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TUNNG AMANDA HANDEL & GL SEILER Mother’s Daughter & Other Songs FM21 Ghosts And Angels FM25 Tunng’s stunning debut album is now available Cutting edge electronica meets spacious in Australia with custom packaging and bonus haunting piano. track. Coming September 2006. For a preview hit www.feralmedia.com.au “It’s very different though also quite brilliant work unlike anything else around.” Also available www.feralmedia.com.au Bob Baker Fish, Inpress Tunng - The Pioneers www.myspace.com/feralmedia Cover of Bloc Party as heard on Triple J. “OK - it’s been found, the album of the year.” 3 track EP & bonus video Demos: Send to Feral Media, PO Box M187 Tim Ritchie, Sound Quality, ABC Radio National. Missenden Rd, Camperdown, 2050, NSW, Australia. ISSUE 13 ContEntS CDIToRIAL 4 TRAIANOS PAKIOUFAKIS There has been a lot of change here in the past few months at Cyclic Defrost. by Mattew Levinson Dale Harrison, our long time designer, editor and co-founder has sadly resigned. 7 JAMES HANCOCK Dale has been a key member of Cyclic Defrost and we are sad to see him depart. Bim by Bim Ricketson Ricketson has taken over as designer and will be introducing his own style over the We welcome your contributions and contact: 12 TOYDEATH next few issues. Bim has been involved with Cyclic Defrost since Issue 1 as a writer Po Box A2073 by Bob Baker Fish and has a background in design and film making. It has been a long time since our last issue so Issue 14 is a bumper double issue. As Sydney South 16 STEVE LAW a result we have a double cover – the front cover by Traianos Pakioufakis from the NSW 1235 Australia by Andrez Bergen Meupe label in Perth, and the back cover by the Sydney-based artist James Hancock. [email protected] 19 SAFETY SPARROWS There are stacks of interviews with local Australian producers and artists – Toy www.cyclicdefrost.com by Dan Rule Death, Steve Law, Scissors For Sparrow, Faux Pas, Moving Ninja, Textile Audio, ISSUE 15 deadline: September 15, 2006 22 MOVING NINJA Cleptoclectics, and a broad overview of the state of improvised music via coverage by Sebastian Chan of the Now Now Festival. From overseas there are interviews with Matmos, Tunng, Publisher & Editor-in-Chief Jimmy Edgar and supergroup Battles. Legendary Newcastle DJ and producer Mark N Sebastian Chan 25 FAX PAS delivers an exhaustive rundown on the records that have shaped him in our regular Art Director by Matthew Levinson piece, Selects. On top of this are our sleeve design reviews and music reviews. Bim Ricketson 27 NOW NOW Not only that, you are probably also holding in your hands a copy of the free CD, Sub Editor by Bob Baker Fish Emergent, that comes with this issue. Produced in conjunction with the Noise Festival Aparna Khopkar 33 JIMMY EDGAR and ABC Radio’s Sound Quality, Emergent features music by young Australians 25 Reviews Editor by Dan Rule years and under – including many of those interviewed in this issue. Sebastian Chan All this content in the magazine means that there is even more online – more Advertising 36 BATTLES by Jon Tjhia interviews, stacks more reviews and don’t forget to keep up to date with all our latest Sebastian Chan 38 TUNNG reviews at the Thermostat blog. 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Perth, Planet Video, Chinatown Records CYCLIC DEFROST ISSUE 13/14 [07.2006] pagE 3 COVER STORY Cover designer: Traianos Pakioufakis Interview by Matthew Levinson TOOT SuITE Perth is a long way from anywhere, as cities go. Pakioufakis learnt piano and guitar growing Stina to play the show. Apparently, Pakioufakis up but never really pursued them. At 14, he played a signature five-minute set of riotous It is so isolated that bands simply do their own started making music with his computer and got noise and pop that the crowd loved. The label thing, or else they up and move to Europe. That interested in noise, self-releasing a rash of tapes soon became part of the Aesoteric crew. He has is the generally accepted truth at any rate. and CDs to high-school friends, which spun out since collaborated with Chris Cobilis, Manuel into the FuckFace CD-R noise label. In 2001, Bonrod and M. Rosner (aka Pablo Dali), and is 22-year-old Traianos Pakioufakis, known to he played his first show and simultaneously working on a commission for a dance project his cronies as T-pak, grew up in Edgewater, a stopped making new tracks, instead recording choreographed by Sam Fox, titled `Run'. safe northern Perth suburb with a beautiful new material to use in an improvised manner Early in 2004, Meupe released Stina's Pocket lake. `Perth is great,' he says. `The typical on stage. He was soon sharing bills with Songs, a lovely piece of music packed in a complaint is the isolation, which seems to be a hardcore bands such as AIDS, and post-rock basic jewel case with a badge, and enclosed big deal for a lot of artists and so they move, but favourites The Tigers and Adam Said Galore. in an envelope of cutely printed tracing I think it's probably had a reverse affect on me. Moving on, the nascent record boss started paper. Releases from Pimmon, Inchtime, Nothing's ever going to happen in a small town indie electronic label Meupe after discovering Qua, Lawrence English and Pivot that couple Clockwise above: unless you do it yourself, so leaving to join an Aesoteric, a regular club night at the Velvet individual design and sound have followed portrait of Traianos already established scene never really made any Lounge (since that venue shut, Aesoteric has in rapid succession. It is a unique thing to Trakioufakis by Rob sense to me. I guess that's why it was natural for bounced between the Bakery, the Rosemount be able to package somewhat difficult music Simeon; Muepe CDR me to start a record label and put on shows.' Hotel and Hyde Park). Dave Miller, one of the in a manner that instantly disarms listener release of Pablo Dali; Small cities usually mean less hierarchy, less guys behind Aesoteric, who recently released prejudices. Inchtime flyer; people and more personal connections. You can a remix EP on Meupe, says he stumbled across `The packaging and artwork of a release has Aesoteric flyer. just try things and make them happen. the FuckFace website and booked Traianos and always won me over in a record store,' says pagE 4 CYCLIC DEFROST ISSUE 13/14 [07.2006] `it'S especially important FoR A label Such as MEupe To have A strong visual identity So that people appreciate and Purchase releases rather than Burning oR Downloading.' Pakioufakis. `I think it's especially important for a label with a Nikon F100 and 35mm film, as well as a Canon such as Meupe to have a strong visual identity so that EOS-1Ds Mark II digital, he's pursuing a minimal people appreciate and purchase releases rather than aesthetic that ties into a history of design, which stops burning or downloading.