DISCOBEANS MONDAY - 14/01/2013

We've got an arse-spankingly ripping line-up to start 2013, come on down!!

+ BINLINER (Album launch)
Binliner is the musical tag of Oskr Wyldkat. His love affair with electronic music stretches back more than a decade, through different cities and scenes that have since died out. He is therefore well primed to make some unconventional music. His first release is "fresh from the bin", from November 2012 on Hopskotch Records. Binliner draws influence from a wide array of sources - Warp Records, Bloody Fist,Kompakt, System Corrupt, DHR, Spiral Tribe, Clan Analogue, Oizo, Ed Banger, minimal, acid, jungle, grime, blah blah etc, just to name a few. However the music sits most comfortably in the field of glitch hop. Have a listen to the record, it's free.
http://hopskotch.bandcamp.com/album/fresh-from-the-bin
https://soundcloud.com/binliner/80beats-beyond-live-jam

+ BRUCE TIFFANY
One lady band of loops and keys singing songs of science.

+ WINDOWS 3.1
More bangin beats from Pure Hard Drance legends to set the dance floor on fire once again!

+ RICHIE CYNGLER
Richie Cyngler is an experimental audio interactionist. A modulator. A selector of fine frequencies. A synthetic painter of oscillations in time. An electrical tinkerer, instrument builder and glitchpop on the internet.
www.glitchpop.com

+ MUDDY LAWRENCE
The story of Noah's Ark.
http://muddylawrence.bandcamp.com/


Doors 7PM!!!
$5 entry
238 High St. Northcote

Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/events/327737430674206/

UMBILICAL TENTACLE - new live videos

Live @ Bendigo Hotel - 29/11/2012 - Thanks Bleeemo!!



Live @ Discobeans 03/12/2012 - Thanks Sloada Odour!!

FUCKED @ MIUC - 18/12/2012

This week at Make It Up Club: THE END (of this year's programming) and, if you believe those Nibiruists, one of your last chances to hear some killer improvised sounds before Melbourne is reduced to a smoldering wasteland. Accordingly, we've tried to cover many of our favourite facets of improvised music! Angus Leslie and Jenny Barnes tear away at the cultural implications of the masculine and feminine voice, respectively, to lay bare the decontextualised sonics of the human vocal cords - aided ably by bassist James Pankhurst as something-resembling-a-rhythm-section-to-hold-it-all-together. Two of our fine city's finest and well-defined guitar manipulators, Dave Brown and Gearoid Brinn, will be there as well to ensure you contemplate life, the sonoverse and everything before it all ends - aided, hindered and complicated by percussionist/stuff-hitter Sean Baxter as something-resembling-a-rhythm-section-to-ensure-nothing-crystallises-too-fully. And just in case your existential angst becomes overwhelming, FUCKED are always happy to lend a hand by smacking all conscious thought out of your head with Robbie Avenaim's hyperspeed blastbeats, dematerialising them with Lloyd Honeybrook's dense feedback frequencies and having Nik Kennedy scream at them as they rot on the floor, distracting and lulling you out of existence by means of noisecore.

- Sean Baxter (Percussion), Gearoid Brinn (Guitar) & Dave Brown (Guitar)

- Angus Leslie (Voice), James Pankhurst (Bass) & Jenny Barnes (Voice)

- FUCKED feat. Robbie Avenaim (Hellish Crossfire On Wooden Coffins), Nik Kennedy (Blastgargling) and Lloyd Honeybrook (Howls of the Feedbax)

8:30pm

$10 / $5 conc.
Bar Open
317 Brunswick St. Fitzroy

UMBILICAL TENTACLE @ GASOMETER - 08/12/2012

Internal Rot - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VrEWYysMfA

Umbilical Tentacle - http://letsnoise.blogspot.com.au/p/umbilical-tentacle.html

Headless Death - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPlL99JFGNc

Diploid - http://www.facebook.com/diploidmelb

Hans Harms - http://sbbtcl.bandcamp.com/track/sacrament

Gasometer
8pm
$10 Entry

http://www.facebook.com/events/464677816910389/

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Very excited for UxTx to be playing with some of Melbourne's finest grindcore bands!!

BATTLE OF THE ONE MAN BANDS @ Gasometer - 06/12/2012

"Voters will be given a blue sticker to place along side the name of the act they love most. There will be a longer revised list of names displayed in the venue on the night."

http://www.facebook.com/events/400732893329331/


A vote for Spasmoslop is a vote for poxy-drum-machine oral noise gurgle-rapping!!

Or just vote for Blarghstrad cause he's a fockin genius.

UMBILICAL TENTACLE @ DISCOBEANS MONDAY - 03/12/2012

UMBILICAL TENTACLE
Rambunctious moshgrindsurfpartynoisecore, dancefloor destroyers, manic mullets, cowbells and more!! With Yuka (vocals/electronics), Nik (vocals/instruments/electronics) and Brad (drums/hitting).
http://letsnoise.blogspot.com.au/p/umbilical-tentacle.html

TODD ANDERSON-KUNERT
Audiovisual doom, noise and drone.
http://www.toddanderson-kunert.com/

ZAC KEILLER
Zac Keiller seeks to discover new and unique sonic textures from one of the most overused and unimaginatively approached instruments in Western music: The guitar. The majority of his previous releases saw him working with ambient textures or electroacoustic improvisation. Whilst more recent efforts have seen him limiting the use of pedals, attempting to find a kind of transcendence through stark purity of tone, using the entire guitar, attempting to make it breathe with no smoothing out of the rough edges or slick over processing. The compositions vary and grow to tell stories and create mood, with an atmosphere in parts epic wall of sound, while at others minimal and sublime.

NITE FIELDS
Drone-pop from Brisbane.
www.soundcloud.com/nitefields

MACHINE
Insert description here.


7PM start
$5 entry
238 High St. Northcote

UMBILICAL TENTACLE @ Bendigo Hotel - 29/11/2012

UMBILICAL TENTACLE - partynoisecore
Brutal cowbells and crushing blasts of epic proportion propel disgruntled and abrasive electronic noise whilst screams of chaos and delight smash your head from side to side in a whizzing like motion. 
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Umbilical-Tentacle/236960959679691

WARPIGS - meandering dissonance

Like wandering a field somewhere in Russia, you look up and all you can see are the power lines and you just can't stop thinking about Grandpa.
https://www.facebook.com/thisisnotthewayirememberithere

FUNERAL MOON - black metal
Featuring members of monster doom metal band Spacebong. Relentless and bleak with curdling screams that will leave you haunted.
http://youtu.be/1QMmR8FvEtI

NOÛS - devastating doom
Easily one of the most punishing doom bands Australia has to offer. Anyone that has not yet had the chance to see or hear this band really needs to check them out.
http://nousband.bandcamp.com/album/eobiont-ep

Thursday November 29th
8:30pm
$10

125 Johnston St. Collingwood

DUO WITH RORY BROWN @ DISCOBEANS MONDAY - 26/11/2012

GALACTAGOGUE
Intense noise and frowning. Your brain, deep fried.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Tc53cEBl44

RORY BROWN & NIK KENNEDY
Brown (double bass) and Kennedy (vocals/processing/electronics) reprise their duo of haunting electro-organic noisescapes.

MONOLITH
Primitive minimalist industrial drone bleakness.

REUBEN INGALL
Reuben Ingall (Canberra) sings and plays guitar through an array of home-made software patches controlled by a DIY footswitch, to create sad-pop buried in glitchy psychedelia.

http://reubeningall.bandcamp.com

TRANSMISSIONS
'Transmissions' operates as the guise of Nick McCorriston, sound designer and producer. He's a graduate in Sound Design at VCA and Sound Production at RMIT, and has recently realised a dream of turning his beloved childhood Nintendo Power Glove into a wireless musical instrument, which he uses to awake a childlike sense of playfulness in his set.
www.nickamc.com


7:00pm start
$5 entry
238 High St. Northcote

Flyer by Peter James

http://www.facebook.com/events/371699179590381/

AKANAME @ Gasometer - 23/11/2012

Something a bit different... I'm gonna be making noises and atmospheres with NZ/Melbourne instrumental techgrindmantra metal band AKANAME upstairs at The Gasometer. Guitar processing/synth and maaaaaybe one vocal bit...
More info here - http://www.gasometerhotel.com/?post_type=gigs&p=281

HOLY BONER @ Make It Up Club - 06/11/2012

This week, some improvised music to make you think! One of the great improv-shitcore duos has been resurrected as a trio: Holy Boner with added Rodney J. Cooper on handmade guitar as a permanent member. This is improvised noise-grind, somewhere between the most extreme avant garde classical music, and the most extreme grindcore, with abstracted noise as the mediator. Smash Tennis is a new duo of raw electro-acoustics with a punk attitude and a philosopher’s depth of interrogation. And Satyrs, exploring the outside limits of multiple synth-drone.

• Holy Boner, featuring: Nik Kennedy (Bass, Vocals), Brad Smith (Drums, Vocals) and Rod Cooper (Guitar, Vocals)
• Smash Tennis, featuring: Llara (Drumkit, Acid free tape) and Samaan (Guitar, Acid free tape)
• Satyrs, featuring: Jesse Dimmock (Saxophone, synth, drum machine), Alez Glasov (Synth) and Cooper Bowman (Synth)


The Make It Up Club
http://makeitupclub.blogspot.com/
Avant Garde Improvised Music and Sound Performance
Every Tuesday night at Bar Open, 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy 3065
Doors at 8:30 pm for a 9:00 pm start
$5/$10 

LOTS OF GIGS

Got a busy finish to the year...

06/11/2012 - HOLY BONER @ Make It Up Club
26/11/2012 - DUO WITH RORY BROWN @ Discobeans
29/11/2012 - UMBILICAL TENTACLE @ The Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood
01/12/2012 - THE KILL @ East West DeathGrind Fest, Valve Bar, Sydney
03/12/2012 - UMBILICAL TENTACLE @ Discobeans
06/12/2012 - SPASMOSLOP @ Battle Of The One Man Bands, Gasometer
08/12/2012 - UMBILICAL TENTACLE @ Gasometer
10/12/2012 - WORLD GRIND DOMINATION @ Northcote Social Club
18/12/2012 - FUCKED @ Make It Up Club

More info coming later!

HOLY BONER @ Club Voltaire - 20/10/2012

Holy Boner is back! Now with added Rod Cooper on handmade guitar/vocals, we've stripped the sound back and returned to the original vision for HxBx, which is, quite simply - TOTAL DESTRUCTION NOISECORE!!! Inspired by our favourite noisecore and noisy grind bands like GBN, Arse Destroyer, Last Days of Humanity and Final Exit, but we're using modified and hand-made instruments, vocal effects and other nifty tricks to create our own sound.
Here's a sample:


And we have a gig:

An exploration of the most insulting, abrasive, and generally fucking batshit music we can find, joyously flittling from ambient electronica to heavy jazz to metal, with generous helpings of white-noise across the board.

Event The First: featuring Bommy Knocker, Nyquistx, Holy Boner and dropbunny. 

Located in the most sneaky venue in Melbourne, Club Voltaire, which offers some of the cheapest booze around, an awesomely eclectic bookstore, and an intimate space for some horrific noisemaking.

Doors open from half 6, first band is on at 7 so get in early. $5 entry.

SPASMOSLOP @ Bendigo Hotel - 11/10/2012

Bleeemo Music presents....
THESE ARE THE BEST OF TIMES

An over indulgent night of psychedelic buffoonery and sonic illusions. Paul Kidney Experience return from their East Coast tour to light The Bendigo stage once more, (remember that note!!). Adam Simmons Vs Brian O'Dwyer have a new record out that features Ren Walters, this is the only live gig they will play together all year, and who knows when the next one will be. Spasmoslop will shake you to your soul, Sean Baxter and Llyod Honeybrook will make you

 question the boundaries of space and Heilsgeschichte will journey you to a place of infinite pleasure. Bring your friends, leave your inhibitions at home.

PAUL KIDNEY EXPERIENCE
http://neumusak.bandcamp.com/album/paul-kidney-experience

ADAM SIMMONS VS BRIAN O'DWYER featuring REN WALTERS
http://bleeemo.bandcamp.com/album/turnip

SPASMOSLOP
http://letsnoise.blogspot.com

SEAN BAXTER & LLOYD HONEYBROOK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ9T17h1mG0&feature=relmfu

HEILSGESCHICHTE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1RMHeRcM-A

$10
The Bendigo Hotel

DISCOBEANS MONDAY - 01/10/2012

CHRISTOPHER DE GROOT
Christopher de Groot is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, improviser, and electronic musician. Primarily a pianist with a background in jazz and classical composition de Groot has a strong interest in music for film having scored several features. He also has an affinity with analogue synthesizers, cassette tapes, ruined vinyl and noise

PURE HARD DRANCE
Pretty bangin beats


DOTABATA
Organic instrumentation destroyed by harsh electronics


BOMMY KNOCKER
Multi-instrumental experimental improv noise duo


7:00PM start
$5 entry

238 High St. Northcote

SPASMOSLOP & UMBILICAL TENTACLE - 29/09/2012

I'm playing 2 different gigs on the 29th September, starting with a solo at KIPL - I'll be playing early, around 7:00pm or so:

"Cantankerous Records brings you some varied noise...

WORD OF LIFE CHURCH SS = Synth/noise extravaganza...
http://mindtimedestroy.blogspot.com.au/

SPASMOSLOP = Otherworldly vocal driven noise...
http://soundcloud.com/spasmoslop/spasmoslop-non-monoglot
TODD ANDERSON-KUNERT = Audio/visual doom/noise...
http://www.toddanderson-kunert.com/index.php?%2Fproject%2Fperfromance-at-conduit-arts%2F
DOTABATA = Organic instrumentation destroyed by harsh electronics...
http://www.myspace.com/dotabata
BONO = Some more noise...
http://www.atu2.com/band/bono/bono.jpg

Starts early!
FREE!
All ages / BYOB welcome.

136 Roden St West Melbourne (a short trek from either Southern Cross or North Melbourne stations).

Various tapes and so on available on the night..."

http://www.facebook.com/events/464926360194110/

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Then...

Hex On The Beach, Umbilical Tentacle, First Love, Sick Sad World, Badd, Swimsuit Dynamite, Wet Lips
Followed by....
HARD OUT DANCE PARTY feat. DJs Cat Attack & Gob Job Goblin

Black Goat Warehouse, Coburg

Starts 7:00pm

Fundraiser for EMPOWER Foundation, Thai Sex Worker Organisation/Union

A message from Empower...

“For Empower its important that people are not giving money because they feel sympathy or have the image of [sex workers as] victims, [with] no choice etc etc.... Sex workers in Thailand are Sweet Smart, Strong and Sexy..the head of the family providing a good income for the family and the country. Sex workers in Thailand don't want anything special..just the same protections, benefits and rights as other workers and members of society. Together they join as Empower to fight for a space in society to stand proud, strong and still sexy!! Empower hopes everyone will be bad and have a great time! We hope you have a lot of fun for your event.”

for more info about this organisation.....http://www.empowerfoundation.org/

http://www.facebook.com/events/510511225631143/

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Umbilical Tentacle will be playing around 9:30pm or so I think

If you need directions to Black Goat please leave a message here or email me!

"World Grind Domination" @ MIUC 11/09/2012

Some great new collaborations, and a long awaited soloist this week at MIUC. Pete Warden has been making some pretty strange instruments in recent times, and performing on them under the name of Onion Engine. For this show, he has recruited his comrades from Electric Jellyfish, along with some additional guests, to let the psychedelic, outsider-garde sonics fly. World Grind Domination, features some of our favourite avant metalists in a new double voice/double blastbeat quartet. Brutal! And Harriet Morgan with her signature, abstracted black-metal-inspired grimcore solo project.

 • Onion Engine, featuring: Pete (ticks, pots and bits of tin), Adam (low strings and wires), Jake (bill the modified guitar and tuna tins), Mike(high screechy strings)
• World Grind Domination, featuring: Pete Hyde (voice), Brad Smith(drums), Max Kohane (drums) and Nik Kennedy (voice)
• HKM, AKA: Harriet K Morgan (blackened bass and tape collage)

The Make It Up Club
http://makeitupclub.blogspot.com/
Avant Garde Improvised Music and Sound Performance
Every Tuesday night at Bar Open, 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy 3065
Doors at 8:30 pm for a 9:00 pm start
$5/$10 

DISCOBEANS MONDAY - 03/09/2012

BLARGHSTRAD & DONKEY MUTHA'S
The wildest one-man band in town, Blarghstrad Noisesmith (Brad Smith - bass/drums/vocals) gets a frontman in the form of Donkey Mutha's of Arse (Shane Van Den Akker - vocals/electronics/extensions) to make your most demented noisecore dreams come true.

DRY MOUTH
Stoned synth noise. Get comfortable.

YUKO KONO & JOE TALIA
http://soundcloud.com/yukokono & www.joetalia.com - yowser!

NAT GRANT
Solo percussion & processing.
www.natgrantmusic.com

BRITE FIGHT
Brite Fight is solo siren, souped up soul.
http://britefight.bandcamp.com


7:00pm
$5 entry
238 High St. Northcote

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http://www.facebook.com/events/449937771705600/

This show is also celebrating Discobeans' 2nd Anniversary (as a restaurant, I think?), and I think we've put together a line-up that really reflects the Discobeans Monday vibe of putting on varied music/noise line-ups where anything goes!
Massive thanks to Yuka and her staff for all their hard work running the restaurant and the bar and keeping the place going. Venues like Discobeans are pretty rare these days sadly. I'm grateful to be involved, to watch people play music there, and play there myself. Cheers to everyone who supports Yuka and Discobeans!

UPDATE:
There's also this killer party/gig the night before...

DISCOBEANS 2nd anniversary!!!!

2nd SEPTEMBER!!!
LIVE/
OVE-NAXX
PASSENGER OF SHIT
The exo skeletal crack show
XIAN
DOT.AY
Major Napier
Adonys

DJ TALK SHOW BOY

and

LIVE PAINTING

STARTS from 3PM

http://www.facebook.com/events/264698340314688/

Great line-up of DJ/beats/breakcore/rave/electronic mash-up stuff, get down!

SENJU with CLEANINGLADY & SPAMOSLOP & RORY BROWN @ Discobeans -19/08/2012

MUNEOMI SENJU with CLEANINGLADY & SPASMOSLOP & RORY BROWN
For this performance of his first solo tour of Australia, ex-Boredoms master psych drummer Senju will be joined by local noisemusicmakers cleaninglady (Stephen Richards) on modular synth freakouts/baritone sax and Spasmoslop (Nik Kennedy) on electro-washboard/oral noise, plus last-minute addition, NSW double bass genius Rory Brown!

SYMPATHIA
Organic noise where feedback feeds back on feedback feeding back from the feedback of the feedback coming from various amps, electronics and hard rubbish objects.

BLEACH BOYS
Perception-shifting collusion with delinquent tapes.

PAUL HESLIN
Button bashing and sound mashing with video game controller and kidnapped radio making noises that they usually don't.


EARLY START!! DOORS 4:00PM!!
$5 entry
238 High St. Northcote


Mega cheers to Stephen Richards for helping make this happen!

NGC 1275 video

Live @ Discobeans 13/08/2012

Phillip Holquinn - Electronics/Guitar
Nik Kennedy - Electronics/Bass/Vocals

Once again thanks to Brian Bleeemo!

NCG 1275 @ Discobeans - 13/08/2012

We're on the 2nd Monday of the month this month for the ADMIN BLDG / BONNIE MERCER split cassette launch!!

• ADMIN BLDG
  Skronk-bop, no-jazz duo - one part Charles Ives Singers, one part Paul Kidney Experience
  https://www.facebook.com/pages/admin-bldg/240543682624544?sk=wall
• BONNIE MERCER
  Unrestrained depraved feedback, hallucinatory white noise and hypnotically evolving sonic guitar experiments
  http://bonniemercer.tumblr.com/
• WARPIGS
  Beautiful and brutal guitar/drums free noise
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z3Qu2JHfig
• NGC 1275
  Otherworld atmospheres and textures from Phillip Holquinn (electronics/guitar) & Nik Kennedy (electronics/vocals/bass)
  http://letsnoise.blogspot.com.au/
• SHOCK DIAMOND
  Solo synths from Xavier Irvine (Roskopp/The Day Everything Became Nothing/Fuck...I'm Dead)
  http://soundcloud.com/xavier-irvine

$5 entry
Doors 7:00pm
238 High St. Northcote

http://www.facebook.com/events/388622987858787/




ALSO!!!
On Sunday 19th August there'll be a special extra show featuring Japanese drummer/percussionist and ex-Yuka Discobeans bandmate, Muneomi Senju (best known for his work with Boredoms). Sick!!!!
More info soon!