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The Deepfried Dub Sound System is a Melbourne based electronic duo bringing together the talents of local producers B.Hartless (Ben Hartley) and Dr.Benway (Ben Dudding).
The Deepfried sound is an eclectic mix of dubwise vibes and fat beats that cross such diverse genres as Dub, Drum ‘n Bass, Electro, House and Breakbeat. Having set up a studio in Melbourne (Polygon Labs) over the last five years, these two Kiwi boys have a long musical history in the early electronic dance scene in New Zealand.
It all started in 1993 when Ben (Dudding) purchased a
sampler with his student loan money and the two (then flatmates) started
writing beats and sampling anything that moved.
Going under the name ‘Redivider’ they started to play at
some of the first underground dance parties in Auckland.
Their early involvement in integral events such as the gathering helped
form the early dance music scene in New Zealand and gained them a cult
following and extensive radio play on alternative radio.
In 1997 Redivider released the track ‘isorhythmic’ on the compilation ‘AK ‘97’, a collaborative project documenting the Auckland electronica scene at the time.
Now based in Melbourne, Ben and Ben continue to produce their sound in collaboration with other artists at the polygon lab studios.
Deepfried Dub are currently writing and remixing tunes and have tracks being released on the influential N.Z ‘Loop’ label and are looking forward to playing Earthdance at Federation Square on Sept 18th .
B HARTLESS:
Working in the polygon labs studio B. Hartless (a.k.a.
Ben Hartley) has produced numerous quality tracks including the hit
song “Slumber” with his sister, up and coming vocalist ‘Lotus’,
which has recently had much radio play Throughout New Zealand.
Lotus will be releasing her solo in the next couple of months on “loop” (N.Z).
Currently working with Australian artists such as Jess Cornelius and Deep Fried Dub Sound Systems, B Hartless is rapidly gaining a name as one of Melbourne’s freshest new DJ/Producers.
B Hartless is presently organising and holding residencies at regular club nights such as Deep Fried and Comfy breaks alongside some of Melbourne’s finest Dj’s and dance music producers.
DR BENWAY:
Dr Benway (a.k.a. Ben Dudding) with his unique blend
of contemporary beats and Aotearoa flavours is establishing himself
as one of Melbourne’s up and coming Drum and Bass Producers.
His collaboration with vocalist ‘Lotus’ on the track “Little
Things” has had considerable radio play in New Zealand and has
been released on the 2002 Radio Active Sampler CD.
Recently Dr Benway remixed a tune by the up and coming local dub band “The
Red Eyes” which has been released on their ‘High Place’ E.P.
Dr Benway regularly plays his music in Melbourne and New Zealand at such
events as Alpine Unity and is an integral member of the Deep Fried Dub
Sound Systems collective.
For bookings or further info : Contact:
Ben Dudding
ph: 0405623243 or Email: ben.dudding@vu.edu.au
Miss Renee is popular in the bush, in a club, on the dancefloor or behind the decks. People respond to her determination and passion, vivacious personality and energetic performances. Her undoubted talent for spinning eclectic styles of music take her to different parts of Melbourne’s techno world from deep jazzy vocal house, psy trance and progressive house.
Miss Renee’s debut was in 99 at a Boxing Day event for Green Ant. Her impressive set led to playing at Australia’s largest trance party, Rainbow Serpent Festival in January 2000, where she has played every year since. March 2000 saw Miss Renee play her first club set at the happening rave Xsive with her special cocktail of Trance and Progressive House. She caught the eye of Earthcore promoters and went on to play at Mt Disappointment in November 2000 and Earthcore February 2001, November 2001, February 2002 and May 2002.
During 2000 and 2001 Miss Renee has had regular sets
with Raging Rhino Promotions and Smile Police. Her first Residency
at Trance4M led to a meeting with upcoming producer Tristan Boyle and
in 2002 they have started to co produce house music with an upcoming
release in the pipeline.
Miss Renee had a regular programme with Swinburn Student Radio throughout
2001 called “Techno” Ferrets. Shannon Guiles from Triple
R, then invited Miss Renee to co-host a fortnightly Friday night show “The
Back Room”
2002 has seen Miss Renee start her own monthly progressive night “LURE” and in conjunction with Dion Barron, Andy K and Steve Allen, a monthly tribal progressive house night “Essence” at the Sugar Suite. Another current project is the management of a new website melbprogressive dedicated promoting progressive house dj’s and artists in Melbourne.
Miss Renee is currently producing her own tracks under the tutelage of master producer ‘Rip Van Hippy’ from Psyharmonics and plans to release her first CD of original funky sounds in 2004.
Miss Rene will play at the Earthdance Launch Party 6th August at Public Office and Earthdance Festival 18th September at Federation Square.
Based in Melbourne, Australia, Electronic Producer team Slippery Finger and Gygax, with artists/performers Diamond's Apostle, Josef and Chantal are creating a new wave of sophisticated, SEXY, universal electronic music.
Slippery Finger is not genre specific, taking advantage of the collaboration of various artists and song writers. Slippery Finger has completed projects based on numerous styles, creating a unique analogue sound-scape in the digital realm.
Slippery
Finger's influences have been taken as much from the music that he
listens to (Trent Reznor, Tricky, DJ Krush, Filter, Radiohead, Talking
Heads), as from the artists that he works with (refer to a live show...).
Starting with classical piano at age 6, he soon rivalled the 'talents'
of Mozart until his brother (Gygax) inserted a micro-chip into his
ear, thus becoming the producer/performer he is today.
This year Slippery Finger is proud to be apart of Earthdance and guarantees a show that the festival will be sure to never forget.....
Russian
born-Sydney based DJ Sveta is widely known around Australia for her
unforgettable and explosive sets at Sydney’s annual Mardi Gras
and Sleaze Ball dance parties. These parties are the largest nighttime
events in the Southern Hemisphere, hosting an average of 15,000 to
25,000 people respectively.
Sveta plays a diverse and eclectic range of funky, twisted, deep and dirty grooves, programming and blending various styles seamlessly with innovative layering and sampling. Her sets range from electro, vocal house, deep-tribal house, funky tech-house, progressive house and techno. Sveta tailors her sets accordingly, whether she plays a smooth uplifting opening set, a driving funky midnight set or a deep sexy closing set.
With a record-breaking 10 “Mardi Gras and Sleaze Ball” parties, Sveta has been placed along side internationals guests such as, Frankie Knuckles, Alan Thompson, Victor Calderone, Wayne G, Rachael Aurburn, Gonzales, Fregie, Barry Harris, Neil Lewis and Stephen Allkins a.k.a. [love] Tattoo. In the year 2000, Sveta’s success and popularity with the Mardi Gras parties saw her selected by the Mardi Gras organization to mix their Millenium commemorative CD, which sold around 15,000 copies.
Sveta has appeared at a number of distinguished parties and dance-festivals across Australia. Having headlined “NYE Welcome 2001” along side John Digweed and Deep Dish along with supporting sets along side Mrs. Woods, BK, Pete Wardman and with Dave Chambers at Sydney’s mega-club “HOME”.
Sveta has held numerous residencies at some of Sydney’s most famous clubs, including “Home”, “Sublime”, “Icebox”, “ARQ” and not to mention the infamous “Hellfire” S&M Fetish Club. Sveta works as a full time club and bar DJ. She makes numerous guest appearances in Sydney and frequently travels around Australia, playing regularly in Tasmania and Queensland.
In 2001, Sveta was selected to headline the Annual “World AIDS Day” charity dance party in Tokyo Japan. Playing at CODE Nightclub Shinjuku, Tokyo’s largest dance space. She also made her debut in New York in 2001 at Daddy’s Bar as well as being selected as MTV’s Music Generator PS2 game local representative, along with David Morales. In 2002, Sveta appeared at the Annual “HERO” dance party in Auckland, New Zealand, headlining along side Crazy Penis (Paper Recordings), [love] Tattoo and Dick Johnson (Shaboom). In June/ July 2002, Sveta headed to London to play at the legendary Torture Garden Fetish night along with a headlining set at London’s Mardi Gras in the FIST tent and the monthly FIST parties. She also made appearances at the Purple Turtle Bar in Camden and Seed nightclub in Angel.
Over
the last 24 months, Sveta has taken her DJ skills into the studio working
with rising Sydney producer Tonemeister in a collaboration producing
progressive house, tribal, funky techno tracks.
“ Phoenix”, the first of the collaborations between Sveta and Tonemeister
was featured on Universal Records dance compilation, Elastic Vol 1, the debut
release of Universal’s new dance label, Hyperion Dance. Sveta was selected
to mix up an underground selection of progressive tech-house and funky techno.
This release attracted rave reviews across Australia and New Zealand for its
quality and innovation. ‘Phoenix’ was also remixed by Infusion, one
of Australia’s most successful producers/artists.
Sveta maintained a solid 12 years on underground community radio station 2SER-FM. She was one of the first announcers to ever play dance music on radio and produced and hosted her popular weekly breakfast show until June 2002.
The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) has recognized her contribution and support to the dance music scene over the years. Sveta is among the top 100 DJ’s around Australia who have been exclusively selected to comprise the official weekly ARIA Dance chart. At the 2001 ARIA Awards, she was further honored as one of only 30 DJs chosen to select the award for the Best Australian Dance Artist/Track of the Year. In 2002 and 2003, she was selected as a specialist judge for the ARIA Awards. In 2003, Sveta played at Australia’s biggest music festival, THE BIG DAY OUT, Djing in between Chicks on Speed and Gonzales in the Hot House. Sveta returned to radio in 2003, joining FBI to host a monthly dance mix-up show on Saturday Nights called ‘The Spit’. Sveta currently holds residencies at the Phoenix, Arq and The Sly Fox. In 2003, she was the only female DJ to be nominated for the ‘Best DJ’ award at the DIVA’s. Her recent gigs included an unforgettable set at the 2004 Mardi Gras Party, Brisbane’s famous Big Gay Day, Transmission, launching a new season of the Studio at the Sydney Opera House and playing at the first Drag King Convention in Melbourne.
Sveta has a reputation for reliability and integrity amongst her peers. Known as one of the nicest and most approachable DJs on the scene, Sveta is among the few DJs that have emerged from the underground community playing to a diverse and wide cross-over audience of straight, gay, young, old, queer and fetish scenes
Sveta is capable at grabbing hold of a dance-floor and taking it to the edge with a spellbinding mix of music that will leave the collective audience absolutely breathless.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION VISIT
http://www.djsveta.com/
CONTACT FOR BOOKINGS SVETA GILERMAN
+612 0412 200 084 | sveta@djsveta.com
Melbourne percussionist Simon Lewis leads this butt shakin’ fusion of West African beats and local jazz talent.
Glen Kniebeiss, Ria Soemardjo and Chris
Sprague explore the intersection
of three great musical cultures: India, Indonesia and the Arabic world. 
About the instruments:
Ju Ju
The Gorilla Soapbox sees mad Melbourne-based
emerging arts community, The Gorilla, present a space for unbridled expression.
Andrew
Till began Djing in the late eighties fusing together many elements
within the electronic musical genre's ranging from techno, trance,
ambient, acid, house, industrial, psychedelia through to noize weaving
a vast aural spectrum of sound. He was also one of pivotal forces forces
behind the Melbourne techno/trance community from his involvement in
setting up Melbourne's first dedicated underground electronic label
Psy-Harmonics in 1992 with Ollie Olsen and rocking at more parties
across Australia than most could begin to count, right from the first
outdoor parties in Victoria including the early Earthcore parties,
where he has been a highlight for the thousand's of outdoor party freaks
since the early 90's. As well as regularly playing around Australia,
Andrew has been spreading the sound of Psy-Harmonics across the globe
over the last eight years with regular tours to such places as; Japan,
America, London, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Switzerland,
New Zealand & South Africa. 
VJ
Spook (a.k.a Nick Palin), has cut his teeth with best of the Australian
underground, providing innovative visual stimuli for audiences at parties
all over the eastern coast of Australia.