Smart, transcendent, and immersive, Kirsten Volness’ emotive soundscapes integrate electronics and modern composition techniques with jazz and pop influences. “Irresistible” (San Francisco Chronicle) and “nothing short of gorgeous.” (New York Arts), each of her compositions reveals “an exquisite sound world” (New Classic LA) inspired by nature, myth, spirituality, and environmental and sociopolitical issues. With commissions from the World
Future Council Foundation, ASCAP/SEAMUS, BMI Foundation, and The American Opera Project, Volness received MacColl Johnson and RISCA Fellowships. She holds composition degrees from the Universities of Michigan and Minnesota, and has taught at Reed College and the University of Rhode Island.

Sleepers Awake is a Columbus, Ohio based progressive metal group that creates brutally fantastic epics.

A gargantuan 70-minute triumph for ingenuity and artful intensity, Transcension adds great depth and intrigue to the sound Sleepers Awake established on their debut. Although there are still superficial debts owed to the pioneering likes of Tool and Opeth, not to mention revered prog greats like Pink Floyd and Rush, the songs that combine to form this imperious musical journey boast an idiosyncratic and absorbing personality that is both unique and mesmerising. Elements of classic rock, sludge metal and even left-field art rock and ambience collide again and again, resulting in a devastating but irresistible hybrid that fans of thought-provoking and soulful heavy music will find impossible to ignore.

A mind-bending and magnificent concept piece that tells the tale of 'The Augur' and his struggle with higher forces that veers off through magical worlds full of fantastic creatures and surreal imagery while exploring the dizzying depths of existential contemplation, the new Sleepers Awake album is a work of laudable substance, intelligence and creative bravery. Add to that the fact that this band kick a serious amount of unholy metal ass along the way, and it seems beyond doubt that these young Americans will soon be winning over a huge international fan base, as vacuous pop culture drives a generation of diehard music lovers to embrace more challenging and perverse aural thrills. Time to rub your eyes, unblock your ears and surrender to the sound of enlightenment, catharsis and joy rendered in three sonic dimensions...
Dom Lawson - Metal Hammer, Prog Magazine, Total Rock Radio, Classic Rock Magazine, The Guardian Music

SYMPHO NYMPHO

RISE FROM THE UNDERGROUND

Deep, deep, deep under the streets of Manhattan, unbeknown to the millions who tread the sidewalks, amid the disused subway tunnels and cavernous vaults there is a music studio, a studio many seek but few find, a studio known only to a chosen few. It is here that SYMPHO NYMPHO was spawned.

SYMPHO NYMPHO is the brainchild of superstar producers and Pacha residents Erick Morillo, Harry ‘Choo Choo’ Romero and Jose Nunez, a powerhouse of musical excellence, a collective driven underground by the new world order, a world in which vacuous worshippers of fame are unashamedly celebrated, a world where talent is irrelevant, a world where repackaged banality is preferred to genuine groundbreaking beats.

The resistance starts here and it starts now.

Erick Morillo needs very little introduction, a household name, a platinum selling artist, a producer who has topped the charts worldwide with the Real 2 Reel hit I Like To Move It and the owner of Subliminal Records. He’s produced under pseudonyms including Ministers De La Funk (along with Harry and Jose), RAW, Smooth Touch, RBM, Deep Soul, Club Ultimate, Li’l Mo Ying Yang, has remixed everyone from Whitney Houston to Basement Jaxx, from the Sneaker Pimps to Macy Gray and has collaborated with the likes of Puff Daddy. He’s big in the game to say the least.

It was while working on The Dronez material with Harry ‘Choo Choo’ Romero and Jose Nunez, producers of percussive, funky tracks Cro-Magnon and Erectus – Subliminal Records - that the concept for SYMPHO NYMPHO was born.

“We kinda soaked up all musical genres since the late 70′s between us,” says Jose. “And we wanted to explore our diversity in a new dimension for us – popular music. It’s a radio friendly sound where we’ve morphed all our ideas and influences.”

“With SYMPHO NYMPHO, we get to be more playful and express ourselves in a totally different way than before,” agrees Harry. “It’s a new boundary for us, that we are having a blast discovering.”

Together under the SYMPHO NYMPHO guise they create intense drama with their use of delays, frequency and reverbs to build climactic tensions and nerve tingling crescendos.

Well respected, chart-topping vocalists have travelled from all over the globe to join forces, they each share the same vision of returning groove based beats to the popular masses.

Combining their individual diversity they have crossed boundaries and are ready to deliverer a rare thing, a work of great wonder and imagination, a timeless classic.

2012 will be the year of SYMPHO NYMPHO; they are amassing an army of hits capable of rising up and smashing the status quo. The underground is fighting back and it’s gonna be big!

"Makes your feet stomp and your heart soar.. one of the best live bands in London now" - Time Out Live

"Harnessing the epic adventure of Kate Bush and Florence Welch. An essential antidote to all the vacuous mediocrity. Sirens should never be ignored. And nor should these girls." - The Sun

"Canny epic and no mistake.. BIG BIG flavours" Pete Donaldson - Absolute Radio

helenandthesirens.com/blog/

Helen & the Sirens are an all female band fronting original alternative pop material. Their music is a direct result of classical meets band. It's hedonistic, tribal, choral and poetic. It's moving, sexy, feminine and strong. These girls are the voice of a demographic not represented in popular music today. In this world of 'quick fix' music, Helen & the Sirens is behind and for the thinking woman and man.

Helen & the Sirens was founded by singer, violinist and writer Helen Greenham. Originally a solo performer, Helen's writing became bigger taking on a female power that needed to be matched as much in numbers as it did in strong women. This transition happened over a number of years. Built on the shoulders of a girl whose wish is to push boundaries, Helen & the Sirens has taken on a form never before been heard or seen.

Between them they have played at Koko, Proud, Roundhouse Studios, 12 Bar, Barfly, The Great Escape Festival, SXSW Texas, Latitude and supported Mumford & Sons, My Brightest Diamond, Ladyhawke and Alessi’s ark to name a few. Helen has recorded at Abbey Road studios and played live for BBC London Live Sessions and leant her composition and musical talents to the likes of Diana Vickers and Lucinda Bell. They were finalists in 2012 International Songwriting Competition and are gaining air time in many parts of the US.
























We’ve all been involved in the UK trance scene for what seems like aeons now, but it wasn’t until Summer of 2005 that we fused our energies to create our first outdoor party in the Sussex countryside. It was a small and sunny party with friends and various expressive creatures…..with such a fantastic vibe we felt the beginning of the Bazaar. Since then we have trawled the countryside for remote beautiful verdant places in which to express the Bazaar. We’ve done a few each year, but winter outdoors is a bit chilly, so we took our vibe into the Brighton clubs during the winters of 2006/7 and since then we've not looked back... We try to structure our parties so that each DJ set flows into the next and takes its captives on a collective journey……Our sounds are straight down the middle, away from the darkness on one side, and away from commercial sounds on the other side: Funking, super groovy trance with psy twists and turns.&nbsp;





<a href="http://www.myspace.com/freakbazaar">http://www.myspace.com/freakbazaar</a> <a href="http://www.freakbazaar.net">http://www.freakbazaar.net</a>





Freak Bazaar is:



Toby & Antonio - TANTRIX

<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tantrix/411312724767?ref=hl">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tantrix/411312724767?ref=hl</a>









Antonio (Kayaman)





<a href="http://www.myspace.com/kayamansound">http://www.myspace.com/kayamansound</a> 


Gino (Ginetik)



<a href="http://www.myspace.com/ginetiko">http://www.myspace.com/ginetiko</a>



Alex (Mentalex)



<a href="http://www.myspace.com/mentalex">http://www.myspace.com/mentalex</a>




A`hem...  But, allow me to introduce myself, anyway.

Je suis le vampire, Lestat ...

Some, choose to refer to me as "The Brat Prince". Imagine that. ^^

I`m immortal. More or less.
The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire.
These things might destroy me. But then again, they may not.

I've been on this pathetic Earth for centuries.
And believe me, one becomes relatively BORED after a while.
I am constantly on the look out for new ways to amuse myself.

(yawn)

Seems that everyone else had one of these ridiculous things.
And with an ego like mine, I REFUSE to be the last literary character without one.
At least now, I can't lose my diary to groups of idiotic supernatural psychologists.
The internet is also the utmost way to advertise my glorious being.

So here, I am.

Ah, Lestat. (grin) Prince, Victorian gentleman, rock-star, and immortal father. I have been many things, cheris.

Worship the beauty of The Brat Prince ~ as I, have arrived.

I myself combine the best of vampiric youth and old age. Only two hundred and some years old, I have been for various reasons granted the strength of the ancients. I have a modern sensibility but a dead aristocrat's impeccable taste. I know exactly who I am. I am rich. I am beautiful. I can see my reflection in mirrors. And in shop windows. I love to sing and to dance.

What do I do? ~ Anything, that I please. ~

Think about it... Is it enough to make you want to read my story?

Have you perhaps read my stories of the vampires before?

Here's the catch: it doesn't matter here that I'm a vampire. It is not central to the tale. It's just a given, like my innocent smile and soft, purring French-accented voice and graceful way of sauntering down the street. It comes with the package. But what happened here could have happened to a human being; indeed, it surely has happened to humans, and it will happen to them again. We have souls, you and I.

We want to know things; we share the same earth, rich and verdant and fraught with perils. We don't either of us know what it means to die, no matter what we might say to the contrary. It's a cinch that if we did, I wouldn't be writing and you wouldn't be reading this page.
What does matter very much, as we go into this story together, is that I have set for myself the task of being a herb in this world. I maintain myself as morally complex, spiritually tough, and aesthetically relevant a being of blazing insight and impact, a guy with things to say to, you!


So if you read this, read it for that reason that I am talking again, that I am frightened, that I am searching desperately for the lesson, and for the song, and for the raison d'etre, that I want to understand my own story and I want you to understand it, and that it is the very best story I have right now to tell.

If that's not enough, go read something else... 

Your friend, in Darkness and in Light.
Lestat de Lioncourt.

Breaking beats from Melbourne, Australia.

Releases:
2020 - Eschatology - Self Release
2020 Lost Vibes - Self Release
2019 Interconnect (w/ Monoties) - Street Ritual
2018 The Variable / Various Artists - Vol​.​3 (TTC013) - The Tech Collective
2018 Obey / Exit Through The Glitch Shop - The Glitch Shop
2017 Verdant Factor / Glitch'n'Funk Vol 4 - Adapted Records
2016 Funhouse EP - Digital Whomp

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