electrical engineering student, world watcher

Happy to announce that Gnostic Gorilla is now with Cleopatra Records! St. Basil's Asylum will be released 'anew' soon!

Industrial, Post Industrial, Metal, Techno, Electronic

Digital Anodyne is :
https://www.facebook.com/digitalanodyneband

DJ Wolf 
https://www.facebook.com/The.DJ.Wolf

And you can hear our Dj sets here.
http://www.mixcloud.com/itsthewolf/

Omegachild is the solo project of Brisbane-based electronic producer, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, Daniel Newstead. 

Newstead fuses the raw emotion of his classical piano training with the primal physicality of his band days by playing live synths and drumming simultaneously. This led to the development of the Omegachild 'one-man-machine' live show. The show incorporates audio-activated projection and lighting to create a synesthetic music experience that not only challenges the limits of his own performance, but also explores the potential of technology to act as an extension of the human body. 

In what begins as a stream-of-consciousness style that may borrow the instrumentation of heavy electronic music at the pace of industrial rock one day, the next will see Newstead’s muse tempting him into the introspection of ambient, classical cinematic textures, or the rhythm found by allowing the fingertips to translate the way kaleidoscope patterns rearrange themselves. Vocals weave in and out of the futuristic landscape not demanding attention away from the ‘one-man-machine’.

After years of primarily working as a producer and touring as a live drummer in various bands (playing notable support slots for luminaries such as Pop Will Eat Itself, Combichrist, Cog, and Sleepmakeswaves), Newstead reigned his talent back home, and, drawing heavily from his experiences of life as a musician in the digital age, redirected his primary focus toward electronic composition and the formation of the Omegachild project. 

In 2014 Newstead journeyed to India with filmmaker Danny McShane. It was there, whilst transversing the countries mountainous terrains that the foundations of Omegachild's debut EP Postcards took form. McShane captured the entirety of this creative process, resulting in the vivid documentary film, Waiting for Postcards, accompanying the EP's release; a dual music-cinema event, which forms the initial patterning of Omegachild's highly ambitious audio-visual approach.  

Omegachild began his live journey in 2015 and quickly started showcasing the unique show at warehouse parties in Brisbane and festivals around Queensland and Northern NSW including; The Australian Body Art Festival (QLD), Faraway Festival (NSW), Jungle Love Festival (QLD) and Manifest (QLD).
This boundary-pushing approach quickly gained recognition and in 2016 Omegachild received the 'Best New Talent' award from the Brisbane City Council for his 360degree VR performance in The QUBE Effect. 

Drifting away from channeling the beautiful landscapes of India on his 2014 documentary ‘Waiting For Postcards’, Omegachild explores a more virtual space on the soon to be released album ‘Youtopia’.
The album is a vivid spectre of our time. Stark beats and dense synth walls sketch out a dystopian terrain, but a spirited resistance slowly emerges, with critical vocal lines unveiling slithers of optimism and progress.
 With an EP, documentary film, and a successful run of festival and warehouse gigs laying down the prelude of sorts, Omegachild stands poised and ready to launch into the next frontier of his musical saga. A performance at this year's Jungle Love Festival looms on the horizon, but the launch site is here and now. Enter Fifth Dimension and set your controls for the heart of an electronic sun.

As always Crix Rayner brings more odd sounds to a new project.

The distant ones return
Grappel never doubted he was destined for greatness, and now sent on his first solo mission he knew his time had come. 'Magellen 6, Magellen 6  come in please". He'd never ventured this far from his home world and in the dark silence of infinite space; all he could hear was his breathing and pulse thumping in his helmet. He tried to focus on his mission, Grappel reminded himself of the long line of distinguished military officers he came from. During the dark days war his father had been awarded the posthumous iron star for ramming a Kardashian battle cruiser, destroying it and his own ship but evacuating most of his crew to safety .The Magellen Class scout ship he flew was like his second skin, he could do things with the old hunk that the other cadets had marvelled at, he had been the obvious choice for this mission. The out lying planets had not transmitted for several cycles and he was to find out why and report back. It was probably nothing, just solar storm interference, it had happened plenty of times in the past.  The vast distances between the planets of the Unity made reliable communication problematic to say the least. .  ''Magellen 6,Magellen 6 come in please''. Grappel didn't hear the message, he had become transfixed on what filled his main screen. It was beyond comprehension, he had never seen anything like it. The ship or whatever it was dwarfed his vessel. It sparkled with such a brightness he squinted and raised his hand to his eyes to see it. The skin, yes it looked like skin shimmered in a myriad of colours. As he stared in amazement The Cleanser  began to open like a huge metallic lotus flower." Magellen 6, Magellen 6 are you receiving" Grappel suddenly realised he was being hailed. "This is Magellen 6" he said, as if in a dream. "Do you have contact" said the communications officer. "Yes sir, it's beautiful, soooo beautiful".
Then there was light...... 

www.arado.us

arado's first album Spooky Action at a Distance was shortlisted for 4 grammy nominations in the US
 
Taavi Torim   created the Visual Universe for arado. His animations have been shown at NASA (Houston) , the History Channel  
"Ancient Aliens" ,"The Universe" and voted best animator on iStock.

Live Drummer Dax Arado
Live Keyboards Crix Rayner (CRIX IIIX)live video compiler


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