Default Jamerson is a one man noise making machine from Australia, who crafts a lush and billowy low end, all deep whirling tones, thick speaker shredding dronemusic, even with the bass dialed all the way back, this single 20 minute track was sending seismic waves into the room, causing everything to vibrate gloriously. Lots of shifting textures, haunting melodies buried in the mix, the sound murky and muddy and underwater, woozy and warbly and totally hypnotic. Definitely bummed we slept on this. And bummed that only a handful of you will get to hear it. But what can you do? Heavy low end drone freaks should try to snag one while they can... Packaged in thick cardstock mini 3" sleeves, with a printed (band name, label info, liner notes) Japanese style obi. And again, we only have a VERY FEW of these...
'Jazzed Up Old Recording' 3" CD-R. Part of three way split release with MONGST (Vancouver) and ACRE (Portland) ISOLATED NOW WAVES (INW 150) I now have copies of this here in Australia. They're going for $15 each from my very hand. Contact for details.
Also available from - Bis Auf's Messer (Berlin, Germany)
Stable Government and Adequate Sanitation is one track, twenty minutes in duration, phasing slowly and heavily like a pendulum in thickener. Clouds of machine tone mix in slow motion as shapeless gases burning-off in mushroom explosions. There's an exhilirating feeling of the music having no edges - of it spreading - and of it living on in perpetuity after the closing fade-out. Ambient, but not in Eno's sense - in which listeners are made aware of time's materiality - Default Jamerson's project is all the more troubling / rewarding in the way it seems to render time immaterial, to unravel it completely. Totally inured and totally cool.
Three Thousand / Mark Gomes
...or as the guy that used to hide behind a tower of synths drinking beer in that obnoxious disco band...
Vice / Tanqueray Pint
For those who wish to try before they buy, this release was played almost in it's entirety on Tim Ritchie's ABC Radio National 'Sound Quality' programme on the the 21st of March, 2008. Please click here to stream the show.
Radio Interviews:
4th of March 2008 - Makeshift Swahili PBS (1st hour & 2nd hour)
A new comer to FSOLdigital - SEAFAR deliver a fat slice of electric space music - Hegira the sounds of a flight from danger. Wander the streets together, the noise of life muted by sheets of rain, brilliant colours dimmed in a pervading mist of grey. An instrumental amalgam of moody beats and synth drenched noises.
launching 'The Disambiguation Of Anonymeye', out now on sound&fury records (www.soundandfury.com.au)
MELBOURNE LAUNCHES
Wed 24 June Stutter @ Horse Bazaar (Lt. Lonsdale St, City) with ii, Automating, DJ Christina Tester $7/5, 8pm www.myspace.com/stuttermelb
Sat 27 June Castle Tones @ Edinburgh Castle (Sydney Rd, Brunswick) with Je Suis Animal (Norway), Ned Collette & Wirewalker, Kes Trio, Laura Jean Trio, Lee Memorial, Jessica Says, Dick Diver, The Twerps, Francis Plagne, Minature Submarines, Scott & Charlene's Wedding $16+bf/$18 door, 3pm-midnight www.mistletone.net
The Scroungers sound like punk was always supposed to, but rarely did; urgent, raw and dripping with sardonic anger. The fact that the Scroungers (a solo home recording project) grew partially out of Macka's growing dissatisfaction the Melbourne punk scene of the early 1990s is somewhat ironic. Working in relative isolation and never performing live, Macka recorded a large body of work that is arguably the rawest, high-octane, politically and socially incisive punk rock the country has ever produced. Yet the Scroungers remain unknown to all but a few.
Bored, Pissed and Agro: 1991-1997 reproduces the best moments from the eleven Scroungers releases (ten cassettes and one split 7") during these years when the project was active. Download it from Shame File Music, with full liner notes from Clinton Green
