Tag: noise

SPASMOSLOP @ Morbid Mondays 10/02/2025

MORBID MONDAYS AT OLD BAR

FREE ENTRY – 8PM START – FEB 10TH

Shallow
Femme Power Electronics
https://shallowsounds.bandcamp.com/

Spasmoslop
HYPERDIMENSIONAL ELECTRO-ORAL NOISE ENGURGLEMENT & SLOPTRONICS
spasmoslop.bandcamp.com

Twinsoul
Experemental Harsh Noise
https://twinsoul.bandcamp.com/

Cash specials on drinks all night until 3am
74-76 Johnston St Fitzroy

Updates – Jan 2025

It’s been a while…

SPASMOSLOP – been working on a new album on & off for over a year. In trying to cook up the sounds that are in my brain I of course made it stupidly over-complicated and incomprehensible but I’m trying to make it make sense. I record in a really basic way and mix everything in Audacity and have no fuggin idea what I’m doing so it takes forever. Currently remixing it for the 2000th time, then it’ll get mastered by someone who does know what they’re doing and should sound sick.

SPEW BALLOON – nearly finished our new 6-track EP. Studio recording with lots of mics & shit, but being mixed by Tolman so it sounds proper filthy & wild! Should hopefully be released in some form in time for Flippin The Bird or one of our other gigs in March. Then planning to record for a full-length album mid-year or so.

ESP MAYHEM – a few gigs coming up. Been jamming a lot ahead of recording for a full-length soooooon.

CLOGGED – possible resuscitation and new release 2025/2026… maybe…

G.B.S. – new recordings in the works for some kind of release

STRESSED OUT STRAIGHT GUY – despite not actually being very stressed out I’ll be doing vocals for this HEADLESS DEATH punk rock side project thing, unless I get replaced by an actual SOSG.

Upcoming gigs:
08/02 – ESP MAYHEM @ Last Chance w/ Pissbolt, Religious Observance, Tumour
26/02 – G.B.S. @ Last Chance w/ DJ RND2TR
01/03 – SPEW BALLOON @ Flippin The Bird, Singing Bird Studios w/ heaps of other bands. All ages!
07/03 – SPEW BALLOON & ESP MAYHEM @ Spit, Footscray w/ Mortal Ambition (SA), NPCede. All ages!
29/03 – SPEW BALLOON @ The Tote front bar, 3pm arvo show w/ Derailment, Overthrone

Top 17 Good Things From 2024 List
+ Watching INTERNAL ROT & DOUBLED OVER play live
+ GORE BEYOND NECROPSY – Noise A Go-Go LP on Haunted Hotel Records
+ The hot tunes of DJ RND2TR!
+ FINAL EXIT – Born In Hell LP
+ Sick gigs from visitors like BODY MELT, CEREBRAL EROSION, RADIATION VOMIT, FORCED STARVATION, FUXACHE, EXIT MOULD
+ Lugging a bunch of gear on a non-tour holiday to Japan and playing one single gig in Osaka with WANKOSLOP
+ Recording the SPEW BALLOON EP at Dangertone Studios
+ ESPM and SPEW BALLOON gigs at Spit, the best venue in Melb
+ ESPM finally releasing the “Cyber Bully” EP
+ OVERTHRONE
+ Endless hours of rare & obscure music on Youtube
+ Endless hours of dark drum & bass and techno mixes on Soundcloud
+ Being recommended BLUT AUS NORD’s last few albums by a mate
+ Resurrecting DEATH BY CONES for DEATH BY DRONES
+ Noise gigs at Radio Bar, 2nd best venue in Melb
+ Noise gigs under The Bridge
+ My car catching fire due to my mechanic fucking something up

Collab w/ Harriet Morgan @ MIUC 27/08/2024

THIS WEEK:

+ Farhad Bandesh / Ysk / Brett Evans

+ Miranda Hill / Gelareh Pour

+ Nik Kennedy / Harriet Morgan

TICKETS: $15 / $10 (conc.). No Presales.

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The Make It Up Club
Avant-Garde Improvised Music and Sound Performance
Every Tuesday night at Bar Open, 317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy

Doors at 7:30pm for an 8pm start.

Subscribe to the mail out here:
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MIUC merch is available here:
https://makeitupclub.bandcamp.com/

The Make It Up Club is supported by the City of Yarra.

This event is being held on stolen land. We pay our respects to elders past and present, and we acknowledge that sovereignty has never been ceded. MIUC will support paying the rent by donating a portion of the door sales to Blak Pearl Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Creative Studio

First time collab-ing with Harriet in about 10 years or something? Looking forward to cranking some noisy darkness just like the ol’ days.
Here’s some sounds from the ol’ days…

LAST EVER NOISE/DRONE @ Radio Bar 01/09/24

From 2017 to 2024 Radio bar had been at the center of some the best noise/drone shows to hit the city with a tonne of dope memories made. The bar became a home for some of the best and weirdest shit you could ever have the misfortune of walking past on a busy sunday in fitzroy.

Unfortunately all goods must come to an end as we host what will be the final noise/drone at radio bar. Come with us to celebrate and get fucked up by noise one last time.

Featuring:

Agnostic Hunk (ft. members of skxi)

External Organ (ft. members of Whitehorse)

Body Horror (special one off reform)

Birthday Girls Orchestra (ft. members of Ultracancer/Dead Resonance/Pubis Mons/Worthless Scum)

Festering Asthmatic Slop Donkey (ft. Festering Genital Orifice, Asmtha, Donkey Mothers of Arse, Spasmoslop)

Very sad to be saying goodbye to Radio Bar after many years of mad noisy gigs. Big cheers to owners and absolute legends Caryn & Paul for their support and enthusiasm for hosting gross underground sounds. Mega cheers to homies Anthony Cooley & Rod Cooper for organising stuff, keeping it real and working hard to cultivate a welcoming community and good vibes.
Despite the bummer I’m well psyched to collab with fellow noise-lovers Bean, Anthony, Shane for FESTERING ASTHMATIC SLOP DONKEY! No doubt it will be faaaaarkin brutal!

Stuff I forgot to post here

SPASMOSLOP – F.A. 1 Transmission video

I finally made a video for my 2023 audio response to visual score “Frequency Assembly 1” created by Tina Douglas for “hypha_e” visual score/performance project – http://tinadouglas.net/hypha_e
One 15-minute track in 6 parts/”scenes”, representing my interpretation of the 6 panels of the visual score. Abstract worlds, ambiguous realities, transmissions of unknown origin, and other mysterious sci-fi shit.
[00:00] 1. Blast Tunnel
[02:39] 2. Infinite Data Expansion Wave
[04:36] 3. Hallucinogenic Hyperspace Delirium
[07:24] 4. Phantasmal Off-World
[09:48] 5. Shifting
[12:38] 6. Unrecognised Coordinates

This is the most involved thing I’ve ever done with SPASMOSLOP. I had the artwork on the wall of my studio for about a year and a half, gradually making recordings of what I thought it sounded like, bouncing back & forth between the visuals and the sound, adding layers and nitpicking the fuck out of everything as ideas came to me. Big thanks to Tina for the inspiration and coordination!
Among many firsts that came about in this process, it’s also the first time I’ve ever had a SPASMOSLOP recording properly mastered – by Jason Fuller at Goatsound – and it sounds amazing, especially with headphones. He also mastered this while we were at it and completely transformed it into what I wanted it to be. Thanks Jason!
Floating on inspiration from this project, I’ve been slowly recording a new SPASMOSLOP album for the last year or so which is nearly finished and should be out this year if I can have the self control to stop tinkering with it.

SPASMOSLOP – F.A. 1 Transmission

Audio response to visual score “Frequency Assembly 1” created by Tina Douglas for “hypha_e” visual score/performance project – http://www.tinadouglas.net/hypha_e

One 15-minute track in 6 parts, representing my interpretation of the 6 panels of the visual score. Abstract worlds, ambiguous realities, transmissions of unknown origin, and other mysterious sci-fi shit.

[00:00] 1. Blast Tunnel
[02:37] 2. Infinite Data Expansion Wave
[04:34] 3. Hallucinogenic Hyperspace Delirium
[07:22] 4. Phantasmal Off-World
[09:45] 5. Shifting
[12:36] 6. Unrecognised Coordinates

Vocals/Synths/Noises/Mixing by Spasmoslop at Brain Hat Studio 2021-2023

Mastered by Jason Fuller at Goatsound https://goatsound.com

Big thanks to Tina Douglas for the inspiration and coordination.

SPASMOSLOP track on 3CR fundraiser comp

Thanks to Nat Grant from Let Your Freak Flag Fly for asking me to contribute! Suss the release on bandcamp or donate at http://3cr.org.au if you’re able to.

On a personal note… it’s taken a really fckn long time and countless hours of self-teaching, experimenting and disappointing recording sessions going into the bin, but in the last couple of years I’m finally getting closer to making SPASMOSLOP recordings that line up with what I want the project to sound/feel like. More to come in the future! If anyone’s actually reading this and gives a shit – stay tuned.

SPASMOSLOP @ Avalon 16/03/2023

Marfa Lights presents: JASSY/DARLENE triple album launch
Avalon The Bar
387 Brunswick Street Fitzroy
Thursday 16th March, 7PM
$10/$5 concession
No charge for First Nations people or those without the means to afford any entry (let door know you have been given “free entry” no questions asked)
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Jassy (Robinson and Robertson, BOGMIND), and Darlene (AA Matheson, Deer Head Apparition) will be playing a collaborative set as their duo WE1 XAM, celebrating the triple launch of their albums:

WE1 XAM – Middle America

Darlene – Another Day in Paradise

Jassy – Caught a Live One

WE1 XAM is FM and analogue synth meltdowns, new age (gap) hippy shit, once described as sounding like “being in the womb and then feeling so alone… but in a good way!”
https://marfalightsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/middle-america

SPASMOSLOP
Multi-banded, multiinstrumentalist noise maker Nik Kennedy doing harsh noise sloptronics through an unseemly collection of effects pedals.
https://spasmoslop.bandcamp.com/

JASMIN WING-YIN LEUNG
Jasmin adventures through space and sound meticulously exploring the possibilities of harmonic frequencies in different acoustic surrounds, often times with her Erhu as her vessel along with tape and other instruments.
https://www.jasminwingyinleung.com/

CELIAC
Celiac aka Miel makes huge and righteous cybergoth jams about confronting society about its bullshit ableist deterrents and attitudes, and their disability advocacy journey, putting a spotlight on the way society invisiblises people with disabilities.
https://celiac.bandcamp.com/music

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This event takes place on the stolen land of the Wurundjeri people and we pay respects to elders past and present, as well as all First Nations people to who we owe immeasurable reparations for harm done through ongoing colonisation and genocide. The venue and artists will contribute part of the takings to pay the rent.

This venue has limitations to accessibility. There are small steps at the entrance and to the beer garden exit which leads to the toilets. Parking can be difficult due to it being a busy street but there are spaces to pull up for dropping off. The number 11 tram stops at the entrance to the venue at stop 17.

The venue has gender neutral bathrooms.

You can text the organiser on 0400804316 if you are feeling unsafe at this event, or if you would like someone to talk to or introduce you to people if you are coming on your own, and you will be treated with respect and discretion.