Sebastian Melmoth - The Dynamics Of Vanity
Artificial Dance 2019
AD008

Since forming in 2006 post-punk experimentalists Sebastian Melmoth have been on a thoughtful and adventurous musical journey. In a constant state of aural evolution, the London-based four-piece has a delivered a string of albums and EPs that variously touch on everything from garage-rock, grunge and lo-fi pop, to electro, new wave, dark ambient and music concrete, all the while drawing on a myriad of literary and artistic influences.

The band’s first release for Artificial Dance digs deep into their admirable and eye-opening catalogue and draws together some of the Amsterdam-based label’s favourites from the more electronic end of the band’s output. Entitled “The Dynamics of Vanity” – a comment on Western culture’s obsession with rehashing the past and the band’s own in-built distrust of artistic naval-gazing – the set is not a ‘best of’ retrospective but rather a ‘sort of’ selection of stylistically interconnected cuts that gives a very specific snapshot of the band’s work.

Check for example “Icarus”, a drowsy, hypnotic and sample-laden soundscape that effortlessly joins the dots between post-rock, pitched-down electronica and early morning ambient, or the slowly unfurling throb of thought-provoking opener “The Engineering of Consent”, a swelling, melancholic post-jazz meditation on propaganda and governmental mind control featuring spoken word samples from William S Burroughs in conversation with Brion Gysin, Timothy Leary, Les Levine and Robert Anton Wilson. 

The showcased songs are typically hard-to-pin-down, too, with the re-imagined gothic horror break-up cut “Prosopagnosia’ and slow-burn audio addition of “Waiting For Godot” being joined by the wide-eyed morning dream-pop hallucinations of “Seeds (Descent Into Decadence)”.  It all adds up to a collection that expertly showcases one engaging thread – of many – running through Sebastian Melmoth’s esoteric body of work.

https://artificialdance.bandcamp.com/album/sebastian-melmoth-the-dynamics-of-vanity-ad008

Sebastian Melmoth - The Dynamics Of Vanity (AD008)

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(stopped keeping track)
2020.

17-01 bRAVE 
29-01 Funk Club
06-02 Radio Študent Ljubljana (MENT Festival)
07-02 Red Light Radio x MENT  live from Big Nose
07-02 MENT x Klub K4
19-02 Funk Club 
21-02 bRAVE w/ Zarkoff
25-04 bRAVE 5th anniversary stream
04-06 Funk Club
06-06 bRAVE at Masters
01-07 Funk Club
03-07 bRAVE benefit
10-07 Zbelensauna 
31-07 High Grounds Festival
04-09 bRAVE 

2019.

18-01 bRAVE
23-01 Funk Club
02-02 PULP
15-02 bRAVE
02-03 Masters
08-03 Soundfactory
20-03 Funk Club
22-03 bRAVE w/ DJ NEPHIL
24-04 Funk Club - bday edition
26-04 bRAVE w/ Helena Hauff
17-05 bRAVE 
12-06 Funk 
22-06 bRAVE w/ December live
13-07 LED w/ Disrupted Project & Maja Pa
26-07 bRAVE w/ DJ Extinction
09-08 Pandemonium Festival 
16-08 bRAVE
23-08 Dekmantel Selectors 2019.
18-09 Funk
20-09 bRAVE w/ Paško Gaćina
18-10 bRAVE w/ Andria
23-10 Funk Club
25-10 Soundfactory
02-11 Interval 
15-11 bRAVE w/ Stevie Whisper
30-11 Temnica K4 Ljubljana
21-12 bRAVE

2018.

31/01 Funk Club
14/02 Masters
21/02 Funk Club 
24/02 bRAVE w/ Dušan Janković / Vitanov
03/03 Depadanse w/ Alessandro Adriani
21/03 Funk Club 
13/04 bRAVE w/ Schwefelgelb
28/04 Corrupt at Kset
11 /05  bRAVE w/ Marsman
23/05 Funk Club
04/07 Funk Club
14/07 All-nighter at Masters
20/07 bRAVE at Masters
21/07 River Festival
28/07 Dirty Secret Open Air
11/08  Slurp vol. 3
18/08  bRAVE
29/08 Funk Club
14/09 bRAVE w/ Mick Wills / DJ TLR
15/09 organ vida x živa muzika w/ Machine Woman
13/10 bRAVE w/ Retrograde Youth
17/10 Tresor New Faces ( Berlin )
24/10 Funk Club
03/11  YES (Belgrade)
23/11  bRAVE w/ Shinoby
05/12 Funk Club
21/12 bRAVE 
24/12 Hangout 
31/12 Depandanse w/ Black Merlin

2017.

25/01 Funk Club 
04/02 Melin
17/02  Plug In
24/02 Funk Club
11/03  Melin 
17/03  bRAVE / Masters 
29/03 Funk Club 
07/04 Masters
14/04 Plug In
21/04 Hangout Bar 
28/04 Masters
06/05 Das Haus
13/05 Melin
27/05 Hangout Bar
31/05 Funk Club
03/06 Masters
17/06 LED Fest, Karlovac
28/06 Funk Club
07/07 Ekstrakt
14/07 Hangout Bar w/ Mikael Zrinski
15/07 Masters
28/07 Funk Club
01/08 Hangout Bar
18/08 bRAVE w/ Retrograde Youth
26/08 Hangout Bar
16/09 bRAVE at Masters
20/09 Funk Club
06/10 Hangout Bar
18/10 Funk Club
28/10 Soundfactory
04/11 bRAVE w/ FOQL live
25/11 Hangout Bar
09/12 Medika
13/12 Funk Club
29/12 bRAVE w/ Identified Patient
31/12 Klub Monokel Ljubljana

2016.

01.01. @ Das Haus
06.01. @ Funk Club
10.02. @ Funk Club
19.03. @ Das Haus / Innerspace w/ Morphology live
26.03. @ bRAVE, Masters 
30.03. @ Funk Club
20.04. @ Funk Club
30.04. @ bRAVE w/ DJ TLR 
18.05. @ Funk Club
27.05. @ Sirup
30.05. @ Greta
11.06. @ SKWHAT
22.06. @ Funk Club
07/09 Funk Club
17/09  Funk Club
07/10 DRAGram, Močvara
08/10 bRAVE in Skwhat
26/10 Funk Club
12/11 Masters
19/11 Dirty Secret Private Room
23/11 Funk Club
03/12 Masters
29/12 Funk Club

2o15.

17.01. @ Sirup Zagreb
11.02. @ Funk Club
28.02. @ R.A.W. / Masters
04.03. @ Funk Club
07.03. @ Elephant Varaždin
27.03. @ Podmornica Katran
08.04. @ Funk Club
17.04. @ Soundwax
24.04. @ Masters Zagreb w/ Scientific Dreamz of U, Zarkoff and ikonal
02.05. @ Crkva Rijeka / Innerspace w/ Delta Funktionen
16.05. @ R.A.W. @ Masters
20.05. @ Funk Club 
23.05. @ Ciklorama
06.06. @ Hartera Rijeka
17.06. @ Funk Club
20.06. @ Das Haus
03.07. @  Funk Club
10.07. @  Escape / Masters
19.07. @ Seasplash Festival / Electrosplash Stage
21.08. @ Funk Club
10.09. @ Funk Club
13.09. @ CFSN Sundays
30.09. @ Funk Club
21.10. @ Funk Club
13.11. @ Medika 
20.11. @ bRAVE w/ Andreas Gehm live / Sirup 
25.11. @ Funk Club
16.12. @ Funk Club


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2o14.

23.07. @ Pitch Vinyl Shop
26.07. @ Funk Club
31.07. @ Stop Making Sense Festival
09.08. @ Masters Zagreb
14.08. @ Funk Club
04.09. @ Funk Club
12.09. @ Cooltura
19.09. @ R.A.W. / Masters
26.09. @ Mali Urbani Festival
02.10. @ Funk Club
25.10. @ Escape
14.11. @ Planningtorock / Pogon Jedinstvo
15.11. @ R.A.W. / Masters
28.11. @ Unterwelt / Dramatic
13.12.  @ Strictly Analog / Ljubljana

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