Shoeb Ahmad
Shoeb Ahmad is a musician/sound artist currently residing in the sticks of Canberra, Australia. An interest in cassette collages and cheap keyboard tones sparked a life long 'musical' obsession with drones and avant noise. After a brief history playing second fiddle in many punk and nu-metal bands, he works primarily on creating fragile drone structures and cathartic pop noise using guitar, voice, field recordings, keyboard and laptop while also utilizing sound specific collaborations for various recordings. He released an EP in 2006, followed by a string of releases in 2007, varying from piano miniatures to highly processed guitar drone, released on Sound&Fury, Wilting Flower, Low Point and his own label hellosQuare. At the tail end of 2007, Shoeb Ahmad will release a collection of prepared guitar tracks processed by Lawrence English, M. Rösner and himself on CURT, under the name "Pieno".
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Anonymeye
Anonymeye is an experimental musician from Melbourne, Australia who reconfigures country, folk and modal musics with electronic production techniques utilising electronic and acoustic instrumentation including laptop, acoustic guitar, and effects units. Since 2004, Anonymeye has performed with, amongst others, Animal Collective, Tim Hecker, Leafcutter John, Sebastien Roux, Seaworthy, Greg David, Francis Plagne. In 2006, Anonymeye released his debut album "Anonymeye Hotel" on Brisbane label Half/Theory. Subsequently, he has been released on labels sound&fury and hellosQuare.
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Cam Deas
Cam Deas is an experimental musician from Sheffield, England working centrally from acoustic guitar and field recordings, taking a diverse approach to electronic processing, ranging from dense, noisy collages and more delay-heavy ambient and drone to entirely untouched acoustic musings. Cam Deas is and will be released on Cook An Egg, Dead Pilot Records, Blackest Rainbow, Pepto and Dirty Demos.
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Scissor Lock
Scissor Lock is various instruments performed by Sydney musician Marcus Whale, forming post-rock, ambient, drone, IDM and minimalist music. While the several hours of recording output by Scissor Lock is highly varied, live performance almost exclusively involves loop-based processing, and maintains an emphasis on improvisation and spontaneity, the music of each performance differing greatly from the next.
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Our Hands In Grey
Melbourne band Our Hands In Grey, one of the many projects headed by the bearded Jake Glas, is a collaboration between a formidable candidature of musicians, boasting current and former members of Majorca, Sex On Toast, Combover, Paddock To The Plate, Plaguebearer, Centipede/Millipede and The Harlequin Smile. Together, they form an intriguing mesh of short, tight post- and math-rock songs. Our Hands In Grey will release a 3 inch CD on CURT in 2007/8.
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Cyst Impaled
Cyst Impaled is the brainchild of Adelaide resident Travis Cook. Cyst Impaled is the product of the consumption of a near-immeasurable volume of music and curious explorations of electronic music using a computer over several years. His own words appropriately describe the vast archives of otherwordly, heavily manipulated, sample based noises that are committed to the Cyst Impaled moniker: "through a wall of musique concrète, white noise, disjointed electronica, pedophilia, tongue in cheek ridiculousness, schizophrenic extremes and improvisation, i will come and fuck you up." Apt.
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