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2003 |
Perilous 654 This is the last Perilous column for a while that will be from Australia. My other entity, Sub Bass Snarl are off to play shows in Japan before heading to North America and Europe. I’ll be reporting the travels in the next few columns starting with a missive from my favourite global city, Tokyo, next. In Japan we are hooking up with Beam Up, former player in Melbourne’s High Pass Filter who has been living in Osaka for two years now. The Osaka music scene has built from its noise past and there are still lots of small events happening around the place. In Tokyo there are also lots of small events although it is rare for anyone to be surviving as an artist alone outside of the cheesy commercial nights. Although Japan may be big, this has tended to mean that there are just lots more little scenes, not necessarily bigger underground scenes. After Japan I will be reporting from the Mutek festival in Canada where I am part of the ‘professionals’ section doing various panels and the like. Mutek is probably the best known event outside of Sonar and this years brings fellow Australians Oren Ambarchi and Martin Ng to Montreal to perform alongside people like Pole, Telefon Tel Aviv, Sixtoo, Senor Coconut with full band, and the lunar-obsessed seminal drone experimentalists Coil. Mutek has a full programme of events from daytime experimental electronic art music performances to night time techno events including a Ritchie Hawtin premiere of some new mutli-person collaborative performance. Later weeks will cover Barcelona’s Sonar Festival, in its 10th year and with an enormous line up from Bjork to Anticon, Jaga Jazzist to Herbert’s new big band project and the Soft Pink Truth; and then London’s Cybersonica with The Bug, DJ/Rupture, Burnt Friedman, Susumu Yokota and a wealth of new media and digital art workshops. Back home though, the next two months have some exciting things from the big (Grandmaster Flash) to the smaller (Kid606). Rok Postya, the bass player from The Herd is guest programming Frigid with Sir Robbo whilst we are away and he is bringing a swag of folk from interstate including Adelaide’s Mixertap, Melbourne’s Pretty Boy Crossover and their Other People’s Children side-project, and also a whole crew from the Symbiotic label who you might have read about in this column a month or so back with their fantastic compilation Ants Farm Aphids. Elsewhere people have started to get used to the winter chill so you can expect for many clubs to start picking up again after a comparatively slow summer. Things are also coming together for this years This Is Not Art Festival in Newcastle in October (2-6). Electrofringe is back with new coordinators and this years’ Sound Summit promises a bigger and better hip hop focus, more production and performance workshops, and the whole of This Is Not Art will have an improved selection of live shows. And there are sure to be some international surprises. Keep an eye on www.thisisnot.art.org and www.soundsummit.org for information and don’t forget to book your accommodation early. Yellow Peril (www.snarl.org)  Goto
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