The night starts with a DJ set from Winduptoys, playing a selection of post-punk classics, proto-electro obscurities and sound-collage interspersions from their vast vinyl collection.

Actual Russian Brides formed in Berlin and now reside in Sydney. Eschewing the ubiquitous laptop, their sexy, savvy electronic pop is performed live with analogue synths, machines, knives and toys. The Headspace party will be Melbourne’s first opportunity to hear them live before they return in July to present their new electro-cabaret Bild Lilli at the Malthouse Theatre.

Philosophy Of Sound is the new project from Koshowko’s philosopher and producer mastermind Martin K. Their singles ‘Freedom, What For’ and ‘It Is Like That’ have swept the Beatport charts and their forthcoming EP Fragile Disco is a major new release on Portugal’s Discotexas label. Their set will blend nu-disco with Balearic rhythms, taking Horse Bazaar to a new level of arpeggiated electro mayhem.

DJ Reductionist continues the groove with a set of Severed Heads classics, on-the-fly remixing and tracks from the new Headspace compilation. His set comes with a rolled-gold guarantee that ‘Dead Eyes Opened’ will be played at least twice.

Clan Analogue’s local in-house VJ team Object_State have gained access to a vast hoard of Severed Heads video art and archival footage, which they will be remixing live and projecting onto the Horse Bazaar walls throughout the evening.

The new compilation Headspace: a tribute to Severed Heads has been released to celebrate Clan Analogue’s twentieth anniversary and the heritage of this Australian electronic music and arts collective. Headspace is a tribute album to the legendary Severed Heads, with Clan Analogue’s artists reinterpreting their favourite tracks from this seminal Australian electronic music act.

Headspace is available in classic CD jewel-case format, as well as in non-physical formats, through MGM Distribution.

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

Aside from specializing as a journalist in Japanese culture, anime, movies, and electronic music’s various tangents, Bergen makes music and performs under aliases Little Nobody, Slam-Dunk Ninja and Funk Gadget amongst other names.

Having kick started pioneering Melbourne electronic/techno label IF? at the beginning of 1995, Bergen ran a series of infamous warehouse parties and live electronic music gigs that featured the likes of Voiteck, Zen Paradox, Sub Bass Snarl and Krang, as well as his own Little Nobody persona, and released his first LP Pop Tart in 1998.

“If the pharmaceutical journeying of writer Hunter S. Thompson seems allied, somehow, to the rituals of club culture and its music,” mused Rolling Stone magazine at the time, “then look up this grab-bag of sounds and postures by Little Nobody, aka Melbourne producer/DJ Andrez Bergen… A deluded, entertaining quest, in this case through the electronic music of the ’90s. There’s a bit of everything here, all fighting for control.”

Bergen relocated to Tokyo in 2001.

Since then he has worked with internationally acclaimed artists such as Aux 88, Blake Baxter, Bas Mooy, James Ruskin, Ade Fenton, Dasha Rush, Si Begg, DJ T-1000 and Mijk van Dijk, and played live support to Jeff Mills, Squarepusher, Coldcut, Ian Pooley, Stacey Pullen, Scanner, Cari Lekebusch, Adam Beyer and Mike Patton. He has performed in Japan, China, Hong Kong, Europe, and North America and Australia.

Over the past two years, Little Nobody and Funk Gadget have released a dozen vinyl 12-inch records via IF?, Gynoid Audio, TTAK, and Slidebar, acclaimed for the way in which they pervert existing stylistic perimetres and create challenging new sound directions—always while maintaining the groove.

On the side, Bergen has also written two novels, Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat (2011) and One Hundred Years of Vicissitude (2012).

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

Little Nobody website

Before starting Philosophy Of Sound, Martin K has been active in his previous music project Koshowko, which has put out several critically and commercially acclaimed releases on Clan Analogue and Las Machinas. Koshowko played several music festivals in Australia (St Kilda Festival, Renaissance Festival, Opoeia Festival or Electundra) and toured in Germany. Martin K also became the finalist of the The International Songwriting Competition in the Dance category. His music videos have also been screened around the globe in a selection of Film and Music Video Festivals.

During the recording sessions for the upcoming Philosophy Of Sound EP, Martin collaborated with many talented musicians, including two intriguing vocalists: Melbourne’s Magnolia and New York based Mereki Beach (Peacocks). You can also expect to hear some hot disco guitar 
licks and booty shaking bass.

Stay tuned for P.O.S’s ‘Fragile Disco’ EP which will be out on vinyl and digital download in June via Discotexas.

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

Philosophy of Sound website

SS Spanky (now defunct), was the product of Edward Kelly, who was also the brain behind Fluffy T Bunny.

RELEASES ON CLAN ANALOGUE RECORDINGS:
CA038: Re Cognition: The Clan Analogue Legacy Collection | Various Artists
CA030: Habitat: Environmental Sound Research | Various Artists
CA021: Pre-Sense: A Convergence of Southern Harmonic Waves | Various Artists

RELEASES ON CHURCH OF THE INFINITE:
http://www.archive.org/details/SSSpanky_On

He has been actively involved in producing electronic music and running electronic music labels like Pneuma and Clan Analogue since 1992. He was instrumental in setting up the early days of the Clan Analogue label and collective with Brendan Palmer in 1992. From 1992 to 1996, Grime and Palmer collaborated as a band called ‘Telharmoneom’ featuring a broad spectrum of sound making processes, although mostly based in the analogue realm. They performed impromptu live techno at numerous dance parties and outdoor ‘raves’ and in ‘chill out’ rooms. Currently, Grime’s aesthetic crosses the zones of experimental sound art, drone and minimal techno composition.

He has a fond interest in both music derived from software composition and manipulation as well as the use of older style technologies like analogue synthesis, analogue sequencing and tape delays. In 2000, Grime developed his own experimental audio/visual mixing software which is part of the ACMI collection at Federation Square, Melbourne.

Grime has released numerous tracks on compilation CDs, vinyl records, cassette compilations and on mp3 labels around the world including Clan Analogue, Pneuma, Zonar Records, ConV, Anechoic Media and earLabs. Notable events and shows include… Impermanent Audio, Cryogenesis , Big Day Out, Variable Resistance San Francisco MOMA, Electrofringe, Audio Ideas, Static Museum and dArt.

Grime incorporates video art projections into live sound art sets which have been performed at events such as The Big Day Out, eScapes, Disorientation, The MCA and Liquid Architecture Festivals. As well as his own solo practice, Grime has collaborated on a number of projects with artists such as Kim Cascone, Gary Bradbury, Anthony Guerra, Andy Polaine and has also developed a number of pieces as a sound artist for video artist Shaun Gladwell, including the 2007 Venice Biennial piece, ‘Storm Sequence’ and his 2009 Venice Biennial show. Gladwell’s video art with Grime’s sound design are featured and held within collections at numerous galleries and museums internationally.

Grime also works as a commercial artist and has been involved in music video directing, commercials directing and film visual effects art direction since 2000.

RELEASES ON CLAN ANALOGUE RECORDINGS:
CA041: Headspace | Various Artists
CA038X: Cognition X | Various Artists
CA036: Clan Analogue In Version | Various Artists
CA032: Defocus | Various Artists
CA031: Pretty Boy Crossover | Any Number Can Play
CA030: Habitat | Various Artists
CA025: Cognition 3 | Various Artists
CA014: Cognition | Various Artists
CA011: Aphelion One | Various Artists

More info: http://www.kazumichi.com
Visual work: http://cargocollective.com/kazumichi
Sound Cloud: http://soundcloud.com/toby-grime

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

Telafonica is up to its 4th album release, ‘Sleeping With The Fishermen’, a sprawling project featuring the album proper, dozens of remixes of every track by a vast array of friends, acquaintances and people whose music the band loves, free downloads, films, box sets, public domain master stems, fan mixes and anything else they can get the time to put together.

Telafonica Website

RELEASES ON CLAN ANALOGUE RECORDINGS:
CA028: Solid Gold l Various Artists
CA041: Headspace l Various Artists

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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Severed Heads are one of the pioneers of electronic music in Australia. With their infectious dark robotic rhythms and quirky lyrics, they broke electronic music firstly in the Australian underground during the post-punk era then the mainstream during the 1980s. Having produced work spanning experimental and industrial sound art through to techno, electro and synth-pop, Severed Heads provided unique inspiration to a generation of Australian electronic artists and made a huge impact overseas. In 2011 they impressed a new generation of fans when they reformed to tour supporting Gary Numan.

Clan Analogue members acknowledge the influence Severed Heads has had on them and their music. The collective formed in 1992 drawing inspiration from the example of Severed Heads, pushing boundaries in the use of new and obsolete technology in music, sound and visuals and to explore avenues for multimedia distribution outside of the mainstream. Once word spread that Clan Analogue were compiling Headspace, artists from as far away as London and Tokyo put their hands up to contribute. The album includes tracks from long-running Clan Analogue acts such as Telemetry Orchestra and Kazumichi Grime, current stalwarts such as Lunar Module, Telafonica and Winduptoys, along with new emerging artists like Aeriae, Actual Russian Brides and Philosophy of Sound. International guests Scanner and Little Nobody also demanded to be included once they heard the news.

As befitting a collective of technologically-inspired, forward-looking sound artists, the traditional notion of a cover version for Headspace was deconstructed and reinvented. Rehashing chord progressions and vocal melodies was not often the best method to rework abstract sound pieces and industrial electro masterpieces. Artists needed to distil the essence of their chosen track and rebuild with a new sonic palette for the decade. Approaches included cut-up collages using the original recordings as source material or using the original tracks as inspiration for further explorations into sound.

Headspace is available in classic CD jewel-case format, as well as in non-physical formats, through MGM Distribution.

Track Listing

1. Telafonica l Twister
2. Philosophy of Sound l Ugliest Twenties
3. Scanner l Adolf a Karrot?
4. Lux Voltaire l Pilot in Hell
5. Telemetry Orchestra l Propeller
6. Valley Forge l Twenty Deadly Diseases
7. Lunar Module l Hot With Fleas
8. Aeriae l Snuck
9. Kazumichi Grime l Petrol
10. Data Transmit & Nick West l Dead Eyes Opened
11. Inflatable Voodoo Dolls l Big Car
12. Stewart Lawler l Now, An Explosive New Movie
13. Clone l All Saints Disco
14. 15-11 Enterprises l We Choose Moon
15. Actual Russian Brides l Kittenette
16. Winduptoys l Ottoman
17. Little Nobody l A Million Angels
18. The Process Void l Godsong