Andrez Bergen, and occasional accomplices - over the years including people like Francois Tetaz (Shinjuku Filth), Jeffrey Willis, Damian Stephens (Isnod), Akimitsu Hamaguchi (Magnet Toy), Marcella Brassett, and Allan Klinbail (Son Of Zev).
Influences
Big plaudits for a wad of influential stuff from labels like Noodles, Warp, the Ninja Tune roster, Rephlex, IF?, Stone's Throw, Scandinavia, Planet Mu, Tresor, Pharma, Sativae, Mosquito, Force Inc., Major Force, etc, plus old(er) skool artists like Cabaret Voltaire, 242, Scanner, Coldcut, UR, and their new(er) brethren: Shadow, Vibert, Landstrumm, Vogel, Lidell; Si Begg, Tobias Schmidt, Gene Farris, DJ Rush, Prefuse, Kid Koala, Hexstatic, Plaid, Krush, HIFANA, etc, etc.
Oh yeah, and Aussie people like Sub Bass Snarl, Voiteck, Steve Law, Isnod, Son Of Zev, 5000 Fingers Of Dr T, Cinnaman, Artificial, Guyver 3, Beam Up, Kid Calmdown, Digital Primate, Mad Rod, Nick Littlemore, Clan Analogue, and the IF? Records posse...
Sounds Like
very VAGUELY akin to bits and pieces of Krush, Isnod, Luke Vibert, Shadow, Cassetteboy, Si Begg, Coldcut, Cristian Vogel, Neil Landstrumm, LNEE, DJ Rush, Sub Bass Snarl, etc., and all the gleeful sample pirates out there cutting a swathe throught everyday humdrum soundz...
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An expat Australian freelance music, movie and anime journalist, photographer, DJ, record label head honcho, and experimental electronic music producer who's been based in Tokyo over the past 7 years....
He's also bunked up in London, traveled a bit round the globe, and during the course of a decade and a bit of hack journalism has interviewed people as far afield as Kraftwerk, Jeff Mills, Coldcut, Genesis P. Orridge (from industrial pioneers Throbbing Gristle), Derrick May, Si Begg, Famke Janssen (from the "X-Men" movies), and Mamoru Oshii (the director of the anime classic "Ghost In The Shell")....
His crap scribblings have appeared in newspapers like THE AGE in Australia and the YOMIURI SHIMBUN in Japan, along with magazines like ANIME INSIDER and GEEK MONTHLY in the USA, IMPACT mag in Hong Kong and the UK, plus British mags MIXMAG, REMIX and WAX mags, VICE (Australia), Juice, Oyster, Catalog, 3D World, Rave, Australian Style, Onion, X-Press, Beat & Zebra, blah, blah, blah....
On top of this, over the past decade Andrez has also worked as a DJ (once dubbed the Jean-Luc Godard of mixing), record label impresario, and muzak producer - and helmed his own radio show 'CYBERDADA' on Melbourne station PBS-FM for seven years from 1994....
In 2005 Andrez married New York based artist Yoko Umehara, who had moved back to Tokyo, and in November that year the couple had the world's cutest daughter, called Cocoa - and who now (at age 2) does occasional vocals on his muzak.
In 2008, stay tuned for his first novel, called 'Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat', being published by Another Sky Press in Portland, Oregon in the U.S.
...so what about LITTLE NOBODY, then...?
Andrez kick-started his soundsystem project in 1997 first as a joke, then with his debut track "Nobody's Driving" on the critically acclaimed Australian compilation 'Zeitgeist 3', alongside people like Voiteck, Honeysmack, TR-Storm, Jammin' Unit, Blimp, Cinnaman and Zen Paradox....
The project's perimeters were a far-reaching hotch-potch of styles from dub and jazz to cut-up sampling, hip hop references, disco-chic, and electro-clash ramifications... I think you get the gist, hey? Think anything goes.
Constantly morphing along the way, Little Nobody has since produced three albums and two EPs for innovative Australian record label IF?, along with a remix single release ('Bare') which was adjudged Single Of The Week in Melbourne's Beat magazine way back in 2001....
Through Stockholm-based label Fitja he's cut four EPs, and has had tracks released on a wad of international compilations, and currently works with Tokyo's TTAK Collective on vinyl stuff and live jaunts.
Little Nobody's album 'Action Hero' was one of the 4 final nominees for Best Album Of The Year in the 2001 Australian Dance Music Awards (the Avalanches were the eventual winner).... He's currently working on his fourth album, title as yet unconfirmed, all of which has been produced in Tokyo and should see the light of day in 2008....
Little Nobody also featured on Si Begg's rambunctious NOODLES DISCOTHEQUE VOL. 2 compilation back in 2001...
His music has been remixed by a plethora of international producers - from Noodles man SI BEGG in London to Chicago's DJ RUSH, Steve Cobb from FILA BRAZILLIA to Jason Leach from SUBHEAD, Tokyo's CAPTAIN FUNK to Amsterdam's VOCO DERMAN, Scottish geezer TOBIAS SCHMIDT, and on into Berlin's BRIXTON, and Parisian enfant terrible TAL (Sub-Rosa) .... He's toured Japan, played in London, tweaked knobs in Detroit, New York, San Francisco, and Chicago, twiddled live-ish in Windsor in Canada, in China, Hong Kong, and in a humble scout hall in the middle of nowhere just outside Groningen in the Netherlands - not to mention extensively around Australia.
Ad infinitum...
Over the past decade he's played at legendary Melbourne clubs like FILTER, TERIYAKI ANARKI SAKI, CENTRIPHUGAL, MORE BASS, GLOBAL WARMING, REVOLVER, and HONKYTONKS, along with that city's big warehouse parties such as Hardware, Every Picture Tells A Story, Earthcore, War Of The Worlds, Omniglobe, Sunshine People, Where The wild Things Are, and Belfast. In Sydney he's popped up at Frigid, Freaky Loops, Club Kooky, Phreakin', Warm Up, & Scissors*Paper*Rock - while in Tokyo he's played at Womb, Nuts, Concrete, Bullets, etc.
In 2008...? Look out for a remix EP of 'Cocaine Speaking' through UK label [k]racktroni[k], plus a remix CD and new album in Australia, along with ongoing limited edition vinyl releases in Japan. And he's now hopped on the digital download revolution at Beatport via Hypnotic Room...
