Alien Jams welcomes Shapednoise, oMMM and Design a Wave to Cafe OTO. Shelley Parker will also be djing throughout the evening.


SHAPEDNOISE

Traveling from Berlin for his debut live set in London, Shapednoise aka Nino Pedone is one of the founders of Repitch Recordings, 1/2 of Violetshaped, as well as a solo artist in his own right. He has released music on Dominick Fernow's Hospital Productions as well as Opal Tapes, and most recently has a 12" on Russian Torrent Versions. With work that spans from gutter crawling experimental noise that might be found on a lost horror soundtrack, to all-encompassing mechanical techno, Shapednoise scours every dark corner of the Earth for his dread-filled offerings.

"Pedone’s output has also become increasingly imaginative and wide-ranging … from the dancefloor into gut-churning noise experiments and migraine ambience to thrilling effect… teetering on the threshold between fever-pitch techno and a grooveless, oppressive form of rhythmic noise." - Angus Finlayson (Fact Mag)

https://soundcloud.com/shapednoise




oMMM

Edmund Davie’s oMMM project ventures deep into the murky realms of cassette experimentation, with his latest release on the Alien Jams label, called Parallel Lines Converge. Cassette collage and drum machine rhythms are channeled through a trusty four track, sounds that seem to belong to some distant cosmological order. Noise synths and casiotone are drenched in tape hiss, rising to intoxicating proportions, adding yet another hazy veil to oMMM’s work. With as much attention paid to eerily buzzing soundscapes as overloaded drum sequences, oMMM navigates a vast expanse of sonic no-man’s land, all the while teetering on the brink of madness.

"oMMM is the brainchild of Edmund Davie and uses primitive electronics, four-track cassette recorder, tape work, synth and drum machine to generate the kind of lonely lunar satellites that combine the feel of early Asmus Tietchens with classic, spooked bedroom radiophonia and an eerie occult/galactic atmosphere that is somewhere between The Conet Project and Joe Meek’s I Hear A New World. Tracks read like NASA interceptions of punk primitive alien technologies tone-dialling 20th century receptors with squiggles of shortwave, early Industrial wasp soundings, brain-blotting loops and clunky hermetic drones underlining the whole scientific bedroom hobbyist appeal. Unmusical and mind-bendingly crude, this makes for the perfect combination of eccentric analogue experimentation and cold, austere Kluster/Conrad Schnitzler style dead dark space" David Keenan

https://soundcloud.com/ommm




DESIGN A WAVE

Design a Wave aka Tom Hirst is a London based artist who has recently released music on Rush Hour's No Label, as well as contributing past releases on Luke Younger's Alter label.

"Tom Hirst has been making music for many moons. Initial buds featured tape collages, distangled pop music, various dictaphone experiments, and over time all this meshed and warped into his solo musical venture known as Design A Wave. Initiated in the late 90s, the project was loosely named after one of the gangs in the Troma film Surf Nazis Must Die which, alongside other similar movies and music of it's time, informed a particular vision of an idealized weird - a trashy synth orientated 80s B-movie soundtrack, which provided an aesthetic platform on which to dive, surf and ride."




SHELLEY PARKER

Shelley Parker is an artist based in London. Her practice explores the experiential potential of sound and image through the manipulation of technology and the study of structure and material. Live audio feeds, bass frequencies and found sounds are recurring themes within her performance, installation and music production.

In 2003 she joined the Haywire DJ roster alongside Andrew Weatherall, Radioactive Man and Magda. Her distinctive bass driven sets, encompassing elements of old school hardcore, techno and electro led to regular DJ sets at Fabric, The End and also Tate Britain. Since 2008, she has performed her bass heavy hypnotic live sets alongside artists such as Mick Harris, Mark Fell and Chris & Cosey at venues spanning the Barbican, De la Warr Pavilion and most recently The Outer Church at La Casa Encendida in Madrid. Since 2007 she has run the label and events programme Structure exploring aspects of found sound, noise and the legacy of British bass music.

www.shelleyparker.co.uk