Artists
Sudden
Infant : Joke Lanz and
his companions have spread their incredible sounds and actions on many tours
across Europe, USA, and Japan. Working in the area of Experimental and Free
Music, Sudden Infant builds up complex Noise compositions, using unconventional
sound sources, lo-fi electronics and turntables and has a humorous and highly
improvised character. The result is abrupt Musique Concrète juxtapositions
of spasmodic gibbering and a battery of disorientating electronics
The
Rebel : The Rebel was
born Benedict Roger Wallers on September 15th 1971 in St. Albans, Hertfordshire,
England. Then I had breakfast and did some drawing then i went for a ride
on my bike then i had lunch then i made a set-up then i went for a bike-ride
then it was tea. Then i was sent to prison to do community service
for 10 years for gobbing at a baby.
There it was that he learnt the harsh lessons of swopping to 3rd person
and came out hard, gritty, urbane/urban. With the money left over from buying
3 A's and a 1 at step he bought a four track which his parents payed for
in 1989. Recorded first album "The End of An Ear" 98-90. i mean
89-90, it was about the end of the eighties boo-hoo, chiz, wot no rubbers
ekcetera. More albums followed. The
Rebel was calling himself "WALRUS", a permutation of our surname.
Then a girl called agh i can't remember was doing a folk night open-mic
come one come all and do your shite there in edinburgh where "I stayed
on my own for a few" years, to quote Him* so i got up a few of my songs
for it and presented a sort of anti woman pro-feminist Race/Racist Hate
persona, compared v. favorably by one of the audience to Dylan, getting
a few laughs, see page 58 for my first stand up gig. George Miller, Edinburgh
music legend, was going out with the Rebel's best friend Felicity, and he
wanted to play some drums, by way of relaxation from his professional band
The Kaisers, wherein he played guitar, sang and wrote strict 1962 beat songs.
He urged me to start a band so i did.
Les
Natrels : If you like
the stripped-to-the-bone sound of the Velvets and the aggression of the
Stooges, then you'll like this band. Psychedelic, laid back music for people
who like their music as cerebral as it is cool
Scalper : Scalper uniquely encompasses left-field hip hop, introspective lyrics
and dark mythological production. He started out as part of Made in Britain
collaborating with Mau, the vocalist from the critically acclaimed group
Earthling. Since then he has gone on to collaborate and perform with noise
mavericks 2nd Gen and the politically charged Fun-Da-Mental. Scalper went
on to release three EPs; the Scalper EP, the 7th Thief EP and the When Angels
Fight EP. Described by the NME as ‘raucous, punk, ear-crunching hip
hop’ it heralded a devastating new sound. He then went on to provide
the original soundtrack for a documentary film With(out) Words which was
screened at the Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival and nominated
for the Jerwood Prize. Most recently, Scalper has collaborated with a number
of different international artists including Larvae from Atlanta, USA for
the Berlin based Ad Noiseam label, The Zodiac Project from Switzerland (a
collaborative project between Zodiac and Shadow Valley) and for the French
beat-heavy industrial noise makers F.Y.D. from Strasbourg in France
Alice
Kemp : Born in 1972 to
two of Cornelius Cardew’s ‘Scratch Orchestra’, Kemp has
subsisted quantum-heroically as a self-taught artist-musician, utilizing
prepared guitar, piano, trombone, vocals, electronics and turntable. She
is one half of London performance duo Uniform, co-director of the international
online gallery The Lazarus Corporation, Conductor of Poltergasmic Frequencies
for the Baltimore-based Performance Thanatology Research Society and has
collaborated in various forms with [amongst others] Dual, 2nd Gen, Bark
Psychosis, Defeatist, Leechwoman, Hilary Jeffery and Ringo Christ. She is
also known as Germseed and has performed in Europe and Japan
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