality, as well as a quieter, cleaner, happier, sexier place in general, with great record shops and music on every street corner. I sold just about everything I owned and moved. It took a long time to find my feet there as an outsider, but I kept at it. Eventually I hooked up with Hamish Marr from These Cars Collide, a band I’d been on line-ups with. Hamish played a mean finger-picking blues-style guitar and sang, whilst I played rhythm and lead guitar, kick drum and hi-hats with my feet plus vocals. Together we were called The Chicken Hawks, doing rhythm n’ blues, strychnine-laced hillbilly and rockabilly and eventually some originals. It was like Sun blues artist Joe Hill Louis meets Tav Falco’s Panther Burns. We were regulars at the Espy, the Corner and several other places. The Hawks eventually started adding members, I got out from behind of the drums and the originals got to be a bigger part of the set. The band changed its name to The Ocean Stairs and basically became Hamish’s band, in which I played guitar, vibes, drums and did backing vocals. During all of this I was playing with several other bands, sometimes seven nights a week, doing jazz, country, dub, whatever was cooking. My music tastes were constantly evolving. I travelled around the world, wrote lots of tunes, and worked in my studio on all sorts of new ideas. I was now fusing a lot of new sounds – hip hop and dancehall were co-existing beside funk, rocksteady, dub, jazz and other Afro sounds. It wasn’t much of a shift to start developing ideas that ran parallel to the evolving trip hop sound of the time. It came together for me when I heard U.N.K.L.E.’s The Time Has Come EP, Wagon Christ, DJ Shadow and so on. I could hear a kindred spirit in them, people who seemed to have a broad range of influences and were able to combine them in an abstract fashion. I started my career as an ‘electronica artist’ by chopping breaks and sounds bit by bit from my beltdriven turntable onto my 4-track, later adding keyboards, vibes, spoken word, percussion, making some weird dubby, breaky excursions. Alongside all of this I was presenting radio on 3PBS and DJing more and more. The Ocean Stairs fizzled out in 1994, leaving behind a self-titled CD and a bunch of unreleased material, but I was off and running with the new shit that was developing in my studio. I got myself an Ensoniq 16+ sampling keyboard and a drum machine and began writing on that, once again overlaying on the 4-track. This eventually led to me getting an AtariST and Cubase setup, which was when I really started to get the tunes that were destined for my first releases and eventually the Kevolution album.’ THE NIGHT AIR Left and Above: Madroom in their prime Below: Chicken Hawks poster ABC Radio National SUNDAY 8.30 p.m. SATURDAY 12 midnight NEW MUSIC, CREATIVE WORDS, RADIO MULCHING www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/nightair email: [email protected] SYDNEY (THE LAST DECADE) ‘In 1996 a friend of mine played Creative Vibes’s Peter Pasqual a demo of my stuff and he seemed to be really keen for me to be involved with his label. At the time it seemed a very cool idea, especially because they were closely connected with Ninja Tune [as the Australian distributor]. So I started getting all these ideas about going back to Sydney. In my last months in Melbourne I finished “Dope Thing” for Creative Vibes’ Evolutionary Vibes I compilation as well as performing at [seminal mid-90s Melbourne ambient night] Global Warming, and my own night at the Prince of Wales called Uppah. ‘I had been back in Sydney for just two days, recuperating at Curl Curl beach, when I met Sir Robbo. I had been aimlessly wandering around, trying to find a few underground happenings. Ken Cloud at the now defunct Reachin Records told me to check Club Kooky [the legendary, performancemeets-eclecticism weekly club night run by Seymour Butz and Gemma, 1995-2001]. Someone else said to check The Cricketers Arms [which hosted some of the best eclectic low key nights around 1995/6]. Next stop Good Groove records. I get into a rave with JD, the guy behind the counter, about records, places to go, and I mention I make music, his ears prick up and he asks me about it. He puts on my demo CD, and two minutes later the guy beside me asks, “What’s this?” JD points at me. The tune that was playing was “Sugar”, which became my first solo record on 7" vinyl. Sir Robbo was the guy next to me, and one of the heads behind underground zine Head Shots, which I’d been collecting in Melbourne, and he asked if I would be interested in an interview for the mag. The interview never surfaced but we got to hang out a lot. ‘Robbo had recently become involved with Frigid, which was then just starting out at Kinsela’s [see Cyclic Defrost Issue 1]. He hooked up one of my first gigs in Sydney there and helped out with sounds on the decks when I played my Frigid debut. I’ll never forget that night: a room full of happy faces, digging the tunes. Some of those faces became good friends, the start of a very positive new stage. Not long after, Robbo and I started hooking up for some sessions in my recently updated studio. Instead of the usual swag of funk breaks, Robbo brought around psyche beat/rock, folk, soundtracks and all sorts of unexpected stuff. It came together beautifully. Over the years, lots of people have said, “Hey, maybe we could lay down some beats together”, but, apart from the fact I generally don’t have the time or mental energy, I just can’t see it, not like I could see it with Robbo – it was right, you just know these things. ‘We had the bed of a bunch of tunes for what was to become the No Strings album (released in 1998) down in no time and were soon doing gigs as The Sir Robbo/Purdy Experience. It took about a year and a half to finish No Strings, which back then seemed like an eternity, but really everything was happening so fast. For the album and live gigs we had teamed up with Dale Harrison, who provided bass and good company. With help from Cryogenesis and the Fromage posse we got our crazy selection of Indian chants, sunshine pop, cocaine disco, space boogie and psychedelic lullabies together, with gorgeous artwork by Fromage’s Duncan Irving. All the reviews of No Strings were amazing, tons of kids dug it, it got lots of radio play [especially on the community stations], but it didn’t sell as well as would have appeared… Probably three-quarters of the people who liked it had burnt copies, which gave us the kudos factor, though without the sales factor. But by the time we put out our second album, Sirens From Here To Titan in 2001, the general vibe was that our first album did very well, but I was always mystified. There were so many cool, crazy kids buzzing around at the time, with Freaky Loops parties turning hordes of people onto leftfield beats, so what was with the stupid low sales?’ FAIRYTALE INSURANCE (TODAY) Kevin Purdy has spent the last two years working on his second solo album Fairytale Insurance, a lavish, sprawling record that is equal parts sample-based Krautrock, and warm, enveloping psychedelic live instrumentation. His production has become more expansive, helped by new equipment and a shift to ProTools. He says, ‘I want to use technology to make things simpler. I was using the Atari ST to trigger the Akai [sampler], now I just use ProTools. My main focus is to compose music, everything else is just flummery and I’ve never had any interest in being a technological wiz, it’s not the way I’m made. I can’t read manuals and I know next to nothing about the most basic of technical terms and concepts, I just want to make music. Originally it was just a cheaper and more efficient way to multitrack, without getting a 24-track analogue set up… I got myself heavily in debt last September and bought a whole stack of cool studio gear, including a full ProTools set up, a Mackie desk and some beautiful microphones. I wanted to get my studio to the point where I could do the whole process up until mastering myself, without having to pay for studio time, or having to translate my thoughts to a mixing engineer. ‘So the journey began, not only to finish the album, but to learn how all this new technology worked. That’s how I spent my summer. After months of work, technical mishaps and madness, I sussed out what I was doing and how I wanted to do it, and with a few weeks to spare, I finished the album. So the flavour, the comfort and tension, the colours and the magic of the album all came from, basically, those three weeks. The other thing which adds richness to the album was that I now had the ability to lay down as many layers of live instruments as I wanted, some tracks with four guitars, two bass tracks, three cellos and five layers of percussion. This gave me so much scope to interweave sonic colours. There were times where I thought I’d never make it, editing tabla lines for hours like a mad professor. I wanted the album to have a wholeness to it, to take you somewhere as a journey. The tunes were becoming more lush and seductive, and I wasn’t about to let that stop. When I write, I’m gauging the effect the sound has on me and working on strengthening the aspects of sonic colour, to heighten that effect. On this album I tried to tie the tunes together so that they all shared a common journey. Though the journey, like the title, has a duality, investigating lines of fantasy, dreams and childlike wonder juxtaposed with the lightning bolts of the bogeyman, the despair of the oppressed, the hopes of the human spirit, in a world in which it is downtrodden. The end result is really in the eye of the beholder. Some have noted the album as dark and some as light and bright. I think the dark aspects are more like sitting on a cliff at night under a large full moon. All of those things could lead some to intense discomfort, others to blissful joy, depending on whether you go with it or not.’ Fairytale Insurance comes at a time when pop is on an upswing, lyrics and vocals are everywhere in the remnants of the electronic scene. Abstraction, depth, and the ‘journey’ doesn’t seem to fit with the MP3 and Ritalin generation who demand instant, quick gratification. ‘It’s a crazy scene when you’re making lengthy abstract tunes in a time where the market wants short, catchy, genre-specific product. They don’t want space jams, not in Australia anyhow, I’m talking the mass market here, not music loving, open-minded folks. So we’re always essentially giving the bird with our stuff, being cheeky schoolboys who won’t tuck our shirts in… If my label Soft sold lots of CDs and I had my way, I’d release tons more vinyl, gatefold 10"s with posters and bubblegum cards. Boxed sets with comic books and pop out 3D glasses. I think there’s still a few of us out there. I think it’ll be alright, we’ll last the long run because we do what we love.” Purdy’s Fairytale Insurance is out now on Soft Records. Copies of the ‘Sugar’ 7" and other back catalogue can be ordered through Soft (softrecords.com). To find out more on the Melbourne and Sydney underground scenes of the ‘80s and ‘90s, see Bob Blunt’s excellent Blunt – A Biased History Of Australian Rock. ing of ecord r a o – it t oring ening b t into. s it li r d I was I fin mbe e ic id s m d u e m Ir t only o the g. ... no vant t le oodlin e a gig r n ir ll u o d ed s ind of seem this k t s ju It was S E I T I C 3 F O E L TitA A y City ed Collette C y t i N C ith iew w v r e t Fish In aker B b o by B Over the last few years luscious instrumental seven piece City City City have been busily exploring the intersections between jazz, rock, electronica and all posts between, experimenting with various line-ups, sounds, and techniques until arriving at the smooth, challenging and beguiling sounds of their debut long player Dawn And The Blue Light District. Recorded over a year ago, the full ensemble had only been together for about a month before entering the studio, with the resulting session capturing an energetic and vital outfit full of enthusiasm and numerous ideas. In short, it’s an album brimming with musical possibilities. ‘Everyone had their own place that they were coming from,’ remembers guitarist and founder Ned Collette. ’I think on the album that’s very true. It sort of swings through a whole bunch of genres really, which funnily enough have sort of ironed themselves out.’ At the time, Collette reflects, the sounds on Dawn And the Blue Light District were still very fresh, with keyboardist Tye (the newest addition to the band) providing a more synth/electro sound than they had previously experimented with. Although their sound has continued to evolve with Tye’s recent departure and the addition of Ben Bourke, two tracks on the album, ‘Grayscale’ and ‘Year In’ are still quite represen- tative of the outfit’s more upbeat, guitar-orientated live performances and preoccupations. ‘I always wanted it to be much heavier than it used to be, and it is now,’ offers an enthusiastic Collette. ‘It’s just more full on with seven people and the sort of sounds we’re getting up there. One thing I’ve wanted for the last couple of years is to bring that electro vibe in but still have what I would call a really driving rock guitar in there too. ‘As far as electronic music goes, I really like those lo-fi elements – where a ye olde guitar is thrown in with like crazy glitchy beats and shit like that,’ he continues breathlessly. ‘Even dudes like Matmos using guitars and all old instruments. I really like that sort of graininess you get when you combine those crappy crunchy guitars with really slick electro stuff. I think the album represents that really well, but the set we’re playing now probably represents it even better. And it’s just a lot more unified for me from beginning to end. You could see a downside in that all the songs sound similar to each other now, but I don’t think that’s really the truth, I think they complement each other a bit more. The whole show and the whole vibe behind the band is a bit more unified now.’ Initially formed to provide Collette an outlet for some of the tunes he had been writing, City City City has developed quite organically. It was originally more jazz orientated, featuring extended solos and improvisation, before a bit of active listening caused Collette to re-evaluate this approach. ‘I spent a few years studying and listening to jazz, came to the end of it and thought everyone’s playing too long and too much. Everyone thinks that everything they play is worth hearing and I don’t believe it. And our band used to be different; we used to do really long versions of songs live, sometimes they’d go for 25 minutes. ‘I think that’s where a lot of improvised music and jazz falls down,’ he continues. ‘Unless you are a complete aficionado, which a lot of the jazz audience seems to be, as long as you play jazz you can do no wrong. It really is just music for the people playing. I remember listening to a recording of a gig we did and not only did I find it boring it seemed so irrelevant to the music I was into. It was just this kind of dull noodling. ‘I think we’re all trying to hit people with this one big sound we’re trying to create. There’s no hierarchy of soloists, lets make the tunes as long as they have to be to get their point across but lets not harp on about it.’ As a result the music on Dawn And The Blue Light District, whilst still drawing a loose influence from jazz, never feels cluttered, long or overdone. By contrast it all feels carefully constructed and finely nuanced, a remarkable achievement when considering the number of players involved. To Collette however, this is not surprising. ‘Everyone’s very confident in their playing in this band so I don’t think anyone feels that they’re getting squashed, not getting a big enough say, or that they’re saying too much,’ he states. ‘When the seventh person joined, we looked around and said, “Fuck, we’re a seven piece!” It was a bit of a shock, but it’s never been harder with seven, it’s actually been easier. I think it’s a band full of people that are interested in what happens when you have the onslaught of seven people, but we’re all also interested in what happens when not everyone plays at once. We’re trying to work more of that into the music as we go along. ‘Everyone in the band has a very similar idea of what the music can sound like,’ he continues. ‘Even though everyone comes from very different backgrounds, we’re finding that a lot of us are into the same thing right now. I feel like just a component of some sort of music that’s happening, and I don’t really know where it came from. I know that sounds really wanky, but I think we all feel like we are elements of something that’s greater than the sum of its parts.’ City City City’s Dawn And the Blue Light District is out now on Sensory Projects through Inertia 11 Pic by n Milto Cindy S E I R EO H T O N I M as ras DntO Pater hony Pate y n o h Ant A ith iew w v h r e t n I er Fis k a B b by Bo Melbourne-based composer Anthony Pateras is somewhat of a puzzle in the local music scene. He simultaneously fits everywhere and nowhere. His tastes are broad and his talents unique. Even in the world of electronics and improvisation, a world he regularly inhabits, he stands alone, creating inspired, challenging and iconoclastic music, seemingly out of step, or perhaps a step ahead of those who surround him. And then there’s his painstakingly devised score-based work. Straddling the difficult divide between academia and live improvisation, over the last few years Pateras has become a regular on the live scene, responsible for some of the most aweinspiring and challenging performances around, either in solo or ensemble pieces and utilising a variety of instruments and sound-making techniques. Both facets of his work are unique and diverse, often barely existing within known realms, dragging genres and expectations kicking and screaming behind him. ‘I’m not trying to be provocative, that’s the thing,’ he offers from his home/ studio in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. ‘What I find hard to stomach about that ultra-minimal thing, or experimental music in general, is that sometimes people think they’re being extremely radical. You don’t want to actually be able to hear that in the music, you don’t want to listen to that and think, “Oh, they’re trying to be extremely radical.” I just want to listen and hear something unique. As an exploratory musician you have to do your research – ask yourself what can you offer within the historical context of this stuff. ‘I think it’s important to present musical ideas without any kind of pretension, and just say, “This is what I’m doing, take it or leave it,”’ he continues. ‘But at the same time, to not assume anything about your audience… that can be really insulting. The best thing for me about my CD launch was that there was such a diverse audience there – from hiphop crews and golden oldies to kids and musicians across the board. It wasn’t just your regular improv/new music backslapping sausage party.’ Pateras’ most recent work, Mutant Theatre, on John Zorn’s iconic Tzadik label, is extremely radical. A veritable grab bag of Pateras’ musical obsessions it’s an exciting work that somehow manages to draw the listener in without appearing self-conscious or contrived. It’s a work that he refers to as his chamber music record, though the reality is that it’s unlike any chamber music that you’re ever likely to hear. Unless your idea of chamber music involves percussion sextets, amplified quintets, numerous percussion instruments, dominos, mousetraps, prepared piano, vocal manipulations and electronics. Though at times quite dense, it is an absolutely astonishing assemblage of fascinating, energetic and tightly controlled sounds. Equally influenced by his classical background, the avant-garde, and his live improvisation work, its mood oscillates from austere complexity to the mischievous and absurd. ‘I’m pretty interested in that juxtaposition of comedy and violence with anything that I’m doing, and it’s especially satisfying in the chamber music context because many people in that field can be so narrow minded – hung up on def- initions of music and so forth. A couple of the performers who play my stuff are actually from the improv community who are interested in doing something that requires a bit more work than just rocking up to a gig and playing with whoever. Some of them want to do something more structured or work harder; really rigorously rehearse something so it can be absolutely killer when it’s time for the performance. These people are the ones you want to work with – they’ve got the essential ingredients of having a completely open musical mind, combined with discipline and enthusiasm.” Pateras, who is currently doing his PhD in Composition (he’s been studying since 1997) wrote Mutant Theatre over two years and, as a result, it is quite varied, touching upon many of his divergent interests, drawing upon many local musicians to perform everything from abstract percussion to setting off 650 dominoes and mousetraps. Then he sent it to John Zorn. ‘I just sent Zorn a CD and hoped for the best, and he responded quickly because I think he’s really into composers at the moment,’ he remembers. ‘The whole idea of scoring and presenting it to the conductor and the conductor presenting it to the ensemble, that whole process. I think he digs it.’ Whilst touring through Amsterdam on the Synaesthesia tour alongside the likes of Delire, Snawklor and Robin Fox, Pateras received the call from Zorn, saying he wanted to release it immediately, though unfortunately there wasn’t enough material. When the tour ended he quickly set to work writing three new pieces specifically for the disc. One of these was “Twitch”, an amplified quintet, which is arguably one of the most challenging and interesting pieces of the album. Comprising of Natasha Anderson on her distinctive contrabass recorder, Vanessa Tomlinson on percussion, James Wilkinson on trombone/conch, Erkki Veltheim on viola and regular contributor Robin Fox on laptop, “Twitch” is a strange disjointed musical game of tag, where each performer performs short series of ordered sounds before the piece ultimately culminates in Veltheim torturously smashing and tearing apart a violin. ‘The quintet is a very acquired taste,’ laughs Pateras. ‘The interesting thing about that piece is that it is written not just for instruments but also for instrumentalists. It’s written for five very specific people with sounds they’ve spent a lot of time working on. Erkki, Natasha, Robin, Vanessa and James all have sounds that only they can do, so I felt really privileged to be able to ask them to perform those sounds at certain times in the piece. The score is almost like a comic strip – that seemed like the only way to communicate the piece, rather than using a traditional score-based format.’ Unlike many contemporary composers Pateras has in recent years developed a strong interest in working with electronics and integrating them into his scores as an instrument equivalent to any other. Not only is “Twitch” an example of this but, like much of his recent work, it highlights his desire to explore the possibilities of the electronic form. ‘What I’m interested in is using electronics in notated composition as an instrument,’ he offers, ‘not as a separate element to the music like a drone or something, but actually gesturally incorporating it into the piece. And that’s what “Twitch” was about, giving Robin an instrumental voice for his instrument. I aim for a total integration of his sounds combined with the idea that you can also make acoustic instruments sound “electronic” - like with prepared piano for example.’ Laptop musician Robin Fox has been an essential figure in Pateras’s burgeoning interest in electronics. Back when Fox was a drummer the two collaborated in the trio Flubb (with Jeremy Collings on cello/electronics), constructing instruments, using junk and combining them with toys, distorted voice, cello and bass. Four years later, the duo produced the wonderfully chaotic and violent Coagulate (Synaesthesia), which consisted of Pateras feeding a number of channels, consisting of vocal mics, piano frame and the ancient AKS synth prototype to the waiting Fox, who then electronically treated the sounds in real-time via his laptop. Pateras would then respond to the processing, creating a sensory feedback loop of real-time composition. Whilst the album is sonically and emotionally devastating in its energy and abrasive mischievousness, their live show kicks it up a notch. Interestingly, what looks like fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants improvisation is in reality a lot more carefully prepared. ‘Our stuff is based on having an intensive rehearsal period and working out different systems and approaches to the instruments at hand,’ reveals Pateras. ‘So we spend a lot of time just working on one sound. When we actually perform it live it’s improvised, but there’s been a lot of research that’s gone into the actual sounds and the different sections that we present during a gig. In terms of actually discovering something interesting during improv, I guess I do it the other way round. I see improvisation as a forum to present the ideas that I work on at home as an instrumentalist. You build your arsenal then you let it loose. Of course you find stuff in totally free improvisation but, at least in my experience, often it feels a lot better to play than it actually sounds. I don’t want to be fumbling for ideas and trajectories in front of audience unless I really know what I’m doing.’ In fact, improvisation is a concept Pateras finds problematic, ill-defined and, despite its intentions, often flawed or at best unhelpful in true music development. ‘It claims to be this free art form, where you’re granted any kind of option at any given time to respond to any given musical gesture,’ he begins. ‘But the more I watch improv, and this is by no means all of it, some of it is predictable in its unpredictability. You kind of know where it’s going to go just from the language the performers set up from the beginning. I’m interested in structured improvisation personally, but I’m not interested in being able to tell where the music’s going. I think you can juggle these two things to make something really special – to guide your impulsiveness without being restrictive.’ ‘I think improv is a forum where a lot of amazing ideas can be executed, but because anything goes, often the ideas aren’t presented as strongly as they could be, or perhaps there’s a kind of underlying excuse that you can do anything without being accountable conceptually or even technically,’ he continues. ‘It ruins it for everyone – it just becomes like bad theatresports with instruments.’ ‘I’m not saying this is the ultimate solution to music’s problems – but Robin and I always have parameters, but that’s because we’ve been playing together for four years. For example, depending on the patch that he is using at a certain time, there are only certain things that I can do which will sound decent with that patch – and they have to be performed at a certain rate to allow the processing to kind of breathe and work. If you work with someone long enough, that’s when the great stuff happens. Like with Rob, I think we’ve always understood each other musically, but just started to at the same time. ‘ Recently Pateras teamed up with local improvisers Sean Baxter and David Brown (Bucketrider/Lazy), to release Ataxia (Synaesthesia), which is a gentle, though at times uncomfortable, textured bed of improvised sound, which saw him utilising prepared piano alongside Brown’s prepared guitar and Baxter’s percussion. ‘There are certain people you play with where your languages sort of convalesce into one rather conveniently,’ offers Pateras enthusiastically. ‘I don’t think improv is all completely predictable. With these guys I just sit down and play and we rehearse maybe once a month. We don’t talk about it.’ The result is a collection of minimal clutter, fragments of junk sounds ricocheting off each other, and rustling, twitching, tearing textures from an ill-defined unknown sound world. Ataxia came about quite by chance, when Baxter and Brown performed at the launch for Pateras’ debut album Malfunction Studies, with Phillip Smartzis in their minimal electronic trio Western Grey. ‘They saw me play and they wanted to do a free jazz trio with Baxter’s fucked-up percussion and Dave’s bass, said it’d be really freaked-out free jazz stuff. I said that I didn’t really listen to much free jazz stuff and didn’t have much experience with it,’ remembers Pateras. ‘I listened to classical music for years before I listened to rock music. So I was never one of these kids who grew up on John Coltrane and Miles Davis. It’s something that I’ve regretted at times. I mean, I can’t play jazz at all. I can’t read charts or voice a chord properly. But I’m not really interested in that because I’m not interested in harmonically functional piano-playing. I’m interested in more physical approaches to piano, which is influenced by electronics more than anything. Treating it as a resonating box of strings and focusing on density, intensity and velocity – rather than treating it like a piano and worrying about harmony, melody and rhythm.’ Pateras currently has a number of other projects on the boil. Firstly there’s a two-pianos record with The Necks pianist Chris Abrams, where they each play for fifty minutes in each octave, with four overlayed takes each, which results in a chaotic piano going crazy for fifty minutes. ‘The point of that is to add so much piano to something that it ceases to sound like a piano,’ explains Pateras. ‘You get this spectral wash of energy. I’m interested in that kind of instrumental exploration as well – adding so much that it ceases to exist or becomes something else, in a manner of speaking. The results freaked me out actually.’ Then there’s his hip hop record. Being the first to admit that he knows little about hip hop, he is clearly excited about this project, playing fragments on his computer whilst discussing its inception. Instigated by Sydney-based turntablist Martin Ng, they also roped in Robin Fox and Curse Ov Dialect’s Vulk Mackadonski for extra support. The result is an abstract, demented form of hip hop, with Pateras acting more as producer chopping up Vulk’s beatboxing on one track whilst Fox chops up Ng’s turntables in real-time and Ng scratches over the top. The parts I heard were weird and strangely beautiful, a simultaneous kick in the pants and demonstration of the possibilities of modern hiphop. ‘It’s not like it’s a pisstake,’ laughs Pateras, ‘it’s more like taking elements of the style, processing them beyond recognition and then using them again in the form of the style. So we used hip hop as a starting point, improvised with the elements of it, and then brought it back into improv-influenced, song-based form through post-production. Martin and I did a lot of talking on the phone rather than heaps of rehearsal. It’s evolved a lot over the last three months because I was just left with all the material to put together in post-production. It’s probably going to be a 16-track record and there’s more accessible stuff on there as well… which actually surprised me.’ It’s fun, he smiles. It’s nice to do something not as serious for once. Writing scores gets a little boring, not the results, just the actual process. It takes so fucking long it feels like your life is slowing down, but the results are eventually worth it.’ Pateras’ Mutant Theatre is out now on Tzadik. 14 with rking o to w e rying ‘I lik m.’ and t s e m the k o a r t f is g m thin some make R E G N A B L L A W Y E V R A r H oesne ali R D t o t l a M ab P h w wit e i v r e ylor Int da Ta n i l e by M Matt Roesner is Pablo Dali, a self-confessed control freak who finds musical inspiration in the tranquillity of his natural surroundings, as well as the sterile and harsh nature of man-made structures. Inspired by the indie music of his generation, Matt began his musical career at the age of 18. Like many electronic musicians, he has no formal music training; he taught himself to play guitar by ear and everything else since then. His introduction to experimental electronic music came via the advent of Radiohead’s stunning album OK Computer in 1997 and the evolution of trip hoppers such as Massive Attack and Portishead in the mid-nineties. This music altered Matt’s perceptions and took his own musical adventures down a winding path he has not since returned from. Over the last three years he has shied away from his indie roots, experimenting only with an abstract and minimal pallet of sounds that inform his current musical project Pablo Dali. Matt currently lives in Harvey, a little town about an hour and a half drive south of Perth. He works during the day as a CAD draftsman, designing farm machinery for his family-run business. The rest of his time is spent in the studio capturing and embodying the serenity of life in Harvey in musical forms. ‘In Harvey music is my only outlet. There are a lot of open spaces where I live, flat plains to the west and large hills to the east. Harvey is so quiet, I can sit outside and not hear a single thing except birds or the wind. It’s the quietness and the space which helps me create the music that I make, I find it very reflective and meditative in a weird way.’ Pablo Dali started in late 2001 while Matt was still involved in the post-rock electro act OK Tokyo. OK Tokyo had built up quite a reputation for their amazing improvised live sets and played regularly at festivals all over the country. The group split in late 2002 leaving Matt to pursue his solo work. ‘I had been experimenting with abstract and minimal sounds that didn’t fit in the band context, and at the time it felt like OK Tokyo was heading in a more song-based and accessible direction that I wasn’t 100 per cent happy with. I decided to start a solo project as Pablo Dali, but it really wasn’t until mid 2002 that I started to take it more seriously. Some of the early Pablo Dali music wound up in an installation in Perth and also got a bit of interest from overseas and I was invited to play at Sound Summit 2002. Toward the end of 2002 OK Tokyo was burnt out creatively, it seemed that we had reached a point of implosion, and it was then that I decided to make Pablo Dali my main musical focus.’ The music of Pablo Dali combines a rich sonic palette of minimal electronic and acoustic sounds that is both mesmerising and provocative. ‘I find that minimalism is a major inspiration. Simple ideas are the best, and you can have a really sparse sound that still has a lot of emotional depth. Certain sounds and objects always get my creative thoughts going. I could stare at modern buildings, the aluminium and concrete, and get a thousand ideas, and it’s the same with mobile phone towers, antennae and power lines. These man-made inspirations are played against the natural spaces that I live in. ‘In terms of sound I might find inspiration in a small fragment of noise found in a guitar recording or the way a sound reacts when projected into a large space. I like working with mistakes and trying to make something from them. OK Tokyo tracks were always built up from improvised jams, between the acoustic elements and electronics that we were using; we didn’t have a plan, as long as it sounded unique. Now I am more focused in the way I create music, I have a plan with each track, and I use processed sounds a lot more, like taking something that was originally an acoustic sound source and then mutating it into something that sounds quite digital. Making music is a lot easier and fun for me now. In OK Tokyo I had to write pieces that fitted within a live band context. but I’m a control freak and I have always been happier working by myself.’ However, Matt’s extensive touring with OK Tokyo has given him an insight into how to present his minimal and less accessible sets as Pablo Dali to a live audience. His shows place a large emphasis on improvisation and real-time audio processing. ‘I don’t feel it’s hard to create an intriguing live set as a solo electronic artist in terms of sound. But it is more difficult to create a visual presence. The audience don’t get much out of watching a guy press buttons and looking into the laptop, that’s why I like to use live guitar playing and also sampling to create a stronger live feel. I never play the same live set twice, I will use similar sounds or progressions, but they will never be in the same sequence. Live visuals can be a great tool too, as they give the audience a chance to establish a visual identity to the sounds that they are hearing. Visuals are something that I hope to use more of in the future. ‘I perform live using a laptop, acoustic or electric guitar and a cheap Boss sampler for really grainy lofi textures. I normally run eight outputs from my soundcard into a mixer, so that I can manipulate sounds through the desk as well as the laptop. Lately I have been doing the occasional laptop-only set where I play sounds in a more improvised and minimal fashion.’ While we await a full-length release from Pablo Dali, his music has not gone unnoticed, with several compilation appearances to date. Ai Records in the UK included one of his tracks for their last compilation release entitled Station. ‘”Contemplate” was recorded in July last year and at the time the plan was to include it on a demo CD for sending out to various labels, it was not written for the AI release. I spent most of last year working on refining my production techniques and writing new material, and “Contemplate” was one of the first tracks that I actually felt happy with in terms of production and inspiration. The track was recorded on a really cold morning, and I remember it was finished in around three hours, it just seemed to fall into place. ‘In August last year I was reading a review of an Ai’s Montag release and thought they might be interested in hearing some of my music, so emailed asking them if they were accepting demos, and they replied saying they were looking for new tracks for their next compilation. So I sent them some tracks, and they asked if they could use “Contemplate” on the Station compilation. I was surprised that they chose that track as it was the most unique one on that demo. I thought they would be more interesting in the other material which was more beat-based and glitchy.’ Matt has also collaborated with the Micro Label 12times50, also based in the UK. ‘I came across them whilst listening to Resonance FM online. We started talking via email and they asked me to work on their file sharing project. Basically they had a one-minute MP3 file that contained a heap of different sounds and noises, and the challenge was to create a track using only the MP3 as source material. I spent a weekend working on a track that involved a lot of processing and editing of sounds, and I ended up with really minimal click house track. When I sent it to them they played it on Frequenzen, their fortnightly show. ‘I think online collaboration between artists is a great thing, it’s something that I would like to explore more in the future. It’s a way to learn new techniques and also be inspired by other artists’ creativity. 12times50 are hoping to release the tracks created by various artists who participated in the file sharing project sometime soon.’ File sharing? Aren’t they the two words that make any underpaid and overworked independent musician shake their head in frustration and sadness? It’s strange to think that file sharing, in the sense of making files openly available for audio collaboration, is a great way for musicians to broaden their creative output. And yet file sharing, as in making other people’s music freely available for download despite copyright restrictions, is a great way to ensure a lot of musicians will never be able to make a living from their music. ‘In the future I hope to make my music available for download but I hope to get paid some money for it. What concerns me is when files are downloaded and distributed without the consent of the artist. Technology will eventually overcome this problem, making downloading of music more secure and a way for artists to receive income that they deserve. ‘I am a CD/vinyl man at heart, I do download MP3s but if I really like something I will buy it. Then you get the artwork and packaging, it’s collectable. I like what the Fällt label does, you download the MP3 and a PDF file to print out and fold it up into a cover. If I were going to go with digital distribution I would do something along those lines, it’s interactive, personal and collectable. I have looked into digital distribution, which I think is a good thing provided the artist is paid. I see it as a good way for a new artist to get exposed to a larger audi- ence without the backing of a label, and MP3s are a great promotional tool. MP3s, digital distribution, file sharing and the internet all play an important role for electronic musicians located in far off locations such as Australia. It helps them gain exposure internationally, and far off states in their own country, that otherwise would never get a chance to experience their music. Without the internet there is still the local scene that can thrive and nurture an upcoming artist. ‘In Perth only a handful of venues promote electronic music on a regular basis. That’s why a gig like Aesoteric, a weekly night dedicated to new leftfield styles of electronica, dub and jazz is so important to the Perth underground scene. It provides local artists a platform to perform their music to an appreciative audience.RTR FM is also a strong supporter of local music. ‘There are artists in the Perth underground electronic scene that are producing music that is unique and high quality. It’s strange because some of the artists are more well-known overseas than over on the east coast. My favourite local artists are Dave Miller, Manuel Bonrod and Audio Cephlon. ‘Kieper Records, run by Audio Cephlon promotes West Australian electronica through the release of compilation CDs and occasional gigs. There is also a local collective called Semikazi which involves a large number of Perth electronic artists working in a wide range of genres, from noise, electro, indie-tronica, hip hop and glitch. There are also a couple of VJs involved. The aim of Semikazi is to increase exposure of electronic music outside the realm of traditional club music, and also to nurture new talents.’ Pablo Dali is currently working on a full-length album to be released on ::Room40:: early next year. In the meantime, keep an eye out for his contributions to the upcoming Kieper Records Aether 2 compilation and Semikazi 02 compilation. t ing ou o sell t ut! t o r a enlling Z e s a f o here’s e ar t me ose t nd th n’t na a o n w e I I supp .Z you. ssfully round a ng!’ succe ll a too lo o it d e k le a t p Peo would s – it e m a n S D O GO L L A M S ore Y H hon M t T a n L o Aterview with J SoTldcE ut In C va rk No by Cla Four turntables and a 4-track tape recorder is a long way from the hi-tech world of VJing Coldcut now inhabit. While Jonathan More and Matt Black have adapted to more technologically advanced means for music and video making–or adapted the technology to suit their purpose–their movement around the cultural fringe has been decidedly backward. They travelled from chart success with their earliest releases and remixes, to become the ‘anonymous’ DJ Food, starting a wholly independent record label. Not to mention their radio show Solid Steel which had its first incarnation on the then pirate ‘Kiss’. Say Kids What Time Is It (1987) used the laborious method of recording samples and breaks from records onto a 4-track, then rewinding and recording more samples and breaks. Today Black and More spend a lot of their time programming new plug-ins for their audio programs and creating computer programs for their live VJ shows. Their label, Ninja Tune, has passed its tenth year and is almost nearing the hundred mark in terms of releases. With all this, they haven’t released a record of their own in over five years. ‘There’s no rules that you must release an album at a given time,’ More says. ‘We do a lot of different things. We’ve got the radio show, the record label; we’ve just done a play for BBC Radio 3. We do a lot of stuff like that, plus we were touring the last album. I think we came down your neck of the woods about five years ago. That show has developed and we only stopped touring it at the beginning of this year. At the moment we’re touring a show for the project we’re promoting at the moment–let’s be honest–the Zen TV DVD compilation. In the last two weeks I’ve done Liverpool, Manchester, London, Glasgow, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Madrid, then Japan after that. So, we do a lot of that. If we’re touring Coldcut stuff we’re often touring just a general show and then I DJ all over the shop. I’ve done about 20 gigs this year already in different states and places. We’ve also been developing the software we use and making stuff and that takes a lot longer than picking up a guitar and thrashing out a tune.’ With their Jazz Brakes series Black and More were at the forefront of what was eventually termed ‘trip-hop’. Over the next few years they started building the Ninja Tune roster, early on releasing artists such as Steinski, London Funk Allstars and Funki Porcini and, more recently, artists as varied as The Cinematic Orchestra and Super Numeri. In 1996 the duo had their now legendary Journey By DJ 70 Minutes Of Madness mix released. It also saw the return to their use of the name Coldcut, having absolved themselves of a contract with Arista records. Coldcut’s commitment to DJing, mixes and compilations–as much as anything–has maintained their relevance, seeing them and their label outlast a number of short-lived genres they’ve regularly been associated with. As much as they strive to break new ground, they’re fondness for music as a whole, like all good DJs and record collectors, has resulted in a number of releases and ideas that always sound fresh while other labels and artists have well and truly passed their used-by date. Equally, they’ve been confident and conscientious enough to say no to projects that may have brought fame or money as well as being careful not to repeat themselves. Recently Black and More compiled tacks for the funk/soul re-issue label Harmless. It was a welcome relief for the pair to do something where they weren’t responsible for the licensing. ‘We thought it would actually be a good idea if someone else did the licensing because it’s a lot of work. They were one of the first bunch that came to us and haven’t asked for a mix, because we get hundreds of people wanting us to repeat the Journey By DJs mix and we don’t really want to do that,’ More explains. ‘One day when things are right we might do another album like that. Our attitude is we do something like that on a regular basis with Solid Steel anyway. So [the Harmless compilation] was a really good opportunity to find some really great records that we liked that had an influence on us. There were still loads of records that we couldn’t get hold of, that we really wanted to have on there so, as with all things it depends on who you can get permission from; there’s always a compromise. It’s not 100% my ideal compilation because we couldn’t get all the material we wanted but it’s still good.’ Whilst never having faced any serious legal consequences from their sample-heavy sound, releases and artists, the issue of licensing is one More is all too familiar with. ‘You get situations where Queen object to you using one of their tracks which goes [beatboxes We Will Rock You], you know? If I was to do that on a record I’d have to put the publishing down for that. We wanted to use We Will Rock You on the Hexstatic mix but Queen wouldn’t allow us permission to use the actual record, so we went ahead and just recorded it with a drummer. We did that and they said that was allright because it was a cover version but they still wanted 100% of the publishing. Even when I did vocalised [We Will Rock You] to you on the phone, it’s instantly recognisable and they’ve stamped their identity on it. Those are some of the difficulties you do encounter when you’re doing these mix albums. Some people object to you mixing their music with someone else’s music because they don’t necessarily see that as valid because they come from a different discipline.’ Indeed, Black and More’s talent at re-contextualise the world of popular music and culture has long been the basis for the Coldcut aesthetic. This has seen them move on to the visual media and VJing which developed into their cut&paste audiovisuals–using Vjamm– which is put together in a similar way to their earlier remixes such Erik B & Rakim’s Paid In Full. (incidentally, Rakim has been highly critical of the Ofra Haza sampling remix.) At the same time, this has provided them with the opportunity to do remix work for the very cultural products they would normally throw in to their ironic musical critiques. Though, as More explains, it’s not always something the pair are comfortable doing. ‘We’ve turned down quite a lot of stuff along those lines basically because we haven’t got the control that we required or the checks and balances, as they say in politics. We turned down a remix for the Rolling Stones recently, they wouldn’t let us do our own thing [laughs]. ‘They wanted us to fly to America and do it in their studio and use some special system that means that it can’t be duplicated. Why don’t they just put a bloody album of Rolling Stone acapellas out, get shitloads of amazing bootlegs, take the best, make a compilation CD and put it out? You don’t have to pay anyone anything then. The bootleggers can’t turn around and say ‘hey, that’s my bootleg!’ when you’ve officially released it. They couldn’t get that argument. So we turned it down because they wanted too much control over it. They hade this idea of what they wanted us to produce but it wasn’t the idea we had. And that’s often what happens, people get this notion in their head and say this is what we want you to do and it doesn’t necessarily marry with our version.’ For More and, it would seem, the whole Ninja Tune staff and roster, as much as it’s about the music, there’s also a strong commitment to politics, activism and a sense of integrity. Something Coldcut have been able to illustrate more articulately through VJing. Through this combination of media manipulation and tomfoolery Coldcut have met like-minded artists such as Emergency Broadcast Network, who pioneered cut&paste VJing. Whilst More respects EBN’s work, he’s wary of following a similar path saying EBN’s visual production on U2’s Zoo TV tour somehow diluted their message and future output. More is just as happy providing ‘zentertainment’ as he is confronting people with uncomfortable output and live shows. ‘It’s meant to do your head in and make people think a little,’ he says of their live show. ‘We’re surrounded by these images all day every day, we’re just constantly being bombarded by, people are trying to sell you shit the whole time. You’re always being approached from every angle with some guy saying ‘hey I’m wonderful, buy me. Why isn’t your life like a soap?’ Things like that. The idea, in a way, is taking that and regurgitating it and adding in stuff that they filter out and it can make it quite difficult to see.’ And while many contemporaries–such as EBN–have been prepared to take the big bucks, More isn’t so quick to point the finger, ‘Well I don’t knock anybody for doing it. If you can do it and keep it going… I suppose there’s a Zen-art to selling out successfully. Zen and the art of selling out! People do it all around you. I won’t name names, it would take too long!’ See www.ninjatune.com for more info on Ninja Tune, 18 ND I M K C A R 4ali PTuna Valerie Trebeljahr L ith iew w v r e t In ollo ter H e P y b elieve t to b n a dy w ‘I mebo at so h w ites in or wr e m re tells o the ook s b a in that o be has t ction’ conne Lali Puna is one of the best-loved electronic pop groups on the Morr Music label. Previous releases have gained them attention from some high-profile fans such as Colin Greenwood of Radiohead and Andy Weatherall, and their third album, Faking the Books, will only gain them more fans. Lali Puna began as a solo project for Valerie Trebeljahr. ‘A year before Lali Puna started I played in an all-girl group [called LB Page],’ Valerie says. ‘It was a guitar band, quite a normal indie rock band.’ Unfortunately getting the six girls together (including Steffi Böhm, who went on to form Ms. John Soda) proved complicated, and they split up. ‘It was more a fun project because we were friends. In the end everybody had different ideas on where to go to.’ ‘I played classical piano as a child’, remembers Valerie, ‘but that was the first time I made music myself, and with my own songs and so on.’ After such indie rock beginnings, Lali Puna was markedly different. ‘The idea of Lali Puna was really to sort of make what I understood as techno, but with a pop melody. So it was really designed as an electronic project in the beginning, it just sounded quite trashy because I recorded everything on 4-track. Over the years and with the other band members involvement, it developed more into a band, and it more into a song-oriented group.’ Markus Acher (of the Notwist, Tied & Tickled Trio etc) was the first additional member of Lali Puna. ‘Yeah, he already played on the first 7"; it was just quite natural – he was there. I also asked Steffi from Ms John Soda too, and she played a melody on one track on the 7". At that time I asked people to just join in on the recordings, and it was later that it developed into a band. Also, it was just getting boring doing everything by myself.’ The trashy 4-track tape-recorded sound was quickly replaced by a computer, ‘because it’s much easier and it sounds better,’ says Valerie. These days Markus and Valerie write the songs at home. ‘We just do the very basic structures there; the chorus, the verse, and maybe the lyrics, but all the instrumentation and arrangement is done in the studio.’ ‘There used to be a big difference between Lali Puna in the studio and Lali Puna live. We used to re-arrange everything in quite new ways live, because it would be too difficult – we didn’t have the computer in use like we have it now. The difference isn’t so big any more because we’ve included the live thought in the recording.’ The new album Faking The Books is much more of an indie guitar album – sounding surprisingly closer to old bandmate Steffi’s Ms. John Soda than previous releases. And the drums, while often programmed, are much more rocksounding too, due to the influence of playing live with the band. ‘The thing is, when we started doing that album we knew it was the third one, and you had to make sort of a step. And we really wanted to do that. For me it’s not that much indie rock – of course that’s our background, I mean that’s the music we heard, Sonic Youth, Pavement and Yo La Tengo, all those bands – but we really wanted to include the guitar and we wanted to include it in a way that had an energy, but that was also sort of electronic. It’s not used in a “rock” attitude, like for example Nirvana. It’s really used in a distant and electronic way; that’s important for us, to still have that electronic background or influence also.’ ‘It’s often programmed too. I mean the guitar is still the best instrument to transpose that energy kind of thing, but we really wanted an electronic background on it. A really big influence were bands like My Bloody Valentine.’ Lali Puna is just one of what seems to be a thriving community of bands from Germany (and elsewhere) that are working in that indie-meetselectronica area. ‘Here – just in Munich or Weilheim – all these bands are related and have a similar background; but if you look at other bands that are making music in the same direction as us, there’s a sort of community. For example, in Germany, bands like Tarwater or To Roccoco Rot also come from that song background, but they do music in a much more electronic way than we do it, Also maybe Dntel in the US; there are bands that are coming from electronic backgrounds and moving towards song, so it’s also happening the other way round, and in the end you can’t make a clear distinction any more.’ Lali Puna did a remix of Dntel on the Evan and Chan single in 2002, and a Dntel remix is in planning for a 12" later this year. Boom Bip has also remixed and been remixed by Lali Puna. ‘I really like to work continuously with people – not to have this person on one record, and that person on the next... I really like to keep personal relationships with the people I work with. It’s sort of a friendship over music, working together on songs.’ As for their remixes of other artists, ‘It’s mostly Markus and me when we’re doing a remix. We very rarely do remixes, because it means taking the sound of somebody else and making something new out of it, so it takes us even longer to make than our own songs. You have to deal with the idea somebody else had, and then your idea of the song. Normally, you get the files from the person you’re doing the remix for and you hear what they’ve done, and then you think of doing the opposite, or making a really big difference. Then you try to pull everything apart, and just go from the sounds to build up a new song from them.’ Apart from the other band members, who themselves feature in various other acts in the promiscuous Munich scene, Lali Puna has had some great collaborators. Many listeners first became aware of Lali Puna through the gorgeous Bomb the Bass collaboration Clearcut, which Valerie is characteristically laid-back about. ‘He just asked us. We’ve got a distribution company in the UK called Baked Goods. He’s friends with them and they just gave him the record –they probably give him many records – and he then asked us through if we wanted to do a song with him. It was quite funny because we didn’t see each other, we just exchanged the files through the mail, and it was only months later – after the record came out – that I met him in Berlin.’ It’s impossible to convey the delightful way of speaking that Valerie has in a written article; but listen to their songs, or read the lyrics on the website, and you get some idea of the strange evocativeness of English lyrics written by a European. Why does Valerie, who was born in Korea and brought up by German parents, write in English? ‘I used to write lyrics in Portuguese too – because I lived in Portugal for a long time and can speak Portuguese – but it’s really a long time since I lived there, and that’s why I concentrated on English. Many people ask why we don’t sing in German, and Notwist get that question too, but the thing is that each language is very different. You have to make totally different lyrics if you want to use the German language. Something would sound okay if you say it in English, and if you said the same thing in German it would sound totally stupid – and embarrassing maybe. The German bands I really admire all have that sort of an ironic approach to the lyrics, and I can’t do it in that way... I never really tried; I always concentrated right from the start on English.’ ‘In Portugal, they just had mainly English TV, English movies, so the English language isn’t that far away from me. For me, it was quite normal to use it, and I can’t really say if it comes also from the music I hear. I don’t notice if a band sings in French, or German or English. For example Stereolab was a very important band for me, and she sings a lot in French. Maybe I’m just so used to hearing different languages that I don’t really notice much that it’s now French – now English.’ Stereolab comes up again when I ask Valerie about influences on her vocal style. I refer to a famous German chanteuse, but, ‘I know that comparison to Nico and I don’t really like it at all! I absolutely respect what Nico did on the recordings, but I don’t see that connection. I really like vocals that are sung in quite a normal way, not so much big expression in it; I really like the singer of the Pastels, and also of course Laetitia Sadier from Stereolab, and the Cardigans’ singer Nina Persson, and also the girl from Yo La Tengo.’ As to whether her lyrics are drawn from real life, well naturally they are. ‘I mean it’s not one-to-one exactly, but of course I think everybody does it in a way that – except maybe for country singers or something – that of course you tend to reflect what you have experienced. And I think that is the right way to do it. I don’t like to read, for example, a book where somebody tells me a story that is totally far beyond him and his personality; I want to believe in what somebody tells me or writes in a book so there has to be that connection.’ Lali Puna’s album is out on Morr Music through Inertia 20 LS L E H S R I E TH F O T/Jeff Parkerrker OorU a toise Jeff P T ith iew w Inter v vinson e L t t by Ma Tortoise’s Jeff Parker is exhausted, having arrived home at 4am following a four-hour drive from a gig in Bloomington, Indiana. The gig was with Josh Abrams’ Aesop Quartet. The quartet consists of Parker, Abrams, former bass player in The Roots, with Cologne-based trumpet player Axel Dorner and saxophonist Guillermo Gregorio. He was back up at 8am to look after his two-year-old daughter Ruby. ‘Woah...’ he chuckles. Ruby makes sure she gets plenty of attention throughout the interview, chiming in with songs, shouts, and occasionally wrestling control of the phone from her father, piping in to ask for a turn. Like his daughter, Parker knew what he wanted from a very young age. Immersed in the sounds played around his parents’ house in Hampton, Virginia, Parker wanted to be a jazz musician. After a year’s worth of piano lessons, he picked up the guitar at age nine and started learning basslines from Earth, Wind & Fire and Funkadelic songs on the radio. His parents eagerly signed him up for guitar lessons. After time in a handful of obscure high school bands playing ‘generally modal music, rock and jazz... like Santana without the singing, and rock bands that played like ZZ Top and Led Zeppelin’, he took off for the Berklee College of Music in Boston. After four years of study, he quit just before graduation, frustrated by the controlled learning environment and conservative approach to the music he loved. Of course, studying is about learning the technique and theory of the music. But Parker thought the musicians at Berklee had a narrow perspective. It wasn’t alive the way he’d experienced as a kid, and the musicians were more focused on honing their technical skills. ‘I spent a really good part of my professional adult life in reaction to the conservative atmosphere. For years I wouldn’t even really even identify myself as a jazz musician. Even though it was my background and I wanted to be a jazz musician from when I was a little kid, I mean now I’m fully admitted. But I made a conscious effort to disassociate myself with the jazz aesthetic just because I felt there were too many limitations imposed on that music. People don’t buy jazz records anymore, they don’t see the music, because so many musicians are so self-absorbed and the music is so intellectual on many levels. The way that it is perceived by the public, as well as the way the musicians look at it, it’s like this elitist thing. I don’t think it should be like that.’ This hierarchical approach that places jazz above other music is reminiscent of the one that used to put classical music above jazz. ‘I hate to put it like this. But all the categories! Creative people are just going to reinvent the music. That’s just what’s going to happen and eventually it’s just going to end up being called something else. Most people who think of jazz, or even rock, have a certain sound they expect and associate with it. Everyone in Tortoise, just because of our backgrounds, excluding mine, considers Tortoise a rock band because of the way we come up with songs. Even though we might sound different, essentially that’s where it comes from. Because all those guys played in punk rock bands from when they were 16 years old. Even though they were checking out a lot of different stuff and had a really open conception of music, in the social realm, that’s kind of what we identify with.’ After college Parker spent time playing improvised music with George Garzone (now an Associate Professor at Berklee) and Antonio Hart before moving to Chicago in 1991. ‘I didn’t move here because of any scene. I moved here to work and was planning on staying for a couple of years then moving to New York.’ Despite this, Chicago proved fertile ground for Parker. ‘I just kinda fell in with this crew of people... Chicago is a good place if you’re trying to find your way because the local musicians, the local scene, is really supportive. Between the club owners, the audiences and the record labels here it just seemed like a really good place to work to really find your niche. And that’s what I was looking for when I had just come out of college. I wasn’t quite sure what I wanted to do, I just knew that I wanted to do something different, and fortunately I fell in with a group of people who saw things like I did.’ Parker’s technique has been described as playing the guitar like a saxophone. Whether it’s straight-ahead, fuzzed-out, abstract or mysteri- ous, he always creates a beautifully toned, textured sound. ‘I used to listen to a lot of saxophone and I spent a lot of time not necessarily trying to make the guitar not sound like a guitar, but more around the phrasing. I’ve always had a kind of linear approach to the instrument. I was always very concerned with the sound and the fullness of the tone. And when I was in college I liked a lot of guitar players but I was really into saxophone players such as Sonny Rawlins, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane and Lee Connit. So I would just approach the instrument more like that until I came up with a way that was comfortable and felt like it worked.’ Since leaving Berklee, Parker has continued to refine the sound. ‘I think it is a lot clearer now than it was 15 years ago,’ he says. Chicago is a cold working class city – the meatpacking and grain industries are big employers – and it doesn’t jump out as a centre for wild musical ferment. But combining the legendary sixties jazz collective, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), and the eighties indie boom that led to the formation of labels such as Touch and Go Records, it’s produced a thriving music scene. By nurturing the free spirit of jazz, the city now sees the thrilling results of collaborations between avant-garde musicians, electronic producers and indie rock hacks. And outside of that there’s so much else happening – house, hip hop, gospel, classical, hardcore and electronic. y that he wa t l is ing ividua eople est th he ind t g kes p ig y a b a m w e t h e t a . at th ’s wh ion in tion.. ] look ovisat k that d r rovisa in n p p h a [ t im im I s ble. ly no ’s no f jazz. ment solute ensem There instru istic o b r e a e e h t h t t c ’s e nd n in chara t ther we ble nts functio r one ... Bu e z b z e ja m u m to the n instru toise hat’s t e Tor r d a n p A com usic. e’s m is o t r in a recent interview with www.jazzhouse.org that To ‘When I first moved to town I did some gigs with a drummer named Larry Banks, and Ernest Dawkins, a saxophonist. We got to talking and Banks had some of the same ideas, and I think he liked the way that I played. He’s a little older than I am, he had his own band that was pretty established in Chicago and he asked me to play with him. He’s a very prominent member of the AACM in Chicago and I got affiliated with the organisation, met a lot of other musicians and started playing with them and collaborating. Cats like Fred Anderson.’ With Charlie Parker and Lester Young’s influence on his guitar playing it must have been rewarding getting the chance to play with Anderson, who said he’d seen both of them play. Described by Jazz Times magazine as ‘the foremost underground avant-garde sax player today’, Anderson was a critical player in the germination of the AACM back in the 60s. In the jazzhouse interview he explains his reasons for working with (Jeff) Parker by saying, ‘he hears the music right away. I can play with him because he has such good ears and he picks up on it for a youngster.’ By the end of the ‘90s, Parker had established a reputation for involvement not only in Chicago’s rich avant-garde music scene, but also for captivating performances and recordings with a swathe of indie rock musicians. He’s now 37 years old and has played with several generations of jazz musicians including Roy Hargrove, Wynton Marsalis, Joshua Redman and Branford Marsalis, as well as Fred Anderson, Lin Halliday and Ken Vandermark. He’s also worked with musicians from very different backgrounds. He began in the city playing hard bop and free jazz with cornettist Rob Mazurek and drummer Chad Taylor as the Chicago Underground Trio (which is sometimes extended to form the Chicago Underground Orchestra). Mazurek and Parker also played as the art-rock/jazz-funk outfit Isotope 217 alongside trombonist Sara P. Smith. He’s played with bands like Ernest Dawkins’ New Horizons Ensemble, Uptightly, Aesop Quartet and Tricolor, and released his first solo album, Like Coping, last year on the influential Delmark Records label. ‘They’re all just friends.’ Parker commented on working with such a diverse range of musicians. ‘I actually introduced Rob [Mazurek] to the more creative part, the more creative side of the Chicago music community – I mean he was a pretty straightahead jazz trumpet player when we started hanging out. I got him into free improvisation and eventually that led him to electronic music and such. It’s inspiring to be in a community of musicians who have so many great original ideas and great voices on their individual instruments and such.’ The extent of cross membership of bands makes the Chicago scene seem like an incestuous musical family tree. In some ways it’s reminiscent of New York’s underground in the ‘80s. Like the collaborative network around Branca, Laswell and Zorn, Chicago has had an amazingly prolific output of experimental and often brilliant records that, in reality, few people will ever hear. It’s probably his membership of post-rock outfit Tortoise that Parker’s best known for. He joined Tortoise prior to the recording of their ‘98 album TNT, replacing bass player Dave Pajo (formerly of Slint and now Aerial M/Papa M). This cemented the lineup with John McEntire on percussion and keyboards, John Herndon on keyboards, vibraphone, percussion and programming, Dan Bitney on guitar, baritone saxophone, keyboards, vibraphone, marimba, bass and percussion, Doug McCombs on guitar, lap steel guitar and bass, with Parker on guitar, vibraphone, electric harpsichord, synthesizer, keyboards and drums. Skirting the boundaries of rock, jazz and electronics, Tortoise make complex and melodic music that probably bears the closest resemblance to jazz than any other musical genre. Despite (or perhaps because of) his musical background, Parker categorically disagrees with Tortoise’s music being described as jazz. ‘There’s no improvisation. I think the biggest thing is the way that we blend the instruments or the way that we look at the way the individual instruments function in the ensemble. I think that’s what makes people compare Tortoise to jazz they’ve heard. But there’s absolutely no improvisation in Tortoise’s music. And that’s the number one characteristic of jazz.’ Since forming thirteen years ago the band has continually redefined their sound. They’ve just released a fifth full-length album, It’s All Around You, while the band’s members play and record with a bewildering array of other bands. Think the beautifully complex sound of the Sea and Cake, Bowie-style glam rockers Bobby Conn Band, Eleventh Dream Day, Gastr del Sol, Come, Sonic Youth, Him, Smog, Stereolab, Red Krayola, Tricolor and 5ive Style just to name a few. Suffice to say, they’ve had a profound impact on the indie rock scene. After three years coming to grips with McEntire’s new Soma studio, Tortoise released Standards. It was a step back from TNT’s computer-based production, and though it was dismissed by many as little more than a Bitches Brew outtake, it had a more organic feel than previous albums. ‘Standards wasn’t a ‘live’ live album, but most of the performances were live,’ comments Parker. ‘Of course, there was a big process behind us getting to the point where we could play the songs with everyone at the same time.’ It’s All Around You combines the cut and paste aesthetic of earlier albums and the organic, musical elements of Standards to form possibly their most developed album to date. ‘The process for recording the new record was actually a lot closer to TNT, we went with no material and made everything in the studio. John McEntire’s getting these really distinctive tones [at Soma] and I think he was just discovering how to do that when we did Standards, it’s a lot more refined now.’ Tortoise have long flirted with electronics, though it rarely does more than peek out from beneath the sparkling melodies and rhythms. But software and the technical aspect of production have been an extremely important compositional tool for the band. ‘I don’t know what we would do without it [Pro Tools],’ Parker laughed. ‘Tortoise is essentially a studio, and we’re a studio band. I mean we love to play live, but this particular aggregate of Tortoise, we come up with everything in the studio, that’s how we write all the songs, everything is based around us experimenting in that environment. So at least for me, it’s hard to even imagine what our band would be like without the innovation of hard disc recording.’ This was also part of the reason for the gap between TNT and Standards, as they spent a lot of time in the studio getting to know the software. ‘Nobody was really using it when we did TNT, so we went in with totally cold feet and were learning as we went along.’ On earlier albums, Tortoise extended their electronic romance with remixes from producers like Oval, Coldcut, Autechre, Derrick Carter, Springheel Jack, UNKLE, Wagon Christ and Techno Animal. These days they are less interested in that sort of collaboration, though Parker has been listening to a lot of hip hop. He worked with Chicago rapper Diverse on his excellent One AM album, and they’re currently completing a new project together. He’s particularly excited about the current wave of producers and MCs reworking the rich vein of jazz history. ‘That Madvillain record is awesome. Oh man, I love Scott Herren, Prefuse 73, Madlib, MF Doom, Jaydee. It’s refreshing to hear. One of my favourite times in music was early ‘90s hip hop – you know, Tribe Called Quest, where they were sampling old Blue Note records and stuff. It’s really nice to hear it coming back, but in a completely different way.’ Like the Native Tongues, Tortoise have always searched the past for inspiration. But the LA Weekly summed up popular feeling in 2001, saying ‘it’s difficult to decide whether Tortoise are capable of creating their own riches or can only mine the past’. Whether it’s Ennio Morricone’s spaghetti westerns, Neu and Can’s machine funk, the minimalist work of composer Steve Reich, or musicians like Lee Scratch Perry, Herbie Hancock, Dick Hyman and Jean Jacques Perrey, there’s no doubt Tortoise have borrowed liberally from their heroes. Parker considers his words for a moment before saying ‘I think whatever you’re checking out at the time inevitably filters it’s way into whatever you’re creating. It’s just a thing that’s true for all art and artists. I can definitely listen to our past work and hear the influences a lot more clearly than when I listen to this new record. We’re kind of coming into our own, really developing our own identity. That’s apart from all of our influences, in my opinion, when I listen to the new album.’ At this point Parker’s daughter Ruby has a tantrum, screaming and generally needing attention. ‘I’m going to have to talk fast,’ he said ‘because my daughter’s starting to get pissed off that I’ve been on the phone so long.’ While juggling the phone and Ruby he quickly gives his take on file sharing (bad for artists/labels, especially mid-level acts like Tortoise, but also capable of encouraging artists to be more self-sufficient and concentrating ownership with artists instead of labels). And then he’s gone. Whether you call it jazz or not, Parker has created a body of work that’s unique and new, from a diverse range of influences and sources. His thirst to play and create with a dazzling range of musicians from different backgrounds marks him as an important player in modern music. Perhaps in the future, we’ll see his name quoted alongside some of the names he mentioned such as Charlie Parker, Sonny Rawlins and Fred Anderson. Tortoise’s It’s all Around You is out on Spunk/Inertia 3: P M E B S O T C I T E E E FR AESTH THE P3 aly OVFaughM an He by You might have seen that scratchy footage of European explorers playing gramophones to Papua New Guinean highland tribes. They are pretty amazed, not having experienced the wonders of records or imperialism before. In that moment, an entire worldview changed radically and indelibly. And that moment still reverberates today, as some of the biggest record collectors in the modern world are the descendants of those once undiscovered, lost tribes. Those explorers considered themselves pretty modern. Today, we too consider ourselves rather contemporary, especially those of us with iPods, but we should remember that modern awareness is a process and not a position. In fact, we are living through one of those quantum shifts in the way we understand music right now. After a shaky start, the MP3 is becoming accepted by the music industry as a legitimate music format and delivery medium, and this will prove to be the largest shift in our understanding of music since Edison rapped ‘Mary had a little lamb’ onto wax. The radical evolution of the MP3 from outlaw to saviour is neatly summed up with the recent relaunch of Napster as an online music store. Its original incarnation in 1999 as the infamous peerto-peer software allowed music lovers to freely swap music. Despite being bankrupted by litigation and shutdown in 2002, peer-to-peer sharing and the MP3 was established as a force for the music industry to grapple with. Jump forward to 2004, and the cultural cache of the Napster brand has been refor- matted into a legal web-service selling music to the English and American market. Napster is staking out territory in an already crowded arena dominated by the Apple iTunes service. When iTunes was launched in March 2003, downloading was largely unexplored as a form of legitimate distribution, as music publishers were reluctant to allow their music to be available on the internet. But Apple’s achievement went beyond persuading the music industry to open their vaults; they also provided the public with remarkably fashionable little white devices to play their legally downloaded tracks on. The iTunes service and iPod player go hand in hand and have been a massive success: over 70 million MP3s were downloaded in iTunes first year, and iPods now outsell their computers. The Apple business model relies on selling both the hardware and the music, but legitimate music downloading also offers new and novel commercial possibilities. A recent Pepsi campaign featured Beyoncé and Britney in an epic Gladiator-style tele- vision commercial tied in with free music downloads from the iTunes service. Coke replied by stepping into the ring with mycokemusic.com. Dentists worldwide couldn’t believe their luck. These exercises in calorific cross-promotion and soft drink propaganda conceal the biggest winners in this early scramble for high visibility MP3 associations. Peter Gabriel’s Real World label pushed world music into the western consciousness through the 1980s and 1990s, but his recent project is proving to be much more significant. His OD2 venture provides the structure and distribution framework for a number of European music services, including Microsoft’s Music Club, HMV and Virgin in England, the French music chain FNAC, as well as MTV in Italy, Germany, Spain and Holland. OD2 looks after the publishing rights and downloads while the peripheral brands concentrate on identity and marketing. Telecommunications companies are also taking note of what is happening in the music arena. Despite its small broadband market and poor infrastructure, Telstra is looking to legitimate MP3 e-tailing as a way of providing substance for its contentstarved internet service provider Bigpond. If unreliable broadband or defective email access isn’t enough of an incentive to sign up, the new bigpondmusic.com site offers music downloads at a subsidised price for its customers, as well as the helpful reminder that ‘not paying for music downloads and file-sharing is like stealing. And stealing is still ILLEGAL.’ Got that kids? The telecommunications interest is understandable. The public response to MP3s, the take-up of fast domestic internet services and the subsequent investment in bandwidth infrastructure are the litmus test for a delivery network that could conceivably provide other forms of media, for instance television or cinema. Software like Bittorrent already 24 IPOD KRUMPING BY VAUGHAN HEALEY There is a whole industry of after-market accessories for Apple’s iPod. You can splash out on a remote control unit, memory-card readers, digital cameras and of course, upgrade to special earphones. All in white, naturally. Of the more interesting paraphernalia is the iTrip – a tiny radio transmitter that is supposed to allow the listener to tune an FM radio into their iPod. Armed with what is effectively a pirate radio transmitter, fashionable iPod enthusiasts have devised a new variation on the classic pirate radio hijack: Pod-krumping, or Pod-jacking. The scenario is straightforward: the iPod-armed vigilante enters a space broadcasting bad radio with nothing more than an expensive piece of designer fetish and spirit of mischief. Places like cafes, taxis or long-haul buses are perfect with their terrible MOR/FM-rock radio and captive audience. They find a position near the antenna and turn on, tune in and press play: the local supermarket is rocking to your very own playlist. Getting down with your personal Top 25. Who needs conspicuous white headphones when the background ambiance is your own MP3s? Pod-jacking/krumping is proving to be so popular that a suspicious black market exists beside the iPod industry. A bit of hunting can unearth iTrip boosters, Bluetooth transponders, cigarette-packet-sized microwave links and miniature amplifiers – available pre-assembled or in kit form. Krumpers are jacking into datastreams all over the place and grooving everyone out with their selections. I was lucky enough to be lent an iPod from the kind people at Apple for a couple of weeks and decided to try my hand at pod-krumping. Famously, Apple design their products for ease of use and luckily for us krumping is no exception. Since it’s launch in 1999, the iPod has been a miracle of product placement and slick design. Other manufacturers of MP3 players can only drool at the iPod sales figures and cultural cache. There are swags of MP3 players out there, built into watches and phones or rolled into PDAs. Many, such as the iRiver HP-120, are technically better, with in-built recording features, sturdier design, and longer battery life. The iPod itself will soon become an anachronism: not only with competition from Apple’s very own Mini-iPod, but through the necessary turnover of volatile technology – 40GB in a device the size of a deck of cards might sound impressive now, but machines of the future will eat 40GB for breakfast. Even the first generation of iPods looks old fashioned with its antiquated push buttons. However, for the wealthy and fashion conscious saboteur in 2004, a pristine iPod is the only way to go. After a couple of alse starts, my first success was a greasy spoon cafe in Sydney’s inner west. I took a position near the laminex counter and spied the coat-hanger doubling as an antenna for the radio blasting the hits of the 70s, 80s and 90s. The soundtrack was krumped in no time, moving from bland radio to a selection of 20th century serialism before you could say “atonal mayhem”. A few eyebrows were raised, but unfortunately the staff were quick to change the radio and put a CD on instead. Deflated with the end of my short-lived radio prank, I sat back with a Turkish pide and played solitaire on my $800 toy. allows easier downloading for the huge files required for television shows. By employing a variation of typical peer-to-peer sharing, Bittorrent is a perfect way to download all those movies and television shows yet to be broadcast through traditional methods. As bandwidth improves, this will force a major rethink of television scheduling. Stations will no longer hold the keys to programming and the ad break that interrupts viewing every few minutes will be a thing of the past, as commercial material is further integrated into storylines and plots. But while established media giants have the publishing rights to support the insatiable demand for content, cyberspace offers a level playing field where smaller websites can offer niche services. Although independent artist and label sites might not have the sugary endorsements of pop divas or funky white and chrome digital toys, inventive music makers are still able to exploit the enormous possibilities of file sharing. Backpack hip hop doyen DJ Dangermouse has guaranteed his place in pop music history with his now infamous Grey Album: bootlegged Jay Z’s Black Album a capellas over beats jacked from the Beatles White Album. Ironically the Grey Album would have faded into obscurity if not for Dangermouse being served with a cease and desist order from EMI, who own the Beatles recordings. The interest of the press was piqued by the David and Goliath tussle, and the public was able to make their own mind up; the Grey Album was readily available as a download. From LA to Liverpool, listeners who had never given abstract hip hop a second thought were rocking to Dangermouse and his high-concept prank. The paradigm shift in consumption and listening stretches to the very core of the music industry itself. Pressure is mounting for changes to be made to the composition of music charts. In 1999, the celebrated boss of Factory Records, Anthony Wilson, declared that ‘in five years time we’ll still be buying CDs but the UK singles chart will be 80 per cent composed of download statistics’. As yet, the UK pop charts don’t reflect download statistics. However, the Official UK Charts Company is currently assessing ‘the best time to include downloads into the main chart’. That time may be soon. While the public has long been sceptical of the mysterious music industry alchemy used to compile pop charts (a suspicion that was cynically exploited by reality-TV hit Popstars), download charts promise a less affected method of tracking what’s hot and what’s not. Indeed no established download service would be complete without its own top ten. Chart reform could even go further than tracking sales, with the popular internet service gracenote.com providing a chart of database hits that track individual songs being played in computer CD trays. Perhaps this could provide the next geek challenge: a total and complete pop music chart able to trace MP3 downloads, international file swaps, CD database hits, radio and television playlists, and so on. For an entrepreneurial computer nerd, these lines of code could be the path from the garage to the mansion. Just remember where you got the idea… There is considerable inertia and pressure to maintain the status quo as entertainment industry giants struggle to keep up with new technology, but consumer demands are proving to be both voracious and infinitely creative. Just as business models have been adapted to accommodate MP3s as a legitimate format, a surprising new sector of the pop music economy has developed. Similar to the syncretism Apple used to establish its iPod and iTunes, mobile phones have created a huge demand for ringtones as pop music. As monophonic melodies evolved into polyphonic rings, the new gen- Tortoise’s It’s all Around You is out on Spunk/Inertia Information for Members and their Guests eration of mobiles can play sophisticated realtones. Realtones, or mastertones or truetones depending on whom you ask, are sections of pop songs rendered down to catchy hooks and are the coolest ring in the playground. Amazingly, some estimates suggest that mobile phone ringtones now account for 10 per cent of the global music market, earning a whopping US$3 billion. The realtone phenomenon illuminates some of the deeper movements behind changes in music awareness. Music composers are engaged in a complicated feedback loop with culture, technology and the listening public. Advances in technology precede evolutions in uses and understandings of music itself, for both consumers and performers of music. In the same way, the shellac disc allowed accurate recordings of intricate performances in New Orleans to be played back to amazed jazz fans in Paris as well as amazed mountain clans in Papua New Guinea. The 45 single afforded teenagers with a medium to covet and exchange and rock n’ roll was born. MP3s and the changes produced through digital distribution offer artists an entirely new relationship with the public and palette to create their art. One of the most immediate changes for the MP3-ready music listener is the offer of an unprecedented choice of music. People have (almost) all music instantly available all the time. This allows listeners to be radically causal in their listening as tracks can be downloaded on a whim. Searches are ad hoc and haphazard, randomness and surprise is created with misspellings, typos and incorrectly labelled files. Listening becomes grazing, with the audiences’ microscopic attention spans searching for musical hooks and repeated licks to maintain interest. Significantly, the unit of exchange is the song as opposed to the album, reducing the importance of the album as a staple of artistic intent. It could be argued that the current popularity of hook-based, song-based music such as r’n’b and hip hop is partly because of its ability to translate into catchy ringtones and for a downloaded song to be a complete unit in itself. As a balance to this blithe and chaotic grazing, listeners are also allowed a deeper engagement with artists and ideas. Enthusiasts worldwide can tune into a movement that would otherwise be confined to a city, or perhaps collect and archive the complete works of their superstar of choice: from all the legal recordings to all the bootlegged concerts and everything in between. These two contradictory tendencies generate conditions that demand music to be arbitered. As music is abstracted from context and removed from traditional modes of distribution, new forms will develop that direct taste and provide meaning. This is role conventionally filled by media like radio, television and magazines, but this economy of cool will necessarily develop in additional ways. One optimistic scenario is a record store renaissance where canny retailers will be able to trade on the kudos of recorded music and associated paraphernalia as a fetish item. Perhaps most significantly, the move from atoms to bits places a renewed emphasis on live performance. A sympathetic legislative framework combined with supportive infrastructure would nurture new modes of performance and celebration, and the benefits of progressive thinking are obvious. Shows would be a corporeal experience, ideally with the economics of performance geared in favour of supporting artists of all scales, from megastars to the undiscovered bedroom producer. 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The ts are pe’ an iller o Stone re pla sample y h le a M g g il -T s li d in M rt h ‘R a p a s p p Hig Ahm classic Marcu d ‘Ste ll the mag. ers – f Jo’s r’) an assist part a most and b sion o By Ca SLEE VE R Sleev e Des EVIEW ign by Alex C S rowfo ot Right: Dangermous & Jemini’s Ghetto Pop Life with close-up of the embossing inset Some people, as the cliché goes, know the price of everything and the value of nothing. These people, if they were releasing a record, would be unlikely to shell out for embossing. An embossed sleeve is often a sign that someone gives a shit. It costs more money. You have to go out of your way to make it happen. You have to care. It could even be argued that embossing is a manifestation of love. And as we all know that’s what makes the difference. In the last year I have seen some incredible embossing on record sleeves. This could be due to an advance in embossing technology, or it could be a reaction to the twodimensionalisation of design that’s occurred since the emergence of the screen as dominant graphic medium. Or it could also be due to the passion of one design company leading the way. Whatever the reason, embossing seems to have entered a new era, so it’s time for a selective retrospective, with an emphasis on the recent output of Warp offshoot Lex. More examples from the recent and not so recent past are also available at cyclicdefrost.com. It’s very hard to photograph embossed paper, however. Hopefully this will prompt you to look out for these designs and see what they are really like. Like most art, you need to see the real thing. WHAT IS EMBOSSING? Embossing is the process by which areas of paper are raised into bumps. Debossing is not the process of creating out-of-office activities for your manager in order to be left alone to do your job, but rather is the reverse of embossing. To emboss, part of a design is cast in metal. These shapes are then stamped into the paper. Often embossing is used to highlight a title, or a logo. A braille typewriter is essentially the same principle. Coincidentally embossing without corresponding ink markings is known as blind embossing. Various Lexoleum Tile 1 (Lex 2003) Format: 3 x 12” vinyl Designer: eh? Leading the pack, as far as I can see, are the designers at Eh? who, as well as possessing a name that approaches genius, have been turning out some breathtaking work for Warp’s hip-hop offshoot Lex. Often embossing is “pretty” and takes one of a few forms: the embossing of text or a title, of a logo, or a to pick out parts of an illustration. Here, on the second Lex release, debossing is used to bring a realistic texture to a painting of some lino floor tiles, complete with irregularities, scratches and gaps between tiles. There’s a lot of detail – it took some doing. Also embossed are the cheesy “sparkles” on the word Lexoleum. And, as if to say “you thought we were finished?” the centre of the letter “o” features a blind deboss. Such is the quality of this design that it could just as easily star in a feature on the use of metallic inks, varnishes (entire illustrations consisting only of varnish) and hand-drawn typography - with a footnote on die cuts. In a league of their own, despite the slightly nauseating colour combo on this release. DM & Jemini Ghetto Pop Life (Lex 2003) Format: CD Designer: eh? Another shining star from Eh? comes in the form of this card slip case and gatefold insert for DM & Jemini. A masterpiece of gold foil stamping and embossing, this sleeve manages to say bling and anti-bling at the same time. The decadent use of gold foil and gold metallic inks contrasts nicely with the use of grown-up graff that tells a story. On the outer sleeve a cartoon cat and mouse are seen inside a safe - a treasure trove of gold and gems. The cover of the gatefold inside finds the mouse in pre-robbery mode, dreaming of the riches he’s about to find. Thank god they left some white space on the inside of the design or it would be one super-rich triple chocolate and whipped cream pudding. But on to the embossing, on the outer cover. It’s difficult to tell if the gold foil stamping involves debossing or not, suffice to say it’s very slightly recessed. Then we’ve got large areas of blind debossing on black with what looks like an underprint of vignetted metallic gold. These guys do nothing by halves. The debossing is a swirling organic texture of tiny dots, some only the size of a pinprick. This pattern also appears on the back and on the spine. A tiny misregistration of the deboss means that a few dots intrude on the gold foil but it’s still damn accurate. The sparkle on the gems may have been stamped separately, as you can still make out their shape as they cross other areas of gold. Not content to leave it there, the letterforms from the Lex logo are blind debossed into a gold ingot on the back cover. The inner sleeve, where the mouse is about to open the safe, is like a lesson in the visual richness that can be achieved with twocolour artwork. Worthy of mention is that these releases come shrink wrapped with a on a sticker holding the artist information and bar code. This leaves the slip case free of the usual graphic intrusions and the dilemma of what to do with the bar code. Non Prophets Hope (Lex 2003) Format: CD Designer: eh? Like DM & Jemini, this CD comes in a card slip case with gatefold insert. Anything would look subdued in comparison to that release, but this is another highly detailed and visually absorbing sleeve. The embossing is restricted to the front cover here, this time it picks out the detail in a kind of gothic graff illustration of Christ being crucified on a ship’s anchor, surrounded by what could be mutated cog wheels. Beyond that, stars shoot out from the elaborate centrepiece. The finely detailed emboss is exaggerated by the skilful use of a gloss varnish on the unembossed portions. A characteristic contrast with this graphic finery appears in the remainder of the cover illustration and its soft pencil/charcoal textures. The hand-drawn type on the back references ornate manuscripts, completing the updated gothic aesthetic which suits Sage Francis’ raw and unapologetic confessional lyrics. The inner gatefold displays a more thoroughly contemporary abstract form before opening to reveal some lo-fi blackletter hand lettering, all in black and white. The inner and outer sleeves don’t quite hold together as well as “Ghetto Pop Life” and there is a lack of sophistication in the typography, particularly some awkward line returns but that’s like saying you don’t like the seat fabric on your Porsche 911. Jonathan Wolf and Andrew Broder Hymie’s Basement (Lex 2003) Format: CD Designer: burlesque design / eh? Yup, another card slip case and gatefold. Totally contrasting graphic style this time, perhaps because the initial layout was by someone else. It’s still a nice job, with a studied lo-fi feel. Angled black and white images with ripped edges are overlaid with squared-off areas of spot varnish on both the outer and inner sleeves, a nice touch being that the spot varnishes on the inner sleeve image are “ripped.” All over the artwork are red pen marks and my overactive imagination suggests that it is a dismissive comment on the original art by the people ar Eh? but that’s most likely crap. Anyway, the red pen is where the deboss comes in. All these red pen marks have been indented, creating a very convincing trompe l’oeil – it really does look as if the artwork has been crossed through. Detail of the Hymie’s Basement release See cyclicdefrost.com for a more comprehensive overview of embossing – including releases by Durutti Column, Ultravox and Muslimgauze. 40 one every d n a , lf ith ourse cut w rive y d o t n ords. g a rnin s rec a you c k le c o e il insan d Gold else, kin an s t il t els Rump S C I S Y H P S CV I S U M ECTS SEL YS ALWA E NOT ORE ’R Y M E , N TH ECTIO AND , N S N . E O AL C YSICS EIR LIV OTION VS PH ED TH M IC G E S N N U A A CH RE M AKES THAT FEATU SIC M RDS E WE E MU U RECO L S B L IS A IA C EMOR ’. THIS E SPE OST M SP EFFECT THOS HAS D THE M E . T N S O O G Y ON R A ‘H EVER AGE S EAT’ O TEEN 3RD DEK’S SELECTION OPE B ‘D JUST A The Beatles JUST THAN Abbey Road (Capitol, 1969) Age 0-5 Music vs Physics have strode an idiosyncratic path Let’s start at the beginning. This album is the soundtrack for the earliest memories I have. It got some throughout their career. Beginning with one of the serious airtime in my childhood, I’m unsung gems of the late ‘90s in their instrumental half-convinced my dad must have listened to it three debut Northside Perspective, they have since times a day for five years or something. I’m pretty added live drums and vocals – along the way sure this was the music that introduced me to music. developing a versatile live show that fills dance- floors as much as it fills minds. Though firmly grounded in hiphop, they manage to steer clear of the cliches of the genre merely by being themselves, which is refreshing – especially when it results in something like 3rd Dek’s (production/ rhymes and scratching) prediliction for using a custom-made mouse rather than a crossfader to scratch. They also figured prominently in the Symbiotic System’s compilation Ants Farm Aphids, which was one of the highlights of 2003. The Smiths The Queen Is Dead (Warner, 1986) Age 11 One day my older brother returned home with this album and the rest of us had copies in a week. Up until this point my music collection pretty much consisted of cassette recordings I had taped off SAFM: ‘Hits of ‘84’, ‘Pop Charts of ‘85’, and ‘PrePackaged This Is The Music You Like of ‘86’. This album sent me down the path of listening to music that I guess would be dubbed ‘alternative’, and led me to discovering a whole cache of music I probably would have never found. Sonic Youth Goo (Geffen, 1990) Age 14 The first time I heard someone making giant racecar sounds on a guitar I knew I wanted to make music. Unfortunately I lacked the guitars and amps, but there was something about this album that told me it didn’t matter. After messing around with tape experiments and microphone feedback for awhile I realised it probably did matter, but at least the seed had been planted. A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders (Jive, 1993) Age 16 I had been listening to a bit of hiphop for a few years but this was the first hiphop album I ever bought. It defines the crossover from guitars to samples for me. The simplicity of hiphop production opened my eyes up. I learnt a hell of a lot about production from cutting this album to pieces on my parents’ computer. Soon after this I hooked up with some producers in Adelaide and got introduced to my first ever sampler. Tha Lumbajak Blue Ox Breaks (Bombay, early 90s) Age 18 This record was my first battle album. As an aspiring young turntablist, it felt good to finally get my hands on that all important ‘Ahhh this stuff is really fresh’ sample. Up until this point I had been using spoken word albums (mainly old children’s storybook albums) and you can drive yourself, and everyone else, insane learning to cut with Rumpelstiltskin and Goldilocks. Although I can’t remember a single break on this album, I can recite every single sound in the last centimetre of both sides. Brains are weird. BEATRIX’S SELECTION Neil Young Harvest (Warner, 1972) When I was ten I stumbled across a dusty turntable in the garage. I set it up in my bedroom and was eager to test it out. As I had no records of my own I had to settle with my dad’s collection, which included Harvest by Neil Young. I instantly fell in love with his voice, lyrics and guitar. I would lock myself in my room for hours and sing along to ‘Heart Of Gold’. This experience not only prompted me to get an acoustic guitar but also helped me discover my love for vinyl. Billie Holiday Greatest Hits (Sony, 1998) Billie Holiday’s voice blows me away when ever I hear it. Her voice is like a free-flowing spirit with no constraints. The combination of Billie’s textured voice, the instruments and record crackle all meld together like a sweet humming horn. Billie’s live recording of ‘Solitude’ with her orchestra is by far my most favourite song. If you’re feeling lonely, Billie’s crooning soothes your soul and makes you revel in your lonesome mood. Billy made me realise that there is a lot more to singing than just being in tune. Nevermind Nirvana (Geffen, 1991) Nirvana was my introduction to grunge music. Kurt Cobain’s simple chord changes and melancholic vocals really touched a spot in my cynical teenage heart. Nirvana made me realise that simple songs can be just as striking as complex compositions. When I was 14 I went to the all ages Nirvana gig in Melbourne. As you could expect, I got trampled in the moshpit, but luckily a kind bouncer let me and my friend hangout sidestage. From this close angle we saw a big trucker dude throw a can of beer at Kurt’s head, he didn’t even flinch! God Speed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O (Constellation Records, 2002) This album is like a big, grey, ominous orchestral storm slowly marching towards a tranquil blue sky, and at times covering it completely with heartstomping thunderous sheets of melodic noise. The slow haunting builds and monstrous crescendos make this album ideal for those times you feel like being engaged in your deepest darkest thoughts. All of GSYBE albums are extraordinary and I find them most effective when played really, really loud! LALI PUNA Faking The Books Adored by Radiohead. Pop with distorted guitars and distinct, beautiful electronic compositions and of course Valerie Trebeljahr’s amazing vocals. Includes members from The Notwist, Tied And Tickled Trio and Console “A divine rock-techno marriage, progressive electronics and new wave melodies powered by drone jazz gusto and motorik propulsion.” SPIN The Morr Music label // Distributed by Buck 65 Man Overboard (Anticon, 2001) This album has probably influenced me more than any other hip hop album. Buck 65 has the ability to fuse hip hop with country, folk, heavy metal, blues, etc. Buck 65 has proved without a doubt that hip hop has evolved into a genre that can encompass any kind of music. His husky, old man, narrative, rapping style sets my mind a wandering. Has anyone noticed how similar Buck 65’s voice is to Jim Henson’s ‘Rolf the dog’ voice from The Muppets? Music Vs Physics’s new 12" is reviewed in web version of issue 8 see cyclicdefrost.com. Underscore is available now on Sensory Projects through Inertia ISAN Meet Next Life Wonderful melodies and soft rhythms to transport you to far-off and imaginary landscapes. The sounds of glockenspiels, guitars, percussion and an aged drum computer – this is dreamy. “All twelve pieces are exquisite jewels. Time stops when you put this on.” WWW.PITCHFORKMEDIA.COM MAN’S BEST FRIEND The New Human is Illegal Sole of Anticon’s political, lo-fi side project. Shitty guitars run through broken reel to reels, rusted keyboards and over-compressed radioshack mics. “...angry, often hilarious attacks on this bullshit country over beats and loops that sound like Portishead” ROLLING STONE (US) DEA R A REG U Dear Degrassi, I’m planning a holiday away soon. Do you have any ideas of where I should go? Wandering Star I can help you get away from it all whilst catering to your need for lashings of pop culture. However, since you didn’t specify your budget or your level of comfort, I’ll provide you with a number of different options catering for the backpacker and 5-star Princess alike. If you’re looking for a cheap but cheerful Meccalike pilgrimage across the United States of War Mongers, what better way to do it than following the steps of Danielsan aka the Karate Kid? Yes, this a bit of a pick-your-own-adventure style holiday where you won’t have to put up with a tour guide, but that also makes it free… ish. It looks as if I’ve found someone who has out-Degrassied me – there is a website dedicated to The Karate Kid which shows a monumental surplus of time and an unhealthy (even by my standards) interest in the first two Karate Kid films. Don’t believe me? See for yourself at www.fast-rewind.com/kkid. Golf n’ Stuff… it’s all there! To convey the feeling that Danielsan was not from an upper-middle class Country Club kinda family, the director insisted on using real locations and didn’t make too many alterations to them either. As a result, you’re more likely to see more of the locations from the Karate Kid films than just about any other film, since most are filmed on sound stages that are disassembled once the film wraps. Unfortunately the plague of mega-mall homogenisation has led to a number of these sacred sites being but a memory etched in cyberspace by über-nerds. DE G R LAR D OSE O F IRR EGU Still, LAR P OP if your up for a cross-country drive, with very little to amuse you along the way, then this could be the holiday for you. If donning some lederhosen is more your kind of thing, then join me in Salzburg, Austria, for a reimagining of The Sound of Music. I’ve never made any secret of my love for Maria Von Trapp, and I will refuse to make any apologies for it. Although I’ve not yet made it on to the tour, it is definitely on the top 100 things I’ll do once I turn 30. Like karaoke, I imagine that it would be a judicious move to pack at least one hip flask of grandfather port for each hour of the tour (that’s four per person) because it’s always more fun to belt out off-key Broadway tunes when you’re absolutely shit-faced. But if that’s a little out of your price range, how about getting uninhibitedly naked bar a pair of hiking boots and visiting www.foxhome.com/soundofmusic? (By the way – remember that late ‘70s Spider-man TV show with really dodgy special effects because they superimposed video and film? Well the man in the red tights was none other than spunky Friedrich Von Trapp. Oh, and Louisa Von Trapp posed nude for Playboy years after TSOM.) Truly, any trip to the west coast of the States that doesn’t include a day dedicated to The Dirty Harry Tour of San Francisco (www.movietours.com/harry), is a trip wasted! Harry Callaghan was the baddest, meanest, and dare I say it, hunkiest cop to ever enforce the law on the streets of ‘Frisco. If you haven’t already seen Dirty Harry steer clear of me when you see me in public, but also, make sure that you view it in its historical context. It devised the template for films such as Die Hard 3 in much the same way that Play Misty for Me pre-dated Fatal Attraction by more than a decade. So while you’re in the approximate vicinity, you’d be a fool or just a plain ol’ Clint-hater if you don’t also take in The Play Misty for Me Tour of the Monterey Peninsular (www.movietours.com/misty). If you think Ken ASSI CULT URE Sherry and Richard Mercer are originals, they ain’t got nothin’ on Clint’s DJ Dave Garver who brings his late night jazz lovers ‘a little bit of song and a little bit of verse’. Chicken delight! If the idea of jumping into a minibus with a bunch of strangers and some guide who appears to have taken a near fatal dose of Marcia Hines’ Own anti-depressants makes you retch, then step with me, away from the bucket, towards www.famouslocations.com for a more DIY approach. Sure, you have to do all the legwork yourself, but that also means you can tailor it to your means. The locations can be somewhat vague, however when an address is available, they deliver. Since I was already in the Bay Area I investigated another of my favourite films, Hitchcock’s 1958 masterpiece, Vertigo. Of course since the film has been ‘paid tribute to’ so many times in films such as Dressed to Kill and the mini-series, Tales of the City, even those who haven’t seen the original will recognise most of the landmarks. You’d be surprised to find where some of your favourite flicks have been filmed. Alas, the website is not so all encompassing as to include a DIY guide to the best adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey thus far (apologies to the Cohen boys, yours is a close second), The Warriors. And extensive searches for any enterprising Brooklyn locals have also proved fruitless. So I implore any NY natives that somehow read this zine to rectify this situation, post haste. 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