Legendary Australian electronic music and arts collective Clan Analogue present Analogue Redux as part of their Electronic Weekend Festival at 303 in the Melbourne Fringe. Starting at 6pm on Saturday the 24th of September, Analogue Redux celebrates the voltage-driven intensity of analogue hardware and live electronic musicianship, launching the new compilation album Analogue Redux: Hardware Explorations out now from Clan Analogue.

Analogue Redux starts early at 6pm on Saturday 24th of September with an open-entry electronic music jam session. All are welcome to bring any kind of electronic music gear, including synths, drum machines, effects, grooveboxes, laptops, ipads or anything else that emits electronically-generated waveforms. Come and join in the sonic mayhem!

From 8pm onwards a selection of Melbourne’s best electronic music performers will play short sets ‘in the round’ on the floor of Bar 303, with artists including Random Acts of Elevator Music, Miles Cosmo, Wonderfeel, BluNjin, Cocoon, Ming, Damian Tangram and headlining act Black Lung. Get yourself a seat for the best close-up view of knob-twiddling you’ll see in the Fringe this decade.

Clan Analogue’s infatuation with analogue hardware goes back to the Australian electronic music collective’s inception in the early 90s when multitudes of classic analogue synths and drum machines were being discarded by the mainstream music industry only to be eagerly snapped up by a generation of young underground artists exploring the new sounds of techno. In recent years a new generation of musicians has gained inspiration by moving away from computer-based systems and re-embracing the joys of getting hands-on with analogue hardware.

Analogue Redux: Hardware Explorations is the latest compilation album release from Clan Analogue, due out in September 2016. Celebrating the new wave of hardware-driven artistic inspiration, Clan Analogue put out a call for artists to contribute tracks featuring their favourite analogue gear and classic electronic music technology. Artists from around the country contributed a selection of tracks ranging stylistically from experimental soundscapes to nu-IDM, garage to ambience, classic techno to 70s-inspired Krautrock explorations. A selection of artists who contributed tracks to Analogue Redux will be performing live at Clan Analogue’s Electronic Weekend at 303.

Analogue Redux takes place at Bar 303, 303 High St Northcote, from 6pm on Saturday the 24th of September as part of the Clan Analogue Electronic Weekend at 303 in the Melbourne Fringe. The weekend starts on Friday night, 23rd of September, with Kill Climate Deniers, and continues on Sunday the 25th of September from midday to midnight with Michael Mildren’s Music Non-Stop.

Tickets can be bought from the Melbourne Fringe website for Clan Analogue’s individual shows or for an Electronic Weekend at 303 festival pass.

What happens when homegrown Australian terrorism meets the classic beats of early House and Techno?

Newly released by Australia’s pre-eminent electronic music collective Clan Analogue is a unique (and bizarre) collaboration between musician/producer Reuben Ingall and playwright David Finnigan.

Kill Climate Deniers is a 35-minute barrage of dancefloor bangers in the style of classic House and Techno from 1988-92 – mixed with samples from Finnigan’s original stage-play of the same name. It tells the story of an explosive attack on Parliament House by a group of eco-terrorists (during a Fleetwood Mac concert, no less) and the Environment Minister’s one-woman war to take her country back.

The result is an anthemic club album threaded through with blistering political satire and a guns-blazing action adventure set at the heart of Australian democracy.

Kill Climate Deniers began life as a playscript, and has now expanded as a project including an album, a short film and a live show.

Canberra:
The album launches kicks off at Smiths Alternative on Wednesday 21st of September. Kill Climate Deniers masterminds Reuben Ingall and David Finnigan will present a night that blends theatre, storytelling, electronic music performance and a dancefloor-ready mix of classic tunes.

WHEN: 7.00 – 9.00pm Wednesday 21 September
WHERE: Smiths Alternative, 76 Alinga Street, Canberra
TICKETS: $10

Melbourne
The Melbourne album launch kicks off Clan Analogue’s Electronic Weekend Festival at 303, on Friday 23rd of September, taking place as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Reuben Ingall and David Finnigan will be joined at Bar 303 by special guest KOshowKO and Iubar for a night that blends theatre, storytelling, electronic music performance and a dancefloor-ready mix of classic tunes.

WHEN: 8.00 – 11.00pm Friday 23 September
WHERE: Bar 303, 303 High Street, Northcote
TICKETS: $10 (book at melbournefringe.com.au or tickets on the door)

You can find out more about the project, and download the Kill Climate Deniers ebook, at killclimatedeniers.com

Legendary Australian electronic music and arts collective Clan Analogue take over Bar 303 in Northcote for a weekend of underground electronica during the Melbourne Fringe Festival, from Friday the 23rd to Sunday the 25th of September.

Friday 23rd of September: Kill Climate Deniers

Clan Analogue’s Electronic Weekend at 303 begins on Friday 23rd of September, at 8pm, with Kill Climate Deniers, a multimedia theatrical show launching the new concept album of the same name by Canberra artists Reuben Ingall and David Finnigan.

Kill Climate Deniers is a barrage of dancefloor bangers, in the style of classic House and Techno from 1988-92, mixed with samples from Finnigan’s original stage-play of the same name. It tells the story of an explosive attack on Parliament House by a group of eco-terrorists during a Fleetwood Mac concert and the Environment Minister’s one-woman war to take her country back. The result is an anthemic club album threaded through with blistering political satire.

Kill Climate Deniers masterminds Reuben Ingall and David Finnigan will be joined at Bar 303 by special guests KOshowKO and Iubar for a night that blends theatre, storytelling, electronic music performance and a dancefloor-ready mix of classic tunes.

Saturday 24th of September: Analogue Redux
On Saturday the 24th of September from 6pm, Clan Analogue’s presence at 303 continues with Analogue Redux, an evening celebrating the voltage-driven intensity of analogue hardware and live electronic musicianship. The night launches the new Analogue Redux: Hardware Explorations compilation album and gets going early at 6pm with an open jam session. All are welcome to bring electronic music gear and join in the sonic mayhem.

From 8pm onwards a selection of Melbourne’s best electronic music performers will play short sets ‘in the round’ on the floor of Bar 303, with artists including Random Acts of Elevator Music, Miles Cosmo, Wonderfeel, BluNjin, Cocoon, Ming, Damian Tangram and headlining act Black Lung. Get yourself a seat for the best close-up view of knob-twiddling you’ll see in the Fringe this decade.

Sunday 25th of September: Michael Mildren’s Music Non-Stop
Sunday the 25th of September will close Clan Analogue’s mini-festival with the most epic event of all. Veteran synth virtuoso Michael Mildren will set a new Fringe record with Music Non-Stop, a 12-hour marathon of continuous live improvised electronic music, from midday to midnight.

Michael Mildren will be joined by his son Max, a vast array of analogue and vintage electronic music gear and a selection of guest artists, including Steve Law, Andrew Duffield, Steve Williams, Chris Rule and Michael Sheridan. Join them on an epic sonic and artistic journey inspired by classic German 1970s “Krautrock” improv artists like Can and Tangerine Dream. Drop-in or drop out, this happening will be in the best traditions of experimental electronic music and is guaranteed never to be repeated!

Entry to each event is $10 or a pass for the entire weekend can be purchased for $25. Head to www.melbournefringe.com.au to make sure you don’t miss out!

What happens when Australian federal politics meets the classic beats of early House and Techno?

As a preview to the release of their new album Kill Climate Deniers, Reuben Ingall and David Finnigan are holding a very special undercover Listening Party at Parliament House, Canberra, on Wednesday 31st of August. Register for this event on Facebook to receive regular updates and a link to the special Listening Party mix of the album.

Newly released by Australia’s pre-eminent electronic music collective Clan Analogue is a unique (and bizarre) collaboration between musician/producer Reuben Ingall and playwright David Finnigan.

Kill Climate Deniers is a 35 minute barrage of dancefloor bangers in the style of classic House and Techno from 1988-92 – mixed with samples from Finnigan’s original stage-play of the same name. It tells the story of an explosive attack on Parliament House by a group of eco-terrorists (during a Fleetwood Mac concert, no less) and the Environment Minister’s one-woman war to take her country back.

The result is an anthemic club album threaded through with blistering political satire and a guns-blazing action adventure set at the heart of Australian democracy.

Kill Climate Deniers began life as a playscript, and has now expanded as a project including an album, a short film and a live show.

Participants can download a special Listening Party version of the album that takes them on a guided tour of Parliament House, experiencing the story of Kill Climate Deniers in the very locations it is set.

The walking tour version of the album is available to stream from killclimatedeniers.com or download free for today only from Bandcamp.

WHEN: 1.00pm Wednesday 31 August
WHERE: Parliament House, Canberra, ACT 2600
CONTACT: killclimatedeniers [at] gmail.com

NOTE: This experience entails downloading an album and listening to it on headphones while walking through the public areas of APH. Participants are expected to adhere to the standard conditions of entry.

Clan Analogue launch their new compilation Intone: Voice Abstractions at Grumpys Green on Thursday the 5th of November with a lineup of performers specialising in voice-scrambling experimental sonics.

KOshowKO, City Frequencies, Wonderfeel, Automatic Teller Machine Machine and DJ Winduptoy all have tracks featured on the Intone compilation, showcasing their unique experimental and electronic treatments of the human voice. At Grumpys Green, 125 Smith St Fitzoy, from 8pm onwards, these artists will push their manipulations of vocalisation and verbiage to further extremes in a live, improvisational setting. Object_State will provide formant-bending visuals. Entry is free.

KOshowKO performs an iPad-driven set of improvisational sonics, with live sampling from the audience used as source-material to develop abstract beats and on-the-fly ambience. KOshowKO’s track ‘Now You’re Talking Baby’ on Intone uses recordings of the artist’s baby to create a sonic exploration of human semantic development.

City Frequencies are revisiting the conversations they recorded for their Café Voyeur sound installation from 10 years ago, remixing and recontextualising this sonic material for a new era of urban social interaction. Their Intone track ‘The Most Beautiful Walk’ utilises the musings of a café-patron on her day out in the sunshine.

Wonderfeel will make a rare journey from the hills to perform a set of primal rhythms and manipulated tonal chanting. The performance will include a live reconvolution of the immense natural reverb recorded in the concrete carpark under the Arts Centre heard in their track on Intone.

Automatic Teller Machine Machine will start the evening with a set veering from ambient to industrial sounds. Their Intone contribution ‘Kronik Tonic’ processes human voices with analogue circuitry and additional layers of digital distortion.

DJ Winduptoy is Jeremy Smith, one half of the legendary Winduptoys. His fellow Winduptoy Robert ‘Bo’ Boehm came up with the original concept for Intone but sadly passed away before the album was completed. The last completed Winduptoys track ‘Broken Language’ is included on the album.

Intone: Voice Abstractions is available now in multiple formats and from multiple outlets.