Subtronic The Musical Night Programme of the Ars Electronica 96
2. - 6. 9. Ars Electronica Quarter & Stadtwerkstatt
Concept: Fadi Dorninger/A		Sub¹tronic runs the gamut from enter tainment to modern electronic art- music. You can have it all - from the state of hyperventilation and accelerated audio-alpha activity, from the transformation of the guitar into some kind of machine, and hypnotic dub-subsonics, to a music on the level of macrostructures and complex numericism in its composition - you can experience the lot. The key-words are sub-bass, sub-harmonics, sub-culture, sub-stance,sub-sonic, sub-versive ...
Sub-tronic presents:
Kern/Wöginger/A		The experimental DJ duo create a skil- ful crash of different styles in the form of a techno-ambient electronic listening drum and bass mega-blast.
Dorfmeister/A		DJ Dorfmeister, one half of the Viennese DJ-composers-duo, now one of the biggest remixers worldwide (Bomb The Bass, Alex Reece, ...), guarantees a journey into groove between the poles of jungle, film music, bossa nova, salsa, dub, drum & bass, soul and the ultimate in laid-back-outta-space-funk.
Fennesz/A		The ex-Maische guitarist is one of the most interesting artists on Vienna¹s Mego electronic label. With guitar sounds that are everything but at the end of the analog/digital process, Fennesz must be one of the most innovative guitar transform- ers of the nineties.
Jim Plotkin/USA		The guitarist with those forceful experimenters OLD is also well known for his work with Scorn and K. K. Null (Zeni Geva). Plotkin produces his mutant guitar sound by help of digital multi-effect processors plus Stone Age analog effects boxes, with the guitar disappearing in a psyche-ambient jungle of impenetrable live loops and cascading echo and delay effects.
Sabotage/ Laton Records Showcase feat. A. Huber, A. Burger & F. Pomassl/A		Two of the most innovative and experimental Austrian electronic labels present artificial wind and real faces (Sabotage XXIb). Huber¹s music is best described as soulfully arranged ambient dub, while Burger & Pomassl are more for minimalist techno tracks topped up with rhythmic inter- ferences and creeping change in the micro range.
Cheap Records Allnighter feat. Pulsinger, Tunakan, Elin und .../A		With their salad bowl of techno, jazz, funk, and easy listening, the inventors of *Abstract Techno* reconstitute the seventies, targetting fusion as the deconstruction and dissolution of styles in line with their motto *Propagating the music of tomorrow rather than selling the music of today*.
:Zoviet:France/GB		The British industrial pioneers were producing trance before the music world had even heard of the word. With a mix of musique concrete, cut-up's, noises and heavy sound cascades they access sound regions that are worth discovering.
Locust/GB		In his music the British electronic genius Mark van Hoen is influenced by jazz (Davis, Coltrane), classical Indian music, and electronic avant-garde (Stockhausen). As Locust he produces hypnotic tracks combining diversity of sound, clarity of compo- sition and hybrid karstic soundscapes. Since he turned his back on music-only shows at the beginning of the year, we shall be seeing the Austrian première of his film and music project *Picture and Sound*.
Aural Screenshots feat. Jim Plotkin/A, USA		*Riding a train* A.S.S. operate at the interface of spartan polished rhythm complexes and overflowing, nervously vibrating rough-cut ambient sounds. Jim Plotkin provides the *guitar* accompaniment.
Fuckhead/A		Austria's least charming live band does growing musical violence to the scraps they snatch from industrial, metal, avant-garde, modern E-music, and new electronic. A meta- stasising mega-performance machine that offers no easy options to itself or the audience. Listen with pain.