The ‘ambient cassette musick’ of VDO is the product of Melbourne artists, Joshua Petherick and Christopher L.G. Hill. Their Wholesale, Retail and Opportunity Shopping releases on Bunyip Trax are a window display of croupy choral riffage, containing pausal but eternal preludes of fucked tapery and crypt dronology. Hill is the co-director of Y3K Gallery and both contribute to jahjahsphinx.blogspot.com. Petherick and Hills performance coincides with their exhibition appearance at Gambia Castle.
SF’s raga-like guitar gleam and oneironautical songs are the invention of King Loser, Olla, Sferic Experiment, .303 Concrete and Renderers alum, Sean O’Reilly. His solo work has appeared on Flying Nun – including the “Where In The World Is Wendy Broccoli'” compilation alongside Pin Group, Dimmer, Snapper and Chris Knox – and Dungeon Taxis. Compared by The Wire/Volcanic Tongue’s David Keenan to ‘your favourite Dead C brokedown fade-out’, SF’s sonic zones are ceiling zero but cuttingly hypnotic.
LA Lakers groks the essence of the voice through Dracula Sneeze and ventriloquist hoax. His nursery slurp, hymnal glissandi and chanson redaction is myxophiliac, glomming the laryngeal idols of Lisa Suckdog and the Mamas and the Papas.
Tim Coster is an ex-Auckland artist based in Melbourne, whose extensive visual and aural work has involved the curation of two labels – Claudia and Fictitious Sighs – collaborative performances and sound projects alongside the likes of Machinefabriek, Peaking Lights, Metal Rouge and Richard Francis, and installations at the Auckland Museum and HSP in Christchurch. His music is an elusive coalescence of sounds threaded together through adroit alchemies, varying from the fabric patter of his earlier solo recordings to the stochastic h-punk of Velvet Hour and mirage R&B of Currer Bells.
