Andrez

A new el cheapo home for the Tokyo/Melbourne label collective: http://if-records.weebly.com/

Hey mates! Here's my latest L.N. release, thanks to the kind-hearted denizens of Dead Channel in the UK, which is a FREE download LP! Pass this on to any of your chums, too - nice to get freebie sounds sometimes, especially when the global economy is doing its take on a fancy swallow dive. The title is a bit of a self-indulgent piss-take, since at the time I was putting this baby together I was using 24 different muzakal aliases and was completely confused which one was which. I now have 4 more aliases, so it's hardly any easier! Stylistically it's a hotch-potch, ramming together house, breaks, drum & bass, electro, hip-hop, and a wad of silly film/music samples and bootleg moments. Also, the first track, 'The Black Bird', is a bit of an homage to pop the champagne cork on the bicentennial since Edgar Allan Poe's birth. LITTLE NOBODY "I HAVE BECOME SO MANY PEOPLE I DO NOT KNOW WHICH IS MYSELF" free download here: http://www.dead-channel.com/releases/channel026/ [1] The Black Bird (Noir Mix, featuring Mike Vendetti) [2] George Sanders (The Caddish Crooner Mix) [3] We Call It Crack House (Il Capitano's contraband Mix) [4] The Jazz Wringer (Javier's Smoking Jacket Remix) [5] 100 Years of Vicissitude [6] Laika, Belka and Strelka [7] Cat N-Ebb [8] I, Gottaman (Il Capitano's Contraband Mix) [9] Rikki Tikki Tavi (Jungle Taitei Remix) VIDEO While you're there, check out the other free brand new Dead Channel releases from Noisepsalm & Asymptote and Dimomib. Enjoy (I hope!), A-Team

Woo-hoo!!

New one out today - and now for something completely different: ABiS "Days Remixes" IF059 AVAILABLE FROM FEB. 28 VIA JUNO DOWNLOAD, ADDICTECH + INPUT-OUTPUT INC. http://www.junodownload.com/ppps/products/1396577-02.htm BACKGROUND GUFF The original version of ‘Days’ is a stunning post-trip-hop track that deposits itself somewhere in the realm of Portishead, Lamb and Massive Attack; it’s been cut by several-member Romanian band, ABiS, headed by brilliant vocalist, Marina Gingirof (perhaps not famous yet, but more than likely destined to be), canny producer Costin Dumitrache, and pianist Horatiu Serbanescu. This particular project also marks IF? Records’ first foray into remixing bands. The second track is straight out of Tokyo - a Little Nobody remix that goes more lo-fi experimental/electro, with the beats stripped out, something like Nightmares On Wax colliding with Scanner. Maybe. Track 3 here is a remix by Melbourne-based producer Ben Mill (better known as Bitch Shift, but here remixing under the alias Chairman Of The Board). Think laid-back, fairly straight-forward house accompanied by Afro-Cuban percussion. To us, it sounds like Portishead, if they were drinking Bacardi in Havana. IF? label head honcho Andrez Bergen goes off on some kind of housey/disquo/spacey wash tangent on Track 4, while Nana Mouskouri’s Spectacles goes for breakbeats and an hilarious jazz tangent to round out the release. With fellow band Aneb also doing sizzling stuff, we’re thinking Bucharest may be the next best holiday destination in a financially-iffy year. TRACKLIST 1. ABiS “Days” 2. ABiS “Days” (Little Nobody remix) 3. ABiS “Days” (Chairman of the Board remix) 4. ABiS “Days” (Andrez Bergen remix) 5. ABiS “Days” (Nana Mouskouri’s Spectacles remix) VIDEOCLIP ('DAYS' LIVE VERSION)

Ha Ha Ha - how did I miss this profession of affection?! Cheers mate!!

ANDREZ BERGEN “EAT TATOO DEAD TIGER” (Auricular Records) The people at the way cool, insanely long-running (20 years now) U.S. experimental/industrial/noize label, AURICULAR, saw fit to give me the op to release an album through them, which I snatched up and the resultant beastie is now available as of yesterday - appropriate enough, Friday the 13th. It's called EAT TATOO DEAD TIGER (and subtitled Squalid Cold Tokyo Collectibles), and brings together 19 tracks I composed under around 20 different aliases, most of them more leftfield/noise/glitch/downright silly. Find out more from them via the nice little site they set up for the LP right here: http://andrezbergen.auricular.com/ By the way, don't bother getting your dictionary out; tattoo is misspelled on purpose (really!) - the album is named after this hilarious J-English t-shirt I picked up here in Tokyo. The cover design is itself a distorted version of that very tee... Check out Auricular's other catalogue where possible, in particular the brand new one from my mate, NOISEPSALM, which is coming out also today - it's called "Soma Causatum" and is way cool.

SPEAKING OF MELBOURNE - THIS ONE'S NOW OUT VIA JUNO DOWNLOAD: Zen Paradox Pat Stormont "Split 12-inch, Minus Vinyl #3" IFO63 It's somehow appropriate that this latest in the 'Split 12-inch, Minus Vinyl' series starts with a new track by current Melbourne electronic music enfant terrible, Pat Stormont, and it finishes on a track recorded in 1995 by Zen Paradox - that same much-lauded electronic music city's undoubted techno/electro elder statesman, and a man still amazingly relevant 14 years later. Which is exactly how old IF? Records itself is this year; the baby that was also kick-started - again in Melbourne, Australia - in 1995, is now an unwieldy teenager living it up in Tokyo, Japan. Yet in spite of alcoholic and substance abuse, wear and tear, and the tyranny of distance, the label has never forgotten some dodgy roots in its city of birth, and the amazing depth of talent (and experimentation) exemplified by these two debonair gents with their aural cutlasses and a perfectly attuned, matching musical philosophy. Downloadable here: SPLIT 12-INCH, MINUS VINYL #3 @ JUNO DOWNLOAD http://www.junodownload.com/ppps/products/1396556-02.htm ...and lovely indeed.

Yep, the man is spot-on! :wink: Best party purveyors in Melbs these days are the More Bass crew, who do parties once a month or so.

Jeff Mills, at the Liquid Room here in Tokyo, in 2002. Ye gods.

Nice work, lads!

Japanese DJ/producer Shin Nishimura, of Plus Tokyo fame, is often mentioned in the same reverent sentence as Ken Ishii and Takkyu Ishino, and was just picked up for release through Dubfire's SCI+TEC label in 2009. His remix on Hypnotic Room is nice and dark, grubby, and will be huge; he certainly loves his 808! Think a sprinkling of Dave Clarke 15 years ago, mixed into a wild, bustling, cross-fader duel between Jeff Mills, DJ Sneak and Dubfire. "This is Techno," Shin said, quite simply, when asked to describe the mix. Amen to that. Samples and more info here http://www.hypnoticroom.com/hroomsp003.html Also, there're two new interviews with Shin Nishimura online now... One at the way cool FUN IN THE MURKY site here: http://www.fun-in-the-murky.com/mt/2009/01/shin-nishimura-plus-tokyo.html The other one is at Beatportal: http://www.beatportal.com/feed/item/shin-nishimura-signs-to-scitec/ Great to get these kind of insights into one of Japan's best current DJ/producers.

DAVE TARRIDA / JASON LEACH "Split 12-Inch, Minus Vinyl #2" IF? Records [iF061] IF? here fires off its own digital broadside salvo, via two of techno's best and more innovative long-term practitioners. Continuing on the piratical theme kick-started when Little Bitches walked the proverbial plank a couple of weeks back, comes this second volume in the Split 12-inch, Minus Vinyl series. This time our swashbuckling producers-of-the-moment are the seminally illustrious Dave Tarrida (Sativae/Tresor/Mosquito) and Jason Leach, of Subhead fame (Tresor, Death To Vinyl). Both fellas have here taken a spanner and trusty blade to the old Little Nobody/DJ Fodder track from 1999, 'Cocaine Speaking', and the contemporary interpretation by the two lads is nothing short of subtly wonky, mind-blowing tech/electro/house that'd dessimate most hard-driving aural senses. Superb? Yes. Over-the-top? Hell yeah. Jason Leach's mix is itself 14 minutes of wayward madness. THE PSEUDO 12-INCH IS AVAILABLE ONLINE NOW, EXCLUSIVE TO INPUT-OUTPUT INC.: http://i-o-inc.com/?catNo=if061 Look out for it also @ Addictech here: http://ifrecords.addictech.com/ Tracklisting: 1. Cocaine Speaking (Dave Tarrida remix) 2. Cocaine Speaking (Jason Leach remix)

Ahhh, cheers, mate!! :wink: Works kind'a well with the muzak this time round, methinks...

JAPAN: DJ Warp + Captain Funk + Shin Nishimura + Funk Gadget MELBOURNE: Son Of Zev + Bitch Shift + Enclave + Pat Stormont + Koda SYDNEY: DJ Hi-Shock GERMANY: Jammin' Unit + Khan Oral + Biochip C USA: Steve Stoll + Paul Birken UK: Dave Tarrida + Bill Youngman + Jason Leach + Micoland

LITTLE NOBODY "Game Over: Reboot" IF? Records [iF068] This one's a bit of collection of recent stuff from the coffer of the Little Nobody self-indulgent head-space, so hope you bear with it! It continues on from the theme of the 'Game Over' EP released last year, and includes 3 of the tracks from that selection, plus some newbies. Chris Downton in his review for 3D World mag in Sydney described the 'Game Over' stuff thus: "In its original mix form, 'Game Over' certainly carries all of Bergen's signature eccentric traits, blending snatches of bizarre vocal sampling with asymmetrical electronic rhythms and squelching, near-acid synths, but in this case, it's the reworkings that really impress. The Juice & Jelly mix heightens the paranoia factor, adding menacing vast sub-bass synth drones and contorted horror movie score samples to stellar effect, before the Pakistani Tory mix injects some exotic atmosphere, with the addition of hypnotically swirling Middle Eastern strings. Finally, the closing Dereliction Due gets just as spacious and deconstructed as its title suggests. Head-bending stuff from Little Nobody that's well worth investigating." THE ALBUM IS AVAILABLE ONLINE THIS WEEK, EXCLUSIVE TO INPUT-OUTPUT INC., RIGHT HERE: http://i-o-inc.com/?catNo=if068 Tracklisting: 1 Game Over 2 Juice & Jelly 3 Pakistani Tory 4 Dereliction Due 5 Bonny Voyager (Veronica du Lac remix) 6 Tally Ho, Cocoa 7 Jidaigeki Brekky 8 The Black Bird

...either that or head down to Melbourne... :wink:

Hey mate - welcome 'n' all that jazz! :wink:

Oh man - that's unbelievable!! To paraphrase Hamm from Toy Story, I despise Facebook.

Nice one!!

LITTLE BITCHES "Split 12-Inch, Minus Vinyl" IF? Records [iF069] Fresh off the boat this week, direct from the wayward coffers of IF? Records, comes this little beauty with the honest title - well, hell, it's a digital download-only offering, so don't go figure. Little Bitches is the footloose and fancy-free brand new collaborative pairing of the Chairman of the Board himself, Ben Mill (aka Bitch Shift), in Melbourne, and me (Little Nobody) in Tokyo - hence, obviously, our silly project title - and here we started out by remixing one of each other's latest tracks. It drifts somewhere in the terrain between kick-arse tech/electro and freestyle IDM, with darker elements of acid and house sandwiched within, and perhaps even a missing parrot or two. What the pirate iconography on the cover has to do with anything is anybody's guess. Heck, who doesn't love old skool literary pirates? So, if you're inspired by this somewhat rambling press-release, you better trundle along only to Addictech and Input-Output Inc. (we're skipping Beatport and the rest of the big-wig online fleets) to listen to the samples, and better yet spend your hard-earned cash on one or both of the mixes by the buccaneering "artists" involved. I don't know about Ben, but I could do with a gold doubloon or two in my rather threadbare pirate chest. THE PSEUDO 12-INCH IS AVAILABLE ONLINE TODAY, EXCLUSIVE TO INPUT-OUTPUT INC., RIGHT HERE: http://i-o-inc.com/?catNo=if069 Later in the week, look out for it @ Addictech here: http://ifrecords.addictech.com/ Tracklisting: 1. Psyborg-9 - Your Soul Is Mine (Bitch Shift remix) (8:01) 2. Bitch Shift - Citrus Funk (Little Nobody remix) (7:15)

Metropolis How? Little Nobody (IF? Records - IF060) Here’s what Angela Fox had to say in a review that just showed up in Electroniquette mag - dunno about the references to Dave Clarke and Richie Hawtin, but we can live with the Madonna/J-pop comparisons! REVIEW “Flashback to 1994, to a then still-underground, cutting edge rave scene. The year Dave Clarke unleashed his superbly iconic ‘Red 2’ record through Bush, just a few months after Richie Hawtin (as Plastikman) released one of the best acid records ever, the slowly bubbling, boiling ‘Krakpot’, through Plus 8. 1994 was the year Madonna asked David Letterman to smell her underwear and began dating 2Pac (before he died), the Cold War between Russia and China officially ended, Faye Valentine from ‘Cowboy Bebop’ is supposed to have been born, and Namie Amuro ruled Japanese J-pop music. It was also the year Andrez Bergen began DJing in Melbourne, a city at that time on the cusp of greatness, with rising talents in the form of David Thrussell (Snog), Steve Law (Zen Paradox) and Voiteck, and regular visits from all of Detroits’s greats, from Claude Young to Stacey Pullen. ‘Metropolis How?’ is a flashback record, patient and eclectic, mixing acid and minimal techno and Madonna-style schlock and J-pop, with moments both Clarkian and Hawtin-like at their peak in that far-flung year almost 15 years back, tweaked with a more subversive, knowing 2008 mentality - which can never, ever, be such a bad tangent to take.” Metropolis How? is now available online with the wonderful people at INPUT – OUPUT INC. http://i-o-inc.com/?catNo=if060 IT’S ALSO AVAILABLE NOW ONLINE @ ADDICTECH: http://ifrecords.addictech.com/ TRACKLIST Tracklisting: 1 Metropolis How? (9:21) 2 Poiseworks (Fiddle At My Behoof Remake by Andrez Bergen) (8:44) 3 Metropolis How? (Acid Clash-Back by Funk Gadget) (8:12) 4 Metropolis How? (Gustav Fröhlich Twiddle by Dick Drone) (9:44) VIDEOS A vaguely interesting one by moi, and a cooler one by Joe @ Global Tracks… Little Nobody – Metropolis How? Little Nobody – Metropolis How? (Funk Gadget remix) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu-ZTR3e1LQ

CONVERSATIONAL DENTURES "Suicidio Plus+" IF? Records [iF067] This one's fresh out today, and brings together a bunch of recent and new(ish) tracks that are knocking 'em (relatively) dead over here in Tokyo. THIS ONE IS AVAILABLE ONLINE TODAY, EXCLUSIVE TO INPUT-OUTPUT INC., RIGHT HERE: http://i-o-inc.com/?catNo=if067 Tracklisting: 01 . Suicidio (Model 73 mix) (5:20) 02 . Suicidio (Léon Nagant M1895 mix) (6:24) 03 . Go Play the Atari (2:05) 04 . The Mean Reds (4:44) 05 . Teeth Rattler (3:01) VIDEOCLIP: CONVERSATIONAL DENTURES - SUICIDIO

Z-13.2: 13 Years of IF? Records, Vol. 2 Various Artists (IF? Records - IF047) Taking up where Vol. 1 in this series left off earlier this month, Vol. 2 continues to celebrate 13 years of disparate electronica by our Melbourne/Tokyo label, and this time goes more down-tempo/eclectic, with moments of (shock, horror) pop muzak alongside hip hop, R&B-electro, cut-up stuff, dubstep, and subversive chill-out fodder. And this time we have two tracks by Can Oral, brother of Jammin' Unit, best known as Captain Comatose and just plain Khan, as well as Bizz OD, a bunch of tracks by experimental Japanese artists, a lot of Melbourne-made sounds (including a nice collaborative number by Cuznmatt, Artificial remixed, Isnod remixing), etc, etc. 16 tracks of wayward madness. Yep, IF? Records - the baby that was also kick-started in Melbourne in 1995 - is now an unwieldy teenager. COMPILATION AVAILABLE NOW ONLINE EXCLUSIVE TO ADDICTECH: http://ifrecords.addictech.com/ TRACKLIST 1 Khan - Favor After Favor 2 Micoland - Deeper Than Skin (Dead Channel mix) 3 Masaya Sasaki - Lovely 7 Pumpkin 4 Admiral Anderision vs. Atomic Autocrac - Questionable 5 Little Nobody, feat. Marcella - Bare (Isnod remix) 6 Little Nobody - Get Away From It All 7 Conversational Dentures - Suicidio 8 Zero Cash & Khan - Chitin Body (I'm Single mix) 9 Electron. Tee - Yellow Bird 10 Tidy Kid - Fragment 2 (Bumper Car Remix by Alex) 11 Funk Gadget vs. Cuznmatt - Blow The Bloody Doors Off 12 Little Nobody vs. DJ Fodder - Cocaine Speaking (Kero remix) 13 Admiral Anderision - No Hard Feelings 14 Nana Mouskouri's Spectacles - Hip Eigo 15 Artificial - Scanning Normal Speed (3:58 Moments Of Mayhem remix) 16 Alone Together - The Beginning Of Human (The Absolute Emperor mix) BACKGROUND GUFF Over the years, both in the studio and on the live stage, IF? has worked closely with fellow Melburnians Steve Law (Zen Paradox), Voiteck, TR-Storm, Little Nobody, David Haberfeld (Pura/Honeysmack), Artificial, FSOM, Q-Kontrol, Adam Raisbeck (Soulenoid/Sense), Guyver 3, Son Of Zev, Isnod, Nordcore, Blimp, David Thrussell (Snog/Black Lung), Beam Up, DJ Fodder, Kandyman, Amnesia and Mute Freak, and more recently Pat Stormont, Bitch Shift, Cuznmatt, and Enclave. Since relocating to Japan in 2001, we've also taken on board a wad of cool Japanese artists including Captain Funk (Sublime), Toshiyuki Yasuda (Megadolly), Magnet Toy (Trope), Mumeishi (TTAK), Yamaoka (Holzplatten), Dick Drone, Masaya Sasaki, Shin Nishimura, Naotoxin, CHIZQ, and Alone Together. Other international artists involved with IF? during the past 13 big ones (and upcoming in 2009) have included Si Begg, Tobias Schmidt, Dave Tarrida, Thomas Heckmann, Biochip C, Jammin' Unit, Jason Leach (Subhead), Pnau, Cinnaman, Pocket, Brixton, Tal, Steve Cobby (Fila Brazillia), Dr. Walker, Paul Birken, Gene Farris, and Steve Stoll. This time around, the intention was not so much to glorify the label's 13 years (which probably wouldn't have a hope of standing up to such glorification, anyway, given the slack way in which it's been run over the years!), but to continue what we've always tried to do: Showcase our current favourite artists (especially new ones) and musical directions, give diversity a healthy shake, and put the spotlight on our city of birth, Melbourne, along with our adoptive home in Japan - then the rest of the world as well. Cheers to all the artists involved, and for god's sake go check out their own music. These guys seriously rock. Hard. Rad. You can find out more about our aging label over on Discogs here: http://www.discogs.com/label/IF%3F A COUPLE'A VIDEOS Conversational Dentures - Suicidio Masaya Sasaki – Lovely 7 Pumpkin Alone Together - The Beginning Of Human Little Nobody - Get Away From It All

Andrez Bergen 'Disquo' EP (Hypnotic Room) Yep, you read right (above). A new EP by me, finally admitting to the misdemeanor instead of hiding behind one of the 23 other production aliases I have. Ahem. Weird. And I can't hope to sing my own praises here, or recommend pushing you in the direction of this music, without feeling sheepish and a bit silly, so here instead are the direct links, in case you get inspired anyway: DISQUO @ Beatportal: https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/release/detail/147805/disquo_ep Juno Download: http://www.junodownload.com/ppps/products/1368847-02.htm Beats Digital http://www.beatsdigital.com/ There's also DJ/producer feedback and a bit of a promo spiel thingy at Sydney label, Hypnotic Room, who were encouraging and indulgent enough to get behind me on this one - see http://www.hypnoticroom.com/hroom021.html It reads thus... "Welcome to the Disquoteque! With more than just a slight change in the spelling of the word, Andrez Bergen (alias Little Nobody) channels a childhood bombarded by disco and hitches it to Status Quo, then filters the concoction into darker '70s stuff by Black Sabbath, and the cut-up mentality of Cabaret Voltaire. Disquo rules the equation, and Bergen's original mix starts out as hardish house, before breaking down into an acid line and joyfully distorted Rhodes piano, glitches, and funk-style vocals. Think insanely catchy dancefloor-fodder with a twist, like a musical hurricane than grabs the unsuspecting and would quite possibly stun our disco-dancing parents. Deep Night grabs that hurricane in his own mix, tames the beast, tweaks it, and produces a wonderfully solid, funky counter-balance that grooves and smooths in booty-shaking new ways. This is terrific house/tech/disco for an enlightened new generation. Merian Cooper strips everything right back and goes for the hypnotic tech-minimalism of Basic Channel. It's the chill-out groove after the storm; the wind-down number the two previous tracks have deemed essential. Thouht-provoking, innovative and sensation in its own right, this is electronica for the future of now." ...yep!! Tracklisting: 1 Disquo (Original Mix) 2 Disquo (Deep Night remix) 3 Merian Cooper Videoclips: DISQUO MERIAN COOPER INTERVIEW Crap interview is online @ Beatportal here, in case you can be bothered: http://www.beatportal.com/feed/item/disquo-robota/

...indeed!! :wink: