Clan Analogue Blog

Winduptoys & Koshowko video for ‘Switched On’..The video clip for our tune “Switched On” ( from the Double Exposure album on Clan Analogue ) was recently seen on Rage on ABC TV. This was directed by the creative soul that is Kenton Baines… It can also be seen on www.youtube.com/watch?v=swruC9o74EA So check it out.

Also make sure you download the free mp3 of the exclusive ( not on the album ) track “Switched on DUB”. This is at www.cvibes.com This is the original track Koshowko got the pieces off Winduptoys & created the whole new puzzle that became “Switched On”.

Cheers,

Bo & Jeremy (winduptoys)
www.winduptoysmusic.com

This Saturday, the 26th August, Clan Analogue act Bleepin’ J. Squawkins will be playing at “LIVE - Sydney electronica festival” at the Gaelic club, alongside 5 other local sydney electronic & crossover bands.

Lineup for the night is

Bleepin’ J. Squawkins
The Blush Foundation
The Crystalline Effect
The Graphics
Grand
Ruby Love Rocks

It runs from 8pm to 1ish, costs just $10, and is guaranteed to be an excellent night covering a wide range of electronic music being written and played in Sydney at the moment.

re-sound vs clan analogue

date: Friday 18 August 2006
venue: Gertrudes Brown Couch
30 Gertrude St, Fitzroy
time: 8:30 pm
tickets: $10/8 available at the door

Contemporary chamber music meets electronica

One of Australia’s most progressive new music ensembles meets one of Australia’s most innovative electronic music collectives in a one-off event immersing its audience in a sea of sound waves, noises, rhythms and fragments of strange melodies. This unique encounter between contemporary chamber music and electronica explores modern musical aesthetics, resulting in a world of hybrid sound and unsettling textures.

Clan Analogue artists contributing to this event include winduptoys, Koshowko, Apell, The Good Omen, Reductionist, Thomas Reiner and Anne Scott, plus music composed by the Re-Sound ensemble.

Re-sound formed in 1996 at Monash University, where artistic director Thomas Reiner lectures in composition, with the aim of creating a performance platform for contemporary sound and music. Their performances and recordings have ranged from modernist classics and electroacoustic works through to multimedia events and improvised experimentation, including a recent CD release of Terry Riley’s classic minimalist work ‘In C’ on Move Records.

For further details please contact:
Paul Todd, Re-Sound: 0425 864 648
re-sound@re-sound.com
Nicholas Bates, Master Management: 0403 920 908
nichol.b@ihug.com.au

www.re-sound.com

http://www.furthernoise.org/index.php?url=page.php&ID=130&iss=57

After catching a Winduptoys live set a few years ago I remember being impressed by Robert & Jeremy’s DIY ethic when it came to making all sorts of bleeps & glitches. Everything from flexed, amplified rulers to bird whistles & vocalisations sent through analogue processors, their palette of sound limited only to their imaginations. Their new album Double Exposure released through the Australian label Clan Analogue takes all the home made noises mixes it up with healthy dash of down tempo dub inspired beats & sub bass, stirs in some abstract noise collages and culminates in a redefining of the electro - dub genre itself.

The album features some great collaborations including Sydney based psychedelic groovester Psyburbia who’s contribution to Dub On Mars takes the space dub to extra terrestrial limits and Polish beat meister Koshowko who’s trademark processed vocals take on strange similarities to an overdriven harmonica on Switched On. Many of the tracks also feature an array of different instruments such as hammer dulcimer, flute, tablas & analogue keyboards which really gives the album a diversity of voices not generally heard in a release of this nature.

Track 2, Switch On which is coincidentally the albums single is my pick and stands out for having all those qualities that make a great track with heavily treated melancholic vocals underpinned by a catchy melodic riff which lingers in the mind well after the CD is finished.

Having lived here in Bristol for so long I have been fortunate to witness the early fusion of electronica and dub in Gary Clail, Mark Stewart - Pop Group’s On U Sound and Winduptoys are definitely writing the next chapter in a genre that continues to enthrall.

Distributed through Creative Vibes Australia the Album & single are available through the Clan Analogue web site.

Review by Roger Mills

Clan Analogue presents Hump! at Horse Bazaar Wed 16 August 2006

Australia’s longest-running electronic arts and sound collective, Clan Analogue, brings its new monthly night to Horse Bazaar at 397 Little Lonsdale Street. Hump will feature performances from local and interstate DJs, VJs and live acts. Join us for the first Hump this Wednesday the 16th of August, from 8pm onwards, and get your midweek beat fix.

ONDE DE CHOC (DJ)
Originating from Perth, Onde De Choc started a path of making, living and giving the sounds of exotic fruits that don’t exist to any audience who could taste them. He has had regular gigs around Adelaide, including a residency at Minki, and sets at Apatchi Mama, Earthcore and Big Day Out.

FLY BY WIRE (live)
One of Melbourne’s most innovative up-and-coming producers, Fly By Wire’s mix of spacious synthesized textures and melodic live instrumentation has lead to multi-media collaborations, sound installations and gigs in clubs, pubs and warehouses throughout Melbourne. Hump will feature his first performance since returning from Paris where he demonstrated his Light Matrix Interface for the New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2006 conference at IRCAM.

BOYRONIN (live)
Returning to Horse Bazaar is Boyronin, taking us on a journey through time and space, with his sci fi take on electronica. Born from an egg on a mountain top in outer space, this sonic death monkey has been tossed to earth upon a wave of nitrogen particles, armed with technologies new and old, ready to transmit tones and frequencies from the past, present and future.

JONTY BURTON (Visuals)
Mixing, scratching and warping film, video, 3D and 2D animation in an ever-changing visual mash, this is Jonty Burton. He fuses Eisenstein with disco, laying his own rabid animated rants over the top. This endeavour has found him gracing the screens of the Electundra music festival and the airwaves of ABC TV’s Rage at the kebab-friendly time of three in the am.

THE VENUE: Horse Bazaar, 397 Lt Lonsdale St, Melbourne
THE TIME: Wednesday, the 16th of August, 8pm till 12am.
THE COST: Free entry

For further information, contact
Nicholas Bates, Master Management
ph 0403 920 908
email: nichol.b@ihug.com.au

Hi all,

Winduptoys arrive back after successfully wowing them at the Sydney launch of their album “Double Exposure”, to join in a unique encounter between contemporary chamber music and electronica when Re-Sound meets Clan Analogue. This will take place on Friday the 18th of August @ Gertrude’s, 30 Gertrude St. in Fitzroy beginning @8:30pm.

The Winduptoys tune is a music concrete piece entitled ‘Fragments Of Melody’ composed by BO and this will be augmented by the Re-Sound folk as JEREMY manipulates their contribution with his FX toys…

The evening will also include other collaborations with Clan Analogue members & Re-Sound.

Bo & Jeremy (winduptoys)
www.winduptoysmusic.com