Alphabethead, Ludus & Discontent Aotearoa Tour 2025

Please join Alphabethead, Ludus and Discontent this December when they visit Tākaka to present genre-expanding music that seeks to stimulate the brain, and move the body! These three acts differ widely from one another but are unified in friendship and the shared pursuit of life-affirming, body-moving combinations of rhythms, bass and sound design.

ALPHABETHEAD is celebrating the release of “My Name Is David", his debut album of electronic music on Sunreturn. David finds himself adrift in the musical cosmos, somewhere between the constellations of Hip Hop, Electronica and Experimental Rock. As a teenager he won the New Zealand DMC DJ Championship and this title sent him performing across the globe. Over the next twenty years he'd go on to make six albums as Alphabethead, five albums as one third of cult genre-shredders All Seeing Hand and two records as half of the psychedelic Hip Hop duo Bad Taste alongside Young Gho$t. He also contributed production or turntable scratching to Home Brew, Tourettes, Death & The Maiden, The Etymologists (featuring Richard Nunns and David Long (The Mutton Birds) and The Village Of The Idiots (a modern jazz ensemble led by Anthony Donaldson (The Front Lawn, Primitive Art Group)). His musical prowess and singular approach to playing the turntable like a musical instrument has led to tours through Aotearoa, Australia, UK and China and performances at festivals like WOMAD, Splore, Laneway and Camp A Low Hum.Now signed to Sunreturn, Alphabethead's new music is explorative and driving electronica stemming from sound design and synthesis with touches of turntablism and vinyl sampling.

https://alphabethead.bandcamp.com/

LUDUS is the sound project of Emma Bernard (She/Her), encompassing her work as an electronic musician, audio engineer, sound designer and writer.Driven by a passion for using sound as a means for artistic collaboration, she has worked with other artists to compose film soundtracks, full-length dance works and sound art commissions. Herpractice constantly explores the relationship between sound and the natural environment, striving to deepen our understanding of the world through sound.

https://strangebehaviour.bandcamp.com/album/two-of-the-same

DISCONTENT is one-third of the central nervous system of Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Whanganui’s DISPLEASURE/UNSANITARY NAPKIN; an analog drums and electronic frenzy, deconstructed with improvised chaos, heavy bass, and hyperactive rhythms.

https://unsanitarynapkin.bandcamp.com/

Alphabethead, Displeasure & Birdparty Aotearoa Tour 2025

Ōtepoti/Dunedin, FRI 5 DEC, Pearl Diver, 9PM
Ōtautahi/Christchurch, SAT 6 DEC, Lyttelton Coffee Co, 7PM
Tākaka, SUN 7 DEC, Roots Bar*, 8PM *Sadly no Birdparty
Kirikiriroa/Hamilton, FRI 12 DEC, Last Place, 8PM
Tāmaki-makaurau/Auckland, SAT 13 DEC, Audio Foundation, 7:30PM
Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington, FRI 19 DEC, Meow, 8PM
Whanganui, SAT 20 DEC, Porridge Watson, 8PM