December 2005 Events:
Richard Divine
Signal in conjunction with Black Lotus is proud to present Richard Devine (live)!!!
Venue: Upstairs @ the Mercat Cross, 456 Queen St, Melb. near Vic Market
Tickets: $15
Time: 10pm - 5am
RICHARD DEVINE: Richard Devine is at the cutting edge of new edge of sound design and musical composition. During the past three years, Richard Devine has remixed top Warp artists like Aphex Twin and Mike Patton (Faith No More). He has released 4 full-length albums on Schematic, Warp, Asphodel, and Sublight records and has performed his own ear-tearing music mayhem worldwide. Based in Atlanta, Georgia he has done film score work for Touchstone Pictures (with John Hues & Kyle Cooper), Wieden & Kennedy, AKQA Inc., and has done sound mangling/programming for Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. He is currently doing sound design for Sony Play station PS3 (Infected) for Dawn of the Dead and recently completed all the sound design for the new xbox360. http://www.xbox360.com
In conjunction with TV and film work Richard also has done programming and sound design work with major audio companies. His work has been featured on new software and hardware titles from many innovative companies such as Native Instruments, Korg, Clavia Nord, Alesis, Ableton Live, Apple Computers, Openlabs, Universal Audio, Hartmann Neuron synthesizers, Stanton Magnetics DJ Company, and M-Audio Division.
“Musically he masterfully orchestrates a titanic array of rapidly moving information, cleverly channelling it into an organized stream of sound. There are seemingly endless layers of rhythms, spanning every notch of frequency, spiralling around one another like complex DNA strands hinged together in a grid-like lattice. Never competing, never repeating the same phrase. The result is amazement, awe. The human mind can only process so much information at one time. Devine knows this well, it is one of his sonic weapons. It is a lot like optic art, when the eyes are fed too much data and the overload produces a prismatic, entrancing effect. "Entrancing" is not the word you would think to apply towards music whose elements rarely repeat themselves, but the groove is there, like a strange, mechanical funk music, and everything else revolves around it. Like a million minuscule sounds, obediently marching to the cadence of a heavy step. The music is in the beat itself. It is "funk for robots", a broken and restructured music. Mathematically reconstructed with futuristic tools, conceived by a highly evolved mind. For this, Richard Devine has become something of a hero to the overqualified working underclass, because he shows us a glimpse of a world where those with technological skills rule.” From Warp Bio. www.warp-net.com
"Richard Devine is generating the same kind of excitement that Slayer did in the early 1980’s" - Spex Magazine, Germany
Official site:www.richard-devine.com | www.myspace.com/richarddevine
Also playing on the night will be:
AI YAMAMOTO - based in Melbourne since 1999, Ai's music style varies from soft melodic and shimmering abstract melodies to dark explosive tones. Her main area of interest is the dramatic structure and flow of music. Gentle melodies with abstract texture bring atmospheric soundscape in her compositions. She has been working on industrial abstract hip hop music with Adam Gauci (Curse ov dialect) and abstract drone electronica with Lawrence English (Room40). She currently presents Tokyo to Thailand and Beyond Borders of SBS National Radio Australia. http://www.sbs.com.au/alchemy/index.php
ANUBIS COMPLEX - from the renowned WA electronica collective Graylands. Performing live his rich atmospheric productions & micro cosmic cadences in a truly unique manner. Fusing dark and meticulous soundscapes with crisp brooding patterns & breaks in a highly imaginative way. www.graylands.com
VIRIDIAN - you may remember from classic Melbourne parties like War of the Worlds, Hardware, Two Tribes and other raves in the early 90s. He’s taken a five-year absence from the music world to develop skills necessary to customize the cult computer application – Pure Data (the original version of Max/Msp, the infamous program used by Autechre and Richard Devine, of course). Viridian will be performing digitally live synthesis with all customized instruments and no vst or other commercially available synthesizers or effects.
REKA - Melbourne based producer & performer that has been gathering quite a reputation for his unique sounds. His unconventional performances and lack of borders mesh noise, country & techno with dark ambience in a way unlike all others
MALADROIT - Sydney’s legendary System Corrupt creates a whole new meaning for soundclash. Fusing post apocalyptic jungle riddims with the debris of popular culture to create an impressive arsenal of hybrid tracks to rip up any dancefloor. With both local & international releases on System Corrupt, Cortex, Bruchstellen, V/vm test and GPFS.
XIAN - The alter ego of Christian Bishop who harbors a huge love for colorful breakcore, dark drum & bass, gritty old school hip hop, crusty grindcore, and Lovecraftian folk law, as well as any music or sound corrupted with forbidden frequencies and harmonic means. With local & international releases on Black Lotus, System Corrupt, Worm, Omeko & Mekobira.
& DJ's:
DAVE PHAM - He is one of those new school DJz who has achieved because he is not afraid to push boundaries in his quest for musical perfection. He is committed and determined - all the hallmarks for a future superstar. Melbourne is known for its quality in techno and if anything, here is a guy who raises the bar.
ARSE 'n' ALL - With a steady high protein diet of hip hop, pop mash up & abstracted breakcore riddims you gotta love it! After recently plundering the best record stores through Europe and Japan, Arse'n'all will be playing straight up good stompin breakcore from the worlds best artists.
JANETTE HOWARD - The neo-folk industrial Dj, 1 part metal shavings, 2 parts Pop corruption muddled with corrupted jazz on ice. " DJ Janette Howard a sonic provocateur if there ever was one...tests the boundaries of DJ culture with some really out there stuff... As always, she shows why she's starting an internal revolution..."
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Corndawg (usa) Toecutter, Main$tream, Killjoy, Drillbit, Passenger of Shit, Xian, Misconceptian, Janette Howard, Anoiysz, Zandor & Anti-Kati ripping it up for the Melbourne minimal. __________________________________________________
On Saturday January 29 2005, Black Lotus
Melbourne will be visiting Ballarat. We will be bringing with us
a number of Melbournes best electronic music artists, multimedia
artists and dj's for a one day event. We will begin in Ballarat at 12 midday in
an outdoor location for a bbq and beats (incl vegan food) Then
moving at 6pm Grainary Lane art Gallery in the centre of Ballarat
for a night of multimedia entertainment over two stages. The suggested donation entry to the event
at Grainary Lane is: $2, or $5 with an audio CD featuring Black
Lotus performers. Driving to Ballarat: Trains: Feburary 11 - GRINDCORE VS
BREAKCORE Febuary 12 - Breakcore gig at the
Bunker __________________________________________________
Mini-Fest 6-8 Jan 2005 all gigs are free entry but we will be running a donation tin at the bowls club to help cover p.a. costs 6th January Open 9pm-1am Dj's Morloch and Princo Vj's Rub & guests 7th January Open 6pm- late Vj's Emile & Jim Knox 8th January Open 9pm- very late Vj's Red Skull & guests
October 2005 Events:
GULPEPSH | DODDODO | OVE-NAXX
Black Lotus is proud to present Japans own purveyors of experimental electronics & acoustics - Ove-Naxx, Doddodo & Gulpepsh. And skips! Toecutter (system corrupt), Maladroit(system corrupt), Mute Freak, Xian & Djs Relationship, Anoiysz, Janette Howard, Arse'n'all, Misconceptian and visuals from Xonk. Friday October 14, 10pm @ Mercat Cross basement 456 Queen St Melb $8
whats better than having one member of the kansai electro noise bendcore underground tour australia This September/october? having all three!
prepare for the ONSLAUGHT of Nipponese terror-pop!
Gulpepsh - is quite simply the yamatsuka eye of beatboxing, his vocal styles are so complex he would make joel turner wish he called his band the modern day dipshits! you will not believe he is just a man with a microphone, vocal chords, oesophagus, tongue and lips!
Dododdo - delivers her own brand of kawai casio-spastic melodies interladen with hoe-down blip-gabber beats which beautifully balance Ove-Naxx's take on evolved post highly delirious bend electronica.
Ove-Naxx began his career playing impromptu gigs to passers by on the streets of New York. He soon decided to take things to the next level, playing one gig frozen in a block of ice and another balancing atop a forty-foot wooden pole. His next project was to perform live for forty-four days straight locked inside a glass box in London. What motivates him? Nobody really knows.
Ove Naxx will be showcasing his devastating audio barrage of jungle, heavy metal, video-game themes, and Japanese weirdness.
and also featuring on the night will be:
Toecutter – the 32 degree magus of the explicit house fraternity. Drops all the classic moves & grooves like they were babies.
Maladroit – Like a rave bust, rinsing dance-floors with an always-impressive arsenal of superior jungle disco fevers. Only for the nimble.
Mute Freak – presenting guerilla tech & metal as a sexy alternative to being thrown down a flight of stairs.
Xian – Dancehall, breakcore, drum & bass GI, juggling breaks & styles like they was flaming diesel chainsaws & little cats.
Arse'n'all – with a steady high protein diet of hip hop, pop mash up & abstracted breakcore riddims you gotta love it!
DJ Relationship – Saul from Killbot records always opening a can of fresh chunky breakcore on your ass.
Misconceptian - Teratology's cool-guy turntable vandal & scratch fiend.
Janette Howard – the neo-folk industrial Dj, 1 part metal shavings, 2 parts Pop corruption muddled with corrupted jazz on ice.
Anoiysz – Post apocalyptic abominatrix ready to go to town on your lobes.
July 2005 Events:
Black Lotus proudly presents the Liquid Architecture 6 afterparty at
Pony Bar on Wednesday the 6th of July.
featuring:
Autoclave - experimental noise (Syd)
Biffplex - Joe Musgrove - fat drones (Bris)
Scott Sinclair - guitar / laptop (Bris)
Justice Yeldham & the Dynamic Ribbon Device - glass noise (Syd/Bris)
dj Boredtotears - breakcore / noise turntablism
dj Arsecrack - no-fidelity plunderphonics
Entry is free and the night starts at 10pm (after the L.A. gig on that
night @ Kaleide RMIT Union Theatre RMIT) until 2am
@ Pony Bar, 69 Lt. Collins St. City
June 2005 Events:
Maladroit, The General, plus DJ's Anoiysz, Jeanette Howard, Xian etc
Ace Morning - 791 Sydney Rd, Brunswick
Saturday 16|04|05
BLACK LOTUS presents a huge night of brutal electronics featuring MALADROIT of Sydney’s System Corrupt with his blastcore arsenal of mid-nineties jungle breaks mashed with the debris of popular culture; THE GENERAL the mad tracker formerly known as The Pilfernators; along with Black Lotus residents XIAN: The maestro of high velocity romantic pop; ANOIYSZ: Dancefloor abominatrix and industrial sound murderer; and JEANETTE HOWARD: Breakcore diva 1pt Metal 2pts Pop Mutilation; plus KAOTIK and BREAKWHORE. SAT 16th April @ ACE MORNING, 791 Sydney Rd. Brunswick 10pm start, $5 Hardcore Breakcore Drill n Bass Industrial Noise Mayhem.
Maladroit, Ai & Raceless, Drex etc
Flagstaff Gardens Rotunder (near cnr LaTrobe &
Peel St. behind the Vic market)
Thursday 24|03|05
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hey kids there has been a slight change in the thursday night show.
Bourgie bar has closed indefinitley as of monday this week. it is
sad as we had a great month ahead of good shows etc. well was
getting sick of their hefty alcohol prices & nazi beer wench. but
the party goes on
This Thursday Black Lotus presents the show of shows of shows.
Maladroit (Sydney) drops the funk & rinses the breaks the only way
he can do. Cutting & mashing all things sacred he is back in town
for another assault on the dancelawn. Along with Ai Yamamoto &
Raceless joining forces to dissect electronic & hip hop
preconceptions. Drex (killbot records) meddles and experiments with
dark matter clusters as Dj Relationship test-drives his new name &
reassess tracker core jazz corruption. With Djs Wheelsfalloff,
Janette Howard & Grievous. Prepare for high velocity, left wing
dancelawn madness @ Flagstaff Gardens Rotunder (near cnr LaTrobe &
Peel St. behind the Vic market)u'll hear it!!! Start 8pm & goes
till they turn on the sprinklers, BYO piss & blankets, is free
MECHYA KUCHYA
397 LT LONSDALE STREET
Thursday March 3
2 PANTS ROTATION, MODULAR & 4 LAYERS OF 9 Live plus DJ Anoiysz
Black lotus presents MECHYA KUCHYA. On the first Thursday of every month at Bourgie
Bar 397 Lt lonsdale St. City. Scrambled electronica, broken beats & cheap Melb. longnecks.
If thats not enough then check the live sets from 2 PANTS ROTATION motion sickness
doing headspins on abrubtly halting bus-aisles. Whilist noisy r'n'b beats and stutter-hop
blows ear wax on your shirt collar. MODULAR (Graylands/WA) channels super smooth
rolling bass & crisp breaks muddled with 1/3 lime & melting melodies. 7 LAYERS OF 9
(QLD) plays unrepentant electro-glitch riddims mildly tossed with MC badness while Dj
ANOIYSZ (Black Lotus) the dancefloor abominatrix & sound murderer makes a mess of the
place. 9pm - 1 FREE
Friday February 11
(see below for Saturday 12th as well!)
TRA LA LA dancefloor apocalypse
Saturday February 12
goes 9pm till l8, its free. & @ Bunker, 407 Swanston St. Basement of the Druids House. Opp RMITBallarat - Grainary Lane
Saturday January 29
Leave Melbourne via the Western Freeway (M8) avoid Bacchus Marsh
at all costs and continue until you reach the Ballarat turnoff
approx1 - 1.5 hours from Melbourne.
Trains depart Spencer St Station to Ballarat: 8:10am - 11:37am -
then every 2 hours till 8:37pm. Trains back from Ballarat leave
around the same time the next morning. Train Costs: adult: $16.80
Conc. $8.40, each way. UPCOMING EVENTS:
Bourgie
397 Lt Lonsdale
a nite ov live acts feat;
Lucas Abela, Misanthrope, Das Butcher, Cambion, Anubis Complex, Drex, Anti-Kati and Ouch! new music, laboured so hard!
Lawn Bowls
Flagstaff Gardens lawn bowls club house
"nite bowling, bbq, beer (cheap) & eclectic beats n sounz" (bbq food is provided for a modest price) feat;
Misanthrope, Evil Penguin, John & Janette Howard, Mugwort Lycanthrope, Mute-Freak, Easy Sleeper, Keilor Downs, Foundation Stepper, the dj Misconceptian, Bek and Larissa
Bunker
407 Swanston St
brutal bangin' breakcore noise and stuff feat:
Misanthrope, Dysphemic, Rek, Arse’n’all, Arsecrack, Noistruct, tixEoN, Zandor, Breakwhore and Xian