Infancy Generator

Three-piece Plaster of Paris have been throwing their oestrogen about Melbourne stages and about to embark on a national tour delivering high impact shows with unapologetic queer, feminist, DIY style producing 'riot grrrl post punk'. Their sound is based around slashing guitar riffs weaving with the powerhouse vocals of Zec Zechner, channeling a maelstrom through a wall of danceable, hard-hitting drums, meeting to form post-punk revival slash psych garage rock. 

Festivals include: Leaps and Bounds Festivals, Brunswick Music Festival and Wetfest II having played the Melbourne circuit refining their sound hitting the finest venues; The Tote Hotel, The Old Bar and The Grace. International supports include: Screaming Females (USA), Le Butcherettes (Mexico), MEN featuring JD Samson (Le Tigre) and locals; Cable Ties, Kim Salmon and Penny Ikinger.

'Lost Familiar,' 2021 full-length album OUT NOW via Psychic Hysteria receiving rave reviews from across the globe. Recorded w. legendary Casey Rice and Paul Maybury. Mastered by Nao Anzai, the album delves into body politics, climate denial, queer identity and states of physical and mental emergency.
Available for purchase on red or black vinyl, here: https://plasterofparis.bandcamp.com

'Oh Wow/Newcomer' double singles release is out through Psychic Hysteria and available on limited edition 7-inch vinyl and all digital platforms. Collect the vinyl 7 inch, here: 
https://plasterofparis.bandcamp.com/album/oh-wow-newcomer

Plaster of Paris live EP feat. X-Ray Spex 40th Germfree Adolescents Celebrations' Steve 'Rudi' Thomson on saxophone avail to buy, here: https://plasterofparis.bandcamp.com/album/oh-wow-newcomer

I am an artist/programmer/inventor/musician. I have been making electronic music since the mid 90's under a variety of names. I make Gen-X era and old school inspired electronic, downtempo, mid tempo, dubstep, chill step, bass music nowadays. I am also collaborating with Jerome Sage Butler on dancehall inspired EDM tracks and more traditional reggae. Look for Jerome Sage Butler Singles here soon!

icoro
Music style 
This music is strong, melodic and beat oriented and has evolved from the first icoro-sessions in 1996. It contains a blend of electronic and acoustic music instruments -  sometimes with voices - added sounds and sound treatments.
The music is based on the experiences accumulated by Anders Nästén and reflects many different styles of music that has been formed to a proprietary blend.

Impact
Early influences originates from 70´s hard rock as well as Miles Davis funk music from the same era. Electronic music from the UK, France and Germany also played an important role as a source of inspiration and modern classical composers are also very indicative for the music creation. Other sources of inspiration are too numerous to be listed.

Ambition and Technology
Music and technology are a close-knit unit and at times parts composes themself as a result of the circumstances created. Diverse music sound treatments have affected and renewed the arrangements. The music-making is based on a strong will to discover and an enthusiasm for trying out new musical combinations that all results in a pleasing listening experience. The music is unique and pretty easy to embrace.


icoro - music:

Pop Muzak
combines electronic sounds and rhythms with acoustic instruments, toy instruments and nonsense phrases.
The music contains changes in styles as well as changes from acoustic to electronic sounds.
Compositions are elaborate but rests on a spontaneous ground.

Mass Quality Music 
is a strong melodic and beat oriented music piece that has two eventful hours of playing time. The piece contains a mix of music with voices that creates some kind of urban industrial opera.

Process
is the sequel to Zoo and has a gloomier touch than its predecessor. The music may describe a path to change. The recordings were carried out with the same stereo microphones & location for - generally - all acoustic instruments.

"icoro-zoo" breaks down rock music into its components and rebuilds it; like a child building Lego with the building blocks of rock music.
Diverse music sound treatments have affected and renewed the arrangements.
This is pretentious music with an artistic ambition to fill a void; a fantasy journey that gives new impulses and visions. 

icoro - Omnibus
This music suite combines electronic sounds and rhythms with acoustic instruments and melodies.  
Sometimes the tunes has sharp throws and style changes and I have created a creative "wall of sound".

Music Producer - I create Electronic, Dance, Pop Music

Just making my own waves in the direction I feel at the time.  Have created videos for many of these tracks see my YouTube link below: 

Hope you enjoy some of them...

Naarm / Melbourne-based three-piece Double Vanity transported listeners into their brave new world with the arrival of indie chill synths from another dimension and dreamy guitar, vintage beats and post punk/crystalline vocals. 

Double Vanity released their pioneering debut album 'Love to Leave You' out 30 Sept 2022 to much international acclaim.

'Love To Leave You,' is out now through Psychic Hysteria. Mixed and mastered by Naomune Anzai (Teskey Brothers + Cash Savage and the Last Drinks)the concept album captures ice-cool realms of feminine love, loss, ghosts, and algorithms in answer to the feminist fires of Plaster of Paris' sisterband 2021 release, Lost Familiar, of which all three are members.

Single, Night Moves was released with video Directed by luminary Geoffrey O'Connor in a dreamy, pink limo, champagne afterparty haze the single charted at #1 on Soundcloud's Re-Ex Top 40 Underground Electronic Charts in 2022. US music mag, Austin Town Hall were “drawn to the majesty” of the vocals and music and was described by vocalist Zec Zechner as;

“a trip into 2062, a nuclear storm is endlessly roars outside the window, of a single thirty-something A.I. House Bot, donning kitchen apron and platinum blonde hair is burning the dinner and swirling on the checkered kitchen linoleum floor, on which the the oven drips smoky haze. Alexxa simulates day-dreams, for the long-lost dancefloor with her nostalgic sad indie chill, genre filter, conjuring her implanted memories”.

Escalator single, was launched with video clip and an online Q&A as part of the 2020 Leaps and Bounds Music Festival makes a statement about an artist escaping corporate boredom to fulfil their creative self. Featuring performance artist and painter Billi Lime and directed filmmaker Stephanie Gould (US). The track engaged audiences on YouTube with its meditation on the unfolding of a performer’s work and art-life, joyful collaboration of muse and artist. 

Self-titled debut track Double Vanity immediately grabbed the attention of the local and international airwaves. Its beautiful found footage video clip delved into an ‘80s plaza experience, complete with dream bathroom renovations and lycra-clad dancers, swirling jangle guitar and vocals dissolve in a hypnotic dance. 

During Melbourne's extended lockdown, Double Vanity released the DV EP of remixes of their previous two singles. The Double Vanity Remixes EP features amazing producers and artists Jimmy Cass, shemale crime coven (Angel from Habits), Psychic Hysteria label-mate Astral Skulls and Mino Peric (No Sister) and beloved Estonian electronic music star, Starlight Maker.

Alight the escalator into the skies for an automated trajectory to Love to Leave You out on 30 Sept, 2022 via Psychic Hysteria.

Contact doublevanitymusic@gmail.com

PRESS QUOTES

Night Moves "...it’s all murky atmospheres and sticky melodies, and paired with the brand new clip created by Geoffrey O'Connor, it’s a disorientating yet glamorous ride packed with a potently emotive punch that has us completely hooked." Trouble Juice May 2022

"Zec Zechner’s voice is surely the central focus; you are drawn to the majesty that it presents throughout, with moments that feel like the notes could shatter before your ears" Austin Town Hall (USA) May 2022

“Mixing original synths, vintage drum machines, dreamy Twin Peaks guitars, and otherworldly post-punk vocals their music is a perfect description of analogue sounds.” Visual Atelier 8 (USA) July 2020

“...‘Escalator’ is an ode to life’s relentless upward trajectory and a reminder to stop and smell the roses once in a while. ...I’d say Double Vanity create a potpourri of dream-pop, ambient sound, and melodic post-punk, but with a tousled new-wave glamour that makes the band’s sound feel both contemporary and nostalgic” James Frostick, Weirdo Wasteland June 2020

“... a seasoned group of musicians showing all the footnotes of an important band to come.” Daniel Devlin, Trouble Juice July 2020

“In devising their own genre, Double Vanity nullify the need for generic descriptors, favouring a fresh epithet they can paint their own style onto. Double Vanity are a band whose music expresses feelings that words can’t articulate, with the ability to lure the listener into otherwise confronting self-reflections,” Hum Zine Germany, July 2020

“Melbourne trio Double Vanity has given me chills with the release of its new track ‘Escalator.’ The lush synths and Kate Bush-esque vocals give it a cool retro feel, but there’s an immediate emotional intensity that grounds it in the now.” Sounds of Oz July 2020

“The mesmerizing moody approach to the flowing vocals really made this track for me, perfectly supplementing the ethereal instrumental in creating an absolutely hypnotic and alluring soundscape.” Underrated blog (USA) August 2020

“I’m a metal dude and this song is absolutely amazing.” Manzanamandinga, YouTube Double Vanity’s, self titled, video page Double Vanity comment 2020

"It's like 1984 crawled out of my speakers and cradled me" Heurt, legendary Soundcloud 'Escalator' comment 2020

AWARDS + NOMINATIONS

Soundcloud Re-Ex Electronic Underground Charts reached #1 for track:
Night Moves - Double Vanity

Music Victoria Awards 2022:
Outstanding Woman in Music Nomination - Sarah Blaby. 
Double Vanity's trio ARE the sisterband of Plaster of Paris, nominated for Best Punk Rock Act category MVAs 2021.

Music Victoria Awards 2020 longlisted for nominations in three categories:
Best Emerging Act - Double Vanity
Best Song - Escalator
Best Female Musician - Sarah Blaby

I have played and recorded in international settings, a multitude of percussion instruments, guitar, bass, harmonica, some flutes, keyboard, and if you push me - a very fine jaw harp.

In fact, if I break it down.... I just love to offer-up music, in a living room, a bar, a concert hall or an intercontinental, interactive satellite coordinated concert. 
  
I became fascinated with percussive sounds from around the world… especially African and Latin American rhythms. I fanatically traveled the world collecting anything that you could bang, scrape or hit.
What I learned? Border customs people really don’t appreciate the true value of handmade African caxixi shakers or a Brazilian berimbau. They just want the serial number.
More importantly, a single clicking or ringing sound in a song can make or break that song.
  
I toured Canada, USA and Europe and recorded many “world music” albums (before it was called that), with my late, musical soul mate, Dario Domingues. We played in grand churches, the water reservoirs under Munich, on an island where 100,000 doves were released at the climax of our performance, the first-ever “simulcast”, live satellite, intercontinental concert and then, the humbling experience of being involved in Berlin, in front of 500,000 people, for a series of anti-apartheid concerts featuring ‘Sting’.  For our 'world music' efforts, we were awarded the Deutscher Schallplattenpreisan (1983) accolade by the Deutsche Phono-Akademie, an association of recording companies of Germany that recognizes outstanding achievement in the music industry.  
What I learned? Music is truly a universal language. Around the world people are drawn to music. Of course, different strokes for different folks! 
Whether you play in front of a half-million people in a field, or 10 people in a bar, your role as a musician never changes.  
 
“Dream of the Drum” – I was commissioned to compose and conduct a score for 40+ percussionists from all corners of the world... Jamaican fire dancers, Trinidadian steel drummers, Japanese kodo drummers, African djembe players, military drummers,... the list goes on.
What I learned? The language of music respects no geographic borders. 
Also, never start your outdoor concert, with a lone Native Elder's rain drum song. The drum's magic works!
 
I helped build three innovative recording studios plus, my current production studio. I academically taught musical acoustics and production for several years.
What I learned? All the mathematics and physics in the world can’t replace a good ear.
 
As a producer, I've had the wonderful opportunity to work in great studios in NYC and Nashville with amazing session musicians such as: Eric "Roscoe" Ambel - best known as lead guitarist of Steve Earle’s band the Dukes; Dan Baird of the chart-topping 'Georgia Satellites'; guitarist extraordinaire, Warner E. Hodges, founding member of 'Jason and the Scorchers'.
What I learned? Great musicians tend to be humble but they sure have opinions! In Nashville, I was bluntly told -"No, I won't raise the tom level - in country music, we use toms for holding our bourbon glass." I never did get the toms louder.
 
I spent many years as President of the Ottawa International Jazz Festival and met some of the greatest musical geniuses in the world.
What I learned? "Man, if you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know."
 
Music for jingles on radio and TV. Documentaries.
My personal favourite was coming up with suitable music for the mating rituals of pigs or, how to create 60 minutes of Arctic wind sounds for the movie 'Never Cry Wolf'.  
What I learned?  You can tell an entire story in a 29.5 second radio jingle and music is the glue that holds a great video together.