15 ACTS!! With Loud Sounds from 7 pm - 1 am across two rooms:
XYLOCAINE
Not to be confused with a brand of lidocaine, Xylocaine has produced experimental hardcore, speedcore, and “Other” in the electronic music scenes. He was a founding member of the hardcore trio Nasenbluten. Xylocaine is known for intense, chaotic, and aggressive audio collages. Tracks have been built using old Amiga computers, PCs, Samplers, Trackers, found objects, occult electronics, wooden implements, cask wine and the power of friendship. Also, the music contains lots of obscure samples. Key releases include the Cluster Bombs 12″, Trusted Experts EP, and Stoma Care. He has also recorded under the alias’ Data and Exmah and founded the dEAdGirL (Dead Girl) record label. Xylocaine frequently released material through Australian hardcore institutions like Bloody Fist Records and Ir77.
HEDONIST
*Read the text carefully and circle the correct answers. Your time starts…
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Croy Broodfood is a [wholefoods / breakcore / folk] producer who uses [dowsing / memory distortion / trackers] to create [repetitive / boring / formulaic] music which you may find difficult to erase from your [profile / memory / subconscious]. He has [remixed / relieved / ripped off] the likes of Toy Death, Luna-C, BAYANG (tha Bushranger) and Nasenbluten.
Also [runs / watches / ignores] Speedcomp, a fast-paced online [challenge / ordeal / séance] where producers across the globe [fabricate / falsify / create] tracks from ten shared samples in just 30 [years / minutes / seconds]. Croy Broodfood will also attempt to [hypnotise / explain / absolve] anyone interested via a music production workshop focused on trackers and other arcane ways of making music.
NETAS
Legendary pilot of the Brown Thunder, Netas is a stalwart of the Newcastle Hardcore scene. Playing and releasing music alongside other Bloody Fist acts, Netas’ music is known for abrasive breaks, grating and hilarious samples and kicks that hit like a punch in the gut. Getting punters up and bouncing about the bar since the 90s, Netas usually appears with a laptop, a schooner and a grin that’s more infectious than any plague.
SUB_URBANE
sub_urbane is a charismatic but deeply flawed 1952 New Your City shoe salesman and aspiring professional table tennis player. Driven by relentless ambition, sub_urbane steals money to fund its trip to 1930s Chicago to seek the aid of Dr. Euphronius in creating a companion for itself from the reinvigorated corpse of a murdered young woman. As the new creation goes far beyond what anyone intended, sub_urbane must navigate a chaotic web of reckless hustles, a combustible romance, the attention of the police, and a wild, radical social movement with severe personal consequences. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 57% of 328 critics’ reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.8/10. The website’s consensus reads: “Concocted with all the restraint of a mad scientist’s experiment, sub_urbane serves up Timothée Chalamet in so many different creative directions that the overall effect is both sloppy and inspired”. sub_urbane is also a well-known Polka fancier and president of the Mayfield West chapter of the Britney Spears Fanclub.
MIDSIZEDSEDANCE
Midsizedsedance heavy gabber and hardcore, produced on a Gameboy using LSDJ and a four channel Tracker.
CRYPTIC BOX
SHIFT DECIMAL
An attendee of Spidergrind 8 in 2004, Shift Decimal has spent decades engrossed in noise welding and freeform audio collage. A staunch pirate of audio, Shift Decimal produces a plunderphonic racket of drones, sheets of noise, stolen dialogue and other bits and pieces of copyright antagonisation. Armed with a background playing unruly clamour in obnoxious bands, as well as hosting Speedcomp and Thematics Radio, Shift Decimal aims to recontextualise and manipulate their own music collection to bring forth a new and unsettling experience to soothe and darken the soul.
DFO : BAD
Melodic underground emocore legend circa 2006 on the scene. Hell bent on using equipment wrong and trackers well across many antiquated platforms. Aspiring ambient junglist. Hates long walks.
P3TER
Hi, my name is Peter and I’m looking for love and companionship. My interests include long romantic beach walks, going to the movies, thinking about stuff ,reading books, visiting the local zoo and having candle lit dinners . I also have a penchant for extremely inane, repetitive and loud kikdrum based music from the 90s that no one likes .Hope to meet you soon.
HISS
sounds produced over time, using light, heat and thrumming energies of a dubious origin.
TEMPEST
Owner of Swiss label Subvert Records, Tempest hails from Solothurn and is known for industrial hardcore and speedcore made using trackers and other outdated methods. Expect fast paced kick drums, the noise of broken machines and someone behind the laptop screen pressing play and looking busy.
BMX JOE
BMX Joe has been DJ’ing for more than 30 years playing jungle, hardcore, breakcore and also riding BMX bikes. BMX Joe has hosted radio shows including the Raveyard Shift and Darkside Farmers sample spotting show on 2RRR in Sydney. Has also played events such as Children of the Hardcore, Ruffage, Noisefloor and many a Blue Mountains Breakcore Party. Expect a proper vinyl set mixed by hand with loving care from an understated bloke wearing a baseball cap who shrugs off limelight and obsesses over music.
NYX
Nyx brings a new wave of Electronic Hardcore taking inspiration from iconic sounds such as “Aphex Twin” and Newy legends “Syndicate” mending them with metal rhythms and progressions. Nyx aims to bring the euphoric, freeing and soul liberating music which is Electronic Hardcore to the newer generation while staying true to the classic Hardcore style.
SPIDERGRIND
Constructed in and around 1997, The Spider is an occasional musical instrument that is played by holding a largeish angle grinder against the faceplate. The act of playing the spider is called a “Spidergrind”. Spidergrind occurred once each year from 1997 to 2004 (inclusive), with each occurance lasting until Huck’s arms got shaky and he had to stop so he didn’t lop off a vital human appendage (it’s usually about three to five minutes). The spider has decided it needs to be played again, so this will happen on the bowling green, sometime in the evening. It will be loud. There will be sparks. Then, back to dancing!
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