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Kim Moyes
Kimberley Isaac Moyes is an Australian musician, producer, mix engineer, composer, songwriter, DJ and one half of the Sydney-based electronica duo, The Presets. Note: n-lineversion established at White Room Electronic Publishing Pty Ltd in 2007 and was expanded from the 2002 edition. Moyes provides synthesizers and drums, as well as engineering, production and songwriting. The Presets have released two EPs and four full-length albums ('' Beams'', '' Apocalypso,'' '' Pacifica and Hi Viz''). Moyes also records and performs as a solo artist under the aliases K.I.M. In 2018, Moyes launched his own vinyl and digital record label called "Here To Hell". Early life and education Born on 15 September 1976 in Sydney, New South Wales, Moyes attended the Conservatorium High School for his final school years 11 and 12, before going on to a Bachelor of Music at the Sydney Conservatorium Of Music (majoring in classical percussion).Bernard Zuel, 15 September 2012The Presets: 'We are in this fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kris Moyes
Kris Moyes (born 30 October 1978) is an Australian-born director and producer. He is perhaps best known for his innovative music videos and Television advertisements. In 2005 he directed The Presets "Are You The One?" which utilized a large array of film techniques that playfully proposed answers to who the "one" is. The video also featured a digital artifact motif he developed by interrupting the transfer of DIVX files of original footage from a PC to a Mac computer, to which many homage videos were made. Moyes has had close ties to Modular Records since 2005. He is probably better known for his videos for Softlightes and The Presets. In 2008 Moyes directed a traditional performance based music video for Wolfmother "White Unicorn" on the condition that Pav, the head of Modular Records allowed him to deface his own work and re-release it, under the pseudonym Banditobruce. The piece of subterfuge was a reference to Marcel Duchamp's Readymade, L.H.O.O.Q. Moyes has also direc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Blasko
Sarah Elizabeth Blaskow (born 23 September 1976), known professionally as Sarah Blasko, is an Australian singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. From April 2002, Blasko developed her solo career after fronting Sydney-based band Acquiesce between the mid-1990s and 2001. She had performed under her then married name, Sarah Semmens, and, after leaving Acquiesce, as Sorija in a briefly existing duo of that name. As a solo artist Blasko has released six studio albums, '' The Overture & the Underscore'' (11 October 2004), '' What the Sea Wants, the Sea Will Have'' (21 October 2006) – which peaked at No. 7 on the ARIA Albums Chart, '' As Day Follows Night'' (10 July 2009) – which reached No. 5, '' I Awake'' (26 October 2012) – which made No. 9, '' Eternal Return'' (6 November 2015) and ''Depth of Field'' (23 February 2018). At the ARIA Music Awards of 2007, Blasko won Best Pop Release for her second album. Her third album won the Best Female Artist in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midnight Juggernauts
Midnight Juggernauts were an Australian band from Melbourne, composed of Andrew Szekeres, Vincent Vendetta (Vincent Heimann), and Daniel Stricker. The band has been described as anything from 'prog dance meets cosmic film scores', to 'slasher-flick disco' to 'deadpan landscape'. Following the release of numerous 7" and 12" singles, and limited edition EPs, the band released their debut album, ''Dystopia''. After playing festivals and headlining tours worldwide during late 2007–2008, the band finished working on their follow up album '' The Crystal Axis'', touring around its release mid-2010 at festivals and headline shows around the globe. After a few years' break, the band released a third album ''Uncanny Valley'' in mid-2013. Members have individually collaborated with various artists including Kevin Parker, Justice, Solange Knowles and Sebastian Tellier. The group also runs the label Siberia Records, through which they release their own music and others including Kirin J. Cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Via Tania
Tania May-Bowers, better known by her stage name Via Tania, is an Australian singer formerly based in Chicago, Illinois. Life and career Via Tania originally started performing in Sydney during the 1990s with her sister Kim Bowers in noise outfit named Spdfgh. After relocating to Chicago at the end of the 1990s, Tania set about piecing together an album as Via Tania, with producer Casey Rice and various Chicago musical luminaries. Her first release "Dream Of" was through seminal Chicago record label Chocolate Industries in 2002. This was followed by a 12" vinyl release (also through Chocolate Industries) of "Lightning and Thunder" which was backed with a cover of New Order's "Temptation". In 2003, Tania released her critically acclaimed full-length album "Under A Different Sky". The album featured artists like Prefuse 73, Casey Rice, Tortoise, Howe Gelb and Tim Kinsella. Pitchfork gave the album a glowing review and decreed "Via Tania will be a major contender". The album recei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiga (musician)
Tiga James Sontag (born 18 September 1974), known simply as Tiga (), is a Canadian musician, DJ, music programmer, and record producer. He has released three albums: ''Sexor'' (2006), ''Ciao! (Tiga album), Ciao!'' (2009), and ''No Fantasy Required'' (2016). The former won the Juno Awards of 2007, 2007 Juno Award for Dance Recording of the Year. Tiga released a selection of compilations in the early 2000s, featuring mixes such as ''American Gigolo'', ''DJ-Kicks: Tiga'' and, ''Mixed Emotions''. His compilation mix, ''Tiga Non-Stop'', was released in November 2012, and premiered Tiga's latest single "Plush". The mix also features tracks from artists such as Kindness (musician), Kindness, Duke Dumont and Blawan. Tiga has remixed songs from The xx, LCD Soundsystem, The Kills, Cabaret Voltaire (band), Cabaret Voltaire, Scissor Sisters, Peaches (musician), Peaches, Moby, Depeche Mode, Justice (band), Justice, Friendly Fires and Mylo. Along with Zombie Nation (band), Zombie Nation, Tig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bag Raiders
Bag Raiders are an Australian electronic music duo founded in 2006 by Jack Glass and Chris Stracey. They play keyboards, drums, and act as vocalists, producers, and remixers, with Stracey additionally playing guitar, violin and piano. They also write and produce other artists' work. In 2009, they were rated at number 11 on the Inthemix poll of Australia's top 50 DJs. In October 2010, they released their self-titled debut album, which peaked at number 7 on the ARIA Albums Chart and received a J Award album of the year nomination. The album's song " Shooting Stars" renewed the band's popularity seven years after its release, when it began being used as part of a popular Internet meme. History Both classically trained musicians, Jack Glass and Chris Stracey met in the Cranbrook School, Sydney orchestra practice room with Glass a year ahead playing piano and cello, and Stracey playing violin, guitar and clarinet. In 2005, the pair reconnected and started mixing hip-hop and 1970s r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Boy's In Love
"This Boy's in Love" is a song by Australian electronic duo The Presets. It is the second single from their 2008 album '' Apocalypso''. Music video The music video for "This Boy's in Love" was directed by Danish photographer Casper Balslev. The video filming took over two days. It depicts the band singing and playing in dust and dirty air, and two semi-naked fighters wrestling in milk. Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts Certifications Track listings CD single # "This Boy's in Love" # "This Boy's in Love" (Lifelike Remix) # "This Boy's in Love" (Jori Hulkkonen Remix) iTunes EP # "This Boy's in Love" # "This Boy's in Love" ( Zombie Nation Remix) # "This Boy's in Love" ( K.I.M Edit) # "Are You the One?" ( Lifelike's 1 Serious Remix) iTunes EP # "This Boy's in Love" # "This Boy's in Love" (Lifelike Remix) # "This Boy's in Love" (Jori Hulkkonen Remix) 12" vinyl # "This Boy's in Love" # "This Boy's in Love" (K.I.M. Edit) # "This Boy's in Love" (Lifelike Remix) 12" vinyl # ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassius (band)
Cassius was a French musical duo active from 1988 to 2019 and consisting of producers Philippe Cerboneschi and Hubert Blanc-Francard, better known as Zdar and Boombass (or sometimes Philippe Zdar and Hubert Boombass). Under its different incarnations the duo is likened to the " French touch" movement of electronic music in the second half of the 1990s. Members Boombass Hubert Blanc-Francard (; aka Boombass), born 31 March 1967, is a French musician and producer. He is the son of sound engineer Dominique Blanc-Francard and the older brother of the French musician Mathieu Blanc-Francard, better known by his stage name Sinclair. Zdar Philippe Cerboneschi (, ; aka Zdar; born 28 January 1967 in Aix-les-Bains and died 19 June 2019 in Paris) was a French musician, producer and sound engineer, of Italian descent. Zdar was Dominique Blanc-Francard's assistant at studios +XXX (Plus30) when he met Boombass in 1988. Outside the Cassius group, Zdar was producer and sound engineer. He w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomas Barfod
Tomas Barfod is a Danish drummer and electronic music producer. He currently spends his time between Los Angeles and Copenhagen. While in LA, he works as a producer and currently has tracks on several albums. Biography Barfod began playing drums when he was ten years old, and has been producing as a DJ since the 1990s. He began playing with Kasper Bjorke as the duo Filur in 1999, and in 2003 founded the group WhoMadeWho with Jeppe Kjellberg and Tomas Høfting. Barfod is the drummer for WhoMadeWho. Concurrently, he has released music under his own name, including two full-length albums which were released in 2012 and 2014. at His labels include |
Connie Mitchell
Connie Thembi Mitchell (born ), also known as Miss Connie, is a South African-born Australian singer. In 1995 she was a founding member of Primary. Briefly, in 2004, she was vocalist for Machine Gun Fellatio under the pseudonym Feyonce. Since mid-2005 Mitchell is the lead vocalist with Sneaky Sound System, appearing on their singles: " I Love It" (July 2006), " Pictures" (December), " UFO" (April 2007), " Goodbye" (October), "Kansas City" (July 2008), " When We Were Young" (November), " 16" (February 2009) and " We Love" (May 2011). Early years to 2004 Connie Thembi Mitchell was born c. 1977 in South Africa. Her mother was a singer in a musical troupe, Ipi Tombi, while her grandfather and father had extensive record collections. After leaving South Africa, Mitchell lived in New Zealand and attended a primary school, where "I discovered I could sing. I'd heard some opera singers, someone like Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, and I could put on that voice". She arrived in Australia aged 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australasian Performing Right Association
APRA AMCOS consists of Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS), both copyright management organisations or copyright collectives which jointly represent over 100,000 songwriters, composers and music publisher (popular music), music publishers in Australia and New Zealand. The two organisations work together to license public performances and administer performance, communication and reproduction rights on behalf of their members, who are creators of musical works, aiming to ensure fair payments to members and to defend their rights under the ''Copyright law of Australia#Copyright Act 1968, Australian Copyright Act (1968)''. APRA, which formed in 1926, represents songwriters, composers, and Music publisher (popular music), music publishers, providing businesses with a range of licences to use copyrighted music. This covers music that is communicated or performed publicly including on radio, television, online, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
APRA Awards Of 2009
The Australasian Performing Right Association Awards of 2009 (generally known as APRA Awards) are a series of awards which include the APRA Music Awards, Classical Music Awards, and Screen Music Awards. The APRA Music Awards ceremony occurred on 23 June at the Peninsula in Melbourne, they were presented by APRA and the Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS). The Classical Music Awards were distributed on 21 September at the Playhouse Theatre of the Sydney Opera House and are sponsored by APRA and the Australian Music Centre (AMC). The Screen Music Awards were issued on 2 November by APRA and Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC) at the City Recital Hall, Sydney. Awards ''Nominees and winners with results indicated on the right.'' See also *Music of Australia The music of Australia has an extensive history made of music societies. Indigenous Australian music forms a significant part of the unique heritage of a 40,000- to 60,000-year history which p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
