FLIGHT MODE 1 (Live stream)
Downstate, Moppy, Kaczynski & Umbrellas
FLIGHT MODE : a new monthly event exploring ambient music in all its forms.
We are also very excited to host special guest Downstate who will be streaming live from his Tokyo home.
Peep more info and bandcamp links below. xo
-Skinroom
Performer info:
Downstate (govt name: Tom Oliver) has been a prolific producer since 2007 and has released full-length tapes and EPs on Urban Waves (Belgium), SVBKVLT (Shanghai), and Liquid Ritual (UK).
His style is built around an obsession with nostalgia, the passing of time, and the Sega Saturn. Recently Tom has been making ambient music using tape loops. Tom has an amazing collection of black jeans and black t-shirts and enjoys tea, Carl’s Jnr and pancakes
https://soundcloud.com/downstate
https://downstate.bandcamp.com/
Moppy/ M0ppy/ M0PPs is a sound artist and musician who makes..
“epic, blipped out..woozy.. warped lo fi” - I nearly Died of Boredom
“...the rare kind of ambient you can dance to” - Vice
Moppy has released three full length albums to date - Mokai [2010] Seconds [2013] and Hexakosiohexakontehexaphobia [2016]. The latter which saw him delve into more ambient territory.
He has composed for short and feature films, installations, and created the theme music for the podcast Indigenous Urbanism.
He uses whatever equipment he can get his hands on to make music to evoke feelings of something you can’t get your hands on.
Moppy is one of many musical aliases of Thom Burton [SoccerPractise /Guardian Singles]. His fourth release, Flying Sorcerer EP, will be available from April 2020.
https://m0ppy.bandcamp.com/album/enemy-of-progress
moppymokai.bandcamp.com
Kaczynski is the ambient drone project of Adam Fulton (Hedge Fund Trader, Wakhan Corridor) consisting primarily of tape loops and samples recorded off the shortwave waiting for band practises to start some time in the mid 2000s.
Umbrellas is a mutable musical alias of ex-expat Nicholas Walsh of the band Deer Park. His debut Aotearoa performance will be a set of collage music inspired by “lockdown vibes".
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