• Coil
• DJ Food
• LCD soundsystem
• The Bug
• Kid acne / dj req one and remark
• V/VM
• PCM
• Pram
• Nicholas James Bullen
• Teatowel
• Deadsunrising
• Spectrum Orchestra (featuring:Brian Duffy/Mike in Mono /
  Floach)
• The Mighty Jungulator
• Bathysphere
• IACON + PirateHairWaves
• Chris Read 
• Adam Regan
• Capsule Dj’s
• Warp Films
• Beat13
• Rolf Gehlhaar 
• Jonah Brucker-Cohen
• Lisa Meyer
• Kid acne
• Req

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL:
supersonic = a one day sonic arts festival based around the theme
of sonic modification.

As a generation growing up in 20th century, technology took many
rapid turns throughout our early years, the next new thing was
always just around the corner, giving toys and computers a very
short life span before they had to be upgraded to the newest and
shiniest model. Moving in to the next century the constant quest
for the latest technology hasn’t let up, but it has given way to
nostalgia leading to a fascination with retro toys and technology.
This fascination has prompted artists to explore the use of old
technology, re-interpreting the purpose of old games, modifying old
toys with new technology. The theme of Super Sonic will be based
around the theme of modification and re-interpretation. The artists
/ musicians will be selected based on their relevance to the
central theme, each of the artists, in ways unique from one
another, source and collect existing sounds/ objects / imagery to
be modified and re-issued as a new sound or product. —

Three stages featuring
live + DJ performances by:
Coil . DJ Food . LCD soundsystem . The Bug . Kid acne / dj req one
and remark
V/VM . PCM . Pram . Nicholas James Bullen . Teatowel .
Deadsunrising
Spectrum Orchestra (featuring:Brian Duffy/Mike in Mono /
Floach)
The Mighty Jungulator / Bathysphere / IACON +
PirateHairWaves

Chris Read / Adam Regan / Capsule Dj’s / Warp Films

Gallery spaces featuring works by:
Beat13 / Rolf Gehlhaar / Jonah Brucker-Cohen / Lisa Meyer / Kid
acne / Req

record stalls / shops / films / cakes / BBQ

Custard Factory . Digbeth . Birmingham . UK
6.00pm – 3.00am

Tickets £15

http://www.live365.com/stations/neilspragg

Mouth of God web radio broadcast live from Supersonic:
Includes sets from the Bug and DJ Food + an Interview with
Coil

DJ fun + food
+ xmas gifts

Vikter Duplaix
Charlie Dark
Bugz In The Attic
Nolan Weekes

“Carl Craig to Coltrane and everything in between because there’s more to black music than garage, hip-hop and r&b”

A project conceived by Charlie Dark that features a workshop during the day and a cutting edge club later that night….Broken Beats and beyond.

Price: £4 Times: 9pm-2am

Deadsunrising
Push Button Objects
Floach
Iacon
Fims + Dj fun

electric cinema . birmingham
For one night only, Capsule will be taking over the Electric Cinema and seducing your eyes, ears and tastebuds with a potentially lethal cocktail of films, music and cake. Five pounds on the door will buy you a mini-festival in its own right, including Push Button Objects, direct from the USA, DeadSunRising and Floach and nimble disk-fingering from Iacon and Tokyo Lucky Hole DJs +capsule girls. Thereâs also “Point to Point”, a special audio-visual treat courtesy of the Cube Cinema in Bristol, along with a storming short film called “keepintime” which has been warming up for DJ Shadow on his recent world tour, and a host of other weird and wonderful bits of film. So, if youâve ever fancied shaking your booty in a cinema, or watching a film at a gig, then this could be the night for you… Doors open at 9pm, and places are limited.

KEEPINTIME by B+:
The history of hip-hop is partly a conversation with the rhythms of our elders. KEEPINTIME: Talking Drums and Whispering Vinyl is a groundbreaking documentary that links the practices of todayÕs beat jugglers with those who created the beats in the first place. In February 2000, legendary drummers Earl Palmer, Paul Humphrey, and James Gadson got together to talk about old times, in-between times and just plain old off times. When joined by Babu and JRocc of the Beat Junkies as well as Jurassic 5Õs Cut Chemist, the musical conversation erupted and bridges were built from air. Keepintime is the result of three years of research by L.A. based photographer B+ – who captured the moment, and with the help of succinct music editing by DJ Shadow, created this electric short film.

PUSH BUTTON OBJECTS:
Edgar Farinas is the Miami-bred producer behind Push Button Objects, whose artful fusions of hip-hop, electro, and jungle have appeared through the American Schematic and Chocolate Industries labels, and through the U.K.-based imprint Skam. While hip-hop remains the core element of the PBO sound, Farinas combines the raw beats with treated electronics, bizarre samples, and rhythmic deviations mostly foreign to hip-hop’s mid- to downtempo lope.

DEADSUNRISING:
From the depths of West Bromwich, deadsunrising have come to toy with your preconceptions of how a 21st century metal band should sound. With a lineup of six members, deadsunrising are rapidly being acknowledged as the most devastating live attack that the Birmingham scene has seen in years. There is not a safe haven in the entire room once DSR have kicked in, with vocalists and guitarists spreading across the venue like bacteria, with scant regard for personal well-being. Musically, imagine a musical Frankensteins monster made up of the best bits of Botch, Converge, Will Haven, post-rock, grindcore and metalcore, but stitched together totally wrong, and you’ll be somewhere in the vicinity of the unique DSR experience. Recently releasing a split EP on Speedowax with Solway Fifth, the EP only gives a glimpse into deadsunrising, as their live show is where to catch this sextet in action, and the best place to witness their barely-controlled chaos. The revolution is near, are you ready to give your life?

FLOACH:
musical archaeologist. His own special brand of vintage lo fi electronica, like Indiana Jones keeps a level head but occasionally has to cut its own wretched path. www.halfeaten.com IACON: is the collaborative project of artists/djs

MR. BEN + DJ LOG:
united in their passion for collecting other peoples junk. Spending far too long in their bedrooms, incorrectly playing records, or in charity shops, car boot sales and 2nd hand record stores, hunting out obscure sounds. This results in samples, soundbites and dialogue being reclaimed, modified and taken out of context to create new meanings, ideas and stories, often amusing and always entertaining.

Friday 8th :
Electro punk rock disco
feat. Mike in Mono + Floach
+ Capsule Girls dj set

Saturday 9th
Panel discussion feat.
Lisa Meyer (capsule)
 William Bennett (Whitehouse)
 Julian Weaver
Jack Sargeant (Chair)

followed by a night hosted by Fatcat records

Sunday 10th
warp records night with Mira calix + brothomStates
warp films/djs

a sonic treat which include: Warp records night: Brothomstates (live) Mira Calix, Warp Djs + film screenings, Fat cat records night, capsule girls djs, mike in mono, floach, dr.lies.

(sound events co-ordinated by Lisa Meyer – capsule)

Electro punk rock disco
Friday 8th November
Venue: Hanbury Arms Ballroom
Time/Cost 10pm – 2pm £5

with live sets from: Mike In Mono – aka Mike Johnston, better known as member of Birmingham’s kitsch electronica trio Plone. His ever growing fondness for ‘spoken word’ is now a relished element in the mike-in-mono show. Mike’s tongue in cheek style of music combines with a reduced use of equipment, applying maths and music theory to make something best descibed as event-crammed music. Floach – musical archaeologist. This special brand of vintage lo fi electronica, like Indiana Jones, keeps a level head but occasionally it has to cut its own wretched path.

Both have releases out on:
www.halfeaten.com

dj sets from capsule girls + dr. lies visuals by Careless Talk Costs Lives rockin’ weirdness, metal mayhem, guitar abusing, electronic oddities and who knows what else?

Saturday 9th November
Panel Discussion
The dismantling of the arts hierarchy. Has sound and music culture yet to carve a niche in the traditional arts canon which might be typified by spaces like museums, galleries and even cinemas? Indeed is there still such a thing as an arts hierarchy? If so who does it serve and who does it exclude? If ‘music’ is one of Britain’s biggest creative economy exports, where’s the support for up-and-coming music and sound artists?

Ruth Jarman (Semiconductor), Lisa Meyer (Capsule), William Bennett (Whitehouse), Julian Weaver, Jack

Deadsunrising
Uncle John & Whitelock
Dj LoG

DEADSUNRISING: From the depths of West Bromwich, deadsunrising have come to toy with your preconceptions of how a 21st century metal band should sound. With a lineup of six members, deadsunrising are rapidly being acknowledged as the most devastating live attack that the Birmingham scene has seen in years. There is not a safe haven in the entire room once DSR have kicked in, with vocalists and guitarists spreading across the venue like bacteria, with scant regard for personal well-being.

UNCLE JOHN & WHITELOCK they sound a little like the birthday party, though they discribe there sound as ‘horror r+b’. uncle john (vocals and rhythem guitar) is the whaling fanatic and owner of the most feared voice in the west of scotland. whitelock (bass) the ‘worrysome mystic’ .mick (hashfinger) on lead guitar and oval body the drum technician. originally from Bora (pronounced bow-ray) the most western island in scotland, their music scares the living piss out of the unsuspecting audience.

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Venetian Snares
Fanny
Teatowel

venetian Snares Doll Doll Doll (Hymen)
Since releasing his debut EP on the Isolate label and his subsequent discovery by Mike Paradinas of Planet-Mu, Winnipeg, Canada based Aaron Funk aka Venetian Snares has quickly become a household name in the underground techno community and its easy to see why. Within the first two minutes of Doll Doll Doll, its pretty clear that Mr. Funk isnt just another kid with a laptop looking for a record deal. Starting off with a simple take on mutant drum and bass, the CD soon veers off into much more experimental territory, most of it dark, dissonant and unbelievably complex – combining the most astonishing collection of rhythms, genres and influences into a record that defies categorisation. From the lunatic asylum led free jazz meets off kilter drum and bass of I Rent The Ocean to the demonically vocal gabbercore of Befriend, there is much here to be worried about. This is not a record for the timid. (Napalm Death fans take note) But, the true genius of this man isnt fully realised until you come across the fourth track on here. Entitled Dollmaker, it starts from swing jazz which then slowly morphs into something much more sinister. Fusing full on gabbacore with cellos and distorted synths, Funk takes it one step further, injecting an angry Cannibal Ox-esque hip-hop vocal in the mix.

The subject matter here is equally dark – most of it focusing on child abuse of some kind of another. Tracks are entitled Befriend a Childkiller or All The Children Are Dead, a sample from the Jon-Benet Ramsey helpline appears on one track, a darkened voice lurking in the background whispering befriend the childkiller on another. Like I said: scary stuff. Its very rare these days that music producers are able to leap from genre to genre while still keeping the overall vision of the source material intact. Aaron Funk has managed to do exactly that in a way that is darker and nastier than we ever imagined. Think Naked City’s Torture Garden remixed by Squarepusher at twice the speed and youre close. Make it a lot more cohesive and much more evil and youre there. Brutally dissonant, mind-blowingly complex and very, very nasty. Its the kind of release that will have armies of imitators behind it in no time at all. Watch this man – he will go far and scare the hell out of everyone in his way. Absolutely fantastic. Get it.
Reviewer: Olli Siebelt

Fanny is Frasier Runciman and began his musical career twenty years ago in the deconstructed rubble of the British punk rock explosion. Playing guitar for countless Edinburough bands fusing everything from the banshees to def jam, stravinsky to pfunk, fanny’s exploits brought him to the attention of local punk rock legends the exploited, whom he joined in 1993.

Trading in his guitars for synths and a PC, Frasier was freed at last to fully explore his musical ideas. Frasier found a new playground and began pushing his material in bold and often ridiculous directions. Weekend trips to Wisconsin and the legendary barn parties in east troy further seeded his ambitions. It was there that he caught the attention of Zod record boss Destro and Widerstand kingpin Eiterherd from Austria and plans were quickly made to release his new tracks. Collaborating with his small black dog puff, squealing under his chair, Frasier went on an intense writing binge in an effort to develop a new and original music. Important to him also, is having something to say with his music, be it an emotional impression or a concrete idea. As a result, his music stands out in the anonymous electronic world for his personality, wit and humor.

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