Alan Vega, Xinlisupreme, Cluster, Throbbing Gristle, Jackson & His Computer Band, Tinchy Stryder, Genders, Small World Experience, My Bloody Valentine, Colder, Broadcast +++++ Topor, Trocchi, Bloch, Sacher-Masoch, Lautremont, De Sade, Ballard
Sounds Like
"With the austere moodiness of early 80s new romanticism
and the bounce-riddled aesthetics of early 90s
melodic electronics, the record has a strangely disturbing
edge" THE BIG ISSUE (****)
"A chronicle of order and disorder for a golden dawn" MESS+NOISE
We're playing two shows this weekend and hope you can, in the midst of all competing ace shows and tiredness and summertime shandy sipping shenanigans and suchlike, come along.
On Friday we're playing at The Workers Club for Otouto's 'Sushi' single launch with Milk Teddy. And on Sunday, this sweet-as-pie line-up we threw together at the last moment - Sydney's Megastick Fanfare (exuberant, deftly creative pop nouveau) and The Motifs (cute as fuck twee pop). As illustrated below:
Whaddaya say? Whatever it be, we hope you're fighting fit and feeling fine.
Dear Friend, finally it is out! The LONG expected release of our EP "Interrupted (Triptych I)" !!!
"you wonder why get interrupted / was life too fast / the nights too long / you give a fuck / get interrupted / you want no break / keep speeding on..."
Watch the music video, created by the young & wild Japanese video artist Yukihiro Taguchi. Be Surprised! You will also find some wicked REMIXES on Youtube and iTunes ;-)
Learn more about our current project "Triptych I-III" on our MySpace site...
Brisbane outfit Toy Balloon will release their debut album Toy Division on
November 8 through Lofly Records, and to celebrate will perform an east coast
launch tour throughout November.
Formed in 2007, Toy Balloon was
originally a fledgling two-piece made up by Nimai Etheridge’s uniquely melodic
wall-of-sound guitar and Greg Cooper’s beautiful sequenced electronic
compositions. The band have since matured into a four piece featuring Chloe
Cooper (Mr Maps) on key boards and Ben Green on drums.
The album was
recorded and mixed at the Lofly Hangar in Brisbane, a DIY performance space that
Toy Balloon has been an integral part of creating. Fostering emerging artists
and left-of-centre music, the Hangar acts as a performance space, recording
studio, and meeting place; and has resulted in a record with a rich, layered
sound reminiscent of New Order, Mogwai, Boards of Canada, and LCD
Soundsystem.
Catch Toy Balloon launch Toy Division at a venue near you
this Oct/ November.
TOY BALLOON TOUR DATES:
Brisbane- Thursday 29
October- The Zoo, Fortitude Valley w/ Moon Jog, Tin Can Radio and Doom
Doom.
Sydney- Wednesday 4 November- ‘Upstarts’ at Spectrum, Darlinghurst
w/ Convaire and Black Bear Brown Bear
Sydney- Thursday 5 November- Oxford
Arts Factory, Darlinghurst w/ World Champion and others
Melbourne-
Saturday 7 November- Pony, Melbourne w/ Love Connection and
Aoi
Melbourne- Sunday 8 November- El Joyero, Melbourne
Toy
Division is released November 6 on Lofly Records, with distribution through MGM.
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FOOTSCRAY’S FINEST
CONNOISSEURS OF GREASY SOUL, 70’S DANISH PORN SOUNDTRACKS, FRENCH 60’S
CHICK POP, LATIN SOUL AND SLEAZY FUNK, ARE BACK TO SERVE MELBOURNE ITS
FIX OF CHEESE!
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FRIDAY 30th OCTOBER
Winter Room (Upstairs of the Exford Hotel),
1/199 Russell St, Melbourne.
The Line up
VINCE PEACH (3PBS/SOUL A-GO-GO)
BIG SAMMY (JC'S/GEELONG'S FINEST)
YOUNG DECAMERON (JC's/CHERRY)
SIMON LAXTON (MESS AROUND/ GIMME SHELTER)
CHAIRMAN GAZ (BARBARELLA/CLUB UK ... Back from Retirement)
SPIRIT IN THE SKY 
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