Awesome Vortex, Antony Milton, Peter Wright and Michael Minchington, Occasionals

The aerogel pop and droplet house of Awesome Vortex is the product of Christchurch and Melbourne synthetists, Adam Willetts and Tim Coster. Like a fake meeting between Koji Kondo and Ussachevsky in a fibreoptic canopy clearing, their elektronische rites are both Otaku geek and Nihilist getdown. Coster is the head of CLaudia (Metal Rouge, Plains, Currer Bells) and new label, Fictitious Sighs (Greens, Pinks and Whites, Vogue Forums, Paeces). Willetts has performed locally and abroad alongside Sun Araw, Ducktails, Akio Suzuki, Dan Deacon and High Places.

Antony Milton, Peter Wright and Mike Minchington are in a microsynth ensemble whose endothermic polyglot of blippage and code-switching end-fire arraydom is intricately wobbly. Milton runs a paragon imprint called Pseudoarcana – a cultural cache of dissident treasures by the likes of The Skaters, Ashtray Navigations, Keijo, Zelienpole, Birchville Cat Motel, Agitated Radio Pilot and Uton. His own music has appeared on labels such as Last Visible Dog, Maggotism International, MYMWLY, Foxglove and Release the Bats. Wright has performed and recorded extensively both in New Zealand and internationally, and has released on Spekk, Students of Decay, Digitalis and Ikuisuus.


Simon Kong’s Occasionals smuggles post-disciplinary funk into the room, setting up an embracive sonic environment that’s both scrambly and see-through. Anapestic tetrameter reimagined by The Belleville Three.