Alps Alps, also known as Alps of New South Wales and Alps of New South Whales, plays songs on dated keyboards, tapes, pedals and junk. Alps [caption id="attachment_423" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="Aoi"][/caption] Aoi Tracing an arc of dusty chopped samples into a texta mess of headnod drum patterns, Aoi has been producing primitive abstract instrumentals since late 2007. Aoi Blastcorp Devoted Monome user, harpist, music event orgainiser type guy and computer nerd based in sunny Darwin, NT. Likes savoury shapes. And cereal. Blastcorp Brutal Hate Mosh Brutal Hate Mosh uses simplistic and repetitive musical patterns; beats; experimental means of producing sound; multi-tracking; and multiple harmonies. Brutal Hate Mosh Castings Castings are a quintet of improvisers. Our music dosn’t have title, it’s five people in a room attempting to communicate with each other – and hopefully others too….an ode to mistakes that often turn good. Castings Cleptoclectics Cleptoclectics samples things, plays various instruments, and granulates: to create dense, idiosyncratic music. He doesn’t mind when people think he’s a band. Cleptoclectics Crab Smasher Crab Smasher are a NSW based group of improvisational sound sharks crafting a frenzied hodgepodge of weirdo psychedelic noise rock and experimental pop delicious. Crab Smasher
DJ Ripley As DJ Ripley, Larisa Mann has been tearing up dancefloors, warehouses, and art spaces for 12 years, unseating musical and social preconceptions, and building audiences into ass-shaking monuments. DJ Ripley Dot.AY Alex Yabsley aka Dot.AY is a musician and researcher who focuses on low-tech electronic music creation and performance and is working to solidify the Australian Chipmusic scene. Dot.AY Ducktails Ducktails is the brainchild of Matt Mondanile. It’s a tropical pop collage mega jam. Ducktails Faux Pas In a technicolor collision of melody and rhythm, Melbourne’s Tim Shiel crafts a kind of psychedelic dance music that blindly follows its own warped internal logic. Faux Pas Free Choice Duo Analog electronic music made by Jarrod Zlatic (Fabulous Diamonds) & Jessica McElhinney. Long songs for good times. Melodic & Mechanical. Rhythymic & repetitive. Free Choice Duo Gabberobix DO U WANT TO BE A WINNER OR A WEINER? DON’T CHOOSE! GABBEROBIX CHANGES LIVES THRU THE POWER OF TECHNO AND FIERCE SPORTSMOVES. WITNESS THE FITNESS. Go Genre Everything Complex Sonic Experiment voicing a myriad of environments, traversing and exploring function and situation, form, void and meaning. An organic system, made nearly entirely from human beings. Go Genre Everything Gugg A collaboration between Alex Vivian (Always) and Christopher L G Hill (Moffarfarrah), Gugg is Bosten Celtics leprachaun lemmings trudge through big beats, all part of a f’n GUGG Life! Gugg Always Moffarafarrah Guy Blackman Guy Blackman is a musician, music journalist, and since 1992 the head of one of Australia’s longest-running independent record labels, Chapter Music. Guy Blackman Chapter Music The Age Holy Balm Holy Balm are a three piece psychedelic dance jam Holy Balm Ivan Lisyak Ivan Lisyak is an Electronic artist/ Musician from Sydney. Ivan is involved in many projects including being a member of indie soul group the paper scissors and New Wave sludge core duo Machine Death. Ivan Lisyak kyü kyü are a new experimental pop duo from Sydney comprising Alyx Dennison and Freya Berkhout, describing their sound as “a tea party with Beethoven, Bowie, Björk and a Banshee”. kyü Lucia Draft Quirky bedroom storyteller, Lucia Draft crafts delicate and whimsical multi-instrumental melodious drafts for skeletons and scumbags. Lucia Draft Moonmilk Moonmilk create fragile and physical sound worlds. The duo combine elements of pop music and spontaneous composition with a healthy dose of technology talking to itself. Moonmilk Polyfox and the Union of the Most Ghosts A fox wanders into a grey forest, the grey forest inspires in the fox heart the polychameleon elements of its fox circulatory system, lighting fires of forest greens through its fox fur. Polyfox and the Union of the Most Ghosts Pumice Its always a struggle. The instruments are wearing out, the guitar gets harder and harder to tune, the tape loops get sicker and the batteries get flatter, but Pumice perseveres. Pumice Pure Being Pure Being perform sonic absolutions in sheet-forts constructed to reflect the performance environment. They are interested in genuine expression, psychic balance, mystery and infinite love. Pure Being Qua Qua is Cornel Wilczek from Melbourne. Live he is joined by the fabulous James Cecil. With four albums and seven years of touring, Qua is a well-oiled, abstracted, electronic machine. Qua The Abyss The Abyss - Boot [Syd] & Sook [Rottun Records / Syd] The Abyss write music because they have to,  they seriously wouldn't know what to do with themselves if they didn't. No similes, allegories or waffling flowery  statements are needed to describe the sound: Badass teched out take your pants off dancefloor punk filth plain and simple! The majority of their sets are made of their own blend  of dubstep and drum'n'bass, influenced by everything from Konflict to Mike Patton, Excision to King Crimson, Parliament  to Propagandhi, The LHC to the Crab Nebula and back out the otherside and up the street for another bottle of vodka. Strap on your moonboots, it's time to spacewalk. Boot Sook

The Vivian Girls Part 1960s girl-group, fuzzy garage rock and post-punk with blasts of shoegaze + skuzzy DIY charm straight outta Brooklyn. The Vivian Girls
Tiny Vipers Tiny Vipers (Sub Pop) is Seattle’s Jesy Fortino, whose deep voice is accompanied by sparse yet deft acoustic guitar, with haunting melodies that lend from the avant-garde and the natural world. Tiny Vipers Sub Pop Toecutter The sun is going down on electronic music. As we enter into a new dark age where marksmanship and butchery are set to eclipse deft sampling and piss-take production, Toecutter turns a leaf by burning a book. Toecutter