Friday 3 June 2022, 8pm
CS + Kreme are Conrad Standish and Sam Karmel – two Australians who record slow, hallucinatory experimental music. There was a meeting of minds at an intrepid friend's day-party in Melbourne a few years back, then after one alchemic studio jam – the rest was history.
Over the past few years, CS + Kreme have released a string of disparate records on DIY labels which share their ethos: Total Stasis, Wichelroede and the Trilogy Tapes. The latter collaborations with Will Bankhead have been the most prolific, his label becoming an unofficial home away from home for the duo. Issuing EPs Cold Shoulder in 2018, howwouldyoufeelwithoutthatthought, as well as the Snoopy LP to critical acclaim in 2020.
Snoopy is their most comprehensive body of work to date. It connected deeply with people during the pandemic and polled high in various end of year lists with prominent electronic musical outlets such as Resident Advisor, XLR8R, Crack Magazine and Boomkat who dubbed it: "An absolute treasure of an album - a quietly seductive, deeply romantic and stealthily addictive long-player in the most classic, enduring sense."
Ciccio & 2mo are Francesco Pastaldi (Jean-Louis, Fantazio) & Olivier Demeaux (Heimat, Accident du travail). 'They explore the cracks between classic French psych and industrial, a la Vox Populi or Geins’t Naït, and its contemporary descendents as found on the likes of Low Jack’s Editions Gravats (BZMC, Èlg, Maoupa Mazzochetti)" Boomkat