Gig Guide (22nd-26th)

Its the gig guide! Tons of stuff happening as well as Sydney festival events. Also next wed is DJ Yoda at hyde park barracks as well as the infamous yacht club on Australia Day next tuesday!

Friday

Future Classic Night @ Sydney Festival ft. Trevor Jackson, Yen(live) & FC DJs - Hyde Park Barracks

Void ft. Silke - Phoenix Bar - Syds leading dub-step night

Suspect - Henry Afrikas - underground house on the north side

Mr Meanr - Chinese Laundry

Hole In The Sky night - Good Small Club

Sat

Shit Robot, Jimi Polar, Diatribe - Good God Small Club

Sebo K - Lady Lux

--Regulars--

Wham - World Bar, Kings X - Top floor techno mayhem in this famous town-house

Musik Matters - Favela - Dedicated to the true house sounds of Sydney

Club Club - Chinese Laundry - Every weekend hear some of the best in techno, prog and house in the Cave

Sun

Spice - Home Terrace - The first spice in n the iconic Home nightclub

The Bunker afterhours ft. Sebo K - From 4:30am Bunker Bar

--Afternoon--

Apres - Tilbury Hotel - Future Classic Afternoon sessions. Expect the unexpected.

bSide - Beresford Hotel - The new night hosted by fbi presenter Lorna Clarkson with an eclectic mix of local DJs

Sunday Sessions ft. Ben Morris, Robbie Lowe, Culbert, and Tim Jirgenson - The Deck, Luna Park - From 3pm an afternoon by the harbour

Tue, Australia Day

Ben Watt & Dixon - Starship Sydney - This will be epic

Final Gig Guide up Thursdays.

Send your event info sydneylovestechno at gmail dot com

Trevor Jackson, Areoplane and Yen live! This Friday Sydney Festival

Sydney is brimming with activity. Summer is here and Sydney festival is adding an amazing array of events to the cities theaters and clubs. As I continue with my personal recommendations (if that means anything at all!?) this friday is the Future Classic night at the uber cool Becks Festival Bar, decked out only once a year for this famous event.

Trevor Jackson will headline after recently taking a break from touring over the last couple years with this being one of his first performances! Also on the bill are Areoplane, Yen (live) and future classic DJs.

This is the last becks festival event that isnt sold out so hurry and get your tickets as it will all go!

Trevor Jackson is known for his musical and visual innovation in electronic music. Founder of Output Recordings, he released Four Tet, LCD Soundsystem and The Rapture. He has remixed Massive Attack, U2 and UNKLE and worked with The Gossip, Doves and Franz Ferdinand. Like his DJ Kicks mix, expect an uncompromising set traversing a vast sonic territory from nu-disco to rock and electro to house.

Trevor Jackson DJ Mix @ Studio B, New York by future classic

Gig Guide (7th-10th)

2010! The start of a new decade, the start of a new year and the start of the first weekend. If this weekend is anything to go by, then 2010 will definitely be a great year for house and techno in Sydney. If your lucky enough to not work on Fridays then it starts TONIGHT with Danny Tenaglia dropping by Nevermind for a special 6hr set after performing for a massive crowd on Bondi Beach during NYE.

Friday its definitely the local touch with Symmetry at the Cave then Sunday sees some big artists grace both afterhours parties Spice and Bunker.

Of course theres also festival First Night this Saturday, the biggest free event in Australia, with a whole range of artists from all over the world performing. Definitely not to be missed.

Festival First Night info

Thursday

One Night Only ft. Danny Tenaglia - Nevermind

Friday

Symmetry @ The Cave, Chinese Laundry

Sat

Picnic Warehouse ft. Love Fingers - Warehouse location der!

Top Notch ft. Claude Von Stroke - Home Terrace

Wham - World Bar, Kings X - Top floor techno mayhem in this famous town-house

Musik Matters - Favela - Dedicated to the true house sounds of Sydney

Club Club ft. Rennie Pilgrim - Chinese Laundry

Sun

Day Like This Festival ft. Matthias Meyer, Joker, Theo Parish, Lee Douglas, Peppe Bradrock & many more! - Entertainment Quarter Fox Studios

Spice ft. Matthias Meyer, Christian Buckhardt, Jimi Polar - Kings Cross Hotel (4am)

The Bunker afterhours ft. Claude Von Stroke - From 4:30am Bunker Bar

bSide - Beresford Hotel - The new night hosted by fbi presenter Lorna Clarkson with an eclectic mix of local DJs

Sunday Sessions ft. Ben Morris, Robbie Lowe, Culbert, and Tim Jirgenson - The Deck, Luna Park - From 3pm an afternoon by the harbour

Final Gig Guide up Thursdays.

Send your event info sydneylovestechno at gmail dot com

Circa 1979; Signal To Noise

Sydney Festival is one of Australia's premier cultural festivals with so many different events across the spectrum its pretty much impossible to see it all.

I'm going to be picking out some of the highlights of the festival over the next few weeks that I think music heads and blog readers a like would find more interesting but by all means do have a flip through the free brochures that are around the city.

Perhaps one of the more interesting performances on the music side of things is the collaboration with Modular records, a company that has been establishing themselves as one of the leading record labels for promoting Aussie talent on global scale, while pushing music that still retains some originality and creativity (although I wont say that applies to all their artist roster...). The talks will explore the early days of Sydney's music scene and early experimental music labels.

From 1979 to 1985, parish halls, abandoned warehouses and run down apartments rumbled and screeched with new sounds during one of the most creative periods in Australia’s music history.

Avant garde, post-punk, new wave and early electronic styles of music cultivated a thriving underground scene, heard on Sydney-based labels M Squared and Volition. It was a period when ‘little bands’, such as Pel Mel, SPK, Voigt/465 and Laughing Clowns were more concerned with artistic expression and experimentation than commercial success.

Circa 1979: Signal to Noise is a celebration of this unique and influential period.

More info here


PS: If anyone has any digital copies or recordings of some of the early experimental electronica acts please do drop a line, sydneylovestechno AT gmail DOT com

Sydney Festival First Night - This Saturday!

Yep, the biggest annual event has now come again with last year around 200 000 people flocking the CBD for the free music offerings. HOWEVER, before we get too excited TECHNO is NOT represented...at all! ARGH! Why is that? Well Fuzzy are organising most of the electronic and dance artists and for some reason think 'electro' is the only accessible genre of electronic music for an event like this....'But that's ridiculous' you may cry out, and, I concur. Pulsating rhythms of techno (not all types of course) and other types of electronica are in my mind perfect for an open-minded crowd that are coming just to enjoy themselves. There's nothing better than booging down to some good dance, just check Earth Dance for that.

To be fair though some of the DJs billed do crossover but I still think with all the amazing techno/electronic artists in Australia right now, more of the less commercial ones could of being taken up for an awesome open air techno stage in a lane way..right! who's with me!??

Next year I hope this changes. While Beks Festival Bar has some very good electronic artists coming through I think we can do better...

The artists Playing are;
# Grace Jones (Considering friends of mine paid $80 tix, expect this free one to be packed!)
# The Cat Empire
# Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
# Santogold
# The Gypsy Queens & Kings
# Movers & Shakers
# Dan Zanes & Friends
# Java
# A-Trak (killed it at Field Day, should be great again this time around!)
# Mr Scruff
# DJ Mehdi
# Busy P
# Uber Lingua
# Bag Raiders Live
# Jaime Doom & Gus da Hoodratt
# Ember
# Mission Control
# Ajax
# Mikelangelo & the Black Sea Gentlemen
# ERTH
# The Cycologists
# The Leaping Loonies
# Music is Magic!
# The Festoons Big Band and special guests (Woot! Big Band)
# The Pyrophone Juggernaut


So officially;
Festival First Night returns for its second year on January 10, 2009 with an epic, outdoor celebration to mark the opening of the 2009 Festival. It’s all free and you‘re invited!

With the streets again cleared of cars, over 600 major local and international musicians, dancers and artists from around the globe will explode onto open-air stages across the CBD. This is an opportunity to catch some of the biggest names in the Festival for free. Festival First Night is held in Sydney’s CBD, across its streets, laneways and parks. There are seven precincts, each with stages hosting live acts and DJs.

TO VIEW THE FESTIVAL FIRST NIGHT ECARD, Click here.