Shapednoise

Shapednoise is a speakerripping electronics/noise techno producer. Based in Berlin, this Italian’s boundless compositional approach has lead him to some superb musical achievements. Intense, grinding, propulsive and immersive, his one-of-a-kind style has proven to be undoubtedly versatile.

“His music’s physical in the way that fevers and heartbreak and fear are physical, affecting every sense at once and casting a shadow over every inch of your periphery”. (Fact Magazine) 

The project debuted in 2013, with a limited edition cassette on Hospital Productions—a label owned by Dominick Fernow AKA Prurient/Vatican Shadow. Not much later, he released the truly aggressive “Until Human Voices Wake Us” on Opal Tapes, venturing in more vanguard realms.

In 2015, Shapednoise premiered a new audiovisual project, "Metaphysical", together with visual artist sYn. This deep and dense creation explores the textural complexities of the sonic and physical world we live in. The duo focuses on the duality of unanswerable questions — What is beauty? What is natural? What is noise? What is music? —, thereby inviting audiences to act not as mere art consumers, but also take active part in a dialogue on the metaphysics and the aesthetics of sound and image.

In January 2017 Logos and Mumdance' label, Different Circles released their new compilation "Weightless vol.2" on vinyl with 'Deep Core Consciousness' - a new original Shapednoise' track. Hints of new collaborations with a variety of bass and drone protagonists also lie in the near future.

oMMM

Edmund Davie’s oMMM project ventures deep into the murky realms of cassette experimentation, with his latest release on the Alien Jams label, called Parallel Lines Converge. Cassette collage and drum machine rhythms are channeled through a trusty four track, sounds that seem to belong to some distant cosmological order. Noise synths and casiotone are drenched in tape hiss, rising to intoxicating proportions, adding yet another hazy veil to oMMM’s work. With as much attention paid to eerily buzzing soundscapes as overloaded drum sequences, oMMM navigates a vast expanse of sonic no-man’s land, all the while teetering on the brink of madness. 

"oMMM is the brainchild of Edmund Davie and uses primitive electronics, four-track cassette recorder, tape work, synth and drum machine to generate the kind of lonely lunar satellites that combine the feel of early Asmus Tietchens with classic, spooked bedroom radiophonia and an eerie occult/galactic atmosphere that is somewhere between The Conet Project and Joe Meek’s I Hear A New World. Tracks read like NASA interceptions of punk primitive alien technologies tone-dialling 20th century receptors with squiggles of shortwave, early Industrial wasp soundings, brain-blotting loops and clunky hermetic drones underlining the whole scientific bedroom hobbyist appeal. Unmusical and mind-bendingly crude, this makes for the perfect combination of eccentric analogue experimentation and cold, austere Kluster/Conrad Schnitzler style dead dark space" David Keenan 

DESIGN A WAVE

Design a Wave aka Tom Hirst is a London based artist who has recently released music on Rush Hour's No Label, as well as contributing past releases on Luke Younger's Alter label. 

"Tom Hirst has been making music for many moons. Initial buds featured tape collages, distangled pop music, various dictaphone experiments, and over time all this meshed and warped into his solo musical venture known as Design A Wave. Initiated in the late 90s, the project was loosely named after one of the gangs in the Troma film Surf Nazis Must Die which, alongside other similar movies and music of it's time, informed a particular vision of an idealized weird - a trashy synth orientated 80s B-movie soundtrack, which provided an aesthetic platform on which to dive, surf and ride."

Shelley Parker

Bass frequencies, live audio feeds and found sounds are recurring themes within Shelley Parker’s performance, installation and music production. In 2003, two years after her DJ debut at the club night Nerd, she was invited to join the Haywire agency alongside Andrew Weatherall and Radioactive Man. Her distinctive style, encompassing elements of old school hardcore, noise and techno has led to DJ sets in venues as diverse as Fabric and Tate Britain. Since 2007 she has run the label and events programme Structure. Her recent releases include the Power Station EP and Spurn Point, an album of edits and extracts from her music/sound projects produced from 2011 – 2013. As well as releasing on her own label, her solo work and remixes have come out on Acre, Adaadat, Bulletdodge, Entr’acte, Myzuk, Opal Tapes and WotNot. She has also contributed to the Wire Magazine’s Below the Radar series with Drill and her track Spectral from the album Spurn Point appears on Boomkat’s 14 tracks series. Her music production has received wide support from artists such as Ontal, Sturqen, Nic Bullen, Manni Dee, Richard Norris, The Black Dog and Ancient Methods and the Sleeper Line EP for Entr’acte was voted by Fact Magazine as one of the best EP's from Jan - June 2013. Shelley regularly performs her own music and DJ sets for events such as Flussi Festival (Italy), Sound of Stockholm Contemporary Music & Sound Art Festival, The Outer Church at La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Borealis Festival (Norway), Strefa Monotype at the Centre for Contemporary Art (Warsaw) and the Test Dept’s event Total State Machine (UK).