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With a big "fuck off" experimental electronica sound and having supported acts like Garth Emery, Endorphin, DJ Archie and 28 Days as well as being a major part of the Canberra underage music scene for the past 2 years, electronic duo paqman are the act to follow in 2007. James Hewson and Hayden Quinn create a stunning set of live and original electronic music drawing influences from pioneering artists like The Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk, Tool and the Mars Volta.

It’s hard to say exactly what to anticipate at any given paqman show, although you can always expect an astonishing visual production involving elaborate camera placements and twisted projected images, courtesy of VJ Insan3, backing up the duo’s unique stage antics. Ear pleasing pop sensibilities expand into a soundscape of avant noise, soaring ambient atmospherics, psychedelic experimentation and back again. Layered melodies interfere with bizarre innovative beats and odd time signatures to intrigue even the most discerning electronic music aficionados, and it is for these combined reasons that paqman had a 60 minute live set aired on Triple J in early 2006.

For the past 2 years, Hayden and James have been working on their full-length debut ‘Deux’, a beautiful masterpiece that manages to capture the essence of the paqman live experience. The album, now in postproduction stages, is a concept piece that discusses the idea of dualism, exploring the kinship and disharmony between two sides of one story, and intends to show that contrasting ideas aren’t necessarily the complete inverse.

‘Deux’ is a durable, challenging collection of music which, whilst divided into 12 individual tracks, should be heard as a full piece of art, not simply an assortment of songs. ‘Deux’ moves through moments of beauty, incoherence, melancholy and triumph, as well as images of death and creation.

Subtlety and durability make ‘Deux’ a demanding concept album, confronting the listener with different ideas and emotions as they attempt to come to terms with the initial ones. The concept of two not necessarily opposing sides, but two different mindsets of a single situation drives the core of the album. With this extraordinary new album getting closer to release, accompanied by a stimulating sensory live show, paqman’s experimental electronic music may prove to be the groundbreaking influential sound electronica has been dreaming of.

2. Dyad - I. Thrift

1. Thesis
2. Chromation Nation
3. Renaissance/Revolution
4. Time Travel is a Tricky Motherfucker
5. Clemence: Cessation
6. Dé Jà Who?

1. Antithesis
2. Clemence De Lorme
3. Genesis
4. L’aigle
5. Lifting of the Veil
6. Clemence: Cessation

10. Dyad - II. Acid Parents

1. MS 372
2. Relapse
3. Requital
4. The Placebo
5. Anton Prevails