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5000 Fingers of Dr T

Manager — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:37:34 +0000

“The 5000 Fingers of Dr.T. make music which pumps and squelches like meat in a grinder”

Their recipe for making music starts with matching ASR-10′s fed through a chain of resonant and envelope filters run by their home made controllers. This is then poured over a thick buzzing bassline before being served up with a side dish of electro beats. They rarely use sampled loops, instead preferring to create beats from scratch. This is done by Jasper with Adam bringing the ‘musical’ element to tracks.

Formed in 1994, 5000 Fingers of Dr T became a regular fixture in the Sydney underground techno scene. Their musical development has taken them from their roots in funky, acidic techno through to ambient and weird excursions, and then to a fresh up front dance sound which is pure vibe. Adam and Jasper both have a lengthy history in the electronic arts and computing industry with Adam being one of Australia’s first video game software designers while still only in High School.

5000 Fingers of Dr T website

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Actual Russian Brides

Manager — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:57:08 +0000

Actual Russian Brides are vocalist Lull (Elena Knox) and media jockey partner Baby Swindle (Lindsay Webb). Eschewing the laptop, they deliver a sexy, savvy electronic pop with analogue synths, machines, knives, toys and capriciously crafted lyrics. Their debut album, Miss Sled, is out October 2010 on Brigade Music.

Conceived during a collaboration for Clan Analogue’s forthcoming Severed Heads tribute, Actual Russian Brides were born quivering into the Berlin winter of 2009, and are getting exponentially hotter. Look out for them on the new compilation from New Weird Australia, touring Germany with Manekinekod in October/November 2010, or launching Miss Sled in Sydney and Melbourne in December.

RELEASES ON CLAN ANALOGUE RECORDINGS:
CA041: Headspace | Various Artists

Actual Russian Brides website
Actual Russian Brides myspace
Actual Russian Brides videos

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Aeriae

Manager — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 01:01:52 +0000

Aeriae is Sydney-based electronic composer/producer Wade Clarke. His grandfather was an engineer and almost-concert pianist, and Wade grew up playing the piano by ear. Prominent in his childhood repertoire were creaky renditions of his favourite 70s and 80s electronic film scores, such as Escape From New York, Halloween and TRON.

After high school, Wade studied Communications at the University Of Technology, Sydney, then variously worked on short films, on his own writing and reviews and also as a webcomic artist (Ocular Trauma) before reconnecting with contemporary, purely electronic music via Aphex Twin’s phenomenal Druqks album. Work on a series of videogame soundtrack remixes led forward to the development of original material as Aeriae.

RELEASES ON CLAN ANALOGUE RECORDINGS:
CA041: Headspace l Various Artists

Aeriae website

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Andy Rantzen

Manager — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 09:31:53 +0000

Andy Rantzen is an ARIA Award-winning Sydney-based electronic music producer
and writer with a long history in Australian electronic dance music.
Since 1990, he has recorded and performed under his own name and in
collaborations with Pelican Daughters, Wrong Kind of Stone Age,
Cherry2000, Itch-E & Scratch-E, Sheriff Lindo, fc europa, Event
Horizon and many others. He has remixed artists as diverse as The
Wiggles and INXS and, along with his long-time music collaborator Paul
Mac, has the best-selling Australian remix of all time. He has
released fourteen albums on a variety of labels around the world,
including 4-4-2 Music, Ministry of Sound, Forced Nostalgia, Volition,
Underwater Music, Silent Records, Generator, Tempest Recordings,
Halcyon, Air Recordings, Creative Vibes, Prozaak and Clan Analogue,
with whom he has had a long and fruitful relationship spanning over
fifteen years. He is currently working on his next album, entitled
‘The Master Drummer’.

Releases on Clan Analogue Recordings:
CA040W: Valley Forge l Wayfaring Stranger
CA039T: Tiatto l Theme From Tiatto
CA036: Clan Analogue In Version l Various Artists
CA034: Doppler Shift l Various Artists
CA029: Disco Stu l An Englishman in Ibiza
CA028: Solid Gold l Various Artists
CA020: 20 Disco Greats l Various Artists

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Artificial

Manager — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:12:07 +0000

Artificial is the solo artist name for Nicole Skeltys, an Australian musician, composer and producer who has released eleven albums, in styles ranging from electronica to psychedelic folk, rock and country. Along the way, she has also written songs and soundtracks for film, TV and theatre – from world beats for Lonely Planet TV travel series to chamber music atmospheres for Parisian fashion shows.

Nicole was one half of electronic duo B(if)tek, described as ‘Australia’s greatest electronic music innovators’. Later she formed the psychedelic folk band Dust. More recently she formed The Jilted Brides with video artist and singer Tanya Andrea Stadelmann.

Since November 2008, Nicole has been an artist in residence at Pittsburgh Filmmakers/ Arts Center in the US.

Artificial’s music can be described as “funky-acid-electro-lounge”. Check out the two Artificial albums ‘Electro Lollipop Explosion’ and ‘Libraries Are Fun’.

Nicole Skeltys website

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Atone

Manager — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:16:23 +0000

Atone are a Sydney dub outfit consisting of Mr Andy Fitzgerald and associated musical collaborators. Early releases featured the late great Ali Omar. They have had numerous local and international releases receiving well deserved hype for their innovative electronic dub sound. Atone also have a side project called Pear Shaped featuring various guest singers.

Atone Myspace site

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B(if)tek

Manager — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 06:14:43 +0000

Originally hailing from Canberra, B(if)tek were Nicole Skeltys and Kate Crawford, producing infectiously funky, groovy tunes inspired by analogue electronics, b-grade movies and the films of Jean-Luc Goddard.

Anticipating the electro tsunami of the last decade, B(if)tek were amongst the original “Geek Girls”, making cutting edge dancefloor tunes with their vast collection of sound-generating machines and immaculate wardrobes.

Since the release of their acclaimed album Frequencies Will Move Together in 2003, B(if)tek’s Nicole Skeltys and Kate Crawford have each been busy with their own projects. Nicole Skeltys has been residing in the USA as an artist-in-residence with Pittsburgh Filmmakers, recently releasing the album Larceny of Love with her new psychedelic electronic act The Jilted Brides. Kate works in academia and produces minimal electronica with Clone. She wrote the book ‘Adult Themes’ and hosted the ABC TV experimental music series ‘Set’.

B(if)tek website
Nicole Skeltys website
Kate Crawford website

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Bleepin’ J Squawkins

Manager — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 06:29:32 +0000

Once upon a time, a young man called Edward was walking along and he came across a synthesiser.

“My, what a curious device” he thought to himself, as he absent-mindedly pressed the keys.
“BOWWWWWWWWWMP!” went the synthesiser.
Edward was so pleased with that sound that he decided from then on, he would dedicate his spare time to meeting as many synthesisers as he could. wonderful creatures that they are.
A little while later, Edward met Julian, and they got to talking about music.
Julian wasn’t really into synthesisers, thinking that they were very limited and made bad sound-alike noises. He much preferred to (badly) play the guitar, because he had direct control over the strings as they vibrated.
“AHA!” said Edward, well I have some synthesisers you should meet. And took Julian back to his studio, where he showed Julian what an analogue synth with lots of sliders, instead of a few buttons and an LCD menu let you do.
Julian was also so pleased with the sounds and control that he decided he would also dedicate his spare time to meeting as many synthesisers as he could, wonderful creatures that they are, and help them say what they want to say.
And Edward, Julian, and the synthesisers all lived happily ever after.

Bleepin’ J Squawkins website

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Carrier

Manager — Tue, 11 May 2010 12:39:44 +0000

CARRIER is a Clan Analogue member who recorded “The Foley Artists“ at home on a 4 track.

This may not be terribly amazing if it was just a cut and paste jobbie or a knob twiddler’s delight, but this is a live project with no less than 17 people working on the tracks and contributing an amazing array of skills on tuned percussion, drums, electric guitar, classical chinese harp (zheng), violin, flugal horn, concert harp, upright bass, timpani, turntables and synthesisers.

The compositions are rich and wonderfully cinematic in style, amazing considering the d.i.y. electronic recording mentality that has brought the entire project together.

RELEASES ON CLAN ANALOGUE RECORDINGS
CA038D: Re Cognition DVD | Various Artists
CA014: Cognition | Various Artists

Buy album from iTunes

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City Frequencies

cityfreqs — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 03:23:32 +0000

City Frequencies is a partnership between two Melbourne artists (Nick Wilson and Matt Adair) that explores the urban environment as a source of music and sound. Initiated for the 2000 Next Wave Festival, a day in the life of the audible CBD (or city) was recorded and mapped out with a four speaker sound system set up in the lower Melbourne Town Hall.

Following on from that success, we decided to narrow the scope of the environment and chose the inner city cafe as a suitably interesting location to record the conversations of Melburnites. This project ran over several years from 2003 under the name of Cafe Voyeur.

Most recently our latest project worked under the name of Random Acts of Elevator Music and changed our involvement in the city environment to one of active participant.

Releases on Clan Analogue Recordings:
CAM04: Sampled Synthesis 4 l Various Artists
CAM03: Sampled Synthesis 3 l Various Artists
CAM02: Sampled Synthesis 2 l Various Artists
CAM01: Sampled Synthesis 1 l Various Artists

City Frequencies website

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