Evan Crankshaw explores exoticism through collages, drawings, sound and video. He has published a collage book, Expedition, at Printed Matter, designed album covers for various Discrepant artists and also hosts a weekly radio show on WFMU, Explorers room, devoted to exotica, avant-garde and strange music from around the world. For his first coming to Europe around BBmix festival where he has been invited to do a creation with The Dead Mauriacs, he will be also available for DJ sets (music + visuals).
Availability: Europe/UK from 15 November to 05 December 2018. Also available for fly-ins/special events.
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Etienne Jaumet is the name behind the legendary French band Zombie Zombie, The Married Monk, The Tribute to La Monte Young (with Spacemen Three's Sonic Boom), to name just few of the bands he's played with. He plays sax with James Holden live band. When his henchman (Cosmic Neman) is not around beating on the drums for the band-beyond-the-grave, Zombie Zombie, Etienne Jaumet takes control of a spacecraft that only he can manage, cruising outer space on a quest for a deeper sound. As a solo performer, he delves into a box of inspirations drawn from horror movie soundtracks, jazz, French 1970s avant-garde, vintage italo, kosmische, library music and psychedelia, concocting a sound that is sensuous, intoxicating. Breathtaking in its imagination and cinematic scope, Jaumet's live show which takes in saxophone and a vast array of vintage keyboards and synthesizers is essential viewing. 'Night Music", his first CD on Versatile Records (2009) was produced by Carl Craig. "La Visite", his second album was out in 2014. In September 2018 Etienne will have a new album on Versatile Records with covers of jazz classics: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Duke Elington, Art Ensemble of Chicago… again played with his signatures analog synths, drum machine and alto sax.
Availability: WORLD from 01 November 2018 to 31 May 2018.
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Orchestra of Spheres return to Europe in November 2018 with a new album. Following in the wake of the genre defying future classics 'Nonagonic Now'(2010) and 'Vibration Animal Sex Brain Music' (2013) and 2016's 'Brothers And Sisters Of the Black Lagoon", the band have been described variously as 'a surreal road-trip through a hyper primal, fuzzed-out, synth laden, garden of Eden', and "...a hot, dynamic unit who present a live show that defies both categorization and expectation". For their new album they employ double drummers, woodwinds and other expansions into deeper, headier grooves.
Availability: Europe 01 to 24 November 2018. Also available for fly-ins/special events.
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Bas Jan are a London-based experimental post-punk trio built around the remarkable and distinctive voice and songs of multi-instrumentalist and composer Serafina Steer. Their utterly brilliant debut album Yes I Jan has been released via Lost Map Records digitally on February 9, 2018, and on vinyl on February 23rd. Who is Serafina Steer? She's a vocalist, harpist, bassist and keyboard player who has released three critically-acclaimed solo albums under her own name – the latest of which, 2013’s The Moths Are Real was produced by Jarvis Cocker – as well as appeared both live and on record with musicians including Lone Taxidermist, Jon Hopkins, Rozi Plain, John T. Gast, Patrick Wolf, Tunng and John Foxx. She sees her practice as much as a social activity as an expressive, technical art and takes an experimental, punk approach to music making - seeking to create work that has a free quality and resists categorization, often arising through the juxtaposition of musical disciplines and genres. Singles 'No Sign and 'King Of The Holloway Road' were championed by BBC 6 Music's Marc Riley. Bas Jan is ready to tour europe/UK in Sept.
Availability: Europe/UK 04 to 30 November 2018.
Contact Etienne | Links: Bas Jan FB | Label Page | Soundcloud | No Sign Video | Holloway Road Video

LOTTO are a polish instrumental trio — Łukasz Rychlicki on guitar, bass and sampler, Mike Majkowski on bass and Paweł Szpura on drums — blending the outer borders of jazz, country, noise, and minimal electronica, through repetitive structures and improvisation, creating a music that is both hypnotising and moving. Their current album called VV has been released in late 2017 on Instant Classic (Stara Rzeka, Zimpel/Ziołek)
Availability: Europe/UK 17 to 25 November 2018. Also available for fly-ins/special events.
Contact Tea | Links: Album 'VV' | Doc on Wyborcza (PL) | The Attic | Quietus | Artist page

Thalia Zedek is an unparalleled voice in rock music. Her music straddles the line between intimate and visceral. Zedek has received wide acclaim for her intense vocal performances and guitar playing in past projects Come, Uzi, Live Skull, and most recently her new trio E with Gavin McCarthy (Karate) and Jason Sidney Sanford (Neptune). Since the dissolution of Come, Zedek has focused her solo efforts on more vulnerable, stripped back arrangements. Her new album Fighting Season combines the grit of her past with the fragility of her solo releases, spinning tales of discord and struggle from the personal to the political and featuring performances by old friends Chris Brokaw (Come) and J. Mascis (Dinosaur Jr.). In January 2019 she tours with her band.
Availability: UK 20 to 26 January 2019.
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Pierre Bastien‘s music making machines exist at the cross between music, sculpture, installation and visual art. Blending live trumpet with screen projections and his mechanical sound sculptures, he has developed his own poetic language, and found accolades and fans including Aphex Twin (who released two of his records). His work has been described as “a timeless sounding orchestra, both futuristic and slightly dada, conjuring ancient traditions in its surprisingly sensuous music.” Tomaga are the duo of Valentina Magaletti and Tom Relleen, who blend prepared percussion with esoteric synthesizers and tuned percussion to create music that moves between industrial, jazz, psychedelia and minimalism. Since forming their duo in 2014 they have made 10 releases and received numerous accolades including BBC Radio describing them as ‘the best band in the UK’ and Thurston Moore inviting them to be part of the CAN Project at London Barbican in 2017. Tomaga and Pierre Bastien began a collaboration in 2017, firstly for a performance at Fructose in Dunkirk, and secondly for a performance at Supersonic Festival in UK. In the process of these live collaborations they have prepared a recording of their unique collaboration which will be released on Nicolas Jaar’s ‘Other People’ imprint in February 2019.
Availability: Europe from 20 February to 31 December 2019. Also available for fly-ins/special events.
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Best known as singer and guitarist for art-rock-tronica act Suuns, Shemie also boasts a background in modern classical composition and experimental performance. A fascination for electronic music, specifically the seminal releases of Warp Records spurred him to experiment, expand his sound and fuse it with the conventions of many genres. Ever inquisitive, he seeks out novel conceptual projects and challenging delivery systems for his restless musical soul. Shemie’s solo project has him taming feedback and sound swells, teasing the elements into figures and forms as he rides out their fury or their fragility. A powerful improv-heavy piece of angular, ambient drone, prepare to be enveloped. First solo album in February 2019 with Hands in the Dark label
Availability: WORLD from 01 March to 31 December 2019.
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“Before Def Jux, before Death Grips, before Yeezus, there was Dälek” (Noisey). Pioneers of alt hip-hop, Dälek (pronounced "die-a-lek") features Rapper/Producer MC Dälek and Producer/Live Electronics Mike Manteca. With roots in the mid-90's DIY scene, Dälek has been delivering ground breaking albums for over 20 years. They have encapsulated fans and critics across all genres, garnering fans and accolades from the Hip-Hop, Electronic, Indie, Metal, Shoegaze, Jazz and experimental communities. After releasing 7 studio albums, numerous collaborations, EP's, and remixes, they are known for their large body of work and pushing boundaries with every release. their last Album "Endangered Philosophies" was released in Sept. 2017 on Ipecac!
Availability: Europe/UK from 28 March to 14 April 2019. Also available for fly-ins/special events.
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‘Continuum’ is a 52-minute audiovisual performance by Félicie d’Estienne d’Orves produced in tribute to the electronic piece «Koume» (1993) by the French composer Eliane Radigue. The show was commissioned for the performance hall at the Centre Pompidou to be presented for the fiftieth anniversary of the first man on the moon in 2019. ‘Continuum’ is a reconstruction of a sunset on stage as could be observed on Mars. Félicie d’Estienne d’Orves envisioned combining progressive, imperceptible frequency variations and sustained drones from Eliane Radigue’s music, with the temporal and visual continuum of a Martian sunset. The sun doesn’t actually set; the Earth rotates around the sun. This endlessly repeated, perpetual movement is a model of an eternal beginning again. This term ‘space- time continuum’, also taken from relativistic mechanics, designates a space of which the 4th dimension would be time.
Availability: World from 03 April to 30 December 2019.
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NOTS are a 4 piece, all XX, “nuevo no wavo” band from Memphis, TN. Unpredictable guitar, celestial synth, and punctuated vocals swirl around the repetition of a powerful rhythm section to form a sound and a live show not easily classifiable but entirely addictive. Their new album gonna be released next spring on Goner. Get in touch!
Availability: Europe/UK from 15 May to 18 June 2019.
Contact Etienne | Links: NOTS FB | Live BB mIx | Live in London at the Garage | Trax Arte | White Noise Video | Decadence Video

FACS sprung from the ashes of Chicago band Disappears in early 2017. Initially formed around Disappears members Brian Case, Noah Leger, and Jonathan van Herik, the band now counts Alianna Kalaba (Cat Power, We Raggazi) as a member following van Herik's amicable departure. FACS use minimalism and space to make modern art rock. New Album produced by John Congleton (St. Vincent, War on Drugs, Roots) gonna be released in March 2019 on Trouble in Mind record.
Availability: Europe/UK from 15 May to 15 June 2019.
Contact Etienne | Links: Chicago Tribune | Chicago Reader | Itw with FACS | Pop Matters review | Album on soundcloud | Primary Video | Video of Skylarking

CZN stands for Copper, Zinc and Nickel, the raw materials used by percussionist and sculptor Joao Pais Filipe to make gongs and bells in his portuguese studio. CZN is also the alchemical sound of Joao in collaboration with percussionist Valentina Magaletti (Tomaga, Vanishing Twin, uuuu). The duo create rich tapestries of hypnotic rhythms, evolving the sound of drums and percussion into vivid textures: visceral timbres and telescoping rhythms that surround and beguile, and which hint at the meditative states of spiritual jazz as much as the cerebral counterpoint of Minimalist Composition. Beginning with a one off recording session in Porto in Spring 2018, the duo have crafted a debut LP that will be released as a collaboration between Porto’s Lovers & Lollipops collective and Tomaga’s Negative Days label in November 2018, including a launch party at Cafe Oto on 17th December.
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“Semi-Conductor” is a musical performance created by Joakim following his residency at Studio Venezia (the installation/recording studio created by Xavier Veilhan for the French pavilion at the 2017 Venice Art Biennale) and the subsequent album “The Studio Venezia Sessions” that was released by Vinyl Factory in June 2018. Somewhere between the musical performance and the installation, “Semi-Conductor” proposes to transform the spatial configuration and the experience of a typical concert (i.e. a center stage in front of an audience, the sound is coming off stage in stereo). Here, there is no stage, no center either, instead, the instruments are scattered around space, with their own amplification system creating a multi-diffusion sound throughout the space.
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Mésange is a collaboration between composer/violinist Agathe Max and composer/ musician Luke Mawdsley. Their second release, Gypsy Moth, anticipates the forces of nature, creation and rebirth, mordant musical tapestries (Minimalism, Drone and Ambient) are washed in dense electric skies, exposing signs that flutter and flare in dark elegance. Released in November 2018, the band already have support slots with Terry Riley, and Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, which shows that they fit into disparate ends of a wide musical spectrum.
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Rhys Chatham is a composer, guitarist, trumpet player and flutist from Manhattan, currently living in Paris, who altered the DNA of rock and created a new type of urban music by fusing the overtone-drenched minimalism of the early 60s with the relentless, elemental fury of the Ramones — the textural intricacies of the avant-garde colliding with the visceral punch of electric guitar-slinging punk rock. Starting with Guitar Trio in the 1970s and culminating with A Crimson Grail for 200 electric guitars in 2009, Chatham has been working for over 30 years to make use of armies of electric guitars in special tunings to merge the extended-time music of the sixties and seventies with serious hard rock. Chatham’s instrumentation ranges from the seminal composition composed in 1977 entitled Guitar Trio for 3 electric guitars, electric bass and drums, to the epoch evening-length work for 100 electric guitars, An Angel Moves Too Fast to See, composed in 1989… all the way to Chatham’s recent composition for 200 electric guitars, Crimson Grail, which was commissioned by the City of Paris for La Nuit Blanche Festival in 2005. A completely new version of the piece was commissioned by the Lincoln Center Outdoor Summer Festival in 2009. What does a composer do after mounting many performances with forces of 100-200 electric guitars? The composer gets back to basics, at least that’s what Rhys does! Along with the G100 and G3 programs, Chatham is currently offering a solo program, an evening length work with the composer performing himself on electric guitar, trumpets and bass alto and C flutes.
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Formed in Athens in 2009 the four-piece released two LPs on Slovenly, caught the attention of the press and played great shows in 2015 (including Dour, Eurosonic...). After touring Europe, US & Asia quite intensively the band finally got back to the studio. After a long three-year wait they’re now back with their third album ‘Lilac Days’on UK label Fuzz Club (home of Goat, The Black Angels, White Hills...). The album sees ABJ at their best; their frenetic garage-rock distilling a hazy mix of 60s Western psychedelic pop. After a short winter tour in march, they should be available for special events & festivals in the spring/ summer.
Available for fly-ins or special events / Europe.
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Good news were hard to come by in 2016, but one of them was definitely the comeback of Afrirampo - colorful noise rock / psychedelic duo from Osaka. Active between 2002 and 2010, ONI (guitar/vocal) and PIKA (drum/vocal) experimented with primitive sounds and explosive performances. They have toured with Lightning Bolt and Sonic Youth in Japan, the United States, and Europe; and have collaborated with artists such as Yoko Ono and Acid Mothers Temple. After 6 dormant years, they are back performing in Japan and preparing a new album.
Available for fly-ins or special events / Europe/UK.
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Arandel, a talented French musician who gravitates (beautifully) for several years in the electronic sphere without revealing his real identity, presents Switched on Bach, a project whose name refers to the album of the American transgender composer Wendy Carlos published in 1968. Becoming a cult favorite, this album brought to life reinterpreted Bach pieces with a Moog synthesizer. In the wake of Wendy Carlos and other great electronic experimenters, Arandel proposes here a hybrid performance - between live and DJ-set - mixing remixes, re-readings, recompositions and rearrangements of more or less known pieces of the huge repertoire. from Bach. The objective of this sound odyssey? "To demonstrate that if Bach had lived in the twenty-first century, he too would probably have been a demonstrator for Moog." The piece was created in March 2018 at the Paris Philharmonic as part of the Bach Marathon.
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Brian Case (FACS, Disappears, 90 day men, Bambi Kino Duo…) just has released another stunning new solo album "Plays Paradise Artificial". This third album somehow manages to compile and condense the best bits of its predecessors, and the magnificent viridian, glacial universe developed by Case since the beginning of his solo ventures is brought to the forefront. The Chicago artist centers his elusive, dehumanized compositions on two simple, minimal elements. Using just vocals and synths, he has created a simultaneously modern and post-apocalyptic soundtrack, where music exists as the final traces of the footsteps of humanity.
Available for fly-ins or special events / Europe/UK.
Contact Etienne | Links: Liberation Review | Video of 7D | Pattern 1 video | Ship Building Video | The Drone Review

Chloé is an electronic music artist suspended between genres and aesthetics unable to be categorized. With a style born from a true DJ culture and a strength of building a set with a personal vision, the French DJ and producer has developed a unique ear and sound distinctly her own. Collaborating often within the world of cinema, dance and Art Chloé has created exclusive sound pieces, for the Cinemathéque de Paris for one as well as a Tribute to Steve Reich with classical percussionist Vassilena Serafimova. Booking Art Projects by Pascal@julietippex.com (Worldwide Dj sets booking by Fmly London warren@fmly.agency – France Dj sets & Live booking by Dif peggy@dif.productions).
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Dead Days Beyond Help is the duo of Alex Ward (guitar/vocals) and Jem Doulton (drums). Since forming in 2006, DDBH have honed a compositional approach described by The Wire Magazine as “a reminder that there are still thrills aplenty to be gained from the pursuit of complexity… as playful as heavy, as atmospheric as cerebral”. Between them these two musicians have an impressive CV of collaborations, working as members of This is Not This Heat, Thurston Moore Band, Roisin Murphy, and more as well as regular collabs with the likes of Steve Noble and Alan Wilkinson. Their new album 'IV' will be releaed in October 2018
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The project features Etienne Jaumet, a Paris based musician who has a solo carrer on synths and sax and also plays with Zombie Zombie; Sonic Boom electronic musician from London who played with Spacemen 3, Spectrum and E.A.R. (Experimental Audio Research. Both artists wanted to collaborate for some time. They are joined by Céline Wadier, a French artist singing in Indian Classical music style. Etienne and Sonic play analog synths. The project was created at Lieu Unique, Nantes and Philarmonie de Paris in May 2016.
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The electronic duo formed by brussels based artists TG Gondard and Carrageenan, describe its music as ‘minimal funk for brutal dancefloors’. We think it actually fits their sound, do you? After playing festivals such as Villette Sonique, Schiev, Musiques Volantes, 3 Eléphants... the guys are available for club shows & special events.
Available for fly-ins or special events / Europe/ UK.
Contact Ambre | Links: Bandcamp | Facebook | The Word

The long-standing experimental group Radian has been dealing with the relation between structure and abstraction and gained world wide attention promoted by the label Thrill Jockey. Martin Brandlmayr, John Norman and Martin Siewert combine the traditional instrumentation of rock music with extremely minimalist, abstract structures. They create a space of tension between extreme dynamics, freely improvised parts and meticulous construction. Their fifth and recent release 'On Dark Silent Off' is about the juxtaposition of extremes and contrast. It took inspiration from modern and contemporary works of art, from the abstract paintings of Ad Reinhardt to 'Outer Space', an impressionistic horror film by fellow Austrian Peter Tscherkassky. Vienna is the home of Radian who have been influenced by and shaped the city’s vivid scene of electronica since the early 2000s.
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Contact Tea | Links: Pitchfork | Live in Geneva | Scary Objects (Official) | Artist page

Un hommage au label Saravah qui fête ses 50 ans. Premier label indépendant français, créé par Pierre Barouh, il révéla Jacques Higelin, Brigitte Fontaine et Areski, David McLean, The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Steve Lacy et bien d'autres. Pour cet hommage, en plus d'une exposition d'archives du label, de projections des films de Pierre Barouh et de conférence de son fils Benjamin, Julie Tippex crée un spectacle avec Brigitte Fontaine, Areski Belkacem, The Recyclers, Arlt, Borja Flames, Marion Cousin, Etienne Brunet. Première au Lieu Unique le 13 janvier 2018.
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After a two year hiatus The Oscillation return in 2018 with two new albums for the Fuzz Club label. Taking a few tangents from the vast, kaleidoscopic experience of sound and vision that has won them fans across the world, the new material veers between vertiginous kosmische soundscape, lysergic psychrock and acerbic no wave jam and sees the band enter yet another new dimension under the direction of central figure Demian Castellanos.
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Twenty-nine years after its release, Young Marble Giants’ legendary ‘Colossal Youth’ (on Rough Trade Records, recorded in 1980 in five days and mixed in 20 minutes) remains a landmark in post-punk music, an enigma of its own, acclaimed by musicians and audience over the years. Formed in 1978 in Cardiff, the trio’s music was constructed around the powerful and minimal instrumentation of brothers Philip and Stuart Moxham on bass and guitar, supporting the naive untrained vocals of Alison Statton. The band split in 1980, reformed in 2006 for a world-wide serie of amazing shows (with Julie Tippex!) and called it a day in 2015. In the 80s, after Young Marble Giants, Stuart played with The Gist, Alison with Week End and Spike. The big news in 2018 is that, following the reissues by Tiny Global Productions label of The Gist and Alison and Spike's albums, they all decided to go back on the road. Stuart, Alison and Spike will perform a best-of set their whole carrer.
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The Parisian trio formed by Cosmic Neman, Etienne Jaumet (also a solo recording artist) and Doc Schoenberg continues its incredible odyssey through the independent scene. An odyssey in the form of a meteoric rise. Since its beginnings Zombie Zombie claims his passion for krautrock and some form of cinematic music. The Zombie Zombie inevitably evokes bands such as Neu, Silver Apples, Suicide, Goblin or John Carpenter soundtracks. New album, LIVITY, out in October 2017 (Versatile); available for touring.
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