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2003 |
Perilous 673 It pains me to write this, but all good things must come to an end. Or as famous 189h century anarchist, Mikhail Bakunin wrote “the passion for destruction is also a creative passion”. And it is time to destroy our creation. Frigid, the weekly electronic music Sunday nighter, is finally coming to an end on September 28. Its been seven crazy years since it opened at the ground floor of Kinselas back in July 1996. Then it was the Dendy in Martin Place, from 1997 to 1999, way before anyone thought the Dendy could be used as a venue, then the Newtown Globe, and most recently the Hopetoun Hotel in Surry Hills. Music has changed a lot in those years and Frigid played host to almost everyone who has played live electronic music or interesting hip hop in Sydney since 1996. Plus a stack of international acts from Squarepusher to Kodwo Eshun, Sutekh, Jan Jelinek, David Shea, Burnt Friedman and so many more. There were wild NYE parties too, and some very crazy times indeed that granchildren will hear of in wistful fireside stories. But in 2003, Frigid has outlived its relevance. Live electronic music and leftfield hip hop may still need a home but at least for a little while, that is someone else’s business. The last Frigid will feature Sub Bass Snarl, Ollo, Prince Valium (of The Herd) and Clark Nova for one final downtempo mashup of old favourites and new necessities. In October you’ll have to find somewhere else to go. Somewhere else to hear good music on Sunday night. Maybe that place is at home with your ear tuned to FBI or 2SER., and your eyes reading a copy of Cyclic Defrost. Something new will start at the Hopetoun in November on Sundays which may feature some of the people you have known from Frigid over the years, but you’ll have to wait and see. Otherwise, go forth and make your own musical culture. Make it grow strong, and make it grow beyond the boundaries of your own ‘scene’. More happily, Sound Summit is here. Eleven workshops are being held in the Newcastle Workers Club over three days of the long weekend October (3,4,5). There are workshops with some of Australia’s most knowledgeable and interesting producers and label people covering the basics of being either a self-releasing electronic musician or running an independent label through to royalties, licensing tracks to other labels and compilations, and assembling proper budgets for putting out albums. On the production side of things there is a mass cipher/freestyle session planned led by 8 well known MCs, beat production and creative sampling, and also sessions on software synthesis and sorting out a good live performance. Each workshop this year is $5. And the internationals locked in now are ComA (Tigerbeat6), Sutekh (Context), Dabrye (Eastern Developments), Machine Drum (Merck) as well as the inventor of a three armed turntable, Janek Schaefer (Fat Cat) who will be working with New York’s DJ Olive (theAgriculture). More at www.soundsummit.org. If you cannot make the Newcastle shows then there will be two very limited capacity nights at the Sydney Opera House with one-off collaborations and improvisations between these acts and local artists on October 11 & 12. Yellow Peril (www.snarl.org)  Goto
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