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BabbelOn loves patronising the arts.  In a respectful way of course. 

Unable to attend the recent Sydney Festival “All Tomorrow’s Parties” spectacular on Cockatoo Island (owing to a bout of anticipatory sea-sickness), BabbelOn nevertheless perused the line-up and did manage to uncover a few musical gems. 

First up – jump to Afrirampo:

Described by All Tomorrow’s Parties mainman Barry Hogan as having one of the two greatest live shows ever to appear at ATP (Lightning Bolt being the other), Afrirampo are in their own words… “Naked rock!!!!! Naked soul!!! Red red strong red dress!! Freeeeeeeeedam.  Paradise rock! Jump! With improvisation.”  Afrirampo is…from Osaka. From Japan. From Space. Comprising one girl, Oni on guitar and another girl Pika on drums. They are, in their own words, “Sooo fantastic & wild performance wowowowowowowowowwoooooooooooowwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”  Believe it.

After that, drink in the Sounds of Seduction:

The Sounds exists as an exotic oasis of music and dancing in a world parched by the dusty wind that blows off the desert of popular culture. Where genuine Go-Go girls strut their stuff, exciting the passions, urging the throng to dance more wildly.  Where swirling colours from Miss Death’s collection of vintage psychedelic projectors paint the crowd in paisley hues. Where the DJ tends a sonic jungle of rare species of vinyl from every time and place, spinning the most amazing mixes of funk, 60s pop, bachelor pad lounge, goth, Eurobeat, soundtracks and straight up rock’n’roll that ever teased your ears.

Be sure to push on to:

F#@k Buttons were conceived by Andrew Hung and Benjamin John Power in the winter of 2004. Initially born as an outlet for their nihilistic-noise tendencies, they quickly realised they could harness the use of noise as a tool to immerse and evoke. No longer afraid of melody or rhythm, the group started fusing all these elements to the point when drone becomes melody becomes rhythm. Tribal beats and subtle beautiful melodies weave amongst contorting Technicolour dronescapes, while preaching distorted-vocals scream for dear hope herself. 

Lastly, get a big whiff of the piece de resistance:

Blue Mountains-based Passenger of Sh*t is a one-man music act, signed to his own label Sh*twank Records. He produces harsh and brutal electronic tracks and is quoted on his MySpace page: “I make dum erotic speedcore happy terrorcore /hardcore gabba / trendy f@#kwit breakcore tamborine core type dance music game core and sad core, screaming vox and harsh sh*t noise and other dum sh*t music.”  Passenger of Sh*t also belongs to the noise trio ‘Rancid Sh*t Wank’ and has released solo noise albums under the name doodleinacacoon.

If you like the sound of the F@#k Buttons, you can hear their actual sound here.  (Warning – you may want to scream for dear hope herself.)

The next ATP event will be held in July in Islamabad.