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2001 |
Perilous 568 Interested in being up close and hearing the dub production techniques of Mad Professor, or doing a laptop production workshop with some of Australia’s finest laptop producers? Or a rhyming session with Dose One and Sole from Anticon? There’s all of this and a stack more about to happen at Sound Summit in Newcastle in just under 6 weeks. Sound Summit 2001 began life last year as the National Independent Electronic Labels Conference. Dropping the rather unwieldy name and expanding in scope to include a raft of internationals, Sound Summit 2001 has several key objectives. Primarily Sound Summit is about building networks – networks between artists, between labels, and between cities and states. Bringing well over 150 independent hip hop and electronic labels from around Australia together in the one city for five intensive days of forums and hands-on workshops covering everything from production to record distribution and promotion, Sound Summit acts as a giant hotspot of creative ideas, approaches and musical diversity. Sound Summit is also about performances and each night several different venues around Newcastle will host showcase events – last year 140 acts played over 4 nights, this year the figure will be even higher. The full list of Sound Summit internationals now includes Belgian improv sampler and film scorer David Shea; dub technician Mad Professor; Dave Cawley and Dave Howell from London label Fat Cat Records; Dose One, Sole and Jel from West Coast avant-hip hop collective Anticon; seminal American laptop producer and music reviewer Hrvatski; Taiwanese trance musician and former power rocker Jimi Chen; editor of UK music magazine The Wire, Rob Young; Chris Chetland from Auckland collective Kog Transmissions; Stinky Jim from NZ radio bFM; and Irene Chan who runs Flavour Distribution in NZ. Because Sound Summit is but one of four concurrent events happening in Newcastle at the same time under the banner of This Is Not Art, the streets of Newcastle overflow with craziness. Electrofringe, the long running new media and digital art festival, has several international speakers this year as well including video/sound artist People Like Us, Irene Moon, Steve Hise from Detritus.Net and several other activists working in the fields of Copyright infringement and cultural sampling. The National Young Writers Festival also adds to the mix a vast number of zine makers and cultural theorists from around the country. All this will make Newcastle the place to be over the September long weekend. For more information check out www.soundsummit.org and www.thisisnotart.org. All the night time gigs are low priced and each night from Thursday to Monday you’ll have a wealth of options to choose from. Electrofringe and the Young Writers Festival are largely free to attend bar a few low cost sessions with international speakers while Sound Summit costs $33 to register for the Wednesday to Sunday sessions all inclusive. All this makes for an exciting two month period at Frigid as well. Next week we have Rephrase, a crew comprising members of the Hipo crew, db Chills and DJ Mr King from UK’s Grand Central label. Rephrase will drop two different sets. September 9 features two vocal outfits, Weizen Ho’s TUFA and Amba. Upstairs, The Ollo Experience continue their eclectic mixes prior to their departure for Europe in late September. Yellow Peril  Goto
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