Artists & Music Line Up

Black Carrot   {Sat – 21:35 to 22:30}

Black Carrot have been described as ‘febrile and hostile as Van Der Graaf Generator, as pounding and grainy as Faust, as instinctive and mercurial as Can’ by Pat Fish/The Jazz Butcher and a ‘bloody marvellous’ mess of Henry Cow/The Residents by Time Out London. This would explain their previously support slots with the likes of Chris Corsano, Faust, The Fall, Damo Suzuki and Evan Parker. Needless to say, their set will be some sort of delicious destruction.

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Same Actor, who is on some occasions called Chris Cook, started to play gigs under the first of these names in 2004. He uses various stringed instruments to build up soundscapes on the fly, using no pre-recorded or pre-sequenced material, playing with unusual rhythms and alternative tuning systems.

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Temperatures can be an after-hours session with Zeppi Diermaier and Rudolf Sosna, or a downcast and sinister thick bass throbbing with vocals that sound like a broken man trying to explain what really happened; fantastic, abject subterranean stuff from Thurston Moore’s ‘Favourite New Band’.

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Wounded Knee’s label claims his is a form of ‘postmodern Hebridean waulking song’. He claims his vocal improvisations are primarily influenced by the music of Theo Parrish. Both are correct. His current album is Shimmering New Vistas, available on Benbecula.
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Elapse-O are a duo from Oxford whose “simple, subtle beats lend them the urgency of Sunroof!’s explosive improv.” Their sound has been likened to “swimming the butterfly through a load of broken Swans LPs.” Nightshift, Golden Lab

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Circuit Breaker are a brotherly duo from Leighton Buzzard. Teasing sounds from homemade instruments to create a vast array of music, ranging from dark dissonant atmospheres to high energy filled disorientating, weirdo punk. Each set consists of spontaneous song outbursts evolving in to improvised noises.

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Using little more than processed vocals, crushed contact mics, the light cube, an ebow, chinese worry balls and TRIBAL POWERS to create hazy drones Garcia conjour up the feeling of an all-consuming fire. Their sound has been likened to that of mermaids singing, the key of static, or a Japanese town buried beneath snow.

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Wartgore Hellsnicker are “impossible not to watch, blending a cacophony of instrumentals, fast punk rock, banshee-like gang vocals and chaotic stage antics into an implausibly pleasurable series of abstract tunes.” DTA.  They are, in fact, impossible not to watch.

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N,N minus are Emmet O’Tronix and Liam Scagney, variously abusing guitars, FX, noises, rants, gross displays, beats, sonic mind fields, death saxxx, ambience, international mystery??? ring modulation and programming. They are gone now in the hollow, slung in the labyrinth, as it were, saw the signposts that said as much, that were saying as much.

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Leeds/MK Based Alex Myers creates a variety of intriguing ambiences via guitar, vox and programming, drawing inspiration from the likes of Oren Ambarchi and Johann Johannsson. He is a big fan of peanut butter, and has a serious dislike of Irish ‘comedian’ Patrick Kielty.

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Horselover Fat are the mongoloid sci-fi jazz band of tomorrow. They are currently working on a track-by-track cover of Emerson, Lake and Palmer’s Tarkus.

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Oblio describes himself as ambient techno, but don’t let that fool or confuse you. He coughs up some electric mixes, throwing together everything and anything from obscure 1920’s ballroom to sound selected via divining stick and unseen spectral advisers. His latest release ‘Dragon’ is available on Enypnion Records

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DMPD have been threatening audiences for years with a sound they describe as “minimal noise experimental lazy dark thing”. They like to obscure their faces. This year they had a CD released on audioMER records.

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DJ Engram explores dub soundscapes in search of a sense of self, joining the front lines of the sonic conflict that currently characterises community dance music. His previous soundtracks have included Gojira and 13