Filastine creates music and live sets that wreck genre, charting a new sonic map by synchronizing mutated hiphop, smashed-up beats, and international obscura. This year Filastine dropped Burn It on dj/Rupture's Soot Records. A pair of 12" vinyls on Soot and Shockout Records will be out in the fall, and a few scattered tracks can be found on compilations, in films, and a 7". For the last two years Filastine has brought his soundclash to clubs, squats, festivals, and underground spaces across the globe, peforming with laptop, midi triggers, loudspeaker, and percussion mounted on a shopping cart, sometimes joined by a guest mc or vocalist. Filastine began making music with the live ensemble ¡tchkung!, then founded the Infernal Noise Brigade, a 20-piece anarcho marching band. After much time spent in the Morocco, Filastine produced a record for a street band in Marrakech, Majmouat AbdelHakim, He continues to compose music for the butoh ensemble P.A.N., performing with them in Asia and North America. Sound is also a tool of action for Filastine. He conducts guerilla audio interventions and has been assaulted or arrested by police of many uniforms in the course of his work. For more by this artist, go to: www.filastine.com

Brent Arnold is a cellist, songwriter, composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist who composes music for film, and does producing, arranging and recording. Current projects include a solo record titled Cinema Deep Crush (due for Fall 2006 release), and groups Invincible Hummingbirds, Jihae Kim, Dark Cutters, Ghosts I've Met, and the Spheres. Arnold has worked with Eyvind Kang, Modest Mouse, Project W, Built to Spill, Sleater-Kinney, Saadet Turkoz, Quasi, Wayne Horvitz, the Go-Betweens, Mike Johnson, Mark Lanegan, Wally Shoup, the Degenerate Art Ensemble, Jana McCall, Brand New, Andrew Drury, the Murder City Devils, Seattle Experimental Opera, Big Cream, the Ruby Doe, New American Wing, and many others. Has also worked in a variety of forms: experimental, improvisational, pop, rock, noise, ambient, as well as Asian and Middle Eastern music. Born in Sacramento, CA, resided in Seattle, WA for many years, currently living in New York City.

CURSE OV DIALECT have a sound as diverse and inclusive as their cultural backgrounds (Maltese, Macedonian, Indian, Maori, and Pakistani). Combining a multitude of sounds from all eras and styles, (these guys sample some obscure and esoteric material!!) quality beats, turntablism and production sensibility and unique flows with a lucid political flavour, Curse ov Dialect tear the hiphop rulebook to pieces and step beyond, creating avant-guarde hiphop opera. In their standout live shows that border on performance art, they deliver their monstrous sound with a punk-rock aesthetic, hyper energy, mad costumes and a refreshing playfulness. These guys keep it (sur)REAL!! This track is from their debut album "Lost in the Real Sky", which is out on Mush (America/worldwide) and Valve (Australia).

Dub Ninja a.k.a. Dan Sommariva-Rojo (drummer from fresh local acts Agency Dub Collective and Organic Intelekt) has unleashed his production skills in a prolific partnership with an 808 and other noise tweaking devices to create expansive electro-dub sonic landscapes. This release, influenced by Jamaican and UK dub, dancehall, drum n bass and hiphop, is the culmination of many years of combining technology with live instrumentation, and the latest of numerous dub, hiphop and drum n bass releases. Dub Ninja can be found dropping sets around Melbourne, with the odd freestyle or toast in the mix, making heads nod with his spacious and tasty beats.

Princess One Point Five is a project born of material written outside of songwriter Sarah-Jane Wentzki's former band 'I Want a Hovercraft' in collaboration with producer Richard Andrews (Registered Nurse/Pharmacy Records), Jacob Pearce and Domenic Stanton (Because of Ghosts), and Alex Jarvis. Oh So Cold is taken from her second album, The Truth, a release with a quality of emotional intensity that has the listener soaring over undulating cinematic landscapes and landing on higher ground. Available of Pharmacy Records.

Take the last century of music, put it into a blender and serve under some moody lighting, with chilli and cocktail umbrellas. Out pours Isnod, a moody, mollases smooth melange of many a genre- the soundtrack of the fall of the current roman empire. Expect small moments of beauty and chaos through sound and digital windows of various resolution.

Miso is the product of 3 years of electronic composition by producer Thomas (Soup) Campbell, and his integration and collaborative composition with instrumentalists, Supina Bytol, Martin Hadley, Naomi Jean and Ben Skepper. Miso have a strong and unique flavour, blending elements of triphop, dub, break-beat and jazz with lush, organic textures of natural timbres, and honeyed vocals. Miso have been making a splash in the Melbourne music scene over the past year. Don't Hide Away is from their soon to be released E.P.