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2001 |
Perilous 574 Big up to everyone who helped out with and took part in Sound Summit 2001 last week. It was a hectic week and hopefully everyone left with new knowledge, new friends, and a stack of new music. A lot of electronic heads were turned on to the diversity of hip hop and vice versa, and there seemed to be more than a little cross-pollination going on. Some described it as like ‘summer camp’, and there certainly was more than a little of that staying up late into the night and sneaking between rooms going on. Start making sure you’ve got holidays planned for next year so you can make it to Sound Summit 2002. Its already in the pipe. There’s a few internationals still hung over from Sound Summit still lurking here, so there is the final show of Anticon’s Australian tour at the Metro on Saturday night. Its $20 presale and features Dose, Sole and Jel joined by Reference Point, Dase Team 5000, Macross Matrix, 13th Son, Blaze and potentially some other special guests. Visuals are also on the cards with Cicada at the controls. If you caught Anticon in Newcastle or at the Sydney Opera House improv shows you’ll know to expect something unique. At the shows (and only at the shows), Anticon have been selling some pre-release CDs of forthcoming material including an early form of Sole’s next album Uckrt (Fuck Art), Jel’s instrumental collection Greenball, and the reissue of Dose One’s early work Hemispheres at low prices. Stealth Magazine has picked up distribution for the other Anticon and 6 Months material so you can expect a flurry of Anticon related material becoming more readily available around the stores. On the release front, keep your eyes peeled for two more instalments of melancholy end-of-the-world art rock from Godspeed You Black Emperor! side projects, A Silver Mt Zion and the newly formed Set Fire To Flames. The former returns with an 8 track second album on Constellation titled Born Into Trouble As The Sparks Fly Upwards which is more guitar heavy than its predecessor whilst still retaining the lonely string and piano orchestrations. The Set Fire To Flames album Sings Reign Rebuilder comes out on UK label (and recent visitors) Fat Cat next month on a more found sound and electronic tip, both projects drawing the two core elements of Godspeed, into new areas. If its time to retreat to your fallout bunker at anytime soon, then these are the perfect soundtrack. Over November expect Frigid shows from Tony Morley from Leaf UK; New York’s DJ Olive from We and collaborator with Ikue Mori and Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon amongst others; and a remarkable double header with Jan Jelinek (aka Farben) from Source Records together with Pan American. In the meantime, though, its Perth favourite’s and recent Marble Bar signatories Rhibosome dropping in for a live set on the 14th, followed by the launch of Beat & Squelch 4 for Dumphuck & Amnesty Intl on the 21st. Yellow Peril  Goto
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