Melbourne garage space noir synth pop wig out rockery or whatever

Head of @NotForFun records. Releases >> http://hyperurl.co/notforfun
SILA - Lovejoy EP [NOTFUN05] >> smarturl.it/lovejoy
SILA - Aeterna EP [NOTFUN01] 
Half of @TeenageArab band 

SILA on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/0R39NLtODrDJoduyZ0aIhg?si=cCRO8eE0RA2oFf0Vpphgiw
Not For Fun on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1SQiV4xfBllwIdZA4fhz8S

Avant-garde/Futuristic/Experimental record label.                            
Jultron - Anxiety LP out Apr 21 >> http://smarturl.it/jultron
All releases >> http://hyperurl.co/notforfun
SILA - Lovejoy [NOTFUN05]  >> smarturl.it/lovejoy
Annie Fisher - Cyberwind [NOTFUN04]
Teenage Arab - No Me No Mine [NOTFUN03]
Artamonova - White Nightie [NOTFUN02]
SILA - Aeterna [NOTFUN01]

This podcast is unpaid and survives on donations. You can donate here via paypal https://www.stephenmbland.com/olas-kool-kitchen or buy merch here https://olaskoolkitchen.dizzyjam.com I'm a DJ on KCLA 99.3FM In LA, 107.5 Andhow.FM in New Zealand, Maximum Threshold Radio, Rock Radio UK, Sword Radio UK, Jammerstream One, Kor Radio, Bombshell Radio, Pop Radio UK, Radio Wigwam, Dirty Chai Radio, Rock XS Radio. Radio Candy Radio, Radio Lantau and Firebrand Radio.
 I like my music eclectic. Basically mainstream radio sucks and that's why I do what I do. I provide a Kool alternative.

I'm interested in featuring new music, bands/artists if you wanna be on my show I only accept submissions here please https://www.submithub.com/radio/olas-kool-kitchen  

Bands I've interviewed and or recorded live are

Explosions in The Sky, The Silver Jews, Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs, Animal Collective, Mount Eerie/The Microphones, Bon Iver, The Go! Team, They Came From The Stars I Saw Them, The Playing Fields, The Chap, The Helio Sequence, Lynch Rider Lulu, Throwing Muses, Scarce, Trespassers William, Damien Jurado, Ariel Pink, Th'Faith Healers,  Vivian Girls, Spiritualized, Spectrum, Jimi Shields, Jason Molina-Magnolia Electric Company, The Jayhawks, Andrew Bird, Darlings Of The Day, Menomena, Yacht, The Hot Toddies, Bonde Do Role,Dika Omka, Citizens of Ice Cream, Khottal, The Stoned Revival, Liyana Fizi,Tenderfist, Beach House, Sleigh Bells, The Antlers, Apse, Circulatory System, Bis, Nana Grizol, Real Estate, Low, Owen Pallett, Panda Bear, Clare and The Reasons, The Smith Westerns, Dr Dog, Surfer Blood, Wild Honey, Peggy Sue, First Aid Kit,  The Charlatans, Gary Numan, Damo Suzuki, Drum Eyes, Nedry, Rocketnumber9, The Waves, A Sunny Day In Glasgow, Florence and The Machine, Magic and Fur, Scout Niblet, Elephant Micah, Peter Tork, Joe Kidd, Thelightshines, The Koolaid Electric Company, Moon Duo, Galaxie 500, A Classic Education, Kyst, Mogwai, Baths, Salem, The Black Angels, PJ Harvey, Suicide, Interpol, Mward,Del Ray, Money Mark, The Album Leaf, Rubik, Julia Kent, My Teenage Stride, The Flaming Lips,The Telescopes, The Cult Of Dom Keller,Elephant Stone, Hall Of Mirrors, The See See, The Entrance Band, Sky Parade, The Suicide Of Western Culture,  Bearcraft, Four Dead In Ohio, Whipping Boy, The Meek, The Blue Angel Lounge, Dead Meadow, Spindrift, Secret Colours, Golden Dawn, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Airiel, Woods, Pink Mountaintops, Wooden Shjips, Bombino, Strangers Family Band, Vacant Lots, The Altered Hours, The Nova Saints, the Lost Rivers, The Chameleons, Gravenhurst, Thee Piatcions, One Unique Signal, A Place To Bury Strangers, The Dead Skeletons, Peter Wolf Cryer, Balthazar, Ancient River, The Underground Youth, Singapore Sling, The Silver Apples, Diane Cluck, Graham Bonnar, bev Davies, Gregg Foreman, The Electric Mainline, Youngteam, The Greencoats, Ricky Maymi, Helicon, Angel Olsen, Lumerians, Twink, Jordannah Elizabeth, K-X-P, Duncan McKnight from The Virgin Tongues, Robert Dean From Japan, My Morning Bride, Mutual Benefit, Nick McCabe and Simon Jones from The Verve, Black Submarine, Mig Schillace from Portishead/Santa Cruz,

The Beegles have existed in embryo for years. Not until 2012 was the name
conceived and The Beegles became what they are today. Through the writing
partnership of Ash Briody and Shane Whitson the impetus was given for a
journey through sound. Today, through the various iterations of its members, The Beegles have become something else, something other. With 2 EP’s under their belt the longstanding member (Ash Briody) decided to conceive anew the diretion of the band in the name of the new LP, Everybody Outside. Herein we see the band retroactively understood. In namesake only does the band live on, and through the new believers does it continue too. As The Beegles gesture toward the event horizon of its old self, Ash Briody, Merlyn Gwyther-McCuskey and Owen Miller bring The Beegles to a new conclusion. Less than a band but more than an idea The Beegles try to bring music back to itself and go from the very principles themselves. From the studio to the backyard the music of Ash Briody is the extension of a desire to “write an album for my dad to listen to whilst he gardens.” Inside or outside The Beegles are for everybody.

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

Followers of The Beegles