Stellar Om Source (Netherlands) / Mithras (London) / Morgellons

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Fri 21 May 2010 // 20:00 / Cinema

Bathed in early 90s sci-fi VHS screeners and 70s/80s New Age music, STELLAR OM SOURCE's (http://myspace.com/omsource) synth-driven psychedelia tracks outmoded media nostalgia into hyperreal and hypnotic synthetic sound.

Like peers Oneohtrix Point Never, James Ferrro and Matrix Metals, Stellar OM Source explores the synthetic feelings of isolation created by harsh old Yamaha synthesizers, working predominately with looped arpeggios and slow burning chord grooves that seep out subtle rhythms that could almost be from some distant Detroit.

Elsewhere her loops bring more to mind Brian Eno, Ryuichi Sakamoto, or Klaus Schulze. Gualdi’s is a dynamic vision, built upon after recently playing shows (with plenty of lasers) in the USA with the likes of Nite Jewel, Ducktails and Cold Cave.

MITHRAS (http://www.myspace.com/malepoowomanshoe) mutant riffs and stoned bass funk is like some inverse Ghana covers band, bringing the jazz rock rites to the tropical side of jammage.

MORGELLONS is Matt Atkinson channelling neo-primitive gnarliness into ultra gritty synth totality, arpeggiating casios spiral behind screamed vocals and raw humanism, real scruffy grandeur that blew a few minds at Hoult's Yard in April.

Also this night will feature heaps of DJs bending the rules and RPMs and getting generally oblique and hazy:

TOTEM RECALL SLOWED DOWN 80s DJ SET + CHEESEY CHIPS w/ GRAVY WARPED RPM ITALO/DISCO SET + PRMNT VIBES DJs + LES COX (sportifs) DJs!

PRMNT VIBES GROUP: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=119175775438&ref=ts

http://www.myspace.com/omsource