secession update #034

:__ Future Eater CD Launch - GNOOB unleashed!
:__ Rotating Sessions
:__ Monolake in Melbourne
:__ The last of the CDRs

|| secession update
   Wednesday, October 29, 2003
   #034

:__ Future Eater CD Launch - GNOOB unleashed!

You are invited to the launch of Secessions 6th release, the long awaited debut album from Future Eater, GNOOB.

From liquid streams of sound to layered percussive beats, Andrew Sargeant's debut album is testament to his mastery of electronic rhythms. His music is dark, yet not depressing, light, without being fluffy – usually both at the same time.

The fifteen songs flow together into a beautifully throbbing synthesis of technology and emotion. Best listened to when driving late at night or on your next trip to the moon.

Future Eater is here. And he's hungry...

Join us from 8 to late at the cosiest beer bar in Melbourne with special guest Key Presch (aka. Namshub of Enki, kiki.ILL).

Where:
Lambsgo Bar
135 Greeves Street
Fitzroy (Cnr Smith n Greeves)

When:
Thursday, 6 November
8PM > Late

Starring:
Future Eater + Jean Poole (visualisations)
Key Presch (aka. Namshub of Enki, kiki.ILL)
Andrew Garton
DJC
Brain

How much:
Free... but enjoy the beer... 10% of all bar proceeds will be directed towards the mastering and pressing of Secessions next release.

GNOOB will be available on the night for a special launch price of $20. Only 100 available, individually numbered and accompanied by artwork from Secession's in-house designer, Andrew Thomas.

Special thanks to Lambsgo Bar who without their support this release would not have been possible.

:__ Rotating Sessions

The Secession crew have done the hard yards at Lambsgo Bar for near on 2 years now. Starting off the Tuesday Sessions, they went on to tackle Mondays and are now finally striding deeper into the week.

In collaboration with Brunswick Massive and Mr Squiggle, the Secession crew will rotate over Wednesday, Thursday and Friday commencing this week. The next three weeks will look something like this:

Wed 29 Oct
__Secession Session
Freq_Ghost, DJC, Brain

Thu 06 Nov
__Future Eater CD Launch
Future Eater, Jeane Poole,
Andrew Garton (aka. Freq_Ghost, Lost Time Accident),
DJC, Brain + Special Guests

Fri 14 Nov
__Secession Session
Freq_Ghost + Brain

Join us at Lambsgo Bar for something fresh, original and always a sign of our times...

Where:
Lambsgo Bar
135 Greeves Street
Fitzroy (Cnr Smith n Greeves)

When:
8PM > Late --- FREE!

:__ Monolake in Melbourne

Mark this one in your diary:

Saturday, 20 December, Public Office

Monolake (aka. Robert Henke) will be in Melbourne at the tail end of his brief Australian tour.

Secession's Andrew Garton (aka. Freq_Ghost, Lost Time Accident) will play before Monolake's first set. Also on the night will be Paul Abad, Steve Law, the SLAP crew and a host of fine others...

If you're in Fitzroy, drop into SLAP records for details.

Thanks to Alan Bamford and the SLAP crew for their support on this one...

:__ The last of the CDRs

It has now become just as expensive to release CDRs as it is to get our material professionally "pressed". Secession will be collaborating with Psy Harmonics to get the best price and quality for our future releases, maintaining our packaging and design aesthetic.

Release SR006, Future Eater's GNOOB, will be the last of the CDR releases, if only the first 100, which will go towards the cost of pressing another 500 should interest in this album demand the supply.

The most significant cost of producing CDRs is hardware, time and printing. The inserts we design for each release are becoming costly to produce, even for our short runs. We are burning up CD burners like toast and the time it takes to produce 100 individually packaged CDs cannot be factored into the sale price.

What we want to do is ensure we can produce and support quality content that includes collaborations with visual artists and designers to create a wholistic package of materials.

As in the past, we give much of our material away, and as such, we are exploring the Creative Commons model to increase what income we earn via the Internet.

But why do we want to make money? Isn't that what scumbags do?

We need to make money to create more music and organise our events, to ensure that the dollars earnt go straight back into the creative process and not the dividends of middle men and the shares of anonymous parties.

We are no different to most independent labels, we just take more time than most to get our material out. There's no rush to get to market...

Any questions, comments, brickbats or bouquets, write to secession@toysatellite.org.

peace,
-ag.

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