Undergrowth - {We live not underground but in the Undergrowth}

Filastine > The Last Redoubt

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 20:04:13 -0700

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

Postcards From The Machine

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 02:44:23 -0700

A Postcard from the Machine (Australian Immigration Politics) (2006)

This piece was inspired by Senator Judi Moylan's controversial crossing the floor over John Howard's failed immigration ammendment. An act described by maverick liberal MP Petro Georgiou as the most profoundly disturbing piece of legislation put forward in contemporary times.

Radio Undergrowth> Vacuum Pack by Brent Arnold

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 04:28:16 -0700

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.

Speeding Ticket by Curse ov Dialect

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 04:09:45 -0700

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).

Don't Hide Away by Miso

Sun, 03 Sep 2006 04:49:41 -0700

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.

Phone Drones by Dub Ninja

Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:21:14 -0700

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.

Radio Undergrowth> Oh So Cold by Princess1.5

Sun, 27 Aug 2006 04:42:25 -0700

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.

Radio Undergrowth > Mark's Knee by Isnod

Fri, 25 Aug 2006 03:20:24 -0700

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, molasses-smooth mélange 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.

Walkabout-Melatonin

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:31:12 -0700

Walkabout is taken from Melatonin's new album 'Positive Feedback Loop' - a collection of rootsy dub n rocksteady grooves to challenge your mind and move your feet.

With an eco-social justice conscience backed by musicians who've performed with the likes of James Brown and Aretha Franklin, Melatonin purvey an exciting blend of decadent beats with a point. Drawing comparisons to the likes of 'Fat Freddy's Drop' and 'The Clash',

Melatonin also run their own solar powered sound system, and participate in cutting edge eco-social initiatives, as well as playing crazed warehouse and outdoor chill and dance parties.

Live line up includes:
Jared Osborne - beats, samples, melodica
Euan Williamson - tablas, percussion, guitar, bass vocals
Liam O'Keefe - guitar, bass, vocals
Alastair Sorley - samples
Andy Williamson - saxophones, clarinet
Jordan Murray - trombones
Jaqc Gawler - vocals, percussion

Indymedia Essay

Mon, 24 Jul 2006 01:18:22 -0700

RESOLUTIONARY TV: REDUX ~ An Indymedia Video Essay

Sun, 23 Jul 2006 17:20:34 -0700

RESOLUTIONARY TV: REDUX
A video essay about indymedia and video activism

remixed by Tim Parish

Synopsis:
As global media control intensifies in the hands of multinational media conglomerates, the news we are presented with is increasingly one sided and influenced by prevailing corporate orthodoxies. However, as new technologies such as the internet and affordable digital cameras have increased network such as Indymedia have been able to proliferate and publish their own truths in information war of the 21st century. This video is a fast paced, cut'n'paste video essay sampling works from various documentaries and raw footage to illustrate these concepts.

Issue #6 - RANDOM MOLECULES

Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:38:40 -0700

Undergrowth #6 - RANDOM MOLECULES

From the quantum to the cosmic, chaos theory to chaos magick, political powerplays to psychedelic activism, free radicals and spiritual anarchism - beware a premature definition of reality.

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ONE CUP > by Scarab Studio & Mutiny Media

Thu, 18 May 2006 02:53:26 -0700

A short documentary film about Fair Trade and coffee farmers in Timor Leste. Filmed in the mountains of Timor-Leste January 2006, 'One Cup' offers rare insight into the struggles of coffee farming in the poorest country in Asia. Among the immense everyday difficulties described by coffee producer communities, health concerns are paramount.

I WAS ONLY 19 > Music by The Herd > video by Broken Yellow

Wed, 17 May 2006 06:24:17 -0700

The Herd have just released a new version of the classic Redgum's anti-war song "I was Only 19". The new song transforms the emotive folk of the original into a modern hip hop track and in collaboration with Sydney Production firm Broken Yellow have created a brilliant music video to accompany the song.

Fucking Televisions

Tue, 02 May 2006 00:04:45 -0700

"Fucking Televisions", 1998

I drew this picture when I first heard about the Adbusters campaign "Turn Off the TV".Originally published in my first zine Verb #0 in 1999.