Tlaotlon
TLAOTLON is Jeremy Coubrough’s solo electronic project. Originally from Wellington, now living in in Melbourne, Tlaotlon music is a vivid digital psychedelia, where maximalist webs of interrythmic post-Detroit Techno merge with a more plastic sensibility that combines an interest in both cosmic and domestic futurisms. Tlaotlon records have been released by Trensmat, Dungeon Taxis and Epic Sweep, and most recently a 7″ on VAUVA, the label of Jan Anderzén (Kemialliset Ystävät /Tomutonttu).
“A glorious, dizzying blast of abstract psychedelia, looped and rhythmic, rife with woozy low end synth buzz, swirling tangled melodies, a robotic rhythmic pulse, sounds swirling and beats stuttering.” – Aquarius Records
“Many of his tracks sound like two or three different dance cuts playing on turntables simultaneously, and progressively build in energy until they struggle to stay in balance like mile-high gyroscopes dipping in and out of the clouds and crackling with lightning.” – Adam Harper, Dummy Magazine
Dawn Marble
Ashlin Raymond is an Auckland based artist who predominantly works in High Definition digital video, installation and sound. Conducted through the guise of Dawn Marble as a way to navigate around the uncomfortable zones of ego in art practice. Dawn becomes a way to play with the obsession of personal branding and power. Recent projects include: PBPR Presents 100% Pure You Blue Oyster, (Dunedin) WAV at Audio Foundation, Dawn Marble: Virtual Spa at Dog Park (Christchurch) PBPR presents Boundless Energy at Ferari, Dawn Marble: Eternal at Gloria Knight.
Raymond’s practice traces the fictional space that marketing, public relations and luxury brands create around leisure and the energies possessed through the innate pleasures that surround objects in western consumer society. Within this zone of techno-capitalism, she is interested in the current edge of technology and our constant acceleration towards the future. Raymond’s background as a musician informs her current art practice with videos and installations that often involve a sound or music element. Previous musical projects include the Christchurch based band Tiger Tones 2006-2010 and Fistful of Gems 2010-11. This project will mark the first foray into a solo music performance as “Dawn”.
This performance is a collaboration with Mark Wundercastle. Mark is an Auckland based producer and DJ. Mark has been a member of Tiger Tones, Fistful of Gems, Shocking Pinks and Pigout.
Power Nap
“Power Nap is Chris Cudby (Golden Axe, Futuresports) working with a revolving roster of friends to create jpeg-montages of nu sound. Dance music for a generation of buffered streams. Tight packets of funk/house/disco/pop bounced together like aliasing-mulch. Sounds harvested from our collective past, filtered through a dither-heavy data-economy and re-valued using the latest in digital alchemy-tek” – Crystal Magic Records
“As a listening experience ‘Just Do It’ is like arriving at the coolest afterparty ever… five or so hours too late! While you can see what a mess everyone made of the venue (confetti everywhere, etc) and feel the vibes dripping off the walls, when you look around, all you can see is a slowly malfunctioning disco ball lighting up a massive empty room, and when you look a bit closer in the corners, the odd straggler or two either A: passed out or B: making out.” – Martyn Pepperell, Vanguardred magazine